Sentences with phrase «a central figure»

The central figure in the Giza scam was its Chief Operating Officer Marco Fike.

For Caputo, who has known and communicated with some of the central figures in the federal probes for decades, it's a huge task.

Harford's appointment was praised by Uber investor Bill Gurley, who had been one of the central figures tasked with reforming the company.

John D'Orazio was a central figure in the turmoil that eventually brought Labor's reign, under Alan Carpenter to an end.

Among that chorus of voices, Lael Brainard, a former Obama administration official and since June 2014 a Fed governor, has become a central figure in shaping the image of a Fed that errs on the side of caution when interpreting data and events.

Another extremely popular series, Netflix's (NFLX) Making a Murderer, has even resulted in campaigns to resuscitate the appellate options of that show's central figure, convicted killer Steven Avery.

True crime stories are certainly having their moment on television and fans who were captivated by HBO's The Jinx will be excited to hear that plot twists continue to unfold for the central figure in that true crime documentary.

Of the 12 companies hit with sanctions in Friday's action, the Treasury Department said seven are either controlled or owned by Deripaska, the billionaire who emerged as a central figure in the U.S. probe of possible election interference by the Kremlin and its associates.

Page became a central figure in the news amid the memo saga last week.

In recent years, Bettencourt became a household name in France as the central figure in an infamous trial in which judges examined whether the billionaire was taken advantage of by those close to her.

The Netflix (NFLX) original documentary series Making a Murderer has been so popular since its December debut that it inspired protests as well as the creation of multiple petitions to get new trials for the series» central figures, Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey.

Mr. Levi is a central figure in shaping and managing the Firm's securities litigation practice.

But in the last month she has emerged as a central figure in the battle over the future of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp..

were central figures in making this deal happen,» said Mark Golinger, CEO of NAC, which is working on a supply deal with Aphria and has an existing supply agreement with CannaRoyalty Corp., an Aphria investee.

«They were central figures in making this deal happen,» said Mark Golinger, CEO of NAC, which is working on a supply deal with Aphria and has an existing supply agreement with CannaRoyalty Corp., an Aphria investee.

But just as importantly, she's a central figure in Jewish philanthropy.

Dennis has been a central figure in conservative funding circles for over two decades.

Most of the students, I among them, knew almost nothing about him, hut he was quickly to become a central figure in theological controversies that were raging within the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod» controversies centering especially on the seminary in St. Louis.

Consider this possibility: William F. Buckley may be best understood as a central figure in the golden age of what came to be called the American Catholic Renaissance, which began just before the Second World War and ran through the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

They're going to TRY and explain salvation of one's soul by removing the most central figure in the book... Sure.

He becomes the central figure in the ultimate conspiracy theory.

There's hope still for Adnan Syed — the mysterious central figure in the Serial podcast.

Yet suppose we allow ourselves for a moment to attend to the Lucan portrait of the central figure.

Christ's birth was celebrated to present him as a figure superior in every way to the central figures of this competing religion.

However, not enough people know how Jesus fits into the Mormon religion, which is not the same as how Jesus is the central figure in the Christian religion.

These controversial stands prevented him from ever becoming a central figure in the Confessing Church.

And Descartes is the central figure in the modem emphasis on a free inner self, disengaged from nature and able through reason to control the natural world.

Unless you think it makes more sense that a small group of people just decided one day to create a whole new breakaway faith from Judaism without a central figure to look upon.

First of all, it asserted that the central figure in the originating event, namely Jesus Christ himself, was «raised from the dead» by the act of God, after he had been crucified on Calvary.

Obviously the central figure in Chinese Protestant Christianity, Bishop Ting is not only president of Nanjing Seminary but also of the Amity Foundation, the Three - Self Movement and the China Christian Council.

Thurman was convinced that Christians have not correctly understood nor faithfully followed the church's central figure, Jesus.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

'» Rose is citing Webster's introductory essay in the Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth, but the full line reads: «Barth is certainly a central figure in the break up of the modern tradition in its theological expression.»

On the other hand, the narrative of the gospels, as all recent criticism agrees, is coloured throughout by a religious, if not a theological, valuation o # the events which it records and of the central Figure in them.

Unusual aviation monuments with new listings include a memorial with a central figure of Zeus, god of thunder; a Calvary Cross with a figure of Christ crucified, and a memorial in the shape of an aircraft.

Neither the label «fiction» nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...» The Rev. Donald Wildmon charged: «The script... is the most perverted, distorted account of the historical and biblical Jesus I have ever read.»

«Once the anti-catholic sentiment went away, Guy Fawkes became the central figure.»

Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.

The Jesus of the postpatriarchal church would more likely be the central figure in a community of Jewish women and men who participated in a new style of life together, one that profoundly threatened the established patriarchal powers of both Jews and Romans.

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.

What if evangelicals today, instead of focusing on «evangelizing» and «converting» people, were to begin to think of Jesus not as starting a new religion, but as the central figure of a movement that transcends religious distinctions and identities?

(24) Thirteen years later Barth stated his position even more radically: «At the risk of more headshaking and displeasure I will at any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.»

But there are indeed places today as inflamed and deadly for Christians as the scene surrounding the central figure in the White Crucifixion.

Whereas Ehrman's journey in textual criticism has led him to increasing skepticism, my own has brought me to increased confidence in the New Testament documents and in the central figure to whom they bear witness.

Now he is central figure and an archetype of every Christian.

They omit to discuss the history of this relationship or certain of its central figures, such as Fr.

Jesus Christ is the central figure in the religion, and salvation through His Atonement and Grace.

«I can see Younghusband before me now, as he was at the early Congresses - always the central figure, mobile in body and mind, vibrating with energy, a perpetual stimulus», said Lord Samuel in a broadcast he gave quite soon after Younghusband's death.

well, we certainly have contemporary accounts of Alexander the Great, so that would mean we should have contemporary accounts of Jesus, after all Jesus was a central figure in a small branch of Judaism numbering perhaps 1,000 people at His death.

In this eastward movement, St. Thomas was the central figure.