Sentence examples for prime figures from inspiring English sources

Lord Richard Attenborough was not only one of the prime figures in British cinema in the last half of the 20th century, acclaimed as both an actor and director, but he was also a tireless champion of the British film industry and liberal causes.

Which brings us to Smith, a prime figure in this unnerving tale.

The dissidents and combatants of "God in America" encompass the evangelist George Whitfield; the Reform Jewish leader Isaac Mayer Wise; the Catholic bishop John Hughes and Jerry Falwelll, a prime figure in the Moral Majority.

"What you have in Viktor Bout is a prime figure in the globalization of crime," said Louise I. Shelley, director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University.

Also on hand are the bassist Pablo Aslan, a tango-jazz specialist; the pianist Pablo Ziegler, one of Piazzolla's former sidemen; and the drummer Pipi Piazzolla, the maestro's grandson and a prime figure on the current Buenos Aires scene.

After the terrorist bombings of two American embassies in east Africa in August , 1998 Mr. Clinton ordered Navy cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan, saying that an American investigation had identified Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Arabian exile and Islamic militant living in Afghanistan as the prime figure in the attacks.

The man responsible for the latest insurrection of analog is Carver Mead, the innovator of the last 30 years, the prime figure behind Moore's law and a leading prophet of digital semiconductors.

A prime figure of the Polish Romantic period, Mickiewicz is counted as one of Poland's's Three Bards (the others being Zygmunt Krasiński and Juliusz Słowacki) and the greatest poet in all Polish literature.

In some states the billionaire businessman is polling at 0%. Clinton's campaign responded to Trump's outreach by pointing out that he had been sued for housing discrimination and was a prime figure in questioning whether President Obama, the nation's first black president, was born in the country.

Decreased TregKIF number in the dALN coincided with impaired ability of these cells to inhibit BM3 T cell priming (Figure 6).

In the HSVova positive control mice, the photon flux in the abdominal region peaked four day after challenge (day 51 post priming; Figure 6A and 6B), and then declined towards the control level (HSVlac) by day eight.