Sentence examples for essential figures from inspiring English sources

It bears witness to a chapter of Jewish and African-American history that has remained almost unknown except to those professors and students it directly affected, and might have gone to the grave with Mr. Manasse and other essential figures.

Other choices are more peculiar — there is as much space dedicated to the House of David, an early-20th-century barnstorming team formed by a religious commune, as to the Black Sox scandal of 1919 — but there are moving tributes to the game's two most essential figures: Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson.

People like Mr. Fischer are rare but essential figures in the battle to safeguard the basic moral principles of civilized societies, and in the fight against the murky, manipulative politics that regularly use the Jewish people as scapegoats for all problems and calamities.

Based on a comparison of essential figures of merit, namely vertex resolutions, event selection efficiencies, trigger performance and technical constraints, an updated baseline design is proposed.

For 2016's first show of the year, Adams decided to start things off with a bang by bringing in two essential figures of Cairo's mahraganat scene, an infectiously upbeat genre of music innovated as the soundtrack to huge wedding dance parties.

He remains an essential figure in the Met's future.

In the last decade, Moynihan has not been an essential figure in American politics.

He was an essential figure in modern writing and in the history of the city.

Mohammed, not Osama bin Laden, was the essential figure in the 9/11 plot.

Slowly, as the debate went on, a third essential figure came into focus.

And Ursula Fanthorpe has been that essential figure, a literary foremother, for several generations of women poets.