Sentence examples for figures lost from inspiring English sources

Several of its leading figures lost their seats.

In Belarus, the last three opposition figures lost their seats in Parliament in 2004.

Some recent provincial elections, in which established figures lost to newcomers, suggest that the voters want change.

The police-recorded crime figures lost their "gold standard" as national statistics because of poor recording practices.

Ghostly figures, lost in reverie, wander through the garden in white robes, as they would in an ashram.

During the French Revolution the government erected a guillotine in the square and many important figures lost their heads there in front of cheering crowds.

The figure lost is £5.2bn, but that is fraud and error, which the relevant press officers always pronounce "fraudnerror", as though they were the same thing.

What makes Hamilton's invisibility all the more remarkable, is that, paradoxically, he was larger than life, anything but a reticent figure lost in the background.

Maybe they figured lost children garnered the most sympathy, and children parted from their parents in regret-ridden, postdivorce lives are a common enough story of our time, after all.

Meanwhile, the lyrics presented a mysterious figure lost in a high-class porn-style demimonde, all drugs and deceit, a twilit world full of casual sex, faithless women and men inured to pleasure.

Then gradually, as the 1950s went on, the figure lost its central place in painting, which grew increasingly abstract, as in early work by On Kawara and Yayoi Kusama, both of whom would move to New York.