Meanings of appropriate figure in English

But Lord Fakafanua dismissed suggestions his fellow parliamentarian was not an appropriate figure to chair the new Board.

Therefore it was necessary for a priest or other appropriate figure to examine the case and make the final decision.

I was pondering an appropriate figure when the phone rang, the soft "brrrrp" almost causing me to run up onto the curb.

The Crown suggested total fines in the case should be $1.5m, but the defence says $600,000 would be a more appropriate figure.

Very terrifying, but very appropriate figures to take part in her nightmare dream.

If you can find no appropriate figures, at least make your words specific.

It is an octagonal building, with reliefs on the frieze, representing by appropriate figures the eight winds into which the Athenian compass was divided.