Sentence examples for important figures of from inspiring English sources

Many of them concern one of the most important figures of the period, Cornelius Vanderbilt, or the Commodore.

"Chelsea Manning is one of the most important figures of the digital age and a hero to many of us," Harrison said.

Lerner, who died in 1986, is one of the most important figures of musical theatre, writing lyrics for classics such as Paint Your Wagon and Camelot.

"This is one of the most important figures of the 20th century, in New York City and everywhere," Dean Anderson said.

The former pope is viewed as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, in part for his stance against communism.

It was an early indication of the kind of self-determination that would make her one of the most important figures of the punk era.

And one of their most important figures of the last decade was on the opposite bench, wearing a powder-blue No. 37 jersey.

Louis MacNeice's "Charon" makes me wonder — as always when I read him — why he's so neglected among the important figures of the last century.

The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong said in an obituary that Mr. Wu was "one of the most important figures of 20th-century Chinese art".

During the design phase of the CERN Large Hadron Collider the dynamic aperture, i.e. the amplitude of the domain in phase space where the particle motion is stable, was used as one of the most important figures-of-merit to specify the field quality of the various types of superconducting magnets and to quantify the machine performance.

In addition to the absolute MDL, the dynamic range (DR) is an important figure-of-merit (FOM) of a biomolecular sensor.