Sentence examples for figure calling from inspiring English sources

But it was not until his election as mayor in November 1993 that Mr. Giuliani became a national figure calling for much stricter gun laws.

Clearly the money drew him: $30 million per season, according to news reports, although team officials deny disclosing that figure, calling it a trade secret.

He was a controversial figure, calling for stricter codes of conduct amongst Sikhs, including calling for Sikh women to wear the looser salwar-kameez dress rather than the traditional Indian sari.

Dan McLagan, a spokesman for Mr. Lazio, said the campaign had spent a substantial amount to broadcast the advertisement across the state, but he refused to provide a dollar figure, calling it confidential information.

Since bitcoin's invention in 2008 by a mysterious figure calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto, people have increasingly traded it for real money, albeit at a wildly varying price (see chart).

Brooks is not the only critic upset by an important public figure calling attention to America's failures, both past and present.

One tech-industry figure calls government web policies "schizophrenic".

Tickets!" the solitary figure called out from the steps of the arena.

That figure, called the "jolt score," dipped to 8.7 this year from 9.5 in 1998.

Here I felt moved again, this time by a miniature ivory figure called The Acrobat.

A figure called "Sleeper" by Huma Bhabha stands as an impassive, decaying sentinel, guarding nothing, seeing all.