Sentence examples for a challenging figure from inspiring English sources

A gangly, wiry-haired man who wears a goatee, a throwback to his beatnik phase in the late fifties, Schleifer was a challenging figure in Zawahiri's life.

A long time HIV/AIDS survivor, Robert was a challenging figure, a radical artist self-defined as having "no commercial ambition".

Council leader Ian Hudspeth said: "It is a very challenging figure for us to make.

To be sure, Nietzsche is easy to misunderstand, and is without a doubt an abrasive and challenging figure.

The most challenging figure to create was a graceful white bird named Susie Swan.

In his 1987 novel, "The World as I Found It," he sought to capture the equally challenging figure of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

"Obviously, when workers feel like they have a target sign on their back, it's a challenging context to figure out how to move things forward," said Shannon Lederer, immigration policy director at the AFL-CIO, America's largest labor federation.

We observed that for many articles it may be a challenging task for figure ranking.

It was a little challenging to figure out which ones were actually mine.

When you don't understand what's happening, it's a bit challenging to figure it out and you don't know if it's something you've done or some other ­reason why she's not feeling well.

"And this is a challenging show for us to figure out.