Sentence examples for closest figures from inspiring English sources

This often leads to insight about how partners' styles of responding to conflict may be a reaction to the way they were treated by the closest figures in their lives years ago.

While, compositionally, you might refer to one element or other as 'background', in terms of the story's strength there is no such thing; the farthest details assert themselves with a vengeance, while the closest figures may be the most surreptitious.

Critics of Muhammad Dahlan, Fatah's strongest Gaza leader and its closest figures to both Israel and the United States say in private that he could secure Johnston's release because of his commanding position over the Preventive Force and his business links with the Dughmush clan.

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.

This differential system of opening and closing figures squarely in the reform policies carried out by Mohammed.

The attainment gap between the most deprived pupils in Scotland and their more affluent peers is closing, figures suggest.

'When the gate is closed, figures are calculated about the weight of the aircraft to determine how much fuel is needed.

Some use closing figures only.

1 40 p.m.: This article was updated with Friday's market closing figures.

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.