Sentences with phrase «tower figure»

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Thomas the Train Elements: * Thomas Wooden Railway Flynn & Water Tower Figure 8 Railroad Track Set 21 Piece * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Figure 8 Set Expansion Pack * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Early Engineers Busy Day on Sodor Set * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Early Engineers Round About Station * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Deluxe Over — The — Track Signal * Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway — Echo Tunnel * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Harold The Helicopter * Thomas Wooden Railway — Toby The Tram Engine * Thomas Wooden Railway — Skarloey * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Wacky Track (2 pieces)

For «packs» you'll see the Chuggington Double Decker Roundhouse (split in two), the Chuggington Figure 8 Clock Tower set, Thomas and Friends Water Tower Figure 8 Set, two expansion packs, Thomas and Friends Echo Tunnel (discontinued), and an unknown no name tunnel and aquaduct bridge.

A towering figure, Strauss was an accomplished poker pro.

Jesus and Saint Paul, the two towering figures of the New Testament were also open supporters of slavery and beating slaves.

Hey, in my little Episcopal church, we have a formal liturgy and a choir that sings the works of Bach and other towering figures of Christian music.

In light of the church's unease with laughter and jokes, Screech is drawn to the way two towering figures of the Renaissance, Erasmus and Rabelais, defended and employed humor.

The towering figure in the third force, the late Abraham Maslow, distinguished between deficiency needs and growth needs.

His well - dressed towering figure of 6ft 3inches and collected studious nature create a figure that represents what a true football manager should look like.

McGlinchey has been a towering figure since he reached South Bend in the fall of 2013.

MF Alfred N'Diaye, 8 — A towering figure in midfield, covering more ground than any other player.

Traore has a towering figure who stands at 2,03 meters, but at the same time his footwork is amazing.

At the heart of their defence, Gerard Piqué is a towering figure.

James Levine, whose 46 - year career at the Metropolitan Opera established him as a towering figure in classical music, was fired by the company on after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.

Of course he's been a towering figure.

Two years in the making, the author affords the reader candid insight into how the EIB Network CEO rose to become a towering figure in the media scene in and beyond Ghana.

A politician with towering figure, Adeleke would not accept to be in the ilk of those to be dictated to in political arrangements.

LEVINE»S CURTAIN CALL — Associated Press: «James Levine, whose 46 - year career at the Metropolitan Opera established him as a towering figure in classical music, was fired by the company on Monday after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.

He said that Galloway, who he has previously described as «a towering figure of the left,» helped attract British Muslims to vote for Brexit.

The Press and Sun Bulletin's obit: Libous was a towering figure in Binghamton and his Southern Tier district, who knew how to use his power to accomplish things needed for his district, but laid low by a corruption scandal involving his son.

As Iran's first Supreme Leader, Khomeini is a towering figure in the country and was its revolutionary leader in the 1979 ouster of the shah.

Okupe stated, «It is absolutely impossible to oppose the incumbent especially a towering figure like President Muhammadu Buhari and hope to defeat him.

Announcing his candidacy outside the House of Commons, Mr Miliband paid tribute to Gordon Brown as a «towering figure» and wished the new Conservative - Liberal Democrat government well.

«Tuzo Wilson is a towering figure in geophysics internationally and the person most responsible for pioneering the ideas of plate tectonics in the 1960s,» said Pysklywec.

It's not simply that he is a towering figure whose name is synonymous with genius, someone whose work has profoundly shaped physics for more than a century.

A century ago, give or take, Antarctica was the setting for great feats of derring - do by towering figures: Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton.

The Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAH) builds off of work by the towering figures Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow and attempts to measure active willingness to help those in need.

«Work on the commons is almost synonymous with Ostrom,» says Simon Gächter, an economist at the University of Nottingham, U.K. «She's a towering figure in the literature.»

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.

But with a cast of characters that includes Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, and other towering figures of 20th - century physics, Ottaviani seldom needs to depart from the strict historical record.

Looming over them was the towering figure of Linus C. Pauling, who only three years earlier had used X-ray diffraction data and model building to correctly deduce the α - helix and β - sheet secondary structures of proteins.

At the centre of it all was Enzo Ferrari, a towering figure in motor racing and patriarch of Ferrari who dared to dream about speed in ways nobody else could.

The conflicting pressures of the Pentagon Papers forced her to take the reins and step up to her responsibilities, and she emerged as a towering figure in American publishing and a role model for professional women.

Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox.

So, he's really a towering figure in our history.

From its deadly flying silver spheres through to its hooded dwarf minions, and of course, the towering figure of arch villain The Tall Man himself, the imagery conjured up by the Phantasm films remains etched in the psyche of genre fans everywhere.

And yes, Paris looks marvelous as we skip around from (the Eiffel Tower figures prominently in most cityscapes) to neighborhood streets to such off - the - radar locations as the bustling produce night market.

Adonis is a young man who has grown up with everything, except the approval of a father, a towering figure who never knew him.

John Wells is one of the towering figures in modern American television.

Like Nagisa Oshima, the other towering figure of the Japanese New Wave, Imamura (1926 — 2006) rejected the or...

Katharine Graham, the great and respected owner of the Washington Post, was already a towering figure over the course of her life and career.

It was black and in the hand of someone the first - graders on the playground would later describe as a thin, towering figure with wispy blond hair and angry eyes.

Already a towering figure on the Daytona Beach scene, France had the foresight to turn a Southern confederation of jalopy racers into NASCAR in 1948, and he eventually forged it into a national obsession.

The Washington Post Notable Book, which is the definitive biography of «one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition» (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), has continued to receive critical acclaim since its release last summer.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who at first wore his monk's robes uncomfortably but was ultimately transformed by his escape into the towering figure the world knows today — a charismatic champion of free thinking and universal compassion.

Rather, Peter Ackroyd has used his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full - scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language.

As Andrea Wulf notes in her commanding study, Humboldt is severely neglected (in fact, virtually forgotten) in the English - speaking world, but in his day, he was a towering figure, one of the world's most famous men, exchanging ideas with Goethe, Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson, scaling South - American volcanoes, forging a new unified way of thinking about the natural world that would bear fruit in later thinkers from Henry David Thoreau to John Muir.

Not so with «The Duke,» who, 35 years after his death, remains a towering figure.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who was ultimately transformed into the towering figure the world knows today.

Leonardo is such a towering figure — and a controversial one — that I wanted the portrait of him to be drawn from...