Sentence examples for figures of power from inspiring English sources

But that ignores the fact that Diaz is just the latest in a long line of entirely implausible -- and often quite malevolent -- female figures of power to appear in filmed entertainment about men's pro sports.

Figures of power are never forced to confront their moral hypocrisies, and when they do, the consequences are often just punch lines.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission IPCCC) investigation has now been launched into why police child sex abuse operations into figures of power including Brittan were stalled.

You are for the first time in your life a figure of power, of threat.

Paula McAvoy remembers her handsome husband as a figure of power and grace on the rink.

For the first time, the issue was out there, taken on by a figure of power.

An American with American dollars is a figure of power in a land hobbled by crushing debt.

Within the military, it is clear that the new figure of power is Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, formerly head of military intelligence and now the minister of defence.

In America, they did this too, but the myth was that they could become a millionaire, a figure of power and glamour.

And the actor feels, in relation to him, all the feelings one has for a lover, for a father, for a figure of power.

A cloak on passions that those who required a beard might be unwilling to discuss or even consider, the beard was itself a figure of power and mystery.