Sentence examples for figures driving from inspiring English sources

Through their standing and legitimacy, mayors have often become local, regional and national figures, driving social, economic and cultural change.

Gamal has been one of the leading figures driving Egypt's economic development and foreign governments have often praised his efforts, which are commendable and should not be forgotten.

Frampton has utterly cornered the Northern Irish market, where he has long since left the sports pages to become a society figure driving the news agenda.

As if to advertise the woeful state of the park, in 1976 Columbia, the figure driving atop the arch at Grand Army Plaza, fell over in her chariot, a victim of disrepair.

But for Sky the benefit of the show is not in overnight audience figures but driving satellite subscriber numbers.

"You could see it as risky, but the start of the season has been disjointed for the last few years and all the clubs are agreed that this will give us a real chance of a big lift‑off," said the Leeds chief executive, Gary Hetherington, who revealed that a group of players led by the England captain, Jamie Peacock, had been key figures in driving the change.

Preventing BH from exploiting sectarian tension is therefore paramount, but shoring up the support of northern political figures while driving through a reformist agenda will be no easy task.

In these figures, the driving conditions of the test vehicle, namely engine speed and calculated percentage load, as well as the concentrations of the desired exhaust constituents at the mouth of the mannequin were plotted versus time.

The central figure is driving forward beneath the inadequate protection of a woefully collapsing battle standard.

I'm covered in dust!" Richard's outburst prompts a competitive offer and a bidding war, which Erlich masterminds in father-figure fashion, driving up Richard's price by humiliating a phalanx of moneyed suitors this one for the shirt his wife picked out, that one for being "the human equivalent of a flaccid penis".

Dark figure… driving, shooting, singing, dark streets.