Sentence examples for figure so that from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders settled on the larger figure so that the court system would shoulder "a more proportionate share of the state's reductions," Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for the governor, said.

In the image as Draycott reads it in the remainder of the poem, it is mortality which grants both dignity and autonomy to this distant figure, so that the conclusion, "She isn't interested in me any more" is affirmation of love rather than a mawkish protest.

While she draws Z. memorably and gives her narrator a strong, sympathetic voice, Ms. Weinstein does not entirely avoid an occupational hazard: having her alter ego overshadowed by the novel's central figure, so that the book is slacker when Annabelle's own life assumes center stage.

The Leave camp have already aped the US Republican party's media strategy so successfully (relentlessly repeating falsehoods, such as the £350m-a-week figure, so that the "balanced" media feel they have to report them again and again) that they might as well go the full Donald Trump and adopt a cryptofascist slogan such as "Make Britain Great Again".

Even more Baroque are formal portraits by Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillière, in which the strong contrapposto (twisting of the figure so that one half is in opposition to the other), rich settings, and floating masses of drapery reflect the pomp and swagger of this era which, significantly, came to be known as the Grande Époque.

They are offset within the figure so that they can be seen clearly.

Mr. Koenigsberg of Horizon said that a prime outdoor billboard usually costs six figures, "so that kind of number doesn't sound out of whack".

A common device of Toulouse-Lautrec was to compose the figures so that their legs were not visible.

Mr. Dealey could have simply warned the Save Darfur Coalition to be exacting with their figures so that enemies could not find ways to discredit their indispensable efforts.

It now has them independently audited, which is fine as long as it publishes those figures so that we can all see how they are doing.

In the process he often painted over shapes or even human figures so that the finished canvas could contain less by way of content than it once did.