Sentence examples for and the figurehead of from inspiring English sources

HE IS a self-confessed murderer, a fugitive and the figurehead of the country's vicious paramilitary groups.

Lisbet and Sigrid, now in their 50s, are philanthropists and academics: Lisbet a cultural benefactor and historian of science, Sigrid the founder of a charity devoted to human rights and the figurehead of two publishers, Granta and Portobello Books.

The same people who had extolled Huntington now make an auto-da-fé of his book, saying he misled us in pointing at Arabs and Muslims as radically "other"; now we know them to be just like us — they tweet, they're on Facebook, and the figurehead of the Egyptian revolution is Google's Middle East manager.

This is one of the most fundamental values Fethullah Gulen, preacher emeritus based in Pennsylvania and the figurehead of the Hizmet movement, who has played a role and helped mould the life direction of millions of Hizmet participants serve others across more than 150 countries.

Machar – who had previously announced his intention to challenge a president he said was increasingly autocratic – escaped an army assault on his house by the military, fled the capital and became the figurehead of a rebellion.

The pirate presided over a barn which became a homage to Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island, with a lagoon swimming pool, boats, anchors, flying fish, binnacles, palm trees, and the figureheads of a busty mermaid and a pirate clutching a dagger in his teeth, which were specially commissioned and flown in from Bali.

The exceptions are stern galleries of some of the galleasses and the figureheads of the Mary Rose, Salamander and the Unicorn, the latter both captured from the Scots in 1544.

This derivation is, however, fanciful; the word βουκένταυρος is unknown in Greek mythology, and representations of the "figurehead" of the bucentaurs in fact depict the lion of St. Mark the Evangelist.

In Russia's voluminous bag of tactics for smearing political enemies, photomontage is an old trick, but it has made a comeback with the publication of a doctored image of Alexei Navalny, the 35-year-old blogger and lawyer who is the figurehead of Russia's protest movement.

The Buzz: FSU's pass rush must get back on track, and Pugh will be the figurehead of the Seminoles' rededication to a 3-4 scheme.

By Elissa Curtis February 14 , 2012The work of the British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is preoccupied with the decline of empires, and in particular with Horatio Nelson, the figurehead of the British Empire at the height of its power.