But the emergence in recent months of some strong would-be candidates indicates that the time may have come for a more high-profile figure.

"When you're a high-profile figure, things can happen to you that you don't expect."

Snyder was a high-profile figure in Montreal during the 1960s and 1970s.

They found it by moving against high-profile figures, under the protection of the Chiang family name.

"If so," he continued, "it remains to be seen who will emerge as high-profile figures."

Several high-profile figures - including student leaders and journalists - have been freed, but the total number of people released is not yet clear.

Her murder led to many high-profile figures speaking out.

At least two high-profile figures were thrown out of the running for the November election.

After the war, he made sculptures of a spectacular list of high-profile figures.

Jazz can sustain only a few high-profile young figures at a time, and rarely more than one on the same instrument.