Sentence examples for big figures on the from inspiring English sources

You don't see any big figures on the right standing up to Netanyahu.

Mr Clark said: "I think the leaders of our great cities ought to be so well-known and so vigorous in standing up for their cities that they should be big figures on the national and international stage".

Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who has quit the cabinet, is a former Conservative leadership contender and a big figure on the right of the party.

It was the era of Tony Blair and the Labour government at its most popular, so there was never an immediate chance of Widdecombe becoming a senior minister of the Crown, but she was certainly a big figure on the media.

Other featured animals include horses and a doe (8.2 feet [2.5 metres] long, the biggest figure on the ceiling), as well as other creatures rendered in a simpler style.

He unexpectedly lost his seat at the last election, mislaying a notional 5,500 majority to Nicola Blackwood, but instead of disappearing into medical practice or paid lobbying, he has become an even bigger figure on the political landscape.

Mr Hague made himself a bigger figure on the world stage than the office of foreign secretary naturally guarantees, partly through his enormous personal commitment to the campaign to end sexual violence as a weapon of war.

When I first travelled with a prime minister to Delhi more than a decade ago there was little doubt which country and which leader cut the bigger figure on the world stage.

In 1958 Manahan created the role of Big Rachel in John Arden's Live Like Pigs at the Royal Court theatre, and she remained both a "big" figure on stage (with John B Keane creating the lead in Big Maggie for her) and a familiar one in the West End, in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane and as June in Frank Marcus's The Killing of Sister George.

That's the biggest figure on record, and means the jobless total has risen by 5.7% over the last 12 months.

The market that it's tackling is big: figures from Boston Consulting estimate that on-demand, food-related tasks like grocery shopping are on track to be a $100 billion market by 2018.  .