In Britain in the 1880s, Philip Wilson Steer painted a small group of landscapes with figures that were among the earliest and loveliest examples of the fin de siècle style.
This has increased the pressure on prime minister Antonis Samaras' shaky coalition government to not only wrap up stalled negotiations with Greece's "troika" of creditors at the EU, ECB and IMF speedily but to do so convincingly with figures "that will impress".
He achieved something that wasn't easy even for Picasso, in adapting Cubist compositional strategies to a monumental scale, with figures that were both machinelike and humanly heroic, befitting his penchant for utopian-left politics.
The Tate exhibition is an aquarium of sorts: blue and gold and black shapes fill gallery after gallery, electrifying the space with figures that Matisse cut from the memory of life.
The Fed officials say that they were tasked to conduct analyses of Lehman's books in preparation for some sort of rescue, and came back with figures that could easily have justified a bail-out.
Yet back home, officials are faced with figures that can be off the mark by millions, billions or trillions of renminbi, meaning no one is entirely sure what's going on.
Target, too, is chiming in on Friday with figures that speak to its own successes on mobile so far.
A numerical example is presented with figures that show the behaviour of the dynamic transmission error as well as the variation of the contact pressure due to the dynamic load for different rotational speeds.
Hedgeable then compared these rates of return with figures that were not based on its competitors' training models to skew results in its favor.
A gallery in South Africa is currently populated with figures that are stand-ins for us.
Another study, published in The Lancet psychiatry journal, came up with figures that stated 31percentt of the study's respondents (who had Asperger syndrome) self-reported depression and an astonishing 66percentt self-reported that they had considered suicide.
