Sentences with phrase «unlikely figure»

But sometimes it's the most unlikely figures that arrive with quite the pack.

One of the best things about Portugal this summer was precisely the fact that players other than Ronaldo stepped up when needed: We saw rather unlikely figures such as Nani, Ricardo Quaresma and Eder make important attacking interventions; Pepe was a rock at the back; Adrien Silva and William Carvalho were tireless in midfield.

A number of other unlikely figures were named as heroes by Tory candidates, including left - wing Labour veteran Tony Benn, former US president George W Bush and suffragette Emily Pankhurst.

Even seemingly unlikely figures are starting to take these jobs: Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel has gone from Cannes - selected indie drama «The Snowtown Murders,» to the upcoming awards - tipped Shakespeare adaptation «Macbeth,» to prepping «Assassin's Creed.»

Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) was born and raised in Jones County, Mississippi, the grandson of a slave owner, making him, at first blush, a very unlikely figure to mount a revolt.

Mr. Hawkesworth's campaign has released impressive endorsements from some unlikely figures — former Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes, former PC MLA Gordon Shrake, former Liberal candidate Brian Edy, and current city councillors Diane Colley - Urquhart and Druh Farrell — to demonstrate a broad support for his candidacy.

The turning point came through the unlikely figure of Roberto Soldado, on in place of Emmanuel Adebayor, who exquisitely brought Jan Vertonghen's clipped pass out of the air before Jay McEverley handled inside the 6 yard box.

The latest threat to Mr Bercow comes from the unlikely figure of Tory grandee Sir Peter Bottomley, one of the MPs who dragged him to the Chair in the old - fashioned ritual when he was re-elected last June.

An unlikely figure providing support for the chancellor is the Liberal Democrats» Martin Horwood.

Ahead of Jeremy Corbyn's big speech setting out his approach to Brexit, Labour HQ deployed an unlikely figure as his warm - up man.

That rebellion was launched on Sky News at the unlikely hour of 3 am on Friday — election night — and the flag of opposition was unfurled by the unlikely figure of the former home secretary David Blunkett, normally a loyalist.

Paul Evans speaks to Quentin Davies, the former Conservative who made an unlikely figure on the Labour benches, and is now in the Lords.

The agent of Castro's demise was an unlikely figure on the Bronx political scene.

Julian Barbour cuts an unlikely figure for a radical.

At first glance, Oates seems an unlikely figure to revolutionize our understanding of the ancient world.

As an inventor of scientific instruments, James Lovelock may seem an unlikely figure to have launched a New Age, earth - mother environmental movement.

Following Tonya Harding, an unlikely figure skater, due to her foul mouth and horrific upbringing, I, Tonya is about her rise to power and continual falls from grace.

We now produce about 6 million barrels per day and it is unlikely that figure will rise much this decade.

Jengo is the first game from studio Robot Wizard, founded by two unlikely figures from the South African indie gaming scene.

Luckily, the unlikely figure of Project Cars is riding in to save the day.

Born in the Ukraine to aristocratic parents, Graham seemed an unlikely figure to be such a pivotal force in American art in the 1920s and 1930s.

This continues a spate of renewed iconoclasm surrounding our blood - soaked monuments to the past, but in his new piece for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Black Burns (2017), Douglas Gordon turns this spirit of statue - toppling, a counter to the reproduction of power through monuments, onto an unlikely figure: Robert Burns.