Sentence examples for more powerful figures from inspiring English sources

He had little charisma and was best known for supporting more powerful figures in the Brotherhood; the press immediately labelled him "the spare tire".

Mr. Magnitsky's family and former colleagues at Hermitage Capital have long contended that the official inquiry needed to extend beyond prison staff to include the more powerful figures who oversaw his arrest and 11-month detention.

Yet even as the fishermen rejoice at the floodwaters, other, more powerful figures are calling for more dams and irrigation projects upstream to contain the water flow and prevent such wide-scale destruction in the future.

In case you've forgotten, Magoo first appeared in 1949, at the threshold of the cold war, a weak, bumbling, stumbling character, bullied and pushed around by the more powerful figures around him.

One of the more powerful figures in media-as-it-is went toe to toe with a new player in media-as-it-might-be. Comcast is in line to acquire control of NBC Universal, once regulators sign off on the $30 billion deal.

And there are few more powerful figures in Australian techno than Chiara Kickdrum.

He was a much more powerful figure than Mr Abbas or his likely successors.

Jung's mother was a more powerful figure, though she seems to have had a split personality.

Odysseus's partner in intrigue is the even more powerful figure (who does not figure in Euripides) of Chasimenos, Agamemnon's principal informer and chief scribe.

As she returns to life as the junior senator from New York – albeit one capable of winning 18 million votes – Clinton could emerge as a much more powerful figure.

It was hardly that: Deng was a far more powerful figure, whose clout allowed him to overwhelm considerable opposition to his policies from party conservatives.