Sentence examples for empowered figure from inspiring English sources

Instead, he is the empowered figure of his childhood dreams.

This little girl is 'Marta', an empowered figure who is able to take action, ask questions and seek solutions to problems which face her – and her friends and family.

He has some failings, but Malcolm is still the empowering figure his autobiography showed us he was.

In my Sunday column this week, on the respective careers of Andrew Breitbart and James Q . Wilson I pushed back against the tendency to see the shift to a more partisan and sensationalistic media (which empowers figures like Breitbart, Maher, Olbermann, etc., and arguably diminishes the potential influence of genuine eminences like Wilson) as a straightforward story of cultural decline.

It's important to realize that it's comedy, Zimmerman said, "but I do like the idea that this is a book that any gay person could pick up and go, 'Wow, what an empowering figure.' " Of course, in these parts gay-cowboy empowerment goes back a few decades — to Randy Jones, the original cowboy from the nineteen-seventies gay pop troupe the Village People.

And somehow, it still makes so much sense to think of Fisher as part of a mother-daughter dynamic not as a docile caretaker or a fragile child on the edge, but as an empowering figure, a nurturer, the wise old General Organa handing off the lightsaber to a younger generation of self-possessed women.

"We empowered principals to figure this out, and I think in every instance they've done a good job of that".

'You run with it.' " And Gates believes that this is almost the work of art — identifying talented people who can benefit from the "off-heating" of his projects, empowering them, figuring out how they can help maintain and enlarge a community of innovation, enterprise and security.

More often, however, Haze is a smart, striking and original lyricist: White Lillies/ White Liesturns the standard hip-hop strip-club anthem on its head, the protagonist unable to work out whether she feels her pole-dancing friend is a tough, empowered woman or a figure of pity.

I was fearless after that, more empowered than ever to figure out what I really wanted because I knew I could make it happen.

These establishment figures, perhaps unintentionally, empowered grassroots movements.