Sentence examples for polemical figure from inspiring English sources

Her support for admitting women to the priesthood made her a polemical figure on the lecture circuit.

A highly respected tastemaker and connoisseur of modern art, Barr was also a risk taker and a polemical figure; among his colleagues he was known for having a dictatorial manner and an unrelentingly dogmatic approach.

The real criminal, they say, is Mr Petro, a polemical figure who earlier this year successfully fought an attempt by Colombia's inspector general to unseat him for flouting the law by trying to fire private garbage haulers.

Although his aristocratic political style had made him one of this country's most polemical figures, Mr. Castañeda is widely credited with pressing Mexico's first democratic government to submit to the authority of international rights conventions.

As the dinar movement gathers momentum, its propagators – which include some of the Muslim world's most polemical figures such as the Trinidad-born cleric Imran Hosein – would doubtless dismiss Antony Lerman's recent suggestion in the Guardian that no credible anti-capitalist doctrine exists today.

"He's a controversial figure, and he's polemical in public -- those two facts go together -- but he is strongly and deeply motivated by the desire to use economics to make the world a better place," said Barry J. Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California at Berkeley who taught alongside Professor Sachs at Harvard in the early 1980's.

The fact that Laozi appears favorably in both Confucian and Daoist sources seems to argue against the likelihood that the figure was fabricated for polemical purposes.

Voltaire's beliefs prompted a prodigious number of polemical writings.

But Henry – whose expansion into stage acting and activism has made him one of showbiz's most interesting figures – has scored another powerful polemical point, although the test of his success will be judged on whether any of Tuesday's diverse first-timers is given other gigs on Today.

Mr. Childs's 1988 design was thus a polemical statement.

The description of this event in the Observer reads like a nightmarish variant of that game in which one fantasises about resurrecting one's favourite historical figures in order to stage an imaginary dinner-party (a game appropriated to brilliant polemical effect by Caryl Churchill's Top Girls in 1982).