Sentence examples for figure to represent from inspiring English sources
Since the days of Mike Mansfield, Japan has come to expect a senior American political figure to represent American interests in Tokyo.
Instead, if you had to pick a quintessential figure to represent the Iowa Democratic voters who have been showing up at rallies over the past few days, it would be a 55-year-old teacher.
There had been, perhaps, a vacancy for a Jane Goodall figure to represent the bonobo in the broader culture, but neither Hohmann nor Kano had occupied it; Hohmann was too dour, and Kano was not fluent in English.
These clauses are very rare in England, however, as English law would require the buy-out figure to represent a "genuine pre-estimate of loss" thereby exposing the club to considerable risk should the player appreciate in value over the duration of the contract.
It would be absurd to think that the next figure to represent the American pluralistic tradition -- to articulate both its positive stance and its outrage over Puritan excesses -- would have to be someone who has held a political office in New York, or had an address there, or even visited.
The global dance music community should feel hard pressed to find a more intriguing, well rounded figure to represent it.
His use of figures to represent human attitudes like sorrow or fear in some cases strike the viewer as ludicrous.
Her most ambitious work is a mural of 50 large plates in a grid, on which she has orchestrated a vast collage of photogramatic images of plants, animals and human figures to represent the expulsion of Adam and Eve (Johnson).
Over 10 consecutive days she is creating 650 figures to represent every constituency in the UK.
The Taliban refrained from naming representatives from within their own ranks and instead nominated pro-Taliban religious figures to represent their views.
This theory was later refined by Nicole Oresme, who used geometrical figures to represent changes in the intensity of qualities such as velocity (Clagett 1968; Sylla 1971).
