(1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(2) Yahoo is to bring a number of "emblematic" TV shows to its online audience, as it looks to increase its original content and mirror the success Netflix has achieved with its streaming of House of Cards.
(3) These mixed messages are emblematic of a wider dilemma Cameron faces: to retoxify or detoxify?
(4) Comet, the electricals retailer that has collapsed into administration, is the latest high street casualty, emblematic of thousands of shuttered shops up and down the land.
(5) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
(6) Professor Larry Birnbaum , joint head of the Intelligent Information Laboratory, is an emblematic figure in this new, horizontal discipline, for he also teaches at the nearby Medill School of Journalism.
(7) Early in his career O'Toole became emblematic of a new breed of hard-drinking Hollywood hellraiser.
(8) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.
(9) Yun’s quest – a modern version of the age old dream of tapping the fountain of youth – is emblematic of the current enthusiasm to disrupt death sweeping Silicon Valley.
(10) Loach has said his characters’ dismal experiences with the social security system are emblematic of a wider austerity-led policy of “conscious cruelty” towards the poor.
(11) "Sarkozy really does give the impression of being in several places at the same time, politically and physically, and we wanted to have fun with this idea and capture some of the emblematic scenes of his time in office," Fioretto told the Guardian.
(12) He designed the luxury One Hyde Park apartments in Knightsbridge that have become emblematic of the foreign investment phenomenon.
(13) The emblematic 80s action film about US Navy pilots was the biggest box-office hit of 1986, and has gone on to gross more than $356m (£214m) worldwide.
(14) It's about finding people who can become emblematic representatives [for their genre]," she added.
(15) Is Cape Town more divided that the rest of the country, or emblematic of wider problems?
(16) His case is emblematic of the hardline stance China has taken towards ethnic minorities who do not toe the Communist party line.
(17) The binge of infrastructure spending that has accompanied the World Cup has become emblematic of all the most problematic elements of Brazil's political economy – corruption, kickbacks and conflicts of interest.
(18) What seemed to me to be clearly anti-Jewish discrimination has never been regarded that way in France; it was always accepted by Jews as an integral part of the Republican model, echoing back to the emblematic Napoleonic contract that gave them citizenship.
(19) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
(20) Wandle’s story is emblematic of the success of the FDAC in central London, which was launched in 2008 as a way of dealing with civil care proceedings involving parents who misuse substances, causing harm to their children.
Figural
Definition:
(a.) Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
(a.) Figurate. See Figurate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(2) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(3) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(6) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) Mitotic figures and leukotriene B4 levels in lesions decreased 86% and 64%, respectively, after seven days of cyclosporine therapy.
(9) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(11) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(12) Of particular note is the difference between Black American and Nigerian figures.
(13) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(14) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(15) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(16) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(19) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(20) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.