Sentence examples for closest figure from inspiring English sources

Djalu is an enigmatic character – perhaps the closest figure Australia has to a guru.

He lifted the gun and, resting it on the back of the chair, levelled it at the closest figure.

Dozens of congressmen and some former executive branch officials, including two former chiefs of staff to President Dilma Rousseff, are under investigation, but Vaccari is seen as the closest figure to the president yet implicated in the scandal.

The next closest figure to Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders, according to the poll, was Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was among the first to announce her presidential candidacy.

According to Bruce Cole of The Wall Street Journal, The closest figure in the painting is revealing a subject of the meeting as "a discussion of the town's annual report".

The precision of the estimated intervals together with the distance between the lower limit and the zero value (the closest figure corresponded to 0.12, in PE_DVT) support the hypothesis that the variation observed is systematic, rather than random.

The domestic stocks table in World Business yesterday carried an erroneous closing figure in some copies for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index on Thursday.

Above: Pedestrians are reflected as they walk past an electronic stock board showing the closing figure of the Nikkei 225 Stock Average.

The closing figure for the stockpile of finished cars at 31 December 2001 had been 34,000, but the opening stock on 1 January 2002 fell to 23,000.

Correction: January 22 , 2001 Monday The domestic stocks table in World Business on Thursday carried an erroneous closing figure in some copies for the Nasdaq composite index on Wednesday.

Correction: January 16 , 2001 Tuesday A chart of financial indicators at the bottom of the Business Digest yesterday misstated Friday's closing figure for the Nasdaq composite index.