Sentence examples for retiring figure from inspiring English sources

For years Brown has been compared with the out-going – and oft-maligned – Cherie Blair and portrayed as a relatively retiring figure, but Yelland has been impressed by the way his friend has taken charge of raising her own profile.

'And he's always said he's just writing the kind of book he'd like to have read as a child.' A self-professed member of the school reading clique who has gone on to write about a world inhabited by fairies and farting dwarves might be expected to be a somewhat retiring figure.

He is perhaps the least likely leader of a political party in Britain, having been a retiring figure throughout his 21 years as an MP.

Lagerfeld is not, as we have noted, a particularly shy and retiring figure, but what is significant about this visit is that it is to publicise Karl Lagerfeld rather than Chanel.

Yogyakarta, the province with the lowest per capita cost, attracts many students to its universities and is also a popular place to retire (figure 2).

To go forward with the investigation, the Communist Party leader, Mr. Xi, secured the approval of senior officials, including retired figures like Jiang Zemin, the party leader who stepped down from that post in 2002, the businessman said.

She is too retiring a figure to imagine that the Serbian government would have produce Mr Mladic just for her.

Although she denied rumours that she was retiring from figure skating, Slutskaya did not compete in the world championships that took place shortly after the Olympics in Turin, and she did not participate in any major competitive events thereafter.

But one in five people are still likely to be in the red when they retire, a figure that's remained constant for five years.

In a new Today interview, retired Olympic figure skater Brian Boitano opened up about his decision to come out as gay last month.

The leadership at his son's elementary school had asked him to meet with its retiring principal to figure out how it could replicate her success.