Sentence examples for grand figure from inspiring English sources

To determine whether you owe more taxes, have your granddaughter figure out whether the sum of your income, plus any tax-exempt interest, plus half of your Social Security benefits adds up to more than $25,000 (assuming you file a single return; if you are married and file a joint return, the base amount is $32,000 instead of $25,000).

Chances are good that your granddaughter can figure your whole cell phone out in minutes, with hers being much more complicated than yours.

Then, of course, there was the formidable four-foot-eight figure of Ericka Kaplan, granddaughter of the chief rabbi of the synagogue of Prague.

Lucinda Woodland, who lives in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Southeast Washington and has legal guardianship of her granddaughter, said she can't figure out why a notice landed at her door.

She stood outside the classroom and when he emerged from our class sessions dripping in sweat, she wiped him dry and then nudged him back into the classroom". Then, of course, there was the formidable four-foot-eight figure of Ericka Kaplan, granddaughter of the chief rabbi of the synagogue of Prague.

But Anbang often seemed to behave as though the usual informal political guidelines did not apply — possibly because Mr. Wu was married to a granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, a major Communist Party figure who was China's paramount leader in the 1980s.

Thirteen-year-old Ashlyn Wooden, great-granddaughter of UCLA coach and inspirational figure John Wooden, led a tribute in his honor at Newport Beach Andersen Elementary on Friday morning.

Weymouth is a granddaughter of Katharine Graham, the towering Washington figure who steered the paper through its coverage of the Watergate scandal.

The Iranian-backed Shiite fighters in Syria are called "Defenders of the Shrine," referring to the Sayyidah Zeinab Mosque near Damascus, the burial place of Zeinab, granddaughter of the prophet Muhammad and a revered figure within the Shiite community.

Her granddaughter remembers her as a frail, stooping, ghost-like figure flitting about the house, obsessively neat, endlessly crocheting doilies and antimacassars.

Granddaughter of José Rendón Peniche (1829 1887), an important political figure in the southeast region of Mexico during the nineteenth century (Ciuk 2000, 69), Cándida's full name was Candelaria Beltrán Rendón.