Sentence examples for figure arriving from inspiring English sources

But Bruce Dern, as Harry Volpi, is a dashing figure, arriving to save the day in this sentimental film about hydroplane racing.

Roxburgh remembered: "This figure arriving at our compound in Afghanistan, having walked across the Panjshir Valley for three days without food or water, on the verge of collapse – I made him a cup of sweet tea.

But the vague tale suggested by Ms. DeMent's Hitchcockian chambermaid figure, arriving and departing with a small suitcase as the musicians moved from one setting to another, never really cohered.

But he is balking at the prospect of a powerful new figure arriving in Kabul, not least because many would like Lord Ashdown to focus on reducing the government's corruption and inefficiency, in a country where opium accounts for about one-third of GDP.Mr Karzai has demanded clarification of Lord Ashdown's mandate.

It was then that Fahd al-Quso, the Al Qaeda figure, arrived in the valley.

Mr. York gives the price per pound of his gift suggestions, a figure arrived at by dividing the price by the avoirdupois weight: The Trylon and Perishpere, $0.17.

Until recently the low estimate has been one of 60,000 to 70,000 human genes, a figure arrived at in 1994 by Dr. J. Craig Venter, now president of Celera.

Amid the gathering of the Labour generations for Michael Foot's funeral this week, one frail figure arrived and left almost unremarked by those in the throng too young to remember when she was a national figure.

This is a form of income splitting in which the single graduated rate schedule is applied to a figure arrived at by dividing total family income by the number of "units" represented, with each child counting as half a unit.

The other day he received from the tax collectors office a bill for $111, a figure arrived at by estimating the cost of his car at $3900, acknowledging receipt of $23 paid on account, and adding penalties totalling $56.

The government fudged this in Paris, saying it would provide at least $200m a year – which appears to be a figure arrived at by adding up what we are already providing.