Sentence examples for foremost figures from inspiring English sources

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.

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

In 1872 Clark traveled to Europe, where he met the foremost figures in horse racing there and developed the idea of establishing a jockey club in Louisville to sponsor races and highlight the city's champion racing stock.

Hezekiah Niles, (born October 10, 1777, Jefferis Fordd, Chester county, Pennsylvania, U.S. died April 2, 1839, Wilmington, Delaware) editor and newspaper publisher who was one of the foremost figures in early American journalism.

Romola - George Eliot Set in Renaissance Florence, Eliot's 1862 novel charts the political and religious upheaval of the period, as well as many of its foremost figures, including Machiavelli and Savonarola.

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.

That will require, first and foremost, figuring out how his mind worked.

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

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

Throughout most of her career, Graham maintained a position as the foremost figure in American modern dance.

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.