Sentence examples for defining figures from inspiring English sources

"One of the defining figures of modern political life," said one commentator in a typical formula.

But the defining figures in the 21st Winter Games were often one-event wonders.

Mr. Peres is one of the defining figures of the still-young Israeli state, often abroad speaking on its behalf.

Otherwise, he has written an engaging and perceptive life of one of the defining figures of modern literature.

But what turned him into one of the defining figures of 21st-century television was being bought up by the Dutch media independent, Endemol.

In next weekend's episodes, about how the American theater of the 40's and 50's brought passion to an English stage bound by class and censorship, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are the defining figures.

The FDP has lost a defining figure.

For British climbing, Johnny Dawes, now 47, remains a defining figure.

But the save is the obvious defining figure for a closer, and now Rivera stands alone.

It ushered out its founding headmaster and defining figure, Stanley Bosworth, and brought in new help.

The result was a cross-party, state decision, by which Labour colluded with the secular beatification of the defining figure of modern Conservatism.