Sentence examples for unusual figures from inspiring English sources

Except by such unusual figures as Martin of Tours or Marcellus of Apamea, little effort was made to convert people who were hard to reach.

The Dockers had offered the young player $7500 to sign and $600 per game, not unusual figures for the time but drawfed by the money he'd eventually earn in Adelaide.

His play on the court suggested his mind may have been elsewhere at times: nine turnovers in the fourth quarters of Games one through four, unusual figures for a man of his talents.

The Salafis, who say they are always blamed for everything that goes wrong, have even produced a banner with their name and the tongue-in-cheek logo: "We are always the ones paying for your drinks!" As Cairo prepares for winter, some unusual figures are already coming in from the cold.

But her sympathies are committed to the doubters, including such unusual figures as the Islamic philosopher and physician Abu Bakr al-Razi (854-925) Anniennie Besant, who wrote a "Gospel of Atheism" in 1876, helped reform London schools with free meals and medical care, and later in life became a theosophist and a translator of the Bhagavad-Gita.

So the museum includes a handsome library and an exhibit chronicling the arrival of Arabs on American shores, including such unusual figures as Hadj Ali, a 19th-century Syrian immigrant recruited by the United States to train camels for the Western deserts.

Still, he's an unusual figure.

She is an unusual figure in Barack Obama's Washington.

Berwick, a former pediatrician, is an unusual figure in medicine.

Certainly he made an unusual figure in that family.

Mr. Tharoor is an unusual figure in Indian politics.