Sentence examples for numbers men from inspiring English sources
Numbers men are remote and cold of heart, Dickens thought.
"Knew a fellow once," he said, "a mobster, one of Meyer Lansky's numbers men.
They constantly renew themselves from the steady stream of refugees that resort to them in large numbers, men who, weary of life, have been driven by the vicissitudes of fortune to adopt their manner of living.
(McEnroe, who, say what you will, has always been all about accountability, says that only after his former numbers men of 10 years "dropped the ball" several times did he let them go).
Turnbull has always positioned himself above the fray, a character bigger than party and talking points, a person of independent means and outlook – not a hidebound creature of culture and creed and habit, and certainly not a politician in hock to numbers men, or loyalists, or fixers who need to be humoured even when they've fallen into perfidy, or outlived their usefulness.
A few years ago, two scholars of comparative politics, Alfred Stepan, at Columbia, and the late Juan J. Linz — numbers men — tried to figure out why the United States has for so long had much greater income inequality than any other developed democracy.
"You're the numbers man, Claus......
But Mr. Fastow -- ever the Enron numbers man -- disagreed.
"I was just doing it for the numbers, man.
Feynman was not just a ladies' man but a numbers' man as well.
