Sentence examples for abrasive figure from inspiring English sources

He is not widely liked, having unsettled educators and the judiciary on his path, being known as an abrasive figure.

Moreover, he is an abrasive figure, and the next five years will be even more turbulent for social security.

As an abrasive figure, labelled a Blairite (that bastard Blair kept breaking Labour tradition by winning elections) as well as being a Celtic supporter (Scots for Catholic), he is seen by some as a divisive figure.

And no one received more help than Peter O., Mr. Mullins sadly emphasized, noting that the dean had accepted Mr. Odighizuwa -- a troubled and increasingly abrasive figure by most accounts -- back into the school after he failed his first year.

And, in the mould of Ferguson, he can be an abrasive figure with the media.

He was a combative and at times abrasive figure as minister, and his attempt to reform the French science system triggered massive protests that ultimately helped to sink the plan.

The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.

She's more than just a foil to the bigger, more abrasive figures in the family: Marge is an untapped well of talent, empathy, and courage.

But the Mark Green who presents himself to voters this time is not exactly the same Mr. Green who has been such a provocative and colorful -- his critics would say abrasive -- figure in New York public life for so long, the proponent of the liberal wing of his party, the inexhaustible tormentor of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

The first is a big man with a sniper's precision, the other an abrasive, magnetic figure full of infectious self-love.

For an exceedingly busy, physically imposing, and often abrasive authority figure, Botstein, who himself entered college as a "terribly insecure sixteen-year-old," is attuned to even the most ordinary forms of other people's pain.