Sentences with phrase «become national figures»

The last two attorneys general have become national figures by using the office in aggressive and sometimes creative ways.

Thanks to the deluge of national media coverage of her alleged sexual liaison with President Trump in 2006 and the $ 130,000 payoff she received in 2016 to stay quiet, the AVN Hall of Fame performer has become a national figure and one of the most controversial women in the world.

While men like Vaccaro and Reizner became national figures, the next generation of bookmakers looked to see just how far they could push betting options.

Rivera left the New York - based 1199 SEIU three years ago, becoming a national figure as the president of SEIU Healthcare — a union that was active in lobbying for President Obama's health care reform plan.

Wilkinson became a national figure in 1936 as MP for Jarrow, when she led a march of the town's unemployed to London, petitioning for the right to work.

Democrats endorsed Ned Lamont for governor Saturday, putting their stock in a wealthy Greenwich businessman who became a national figure in 2006 with his antiwar challenge of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.

The prosecutor also became a national figure in February after he successfully obtained an indictment of NYPD Officer Peter Liang in the shooting of black Brooklynite Akai Gurley.

«What Professor Teachout wants is a platform to become a national figure; she has zero interest in the day - to - day concerns of this district because she simply doesn't know it,» Mr. Pascocello continued.

Swing Vote Kevin Costner portrays common man Bud Johnson, complete with ball cap, beer gut and pickup truck, who suddenly becomes a national figure when it's revealed that his vote could decide the presidential election.

Should he have even moderate success, it seems likely he will be in line to become a national figure representing the new generation of black leadership in America, a leadership that does not abandon race matters altogether, but seems less angry than previous generations and more in tune with the America of Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfrey.

Not exact matches

As LaVar Ball increasingly became a national media figure for his outspoken and sometimes controversial promotion of his family brand, Big Ball Brand, some felt that he may be a distraction and unwanted voice around any team that drafted Lonzo.

In August and September, Johnson and other security officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, became «increasingly convinced» that Russia had perpetrated the election process by hacking the DNC and other political figures.

But he agrees that afterward Graham truly became a national, and eventually international, religious figure» what some have called a Protestant pope.

But I was trying to figure out how to remember a saint when he becomes a national hero.

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

I wondered, too, how the team was going to handle Malcolm and Chris becoming such national figures in such a hot, divisive topic.

Exceptions to theserules are politicians who have become public figures or national treasures or areprepared to write abouttheir flamboyant private life.

Suddenly, with the stunning win on gay marriage, Cuomo has become a political figure of national stature, even a possible presidential candidate.

Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state and failed 2016 Senate candidate who has become an unlikely national Democratic figure, is bringing on Jason Noble, who on Friday announced he was leaving his job as political reporter for the Des Moines Register.

Compensating for that will be the fact that as mayor of New York City — the media capital of America, if not the world — de Blasio becomes a full - blown national figure.

An anti — illegal immigration hard - liner for years before Trump became a national political figure, dating back to his time as the mayor of Hazleton, Barletta has struggled mightily to raise much - needed campaign cash in his bid to unseat Democratic senator Bob Casey.

Mr. Zeldin, although a freshman, has become a prominent national conservative figure, especially in speaking out against terrorism.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi became the latest national figure to urge nine rogue Democrats in Albany to coalesce again with their party peers — one day after the California lawmaker appeared at a rally in Manhattan with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

This figure has become a mantra of the National Rifle Association (with whom Kleck has no affiliation).

Based on the novel that has become the de-facto national book of Azerbaijan and littered with historical figures that led the country's independence movement, this is a story that should be ripe with political and social comments for a tumultuous world today.

Though the two subjects have decidedly different origins and audiences — Harding being part of a national and tabloid - friendly scandal, Wiseau having accumulated more of a grassroots notoriety — both movies are clearly aware of the novelty status that comes with taking a closer look at real people who have become figures of fun.

Although the current figure matches the national average for public four - year institutions, the decline in affordability in New England has been steeper, and if similar trends continue, the region's public four - year colleges will become less affordable in short order.

IPPR North director Ed Cox said: «If the Northern Powerhouse is to drive national prosperity, these figures show the challenges it must overcome to become a reality.

As National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, new figures have been released highlighting just how popular the scheme has become in recent years.

And even as the statewide Florida Education Association vehemently opposed these reforms, our students went on to become national leaders in making progress on NAEP (see Figure 1).

The National Union of Teachers» leader Christine Blower said that the headline figures «mask underlying issues which will only become clear over time».

I too find that our national conversations about improving education become mired in political considerations and surface features of schools, rather than in figuring out how to improve instruction and social services for ALL students.

Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL Commemorating 30 Years (1976 — 2007): Part Three (1991 — 2007), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, NC 2006 Do Not Stack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African - American Art, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Hangar — 7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, Salzburg, Austria Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY 2005 Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Neo-Baroque, Tema Celeste, Verona, Italy Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kehinde Wiley / Sabeen Raja: New Paintings, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. 2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, NY She's Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague, Czech Republic Superreal, Marella, Milan, Italy New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY Re: Figure, College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL 2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Ironic / Iconic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY Black Romantic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 2001 It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, NY

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.

On graduating from the Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University, Ku joined the Fifth Moon Group and was showcased in the group exhibition, soon he become one of the representing figures of the modern art world in Taiwan.

That was the launch into British national consciousness of Mad Tracey from Margate, a hard - drinking bohemian from the wrong side of the tracks who became at once a hate figure and sacred monster.

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.

Balcomb Greene in 1976 was given the Altman First Prize in Figure Painting and the same year he became the member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

If most people could agree that McMaster was a respectable choice for national security advisor, just as many seem to oppose Bolton becoming a prominent figure in shaping Trump's foreign policy.

She became a noted national figure in the field.