Sentence examples for figure apart from inspiring English sources

The figure, apart from the arms, which are 12th-century replacements, is cut from a single piece of wood.

He returns to the MediaGuardian 100 top 10 after dropping out for the first time ever last year amid the traumas of the phone-hacking fallout – the highest-placed traditional media figure apart from Tony Hall.

The complaint suggests that Mr. Corzine, the firm's chief executive and a commanding figure apart from his position at the firm, showed scant interest in regulatory issues or compliance in his rush to transform MF Global into another Goldman Sachs.

The extraordinary enthusiasm for these books across page, stage and screen is partly due to the inherent dramatic power of the narratives: Henry VIII is probably the only figure, apart from Jesus Christ, of whom even the most truanting British schoolchild will have heard.

During the election campaign, Osborne and Cameron repeatedly refused to outline exactly how they would reach the £12bn figure, apart from saying they would reduce the benefit cap, freeze most working-age benefits for two years and take away housing benefit for under-21s.

If it isn't immediately apparent, it becomes clear quickly enough that Ausländer is a figure apart: one of the Sonderkommando, the special squads of death camp inmates forced to assist in the extermination process by cleaning gas chambers, disposing of corpses, shepherding prisoners and the like.

We never see the girls' parents, only Marieme's tyrannical older brother, and no authority figures apart from her teacher.

All of these figures, apart from the novelist Ozick, were themselves associated with the New York Review of Books, a publication remarkable for chumminess and logrolling as well as for the talent of its mostly Anglo-American contributors.

Although the general tone might be considered anti-American, the principal sympathetic figures, apart from the fugitive children, are all in the American army - the woman doctor, a black helicopter pilot and a disgusted sniper who turns to helping his designated victims.

All these figures (apart from the worldly-wise and silk-clad Baron Rampling, who plays the Great Game in Istanbul and London) are brought together in a remote bit of desert in Mesopotamia, in the spring of 1914 - a nicely portentous moment and place.

In contrast, the list for the 普陀洛迦新志 includes no other savior figures apart from Avalokiteśvara.