Sentences with phrase «assumed leading roles»

Having been the 20th employee of Google and its first female engineer, Mayer could have assumed a leading role at just about any internet company.

Although cocoa is thought to have originated in the Americas, recent years have seen African nations assuming a leading role in producing cocoa.

So how did the European Union and Romania, the country that theoretically assumed a leading role in promoting the Europeanization of Moldova, respond?

Once the geneticists perfected these procedures, mice almost instantly assumed the lead role in modeling human mental malfunctions.

The film stars British - born Academy Award (R) nominated actress Naomi Watts (J. EDGAR, FAIR GAME, 21 GRAMS) who assumes the leading role of the eponymous and iconic princess.

The addition of the energetic Kinnaman (who has made his name stateside in The Killing and also assumed the lead role in 2014's Robocop remake) make the role of Jimmy less physically - demanding that Neeson's more recent «geriaction» exploits, and in contrast to the often cringe - inducing interplay with Maggie Grace in the Taken series, there is a refreshing lack of sentimentality in the father - son dynamic.

Stiller and Gerwig assumed the lead roles in his last film, Greenberg; Blanchett acted in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the script of which Baumbach co-wrote.

According to Variety, Butler is in talks to assume the lead role in Motor City, the one recently vacated by both Dominic Cooper and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Not only is it official that Hugo's Asa Butterfield will assume the lead role, but now Variety reports that director Gavin Hood could get Harrison Ford, too.

His Pain & Gain collaborator Mark Wahlberg, a bigger star than LaBeouf anyway, assumes the lead role.

Governments, with their taxation authority, assume leading roles, and low funding costs.

During their first commitment period, from 2008 to 2012, 37 industrialised countries and the European Community (an organization that is also a Party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), agreed to assume a leading role in climate action by reducing their average emissions above 5 percent compared to 1990 levels.

Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest oil corporations, will assume a leading role.

Janet Whitehead, currently vice chairwoman of CDLPA, assumes the lead role for an 18 - month period following the organization's recent three - day plenary conference in Toronto.

In addition to actively representing a diverse group of clients, Bill assumed a lead role in the law firm's operations and management for more than two decades.

Efficient in assuming leading roles when meetings and events attended by management is organized

• Assigned tasks, supervised and reported fiscal / personnel status to the management • Assumed a lead role in coordinating meetings and events with multiple managers / offices • Collaborated inter-departmental communication & resourcefully met deliverable deadlines and accomplished tasks • Collected cash transmittals from various county departments, issued receipts, made necessary deposits and prepared entries to be recorded into the financial MIS • Competently did support work for the senior managers, performing highly complex administrative functions • Conducted admin related research & maintained expense reports • Coordinated activities across numerous business groups, providing support for program and project management • Determining work priorities and schedules, examined correspondence and supervised employees engaged in obtaining and dispersing information • Efficiently handled multiple priorities and flexibly adapted to changing priorities and demands of management and clients alike • Gathered data relevant to projects for the senior management • Handled and distributed all incoming mail to appropriate departments • Made necessary arrangements for special guests; received guests in the absence of the administration department manager • Maintained high level of confidentiality in a professional manner • Managed extremely heavy scheduling of administrative work • Met and greeted clients and affiliates during on site meetings • Monitored office equipment such as computers, phone systems and electronics and coordinated maintenance issues • Ordered, received, stored and distributed office supplies while accurately maintaining supply - inventory • Arranged briefing materials for meetings, proposals, presentations and calls • Prepared complicated documents and presentations • Processed and reviewed routine paperwork and entered data into the database • Provided support and guidance to newly hired clerical employees and administrative staff • Statistically analyzed information gathered by assistants, preparing charts, graphs & administrative reports • Utilizing arithmetic knowledge, calculated & prepared & coded billings, verifying receipts • With superior interpersonal and customer service skills, handled time - sensitive & stressful situations related to customers

Assumed a lead role in pitch team meetings, and helped close major accounts ($ 500K to $ 1M + initial contracts).

Not exact matches

The country comparisons reveal that Singapore and Ireland have strong conditions for entrepreneurs, even though, especially in the case of Singapore, the state has assumed the role of leading entrepreneur.

It will be interesting to see how active a role Gupta assumes as lead independent director and the scope of his job description.

Prior to assuming this role, Sarah served as director of government relations for Spectra Energy Transmission's Western Canadian operations, responsible for leading the organization's government relations and climate change functions.

Jerry Fiddler will remain on the board and has assumed the role of lead independent director.

Satoshi is said to have mined an estimated 1 million bitcoins in the early days before he left the stage and handed over the reins to developer Gavin Anderson, who then rose to assume the role of Bitcoin lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation.

Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.

She assumed this role in June 2017 after serving as senior vice president of marketing, leading brand marketing and activation for Dr Pepper as well as 7UP, A&W and Sunkist along with responsibility for travel and events services, sponsorships, content and capabilities.

Todd is young, and he has assumed the role of the leading man.

In 1994, Pippen assumed the lead dog role and upped his scoring and creation with essentially no loss in efficiency.

Robards assumed the lead tailback role after Elk Grove head football coach Chris Nixon entered the season with the position as a question mark.

Rumored to be a future board member, Josh Kroenke, son of majority shareholder Stan Kroenke, has assumed an increased, active role at the club, having been at the club's offices and training ground much more frequently as of late, leading to increased speculation that his presence - very much outside the norm for the Kroenke's - is not without reason.

While the circumstances that lead to a blended family life may differ, the one constant is that an adult makes a commitment to assume a supportive or parental role to the children of their romantic partner.

Dads can feel left out if mum assumes the «earth mother» role and it can lead to tension because a couple never has time on their own.

It is, therefore, unsurprising to see Pakistan suddenly assuming the role of a key broker of peace in Afghanistan (despite its alleged support to Taliban - led insurgents during the current Afghan war).

The deputy supervisor would assume all supervisory roles if the town supervisor is unable to lead.

«As synthetic biology leads to the emergence of more sophisticated GMOs to address these grand challenges, we must assume a proactive role in establishing safe and efficacious solutions for biotechnology, similar to those who worked to secure the Internet in the 1990s.»

He was named to lead Styron in 2010 and assumed the role upon the sale of Styron by Dow to Bain Capital Partners.

Stroe comments: «We assumed that the galaxies would be on the sidelines for this act, but it turns out they have a leading role.

As a Princeton University undergraduate student, this passion led her to assume several leadership roles on campus, including serving as a Healthy Minds peer advisor and a member of the Student Health Advisory Board.

Simply everything fits into place, with Fraser leading a great cast and assuming his role of a modern Indiana Jones, to a villain who you really have to take seriously.

And, assuming the actor / producer actually makes a deal himself, it would also mark Berg's third film in a row with Mark Wahlberg, who has been trying to help get the movie made for a while, but might have to duck out of a lead role if scheduling becomes an issue.

When a new director casts himself as the lead in his own film, everyone kind of assumes that a fair piece of arrogance and selfishness is at play, especially when that lead role happens to have him making out with attractive ladies for most of the running time.

Vee emerges as an alpha female to rival even Red, and from the first moment Toussaint is everything in this role: malicious, serpentine and deadly, coldly out for herself while also projecting an image of protection and leadership that leads to her assuming the same kind of fucked - up surrogate mother role she had on the outside.

Both Deadline and Variety are reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch is in «final negotiations» for the lead role in the assumed July 2016 release.

Apatow actually had nothing to do with this film, but assuming otherwise is understandable because Baruchel has been part of the director - producer's clique since playing the lead role on his short - lived 2001 college sitcom «Undeclared.»

With the «have - nots» represented through Tyler, Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan, of 2006's superior dance film, Take the Lead) assumes a role as the most prominent of the «haves.»

When the lead actor walks out, Sal has to assume the starring role of this series, improbably playing a Princeton student who is assigned to share a dorm room with two gorgeous co-eds.

In Taymor's adaptation, she has feminized the lead to allow Helen Mirren to assume the role of Prospera.

One assumes the teenage role short - list is led by her and the arguably more traditional Chloë Moretz from here on out.

If someone told you that Antoine Fuqua was remaking The Magnificent Seven and you recognized Fuqua as the director of Training Day and The Equalizer, you might assume there'd be a lead role for Denzel Washington.

Making his video game debut, Anson Mount, best known for his role as Cullen Bohannon in AMC's Hell on Wheels, assumes the role of lead protagonist Sebastian Castellanos.

Herbert Cousins Jr., who has spent more than 20 years investigating white - collar criminals, managing domestic terrorism cases, and leading undercover operations for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, assumed that role this summer.