Sentence examples for foundational figures from inspiring English sources

But you cannot profess to be a student of English literature if you have not lingered in the slipstreams of certain foundational figures, who also happen to be (alas) both white and male".

No matter which way you look at it, though, Bill Haley is a foundational figure.

To those skeptical of modern psychiatry, however, Dr. Szasz was a foundational figure.

The Hindu right's attack on such a foundational figure as Nehru signals the reach of its ambition to remake Indian nationalism through a majoritarian narrative.

Chuck Berry was to rock music what Louis Armstrong was to jazz — a foundational figure; if not quite singular, then as close as it gets.

The bomb exploded several hundred yards from the gold-domed Shrine of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and a foundational figure in the centuries-old split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Simply identifying a person as a voter, as many volunteers did — "Mr. Jones, we know you have voted in the past" — acts as a subtle prompt to future voting, said Dr. Cialdini, a foundational figure in the science of persuasion.

The attacks came as hundreds of thousands of worshipers flocked to the holy city of Karbala to celebrate Ashura, which commemorates the death of a foundational figure in Shiite Islam more than 1,000 years ago.