Sentence examples for figure attended from inspiring English sources

I have always wondered, for example, why The Economist will, given the first opportunity, always inform its readers when a French public figure attended the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

The Tennessean later revealed the far-right figure attended the event as a guest of Tennessee State Sen. Bill Ketron and the Tennessee Republican Party.

She was a well known international figure, attending the 1985 international women's conference at Nairobi and the 1992 women's summit at Dublin organised by the National Women's Political Caucus.

Senior military and police figures attended the meeting.

President Susilo Bambamb Yudhoyono and other leading figures attended the funeral, arriving here in central Java in a fleet of military aircraft.

But those following the cortege were opponents of the government, and no government figures attended the funeral itself.

Hundreds of Moscow architects and cultural figures attended his funeral in the museum's halls on Jan . 15

The event was controversial in Russia because several opposition figures attended after criticising recent election results allegedly manipulated by the Kremlin.

Although Muslim and Christian religious figures attended the ceremony to lay the foundation stones, the campus later became an isolated Jewish redoubt in largely Arab East Jerusalem.

Several hundred people — members of Parliament, clerics, Bahraini opposition figures — attended the gathering for Mr. Chalabi's nascent organization, the Popular Committee in Iraq to Support the People of Bahrain.

The teams and drivers are all carrying tributes to the 25-year-old Frenchman, whose funeral many drivers and senior figures attended in Nice on Tuesday.