Sentence examples for figures has turned from inspiring English sources

The recent surge in U.S. casualty figures has turned people's attention away from the much larger casualties being borne by the insurgents.

The figures have turned out to be a white woman standing beside an American Indian while a black man steadies a boat, in a vision of racial harmony.

At least since Zola's "J'Accuse," public figures have turned to the open letter for the promotion of pet causes and the airing of grievances.

David Sabel, executive producer of NT Live, said The Audience's attendance figures had "turned out even greater than expected," surpassing those achieved by Alan Bennett's People in March.

This is an era when too many larger-than-life sports figures have turned out to be frauds, including Marion Jones, who has now been stripped of the five track and field medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Games.

The H.I.V. epidemic passes a critical boundary when one per cent of adults become infected; that figure has turned out to be a sort of trip wire.

The saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a sphinxlike figure who has turned increasingly to large-scale composition and rarely appears in small-group jazz settings that are worthy of him, played the saxophone.

Another neglected secular master was Henry of Ghent, a very important late-thirteenth century figure who has turned out to be crucial for understanding much of Duns Scotus, but whose views have only in the last few decades begun to be seriously studied (see Henry of Ghent).

So who is the maverick figure whose campaign has turned Labour upside down?

While Mr. Ozawa remains a potent political figure, the scandal has turned many in his party against him and made him into something of a pariah in the local news media.

Walsh has become the central figure in what has turned into a nettlesome issue for the Patriots: a continuing discussion about protecting the integrity of the N.F.L. that has been linked to the Patriots' videotaping of the Jets' defensive signals last September.