Sentence examples for special figure from inspiring English sources

Yet he remains "a very special figure" in Chinese history, Mr. Fang said.

Carswell spoke out after the prime minister said he saw no need to appoint a special figure to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership.

"He's special and has earned his way, and certainly is a special figure in the Orange Bowl, with all of his great games here," Stoops said.

Turrell's intuition, nearly half a century ago, of an art keyed to the physiology of eyesight made him an estimable but marginally special figure, as waves of less subtle fashion exhausted themselves.

"What makes his detention particularly disturbing is that he's a special figure in so many ways," said Paul Gewirtz, director of the China Law Center at Yale Law School, which helped Mr. Xu establish his legal center, known here by its Chinese name, Gongmeng.

George is a special figure in Murden's life, he said, because it was the archbishop who confirmed Murden in May.

MUJI wants people to check in at its stores and create their own virtual shelves of products, books, CDs and DVDs, earning virtual coins and "special limited figures" for their efforts.

Oratory was, and still is, an important traditional art; good orators were expected to make mythological and historical allusions and to use special figures of speech.

He says that in the recent past journalists considered themselves – and were perhaps considered by others – special figures of authority: "We had the information and the access; you didn't.

The special figures figure skating event was only contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

You can have special figures, such as an officer and a standard bearer (the soldier carrying the flag) on a base.