Sentence examples for closest follower from inspiring English sources

"He is very important for Mrs. Merkel because he is her closest follower in the circle of the minister presidents in Germany," said Gerd Langguth, a political analyst at the University of Bonn.

So much better, in fact, that he left his closest follower more than a minute behind in a key stage -- an uphill time trial, also a feature of this year's Tour de France.

The closest follower was primer 519R, with 8% less total coverage.

Even among his closest followers, Mr Mbeki remains an enigma.

On this night, however, it was Qadhi's closest followers who were questioning him.

In 1951 a purge began in Georgia, directed against Beria's closest followers.

THE ASPARAGUS is slightly singed, which is a pity because the party leader has brought it personally from Austria as a small reward for his closest followers.

There was little sympathy in Sevastopol for Yanukovych, who has fled Kiev and been denounced by many of his closest followers.

In the 1940s, one of his closest followers was a young Californian adept, Jack Parsons, one of the founding fathers of the American space programme.

An awkward coalition of moderates, Jacobin pragmatists, rival deputies, and extremists who rightly felt threatened by the "Incorruptible" (as he was known) finally combined to topple Robespierre and his closest followers.

In March 1881 he revealed to his closest followers what he considered his divine mission that God had appointed him to purify Islam and to destroy all governments that defiled it.