Sentence examples for use the figure of from inspiring English sources

The United Nations refugee officials have been unable to travel to Paktika but also use the figure of 24,000 to 25,000 people.

I did my PhD and first book on the Victorian governess because I wanted to use the figure of these excluded citizens as a way of unpicking the social, economic and political forces at play in the construction of bourgeois Victorian Britain.

For consistency with previous works, we continue to use the figure of 78 years in our filtering in search for the sub-centennial (60 90 years) constituent.

Now even billions seem quaint, what with the current national liability being either a zillion krillion gazillion dollars or a krillion gazillion zillion dollars, depending on whether you use the figures of the Office of Management and Budget or the Office of Budget and Management.

The electrical energy consumption of ASR was estimated for the most efficient visible light irradiation system using the figure-of-merit electrical energy per order and compared with batch and laminar falling film slurry reactor.

When Ms. Saar used the figure of Aunt Jemima in her art, she put a rifle in her hands.

He said he was using the figure of 16,000 just as an example.

"Munch used the figure of a woman as a stand-in for painting emotional states that he was unwilling to reveal on canvas," said Claude Cernuschi, one of the show's curators.

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees has meanwhile registered 180,000 displaced Kosovo Serbs now living in Serbia, although Belgrade often uses the figure of 350,000, revealing another area for potential vote rigging.

Later versions of the mumming plays used the figure of St . Georgefighting a dragon, and they employed more dialogue to balance the action.

The name derives from a custom initiated by Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century—of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps.