Sentence examples for throwing figures from inspiring English sources

Mention Pharrell Williams to anyone who knows anything about music and they will start throwing figures at you: do you realise that Pharrell is responsible for 50% of the music played on radio, or is it 60%?

The prisons are designed to throw figures of prisoners — in their Mondrian-red or yellow or black-striped uniforms — into sharp, surveillable relief and to disempower them through a kind of cultural neutralizing.

"The WRU is aware of what we believe is workable and really we need to sit down and discuss that with the WRU rather than throw figures around in the public domain.

Only when all the slides are depressed to exactly the right distance can the key be turned and the bolt thrown (Figure 5).

67 Regarding upper-body power, medicine ball tests (ie, overhead throw; figure 4) seem to be useful for tennis players, as they show high external validity, because they involve the coordination of body segments (ie, kinetic chain) and allow generation, summation, transfer and regulation of forces from the lower body to the upper body, which is similar to tennis strokes.

Lukashenko has been accused of persistent human rights abuses through two decades in power, throwing opposition figures in jail, tolerating no political dissent and developing a cult of personality.

Another simple way to fill a stocking is by throwing in figures from kids' favorite TV series and movies.

Some of those studies also throw in figures such as opportunity costs — that is, projections of what the company could have done with its money if it had not engaged in research.

He casually threw out figures from a Pew poll conducted in 2013 that supposedly backed up his argument.

In an interview last year with the writer Frederic Tuten, he explained: "One of the reasons I looked to photography was that when modernism threw the figure out of painting, the figure went into photography.

Regional north to south differences in cumulative throw (Figure 4) may be related to such lateral effects.