authority figure

McDermott’s blunder was emblematic of the bloated entitlement bestowed on every authority figure in college sports, and Sunday’s tournament bracket reveal should highlight that, not obscure it.

There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.

The people who are involved in the violence, they figure out ways to remain here at all costs and continue causing trouble.

You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.

Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust.

A distinguished-looking man, evidently vested with authority, bustled forward and addressed him, civilly enough.

He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.