Strong-personality Sentence Examples

But France's influence, backed by the strong personality of her ambassador, General Sebastiani, was sufficient to enable the sultan to withstand these arguments, and the British ambassador broke off relations and withdrew to the fleet at Tenedos (February 1807).

The book reveals a strong personality and helps us to know the man and his teaching, even though we have to gather his own views largely from his criticism of his antagonists.

In 1880 The American Journal of Philology, a quarterly published by the Johns Hopkins University, was established under his editorial charge, and his strong personality was expressed in the department of the Journal headed "Brief Report" or "Lanx Satura," and in the earliest years of its publication every petty detail was in his hands.

Under the influence of Luthers strong personality the most active and progressive elements of the nation were soon in more or less open antagonism to the Papacy.

But Othman had not the strong personality of his predecessor, and, although he practically adhered to the policy of Omar, he was accused of favouring the members of his own family - the caliph belonged himself to the house of Omayya - at the expense of the Hashimites andthe Ansar.

Plotinus's wide popularity was due partly to the lucidity of his teaching, but perhaps even more to his strong personality.

The patterns don't have to be childish, but should still have a lot of color and verve - something lively that reflects a strong personality.

Your decision to marry someone with a strong personality was the result of feeling very vulnerable and wanting someone to lean on who was decisive, good in a crisis, and could take care of things.

As far as decorating goes, chairs can be functional or whimsical, and they can simply exist or make a strong personality statement.

Unfortunately, his strong personality and obvious leadership of his tribe made him a target at the merge.