"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He has in many ways been an indispensable figure in India's recent transitions.
- He said Secretary Powell had erred in assuming that Mr. Arafat was an indispensable figure in future peace talks.
- Gilpatric made himself an "indispensable" figure in the Kennedy administration, wrote longtime JFK aide Ted Sorensen.
- In Hurd's phrase, "By the imperceptible process characteristic of British politics he found himself month by month, without any particular manoeuvre on his part, becoming an indispensable figure in the government."
- This ensemble is an indispensable figure on the new-music scene in New York, but its programs are not always chosen with sufficient discrimination, and the latest installment had more than its share of dreariness.
- Yet the image of Mr. Sharon, so recently considered the indispensable figure in Israeli politics, has now faded from the advertisements and even the television programs.
- But in just a few months, he has become a familiar and indispensable figure to the ambassadors, business executives, legislators, lobbyists, mayors and other supplicants who regularly come knocking on his door.
- Asked by one member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations whether Mr. Arafat's position was in jeopardy, Mr. Christopher said: "He is the indispensable figure.
- The Secretary General is now recognized as an indispensable figure in the maintenance of peace and the resolution of conflict.
- From his early 20's, Capek was an indispensable figure in Czech literature and journalism.
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