America, as ideal and destination, figured large in their lives.

In the vocabulary of both groups, "consolation" figured large.

Classical music events also figured large in the 1949 calendar.

It's the rare journalist who figures so large in a company's business that his compensation becomes public as part of routine financial disclosures.

'I don't suppose it figures large in an officer's training.'

The question of his personality and an acerbic tenacity that often turns people off figured large in the campaign.

Renaissance humanism and science figured large in the Dudley children's education.

These all figured large in the discussions and arguments that rang throughout the great hall of the manor house.

Such sentiments figure large in Steger's courtship of potential corporate backers.

The production of goods is a complicated form of human activity, in which values and attitudes toward work have always figured large.