Sentence examples for a man of consequence from inspiring English sources

The movie was his way of convincing himself that he was a man of consequence.

The uniform makes a statement: here is a man of consequence.

Mr. Jordan, who is 61, was a man of consequence in Washington, someone who knew exactly how the game is played, well before Bill Clinton, his friend of long standing, won the 1992 Presidential election.

"As a man of integrity and intelligence, a good liberal who was sensitive to the crosscurrents in our relations in Latin America, he was a man of consequence to both Kennedy and Johnson," said the presidential historian Robert Dallek, the author of a new book, "Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House".

Francis of Assisi is up there with Martin Luther, John Locke, and mad King George as a man of transcontinental consequence.

I think him a man of too much consequence for the post he is in".

Today there is a consensus across much of the political spectrum that George H. W. Bush was a President of some consequence, a man of conscience and reason, a steady hand at a time of geopolitical instability.

Yet the situation is arresting: the heroine refuses a man of power and suffers no consequences.

He is facing a fine that, in itself, would be of little consequence for a man of Ferguson's wealth, but he will be mindful that on the last occasion he was charged with such an offence, after verbally abusing the fourth official Jeff Winter at Newcastle in 2003, he was banned from the touchline for two games, as well as being ordered to pay £10,000.

One of these dinners was a stag affair given for a group of men of consequence by Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, who was celebrated in those days as a conscious humorist rather than an unconscious one, and was the man who said, among other witty things, that what this country needed was a good five-cent cigar.

The character Shalimar picks up the gun not just because his heart gets broken, but because his pride and honor get broken by losing the woman he loves to a worldly man of greater consequence and power.