Downs became a father figure to Robinson and brought him back into the church.
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"He was a father figure for me, " the younger brother told The Times of India.
When you grow up in the inner cities, most young men don't have a father figure around.
Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable said Tom was like a father figure to the rest of the artists.
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He has helped build everything we have got at the club and will miss him like a father figure.
In Iron Man, Tony trusts Obadiah Stane and sees him as sort of a father figure while still idolizing his real father.
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"He's like a brother, a coach and a father figure to me, " Stevens said of Lukas, who now claims six Preakness winners.
And with their father in Russia, the older brother may have become a father figure to the 19-year-old these past few months.
"He freely gave of his time and expertise and became a father figure for me, " recalled Schwarzenegger, who became a top-grossing movie star and governor of California.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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Woody goes one way, but Shaun gravitates towards the impassioned rhetoric and strength he sees in Combo, a father figure who flatters his sense of injustice and betrayal.
And if he can't pitch this year, he plans to be a unifying force, a father figure, a clubhouse mascot, a deity on crutches giving the team something to rally around.
The lawyer described his client as a hard-working young man who had served as a father figure to his teenage sister and is himself the father of a baby son born to his late girlfriend.
For Romney, Cloud says it would be possible for a strong father figure to push his child down a lesser path.
After his eight-year run as Taylor, the actor tried to break out of his mold as a genial father figure with mixed success.
Bronfman's personal journey began in 1981, when Nahum Goldmann, a Zionist leader whom Bronfman saw as a benign father figure, asked him to rescue the debt-ridden World Jewish Congress.
Rather than being a hard-nosed venture capitalist, he is more like a financial father-figure to young entrepreneurs.
Schmidt has served as a sort of father figure in business to the pair of younger visionaries who developed the search engine.
Queen guitarist Brian May, who published a book on astronomy written with Sir Patrick, described him as a "dear friend, and a kind of father figure to me".
Ferguson -- who is seen as a kind of father figure by some of the young players he developed -- has "that ability to reach out to people, " said Bose, but he is also a skilled political operator.
Chip Zien warmly enacts Nat Danziger, a sincere, longtime father figure to Charlie and Marion, while Reg Rogers wears a smarmy air as ironically-named Smiley Coy, who executes Hoff's every controlling whim.
The offender gradually moves from being a stranger using force to an acquaintance using seduction to a father-like or domestic figure using a family-like bond.
Richard describes his father as a quiet figure, fond of his pipe and newspaper.
His father was a prominent figure in the organization back in Egypt in the 1940s.
Watch DOGS is a national father and father-figure program designed to connect men in the community with their schools.
His single and disabled mom did what she could to provide, but with no father figure and a stepfather behind bars, Bailey lacked guidance and stability.
Then, on Dec. 11, a lone gunman shot dead Moshe Nahari, a father of nine and well-known figure in Raida's Jewish community.
The former MP, who in 2002 became a father for the first time at the age of 57, became a public figure in the 1980s as leader of the Greater London Council (GLC).
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