Sentence examples for a suspect figure from inspiring English sources

The ayatollah's ties to Tehran have made him a suspect figure in Washington, although his organization has maintained indirect contacts with various American administrations because of its consistently virulent opposition to the Hussein government.

Putin remains a deeply suspect figure in the eyes of western leaders, who worry what he may get up to next, especially in post-occupation Iraq and Afghanistan.

For now, I continue to use the two-name system, feeling like a comical yet suspect figure out of Dostoyevsky.

Of these samples two were found not to contain the stated active ingredient: hence they are suspect (Figure 7A, shows the detection of suspect DHA tablets on sale in Nigeria).

As it happens, however, this notion is based on some very suspect figures, including a gross mathematical error that was admitted by the Congressional Budget Office, a source for Biggs' calculations.

Massive stimulus spending has added enormously to the deficit, but the only result has been suspect figures that, if interpreted most optimistically, show that the UK's economy has essentially flatlined after incurring a sharp contraction in economic output during the height of the global financial crisis.

Even after her blitz of suspect figures ("I got this client's Facebook Chat show up to 60,000 views a month") and absurd name drops (the Chicken Soup For The Soul author, the creator of Spanx) I'm still not quite sure what that job is.

Even after her blitz of suspect figures ("I got this client's Facebook Chat show up to 60,000 views a month") and absurd name drops (the Chicken Soup for the Soul author, the creator of Spanx), I'm still not quite sure what that job is.

The interest was piqued last year after Anita M. Busch, a reporter at The Los Angeles Times who had been researching the relationship between the actor Steven Seagal and a suspected organized crime figure, found a dead fish and a rose on her car with a cardboard sign that said "Stop".

(Did she make sure he'd leave his phone behind, and type her keypad lock in such a way that he'd clearly see the numbers? Hard to know!) The pretzel logic of the story brings in the faux-Murdoch figure as a suspect, as well as the belligerent force behind the goons who start threatening Wren's family once he succumbs to Caroline's temptations.

Scholars have agreed with the Florentine authorities that Machiavelli knew nothing of the plot; he was too historically suspect a figure for his friends to risk including.