Sentence examples for figured a list from inspiring English sources

In the music world, the posh purveyors of manners figured a list of almost exclusively white males deserved recognition (shout out to Zayn Malik from One Direction bucking the overall demographic trend).

In public testimony, the reporter's name figured on a list of people who had paid supposedly secret visits to an activist named Matthew Goniwe in the small, segregated township of Cradock shortly before he and three comrades were murdered by an apartheid-era hit squad in 1985.

It is the only Latin American country to figure on a list of the world's 22 "older democracies" compiled by Robert Dahl, an eminent political scientist.

All that the congressional "supercommittee" was required to do was to figure out a list of measures that would reduce America's budget deficits by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years.

The Cuban José Lezama Lima and the Mexican Gerardo Deniz could figure in a list of "untranslatable" authors, but Gregory Rabassa translated Lezama Lima's Paradiso and Mónica de la Torre translated Gerardo Deniz's poems, and the literary world is richer for it.

And as we have noted in previous years, none of the companies on this list would figure on a list of America's most misbehaving companies, were there to be such a ranking.

There will probably be more serious guests, more political figures and A-list celebrities instead of the B-listers, which is not necessarily an improvement.

The editors figured the list was a good excuse for a party.

And since the Netflix homepage doesn't offer an easy option to see the "best" and "most critically acclaimed" movies it has to offer, I figured making such a list would be valuable.

His name did not figure in a list of candidates circulating here for several months.

A senior BBC policymaker pointed out that the F-word did not figure on a list of words which viewers felt should never be broadcast.