Sentences with phrase «as a public figure in»

Lady Spencer also acknowledged that one of the most rewarding aspects of her role as a public figure in the fashion industry is being able to help others.

Sanders could enjoy some of the same benefits he held in New Hampshire, where his experience as a public figure in a bordering state helped lead him to a victory.

Not exact matches

As Gallup concludes, these figures demonstrate that, as the positive results of legalization become more evident in multiple states, public perception of marijuana is shifting, and the stigma around weed is being steadily overcome — largely driven by the medical marijuana movemenAs Gallup concludes, these figures demonstrate that, as the positive results of legalization become more evident in multiple states, public perception of marijuana is shifting, and the stigma around weed is being steadily overcome — largely driven by the medical marijuana movemenas the positive results of legalization become more evident in multiple states, public perception of marijuana is shifting, and the stigma around weed is being steadily overcome — largely driven by the medical marijuana movement.

I confess that like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

But even with scarce public and private parking options in New York City, parking rental prices are not nearly as steep as one would expect given that $ 300,000 selling figure, according to Trulia's research.

In addition to Munn, Chef's Cut is backed by CAVU Venture Partners, a firm that invests in food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl ThomaIn addition to Munn, Chef's Cut is backed by CAVU Venture Partners, a firm that invests in food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl Thomain food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies, as well as public figures including baseball player David Ortiz and footballers Von Miller and Earl Thomas.

According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their Web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last year).

His roster of high - profile clients includes Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Purple, Vice, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté and Valentino; he routinely photographs celebrities and other public figures, including Barack Obama, and has a genius for garnering attention, as seen in Miley Cyrus's «Wrecking Ball» video, which he directed.

As of July 2015, its valuation hit nearly $ 51 billion, equaling the record set by Facebook in 2012.394 It recently secured an additional $ 3.5 billion in investment, bringing its total funds to $ 13.5 billion — a figure «far greater than most companies raise even during an initial public offering,» which Uber has avoided.395

IDENTITY CRISIS By Udayan Gupta As stock exchanges worldwide try to figure out their role going forward in corporate equity and equity capital raising, companies are starting to question whether there is still value in a public listing.

«The public has a right to know what happened, and we should be able to learn from that and figure out what we need to change in our institutions to get better as we go forward.»

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

Tony Jones has had a lot of opportunities then and since to be specific in responding to (what I see as) legitimate questions — as he was and is a public figure — but rarely has done so online, at least to my knowledge.

The Protestant evangelical model, which tends to stress charismatic leadership, may be useful in understanding the widespread perception of certain public figures as «trustworthy.»

The second follows him to Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, where his fame as a preacher and public figure reached its apex and where he made his greatest forays into politics, particularly in the antislavery cause.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

As a public figure who makes his opinions known, he has developed a strong emotion of hatred in many people who have had the displeasure of hearing his «opinions.»

The public, then, has a difficult time evaluating a major publication such as U. S. News & World Report (December 22, 1997) when it makes the announcement — for which no source is given — that charitable activity was «up 9.5 percent in two years,» a figure that corresponds to AAFRC figures for that time period.

AAFRC now keys its 1960 - 1972 figures for charitable giving in the areas of education and health — the second and third largest areas of charitable giving, religion being the first — to figures developed by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, commonly referred to as the Filer Commission after its chair, John H. Filer.

But the Century was hardly alone in thinking that the crash could teach a much - needed lesson; such public figures as President Herbert Hoover, former President Calvin Coolidge, John Maynard Keynes and Henry Ford thought so, too.

In this politics of freedom, religion figures as a cultural power, a recognized public force; and the freedom that one claims for it is the more legitimate as religion is not its exclusive beneficiary.

Will the president appear in the public's eye — and appearance is what this was all about — as a larger figure after this speech than before?

The autobiographies are vocational in the deepest sense; that is, these men and women, even the mystics such as Teresa of Àvila and Teilhard, are public figures deeply committed to the church and to its reformation.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

Because the people of faith see logic in creation and see the hand of God in nature, and the athiest see the carbon dating and recent research as valuable... doesn't justify what Bill Nye said... he was not just expressing his opinion... he was taking the next step of a public figure looking to SILENCE those of faith and to interfere with the family's rights and trust.

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

As the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas EvAs the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Evas Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Eve.

That point's potentially important, because if a judge determines McNair was a public figure in his job as a USC assistant, he can't prove defamation unless he also proves it was deliberate.

It can seem to some that they have the absolute best job in world which they do and so shouldnt need a break as their career stops mid thirties but i think its more to do with the mental rest that one needs... if you are a huge public figure.

Mr Burnham has asked for public responses to help alleviate the problem of overcrowded roads in Greater Manchester, with figures showing that residents across Greater Manchester lose nearly 40 hours a year as a result of congested roads.

The story going public could also contribute to driving up any compensation figure should it go to a tribunal, as a committee would consider «substantiated interest» in the player when awarding compensation.

As a child when visiting or being in public I had to act right, talk right, sit right, dress right... and to tell you the truth «right» was a very hard thing to figure out.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

The resignation of Davies after his late - night amble around Clapham Common apparently caused as progressive a figure as Blair to worry that «we could get away with Ron as a one - off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole cabinet is engaging in gay sex we could have a bit of a political problem».

The statement read, «In keeping with the promise he made to the good people of Lagos State on assumption of office that there will be no room for corrupt and indisciplined police officers under his watch, the Lagos State Police Command hereby releases to the general public the breakdown in figures, of police personnel punished for various disciplinary offences between the months of September and December 2017 as followIn keeping with the promise he made to the good people of Lagos State on assumption of office that there will be no room for corrupt and indisciplined police officers under his watch, the Lagos State Police Command hereby releases to the general public the breakdown in figures, of police personnel punished for various disciplinary offences between the months of September and December 2017 as followin figures, of police personnel punished for various disciplinary offences between the months of September and December 2017 as follows:

While Nigerians are still essaying to piece the bits together on how he actually graduated in B.A Geography as attested to by the Vice Chancellor of the ABU, Prof Ibrahim Garba, the theatre of the absurd to which they have been treated represents the metaphor for the lowest of the low that any public figure can get in any society where sanity still counts.

In the case of a public figure like Palin, Facebook and Twitter provide a chance to tell her story as she wants it told — which does not necessarily mean that the result is the REAL story.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

This, in the senator's mind, is tantamount to «double crossing» of the community by its elected officials, whose names he has pledged to make public — just as soon as he figures out who has met with whom.

Figure 1 shows that the effect of that change was to increase the costs reported for the financial year 2008 - 09 from # 16 billion (as reported in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2010 under the old definitions) to # 22 billion (in PESA 2011).

They also struggle with appearing representative of the country given the number of millionaires in Cabinet and the public schooling of senior figures, such as David Cameron and George Osborne.

However, during the 2013 Snowden revelations it was conclusively demonstrated that GCHQ did in fact collaborate with the NSA in illegally circumventing US laws and spying on US citizens and public figures as an agent of the US government as summarized by multiple Guardian articles.

It's estimated that around 150,000 people in Britain, including public figures» close relatives, could face intensive checks that include scrutiny of all their transactions as a result.

Less than 3 percent of black retirees with public pensions lived below the poverty line in 2014, which is nearly 87 percent lower than the 21.8 percent of black retirees without public pensions who lived in poverty, as shown in Figure 4.

Did the leaders of non-state organisations (I think of figures like Lech Wałęsa, co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland), or the mental maps of broader publics play as important a role, or were they less critical to the course of international politics?

Women are bearing the brunt of the government's austerity drive in the public sector, according to figures showing that twice as many women as men have lost jobs in local government since 2010.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

Commenting on these latest figures, Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: «The construction industry is now firmly back in recession and, although there are some areas of growth, such as private housing, the overall picture shows an industry clearly suffering from the effects of public sector cuts.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.