Sentence examples for dominating figures from inspiring English sources
Formally, the Czech President has a largely ceremonial role; in practice, in the 20 years since Communist rule ended the office has been held only by two dominating figures, Vaclav Havel and his fierce rival, Mr. Klaus.
Moreover, after the death of Biggs and Fox, there were no dominating figures to sell the instrument.
She is, to some extent, the creature of these two dominating figures, with very little personality of her own and almost no ability to articulate her own desires or feelings other than by trembling, perpetually, on the verge of tears.
There are a few dominating figures who pop in and out, like Jeff Connaughton, the perfect political No. 2, who in the early 1980s hitched his wagon to Joe Biden and became an aide, a fund-raiser, a lobbyist and a Washington insider.
The most important architects of this revised positivism are the Austrian jurist Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) and the two dominating figures in the analytic philosophy of law, H.L.A. Hart (1907-92) and Joseph Raz among whom there are clear lines of influence, but also important contrasts.
Even Chancellor Angela Merkel, a dominating figure on the European stage, is not immune to the political fallout.
A dominating figure, she swore to her own sons and daughters that "no child of mine will ever rule me".
The White House will have no dominating figure to ride herd day to day now that Tom Daschle is out of the picture.
John Huston is a dominating figure in this memoir: tough, daring, macho, bullying, charismatic, colossally egotistical – a drinker and a gambler and a philanderer.
January 21 , 1940Columbus, Ohio Jack Nicklaus, in full Jack William Nicklaus, byname the Golden Bear (born January 21 , 1940 Columbus, Ohio, U.S ., American professional golfer, a dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the '80s.
He was, in fact, a formidable attacking midfielder, prominent in two World Cups in the 1980s, initially a centre forward but, for most of his international career, a dominating figure in every sense, in central midfield.
