Sentence examples for figure of the first from inspiring English sources

Alex Salmond has dominated the last few years of Scottish politics, and become the leading figure of the first decade of devolution.

In the opinion of the most competent critics, no statesman or military figure of the first half of the 20th century wrote better prose than did Winston Churchill.

Undoubtedly, the dominant mathematical figure of the first thirty years of the twentieth century at Cornell was Virgil Snyder who, with Frank Morley at Johns Hopkins, was one of the American leaders in Algebraic Geometry.

For more than a quarter-century, beginning with his unexpected rise at age 33 to the position of publisher of The Los Angeles Times, which had been run by his father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him, Otis Chandler was a figure of the first importance in the nation's second most important metropolis.

Prevailing view is that McCarthy is no ordinary demagogue, but a political figure of the first rank, a man cast in a large, unique mold, quite possibly an authentic genius, and, at the very least, the most daring and original political innovator since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Rowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second-wave.

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784 1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century—and one of the first truly global celebrities.

More importantly, the book illuminates the decades-long friendship Kerney enjoyed with Eamon de Valera-the most important Irish political figure of the twentieth century-and shows how the ""Chief"" trusted and rewarded his friend throughout their long association.

His middle name was, of course, "Woodrow". Scott Berg suggests that Woodrow Wilson ultimately became "the most influential figure of the twentieth century". Others have emphasized that Wilson's character and policies had serious flaws.

"We have no choice but to call Speer's writings the most cunning apologia by any leading figure of the Third Reich". The trouble is, it's so cunning that it's mendacity is difficult to swallow in digestible lumps.

"In the context of the Anglo Irish Agreement, in which reference has been made to the 'two traditions', the minister for finance sees great danger in publicly jettisoning a figure of the second tradition.