Sentences with phrase «became central figures»

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.

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

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.

He becomes the central figure in the ultimate conspiracy theory.

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

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

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has become a central figure in this January transfer window, as reports suggest he holds the key to Alexis Sanchez's future.

The Cambridge academic has become a central figure in the debate over whether the personal information of millions of Facebook users was used in US elections without their consent.

Hours after Cuomo spoke to reporters, the state attorney general's office on Thursday raided the office at SUNY Polytechnic that had been used by lobbyist Todd Howe, who has become a central figure in the investigation over the Buffalo Billion.

(Cooperstown, New York)-- Lou Allstadt, as a former Executive Vice President of Mobil Oil Corporation, is an authority on gas and oil drilling and has become a central figure in the movement to ban fracking in New York state.

Despite all these new responsibilities and becoming a central figure in our nation's continued effort to improve teaching and learning, one thing has not changed: how principals are deemed qualified and ready to fill this important role.

As President of Save Guana Cay Reef, Troy has become a central figure in one of the most controversial environmental battles in the history of the West Indies.

F.C. Barcelona and its superstar forward and FIFA 14 cover athlete, Lionel Messi, will become central figures in global marketing, advertising and social media activities for the critically acclaimed FIFA franchise.

Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994) moved from Washington State to Los Angeles in 1953, where he quickly became a central figure in the Southern California art scene, showing at the influential Ferus Gallery.

In 1936, when she was 19, she moved to London and Paris, where she became a central figure in the Surrealist movement exhibiting with André Breton, Max Ernst and others.

Milder became a central figure in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.

A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement.

Soon, de Kooning become a central figure in the Abstract Expressionism movement.

Man Ray is as well known for his fascinating life as his art — a fashion photographer by trade, he befriended Duchamp and Picasso, became a central figure in Dada and Surrealism, and invented new forms of photography which he named after himself.

When the artist moved to Manhattan in 1952 he quickly became a central figure of the downtown art community.

He became a central figure in the group and organized its second international exhibition in Liège, Belgium, in 1951.

His involvement with the land transcended his photographs and he became a central figure in the national conservation movement at a time when growing industry began to threaten the nation's natural resources.

The artist soon became a central figure in the international Pop - Art scene, himself describing the movement as «popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business».

Based on the biography of Peggy Guggenheim, an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement.

He he would quickly become a central figure in the movement.

Though he originally intended to be an art critic, he instead became a central figure in the growth of Los Angeles as a major art centre.

He became a central figure and spokesman for a group of young artists including Alexandre Hogue, Otis M. Dozier, William L. Lester, qqv Everett Spruce, and others who found inspiration in the Texas landscape.

He quickly became a central figure in the burgeoning arts community, alongside friends and collaborators such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and film - makers Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren.

He continues, «He'll very quickly become a central figure of the...

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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.

Maile Ohye has become a well known public figure from Google that works with webmasters and web marketers coordinating Google Webmaster Central outreach efforts, including the Webmaster Central Blog.

For instance, a figure whom the text treats as a subsidiary character may become for feminist analysis the central character of the text (e.g., Jepthah's daughter in Judges, chapter 11, or the Levite's concubine in Judges, chapter 19).

(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.»

For in that case, the central authoritative figure has too much power and we would become a theocracy.

The powerful midfielder became more of a central figure for Juve this term, making 45 appearances across all competitions.

Initially a defensive midfielder, Vincent shifted back into central defence with aplomb and became the figure around which successive Blues backlines have been built.

Though it has barely started, the Brooklyn district attorney's race has become a very crowded contest with an odd twist: Its central figure, and the man most likely to shape its themes and contours, is no longer alive: the late DA, Ken Thompson, who died of cancer last year.

If the foreground galaxy has a supermassive black hole at the center, the central image becomes much fainter (Figure 5).

The central figure, Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), is an up - and - coming welterweight who is being groomed to become the next» pride of Lowell.»

A dynamic, dominating personality, he became one of surfing's central figures despite refusing to compete professionally and he revolutionized the nature of the sport not once but twice by going in directions few people much cared about.

[1] There, Parrish joined other students who have become leading figures in the classical art revival, including Jacob Collins, founder of the Grand Central Academy of Art where Parrish is now an instructor.

Meanwhile Tiravanija showed one of the tasty dinner pieces (in which viewers become participants as a meal is served to them), with which he was making his name as a central figure in Relational Aesthetics.

Perez Villalta's work has been undergoing a shift of late: Though central to his practice until not long ago, the human figure — while still present — is now little more than a vague, ghostly suggestion; this shift was already becoming evident as early as three years ago, in his previous show at this gallery.

Through his frequent experimentation with various media, he became an important Abstract Expressionist painter and central figure in postwar American art.

Upon her return to the United States, DeFeo settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she became a central, charismatic figure in the California avant - garde, along with friends Bruce Conner, Joan Brown, George Herms, and Wallace Berman.

The figure of the muse, Robert Graves's «Mother of all Living, the ancient power of fright and lust», became less burdensome as manifested in The Giantess (c. 1950), whose colossal central figure towers over the scene like a Madonna della Misericordia.

He became one of the central figures of the Newlyn School, which - because of his many successes at the Royal Academy - soon became firmly established.

One of the central figures in Shonibare's fabric is Basile Boli, a Ghanaian soccer player, who became a French national and subsequently went on to represent France's soccer club, and yet the image on the fabric shows him playing for a Japanese team.

Inspired by the legacy and in the spirit of of the great American oral historian and iconic Chicagoan Studs Terkel, Obrist's interview marathons bring together the perspectives of figures both prominent and uncelebrated, which has become a central part of his practice ever since.

Shortly afterwards, he became identified - along with Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 97), Ray Johnson (1927 - 95), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87), Robert Indiana (b. 1928), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931), James Rosenquist (b. 1933), Alex Katz (b. 1927) and Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)- as a central figure in Pop art.