Sentence examples for figures to take up from inspiring English sources

In talking to reporters in April, Keating said, "One question, among many raised in recent weeks, had to do with whether my financial support in any way influenced several political figures to take up my cause.

In talking to reporters in April 1989, Keating maintained that he was the victim of a federal government that had spent years trying to destroy him, and then said, "One question, among many raised in recent weeks, had to do with whether my financial support in any way influenced several political figures to take up my cause.

are just some of the more prominent figures to take up the cause in Congress, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has called for sweeping, systemic changes to a "broken" justice system, directing federal prosecutors to step away from drug cases.

Britain has been without a trade minister since the general election, amid reports that the prime minister was struggling to persuade a major City figure to take up the post.

Nokes is the latest public figure to take up the long-running battle to persuade designers, fashion houses, retailers and modelling agencies to take more responsibility in how they represent the female form and to stop the widespread use of underage and underfed models on the catwalks, on advertising hoardings and in glossy magazines.

According to stories from the time, it was his realization of the huge gap in remuneration (not to mention status) between this and other forms of figurative painting that encouraged him to take up figures.

Shen said she and her husband will go back to their hometown of Harbin and work to inspire children to take up figure skating.

If you have decided to take up figure skating, invest in a pair of skates.

The housing minister, Brandon Lewis, said: "These figures show people are still keen to take up their right to buy and why we are now extending that opportunity to housing association tenants.

Yet without a Steve Redgrave-type figure to both inspire young people to take up the sport and to attract sponsorship, how can squash become anything more than a minority sport?

Double staining for FITC-ODN and CD10 demonstrated the capability of proximal tubules in the corticomedullary area to take up ASON (figure 3C).