Sentence examples for outrageous figure from inspiring English sources

"I think that $1.6 trillion is an outrageous figure," Mr. Bagby said.

Baddeley was the lover, and later wife of David Tennant, playboy aristocrat and founder of the Gargoyle Club in Soho, and whose brother was Stephen Tennant, perhaps the most outrageous figure among the Bright Young Things.

But for decades he has been an outsize, impulsive and often outrageous figure: polarizing in his politics, relentless in amassing his real estate empire and irrepressible in seeking to impose his will on civic life.

A multi-layered template of a magickal system, encompassing Qabalah, single-point meditation, sex rituals, excessive drug use and a good deal more, The Book of the Law made Crowley one of the 20th century's hidden prophets, a truly outrageous figure presiding over rock culture's original spirit of misrule.

But the elephant in the room keeps going back to that outrageous figure - $19bn - and must surely conclude that no amount of proclamations can guarantee the elephants' survival in the face of such relentless Asian commerce for tusks.

This sexual assault rate is compared to 23percentt of women without disabilities (which is still an outrageous figure).

She said: "These outrageous figures show that Boris Johnson has been the big developers' mayor, helping them to push through luxury flats with tiny numbers of genuinely affordable homes.

The insurers say cancelling or changing a policy means they have to do some work, but I reckon they should charge a nominal amount – a fiver or so – rather than the outrageous figures that some try and get away with.

If any of us inflicted our stream of consciousness on the world at large, with no further reflection, no simple common sense in the form of a modicum of diplomacy and reticence, we would cut ridiculous or tricky or outrageous figures.

"The judge's outrageous demand that voters pay such an exorbitant figure is a shameful, unacceptable barrier to democratic participation," Stein said in a statement.

"The judge's outrageous demand that voters pay such an exorbitant figure is a shameful, unacceptable barrier to democratic participation.