Sentence examples for figures were regarded from inspiring English sources

The financial figures were regarded as mixed by analysts.

Ethnological analogies with present-day primitive phenomena offer the equally plausible view that such figures were regarded as the representations of the abodes of spirits whose function was to help and protect, and especially during hunting.

It was the end of the 18th century before doctrines of the passions fell once more within the rhetorician's purview; however, at that time the figures were regarded less as appeals to an audience's passions and more as manifestations of the author's or speaker's psychology or, to use the metaphor employed earlier, as places on the map of his mind.

But those figures are regarded by many, including Russian soldiers, to be a gross underestimate.

The grand biblical feast with its rich textures and more than 120 figures is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Venetian school.

The ONS figures are regarded as the most reliable data on house prices and its 6.7% figure for the calendar year suggests that the commercial indices produced by Halifax and Nationwide were wide of the mark in 2015.

In the first, contemporary figures are regarded as just pale reflections of the great figures of the past: thus Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis, say, are pygmies compared with George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

From 2012, official employment figures are regarded as highly suspicious.

After all, classical republicans and classical liberals shared many political commitments (constitutionalism and the rule of law, for example), and many figures are regarded as central to both traditions (Montesquieu, for example).

In Klein's approach each geometry is a (connected) manifold endowed with a group of automorphisms, that is, a Lie group \(G\) of "motions" that acts transitively on the manifold, such that two figures are regarded as congruent if and only if there exists an element of the appropriate Lie group \(G\) that transforms one of the figures into the other.

Too many facts and figures is regarded as counterproductive to effective health communication in crisis situations and may even lead to avoidance behaviour [ 28, 29].