Sentence examples for troublesome figures from inspiring English sources

RATHER than kicking troublesome figures out, some countries, especially in the Middle East, like to keep them in.

I was not surprised to discover that he remained a troublesome figure in exile.

Best known for his polemical writings against western institutions from the 1970s, which were easily caricatured by the right and were, equally, disdained by the left for their attacks on the welfare state, in the last 20 years of his life he became an officially forgotten, troublesome figure (like Noam Chomsky today in mainstream America).

Encouragingly, the iPSC lines that were shown to generate viable mice by tetraploid complementation assays (GSE16925 and GSE17004) express none to very few of such genes, whereas the first iPSCs generated that did not contribute to the germline (GSE5259), as well as the partially reprogrammed iPSC lines (GSE14012), express a number of these potentially troublesome genes (Figure 4).

His contemporaries saw him as a troublesome, quarrelsome figure.

The ILO called this figure "troublesome," given that youth make up only 25percentnt of the working age population.

The poverty figures also proved troublesome.

Just as they have endured a troublesome daughter, she said, they have figured out how to put up with black-ruled Africa.

For some reason — perhaps because the Democratic Convention overshadowed it — the August figure of just 96,000 jobs created didn't have much political impact, but another weak number could prove more troublesome for Obama.

"And then after 9/11, of course, they all met and they tried to figure out how to dis-invite their troublesome guest".

He is gradually humbled as he gives up the rigidity that makes figures like Achilles so adept at fighting and so troublesome in peacetime.