Sentence examples for bridging figure from inspiring English sources

He argues that Turing was a "bridging" figure between Babbage and Lovelace and the modern world of electronic computers.

He has won the backing of arch-conservative Islamists, including the main bloc of Salafists, but also of prominent secularists who see him as a bridging figure with strong revolutionary credentials.

Thus, the later Latour (2002, 2005) can be seen as a bridging figure between the constructivist tradition and the phenomenological tradition (for more detailed arguments in this regard refer to Graham Harman's (2009) book on Latour's metaphysical ground).

"He's the bridge figure who updated the genre.

Peter Fuller was as old as my parents, a former Marine who had fought in World War II, but he was a bridge figure, the bridge figure in horse racing at that time.

The event was in memory of Alfred Rand, long a familiar bridge figure in New York, and was underwritten by his widow, Rita Rand.

MOAN OF THE MATCH Whatever the green shoots of recovery for Chelsea, Eden Hazard remains one Stamford Bridge figure desperately seeking the form of last season.

Mr. Bishri leaned left in his youth and later gravitated toward a moderate brand of Islamism, making him a bridge figure between the two wings of the Egyptian opposition.

Although Staten Island's population of four hundred and forty-three thousand (in a city of more than eight million) is now nearly double that of the pre-bridge figure, and although the island's once sprawling farmlands have disappeared together with the country roads along which motorists once moved bumpily past herds of grazing cattle, a provincial atmosphere still prevails.

A simple circuit that creates a sinusoidal output is the Wien bridge (Figure 2).

Allowances were necessary for rain-damaged roads, collapsed bridges (Figure 5) and (commonly) cancelled scheduled flights.