Sentence examples for figure as one from inspiring English sources

Paterson has an open mind on the senator's bill, even as he counts Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, whose hard-line views on immigration have made him a national figure, as one of his heroes.

"John Galliano will certainly figure as one of the greatest designers of his time," Arnault has said.

Mr. Mardirosian is about as unprepossessing a heroic figure as one could imagine -- balding, standing at a slouch, with a perpetual look of glumness.

What the dissenting, or "resisting," side needs is exactly what Obama can help supply: principled leadership from as close to a universally respected figure as one could hope to find.

Even in the football bubble, where they so often appear to make up the rules as they go along, a guilty verdict would have left Terry, already a hugely divisive figure, as one of the most reviled men in sport.

Instead, Garcia points to another figure as one of the counterculture's true heroes, his relative Jerry Garcia, leader of the Grateful Dead, still America's biggest cult band when they staged their farewell concerts last year (Jerry died in 1995).

In the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1990, health figured as one part of a general chapter on human impacts.

The Foreign Minister has figured as one of the few moderate voices on peace issues in the Cabinet and has increasingly found himself outvoted or outmaneuvered in major decisions.

Since the success of "So Far Gone," Drake has become one of pop music's most polarizing figures as well as one of its most influential.

After a period of time, the corporation income tax is figured as one of the costs of production and it gets passed on in higher prices charged for the company's goods and services, and in lower wages, including conditions of work which are inferior to what they otherwise might be.

Mr. Brown figures as one of those faithful servitors of the unfortunate hero.