Sentence examples for foremost figure of from inspiring English sources

The Shah was the foremost figure of Persia's Qajar dynasty, which ruled from the 1780's to the 1920's when the Pahlavi family took power.

As leader of the Rhodesian Front and its successors, he was the foremost figure of his country's white community a "symbol and father figure", in Mordechai Tamarkin's phrase, who as Prime Minister "personified white Rhodesia".

Mr. Cunningham ranks among the foremost figures of artistic modernism and among the few who have transformed the nature and status of dance theater, visionaries like Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine.

Born Sophie Henrietta Gertrude Tauber, in Davos, Switzerland in 1889, she was one of the foremost figures of the rebellious Dada art movement.

The two foremost figures to emerge from the aftermath of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Mr. Rafsanjani and Mr. Khamenei were once close allies.

Mr. bin Laden is the foremost figure among thousands of Arabs who now make Afghanistan their home.

Moreover, China's perceived enemy, the Dalai Lama, leader of another Buddhist school but recognized universally as Tibetan Buddhism's foremost figure and the leader of a Tibetan government in exile, has joined in demanding the Karmapa's release, saying that it was wrong to prevent him from taking up his religious duties and the higher studies he has said he went to India to pursue.

They include the right-of-centre opposition party and its foremost figure, President Vaclav Klaus.

The son has greatly increased his patrimony and has also been the foremost figure in developing the great International Harvester Co., of which he is president.

Sanjabi, a lieutenant of Mossadegh's in those days, had survived years of prison to emerge as the foremost figure in the National Front.

In exile from 1984 to 1986, she returned to Pakistan after the lifting of martial law and soon became the foremost figure in the political opposition to Zia.