Sentences with phrase «affairs as some critics»

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CNN analyst Van Jones, who gained a high profile for his strong and pointed commentary during election season, will speak about the current state of affairs, as will venture capitalist and guest Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca, who has been a vocal critic of Trump since long before he came president.

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

The Department for Environment and Rural Affairs is facing deep cuts as part of the spending review settlement - with critics arguing that savings are being made from cutting vital flood defences.

His selection was unpopular in some circles because of his old job as VP of external affairs at the Independent System Operator, which critics say posed a potential conflict of interest.

Other recent critics have included former Labour Cabinet members Peter Mandelson and Alistair Darling as well as the Institute of Directors and Institute of Economic Affairs.

Prior to that Roma anchored the award - winning «Inside City Hall,» a hard - hitting political and public affairs program described by one critic as «the 60 Minutes of local television.»

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Adding almost an hour to the running time of «Infernal Affairs,» the film on which it's based, «The Departed» does indeed fill in some of what one critic called the «ellipses» in the plot of the original film (and opens up at least as many other holes in the process).

2:00 am (18th)-- TCM — Infernal Affairs The original Hong Kong version that Martin Scorsese remade as The Departed, and which many critics prefer to Scorsese's excellent version.

As those of you who've read my reviews before will know, I'm no fan of Martin Lawrence, and the team - up with Ashton Kutcher threatened to make this a crass and joyless affair for nearly any movie critic.

He joined the New York Evening Post in 1934 and soon after was hired by Current History (the oldest US publication devoted exclusively to world affairs) as a book critic and later became managing editor.

Lining with this, Forbes» contributor Erik Kain recently pointed out that the game has been deemed as a sexist affair by critics, who claim Bayonetta was designed specifically for the «male gaze.»

The Seeds» season finale unfolds a bit differently — it's mostly a critics» affair, as the majority of our comics hadn't played the game in question.

He served as chief art critic at The New York Times before creating the paper's «Abroad» column — covering culture, political, and social affairs across Europe and around the world from 2007 - 2011.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family - law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

He served as Ontario's 21st Premier from 1990 to 1995 and Interim Federal Leader and foreign affairs critic for the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 - 2013, a time of significant restructuring.