Sentence examples for civic figures from inspiring English sources

It was welcomed by civic figures who failed to see that it was double-edged.

But it took an open letter to Mr. Medvedev by prominent cultural and civic figures after weeks of outcry before the president ordered the investigation.

At least 100 civic figures are understood to have been arrested in Tabriz, a city historically renowned for political protest and where Mousavi has strong support.

"He took these very genteel students to places like North Skelton in North Yorkshire and Durham and the local civic figures were transfixed by him.

It was saved when 15 businessmen and civic figures in the Catskills decided to move it to Liberty, an aging resort town minus the resorts to which the adjective "faded" seems permanently affixed.

Thomas de Keyser, (born c. 1596, Amsterdam, Neth. buried June 7 , 1667 Amsterdam) Dutch Baroque painter and architect, best known for his portraiture of leading civic figures in Amsterdam.

Now officials in Tampa have voted to put the name of a civic figure on a public stadium, and more power to them.

GREEN--William S. Prominent lawyer and civic figure in Manchester, New Hampshire, for over half a century, succumbed on October 22, 2007, to complications from Parkinson's Disease.

For decades, Julius was a leading civic figure in New York City and a great friend and supporter of the settlement house system.

When he cited Walt Whitman as "our greatest living poet," though, you realized that the crisis in question was the Panic of 1857, and that Pierson was impersonating a civic figure of the period.

Mr. Hiller revels in the publisher's traditional role (much diminished at most papers) as a prominent civic figure, meeting with elected officials and serving on the boards of nonprofit organizations.