Sentence examples for temporary figures from inspiring English sources

Ahmadinejad, like the President's before him, are temporary figures who come and go depending on elections, and depending on their relationship to Khamenei, are able to rule with greater or lesser amounts of autonomy and authority.

New immigrants settled throughout the blocks comprising the KGR (Figure 1) erecting temporary lodgings (Figure 3).

The NTC constitution specifies that no temporary government figures should serve in any future elected Libyan government.

Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high-relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.

The giant attracted attention in the summer of 2007 when a temporary chalk figure of Homer Simpson was drawn next to it, to promote The Simpsons Movie.

Nor was he one of the fatherless boys at school who try to adopt me as a temporary paternal figure.

Where 26% of hires in 2010 were temporary, the figure was 11% after the early-1990s recession and only 7% after the downturn of 2001.

"For temporary shows, the figures are reversed and 70percentt of visitors are French.

By July, there were a record 6,252 families, with 11,594 children, in temporary beds, city figures show.

The lack of staff is so acute that NHS trusts in England are spending £2.6bn a year on agency and temporary staff, official figures show.

It was not clear whether that lull, too, would prove temporary, though political figures appeared eager to assure the nervous nation that it would hold.