Sentence examples for transition figure from inspiring English sources

He was a colossal transition figure, one who wanted to get cozy just when the world changed — a world that he helped change.

"Bloomberg will likely be seen historically as a transition figure who got elected with the old base — Jewish and white Catholic — intact, helped by his ability to win a sizable share of minority votes.

But when I dug deeper, a parliamentarian from northern Germany admitted that she saw Steinbrück as a transition figure to bridge the way for Hannelore Kraft, the popular but inexperienced premier of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The increase of the dielectric permittivity at the temperature close to the phase transition (Figure 8) needs further investigations.

The key transition figure was Charles Lyell, whose Principles of Geology, first published in 1830, promulgated the concept of geologic time.

We observed increasing trends in the concentrations of CaO, MgO, and K2O in the lacustrine facies after the marine-freshwater transition (Figure 4).

Like the Titans, they seemed beautiful but sad in their brief heyday, transition figures between chaos and an airier pantheon.

We suggest maghemite due to low thermal magnetic stability along with the absence of Verwey transition (Figures 3 and 5).

Here we show how mudskippers and lungfishes have coped with the ecological challenge of the water-to-land transition (Figures 2, 5, 6).

Both of these transitions figure in Heidegger's discussion of death.

Full carbon accounting from deforestation and forest degradation will require careful consideration of sequential land-use transitions (Figure 5).