Sentences with phrase «once powerful figure»

Another once powerful figure in New York state politics was sentenced to prison yesterday after a corruption conviction.

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The allegations Miller is facing involve Christian Dawkins, a former associate of once - powerful NBA agent Andy Miller, and a central figure in the FBI's probe of corruption in college basketball.

Once such a powerful and even intimidating figure.

Joe Percoco, once among the most powerful New York political figures, appeared in federal court today to face criminal charges stemming from a pair of alleged bribery schemes.

After all, the process of relinquishing the most powerful job in the world isn't an easy one, especially given the American public's notoriously fleeting attention span and penchant for paying little heed to once - prominent political figures after they exit the public stage.

Once one of the most powerful figures in New York politics, former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's second corruption trial began Monday.

Silver, once one of the most powerful political figures in the state, must surrender to prison by noon on July 1.

Mr. Percoco was once a uniquely powerful figure, the governor's right - hand man and enforcer.

The Terminator, who turns into a Grandfather - type figure here, isn't as frightening or powerful as he once was.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot different about the weapon choices; once you figure out the loadout that's right for you, it's just a matter of waiting through missions until you get a more powerful version of that same weapon.

At once charming, magnificent, fragile, and powerful, the figure looks to the clouds and blue sky, inviting others to stand at its base and do the same.

He moves toward the hieroglyphic, so - called neo-primitive pictographs, symbols and patterns, usually in black on white, that would become his signature style; this scheme's noticeably male stick figures seem at once powerful and hapless, as if they caused the chaos that swirls around them.

«The body is actually a reflection of Francis» own mind thinking through how to create a figure that is at once quite powerful and robust, but vulnerable at the same time.

At a time when external systemic forces peer groups and mass culture are at least as powerful in defining the adolescent's world as the internal family system, the old primary family system, once figuring so dramatically in therapy, has become a shadow of its former self, often exerting less pull on the teen's heart, mind and hormones than the second family of the peer group.