principal figure

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Saquicela, who took over as president of the National Assembly in May last year, has become a principal figure in the process against Lasso, who is accused of embezzlement in an oil transportation contract.

From Reuters • May 14, 2023

Westergaard became known worldwide in 2005 for his controversial depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in Jyllands-Posten, which published 12 editorial cartoons of the principal figure of Islam.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021

The film's principal figure is not Gatsby but Nick Carraway, a classic unreliable narrator, aged 30 in that summer of 1922, a midwesterner educated at Yale alongside Tom Buchanan and Daisy's second cousin.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

The interview was the second in two days with a principal figure in the scandal.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2011

The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure.

From "1984" by George Orwell