Sentences with phrase «american presidents»

The black comedy looks at the nine men and women who killed, or tried to kill, American presidents, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.

Oliver Stone brewed paranoid tempests out of Nixon and JFK, and made wry fun of Dubya in W. Steven Spielberg, with his long - mooted look at the 16th and most hallowed of American Presidents, shows us the instinctive showman and restrained thinker.

The director's detractors have tended to concentrate on the controversial content of his films (American presidents and serial killers, among other subjects), dissecting and occasionally discounting his work because of the ways in which it deviated from its historical inspiration.

Spielberg rightfully pursued Day - Lewis to portray the title role of one of the most respected and popular American presidents, knowing the two - time Academy Award - winning actor could accurately portray the uncompromising leadership skills Lincoln possessed.

One of her major works, a group portrait of American presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama, is currently being promoted to the world with the aim of making an official presentation to President Obama at the White House.

The Bush twins — Jenna and Barbara — the only two people alive who are both children and grandchildren of American presidents, are about to publish a new memoir called «Sisters First,» in which they each present reminiscences that alternate with the other's.

It probably isn't coincidental that none of the last three American presidents to face primaries while seeking re-election — Johnson, Gerald R. Ford, Carter and George H. W. Bush — survived to serve another term.

HARTFORD — Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

At a 2012 fundraiser that Weinstein hosted for Obama with Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin and Joanne Woodward, Weinstein introduced Obama as «the Paul Newman of American presidents.»

«In the modern history of American presidents, no occupant of the Oval Office has evinced less interest in his own health.

Sir David Frost & Tony Blair As the only person to have interviewed eight British PMs and seven American presidents, one of David Frost's greatest scoops was Tony Blair's 2000 revelation that Britain would match European health - spending levels.

The monikers currently heating up on the baby naming charts are drawing inspiration from past American presidents, superheroes, the stunning Welsh language, and the consonant «S.»

In the United States, Mount Rushmore is a mountain on which the faces of four of the greatest and most iconic American Presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — have their faces carved as a monument to their legacy.

About Presidential Restaurant Group (PRG Hospitality): Founded in 2011 by restaurateur Alan Popovsky and late local businessman Melvyn J. Estrin, PRG is known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate American presidents in a multifaceted style.

About Presidential Restaurant Group (PRG Hospitality): Founded in 2011 by restaurateur Alan Popovsky and local businessman Melvyn J. Estrin, PRG is known for creating contemporary dining experiences that celebrate American presidents in a multifaceted style.

You are 70 % of the population, 95 % of the federal judges, 100 % of all American presidents, and 90 % of the house and senate.

Representative spokesmen for the civil religion have tended to be selected from the ranks of politicians, particularly American presidents.

Christian History's issue on the American presidents included several great religious quotes from inaugural addresses.

Journalist Nancy Gibbs recalls Graham's relationship with six decades of American presidents.

He is surely right in saying that American presidents, when appealing for support for military action, typically accent ideological and idealistic reasons rather than geopolitical factors.

While many will point to all the American Presidents, who have essentially uniformly identified as Christians, as a means of highlighting Christian privilege — how many of them have been accused of being a Muslim without any legitimate grounds to identify them as such?

While Obama has praised Francis» focus on the poor, popes and American presidents haven't always seen eye to eye.

Thank God we have a moderate, middle of the road President of the United States, who IS running this world, as all American Presidents do.

Borrowing a secular eschatology from the Progressive movement, the next few American presidents — Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson — gave themselves over to schemes to reform and moralize the world.

Mr. Tucker also pointed out that many of the trade actions that Canada named in its complaint had been put into place under previous American presidents.

NASA astronauts, American presidents and Oprah Winfrey always seem to be mentioned in these studies.

Virginia, where eight American presidents were born, has a relatively low level of income inequality, with the top 1 percent earning 18 times more than the bottom 99 percent.

Glenn Greenwald, a liberal journalist who writes for the Intercept, argued that American presidents have long cast aside due process, most obviously in their handling of the War on Terror.

The thoroughbreds in Mark Casse's care belong to an elite few: oil tycoons, advisers to American presidents and the megabucks owner of a National Hockey League team.

Legendary motivational speaker and business consultant Zig Ziglar died yesterday, after a 40 - year speaking career that saw him travel more than five million miles, consult for Fortune 500 companies and consort with American presidents and other world leaders.

But such is the power of economic gravity that American presidents and Canadian prime ministers don't necessarily have to get along for commerce to function.

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Once in office, Trump would act more like a conventional American president and his torrent of Twitter taunts would surely slow, according to many of the executives who gathered in the Swiss town for the World Economic Forum just as he was inaugurated in 2017.

The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.

A 2010 Washington Times op - ed, written by Richard Rahn of the Cato Institute and illustrated with a Photoshop job of the American President in an Argentine gaucho outfit, offered a litany of parallels between the two countries: «Argentina has extensive import bans and controls.

Finally, freakishly, there is an American president who does not want to lead the world, and doesn't want to do anything in the world except get out of Afghanistan and Iraq on an acceptable basis, doesn't care a fig for the western alliance, and doesn't think American strength or leadership is a good thing.

American president - elect Donald Trump's pro-growth policies, if they come to fruition, could buoy the market and encourage more companies to list.

Now, Warner says, «there's a newer group of scholars and lawyers advancing the principle that no American president — and particularly not this American president — has that constitutional authority to trigger a withdrawal from NAFTA.»

Some Canadians appear to have concluded that the right side of any debate is the one in opposition to the American president.

The first daughter spoke about her three children's predilection for sweets in response to a question from Earhardt about whether they understand that their grandfather is the American President.

We know how social media was masterfully used to elect the first ever African American President the country has ever had.

Following outrage across the political spectrum in Britain, a representative for May condemned Trump's tweets on Wednesday in a rare criticism of an American president by a British prime minister.

Responding to calls that the British government send a «strong moral message» to an American president «who champions torture,» Davis said the British government's position on torture was plain: «We don't condone it.»

«That spirit speaks to the future potential of what this country can do,» the American president's eldest son said in New Delhi.

Obama's visit in March 2016 had left Cuban leaders ambivalent about the hand of friendship he extended: Fidel Castro, ailing and almost 90, stirred from his retirement to attack the American president's «syrupy words,» and what he saw as an insidious plea for Cubans to forget the Americans» dark history with the island.

«That's why I've been congratulating the American president for his tax reform.

Brown - Forman's North American president Mike Keyes says the success of the Canadian partnership illustrates the need for companies to actively look for, and be open to, opportunities to adapt.

But, should Macron fail to bring back tangible results from his trip to Washington, his rapprochement with the American president will increasingly be called into question.

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has promised to do quite a few things that are beyond the powers of an American president, like billing Mexico for a border wall.