Sentences with phrase «beginning of my political career»

As such, he's been a strong supporter of 504 and disability issues from the beginning of his political career.

Most of all, however, he argued that Mr. Skelos was an «excellent public servant» who had from the beginning of his political career backed the tax breaks, spending and legislation that helped keep Glenwood, Abtech and PRI afloat.

This was the beginning of my political career in Chicago.»

As Byron York observed, Trump is unusually lacking in supporters who were there from the beginning of his political career.

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It was evident in his business career, on television, his political rise, and eventually, in the beginnings of his once - unthinkable presidency.

It is likely, therefore, that Morneau, whose political career began last autumn when Stephen Harper dropped the writ, will be tempted to draw on the work of the master as he embarks on a new era of deficit financing.

William Wilberforce began his political career at the age of 21.

Inappropriate and unacceptable began their modern careers in the 1980s as part of the jargon of political correctness.

He began his political career as a liberal Democrat (for 30 years), and admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Samantha began her career in the political arena, working for elected officials throughout the state of California.

His political career began as an elected member of Connah's Quay town council.

She began her political career as spokesperson in the press office of the governor's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Chicago, of course, is where Obama began his political career as a community organiser.

He began his political career working on the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz.

The 42 - year - old Molinaro, whose political career began at the age of 18 upon winning election as mayor of the Village of Tivoli, admitted the outpouring of support led him to reconsider and then enter the race.

From the beginning, Albany's career politicians rigged the process, placing personal and political gain ahead of the taxpayers.

He then rehabilitated his reputation and began a political career which ended with the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

A protege of New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Bailey began his political career as an intern in Heastie's office.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Former senator Pedro Espada went on trial Wednesday nearly three years after CBS 2 began a series of exposes about his political career and the operation of his Bronx health clinic.

To the annoyance of some friends and supporters, he modestly described himself as «the other Miliband», as well as «the other Ed», a reference to Ed Balls, who also began his political career working for Brown at the Treasury.

It's a «devastating turning point» and possibly the «beginning of the end» of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - plus - year political career.

Beginning in the upper floors of her father's grocer's shop in Grantham, through Oxford as a scientist and, later, as part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream, she embarked upon a political career.

Democrats also have their eyes on the seat of 88 - year - old Sen. Bill Larkin, who began his political career in the Assembly, where he served from 1979 to 1990 before being elected to the Senate.

The Republican attacks are part of the reason Hochul is here Monday, stumping at a nursing home in the town where she began her political career and talking about the much - loved entitlement program.

His political career began in 1966 when served as a member of the Yonkers City Council.

The political career of Nelson Castro began with a piece of luck.

It was the end of his political career but just the beginning of his legal problems.

She began her career working on political campaigns in her home state of Florida and in a Congressional office in Washington DC.

April Auger Perrin began her professional career at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia as the Director of Programs and also served in a similar position at the statewide executive leadership program, Lead Virginia.

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free speech.

Mike Rounds began his political career in South Dakota as a state senator; afterwards, he won the office of governor.

Chuck Schumer began his federal political career in the House of Representatives way back in 1981, and he transitioned to the Senate after a 1998 election win and 1999 inauguration.

Pettibon began his career as a political cartoonist, and later as a maker of mimeographed serial zines, but he's preserved little narrative continuity in his present practice.

Sex Works / WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories put pieces from the beginning of Tompkins» career in conversation with her most recent paintings, showcasing the artist's trajectory from subtly political works to more overt statements.

Ever since the beginning of her career, Trockel showed her love for addressing controversial issues of sexuality, feminism, as well as the hierarchy of the political and social systems.

It is Piper's first monographic show since «Relocating the Remains», produced by Iniva and held at the Royal College of Art in 1997, and continues to explore the social and political concerns that have informed Piper's practice from the very beginnings of his career as part of Britain's BLK Art Group in the 1980s.

, produced by Iniva and held at the Royal College of Art in 1997, and continues to explore the social and political concerns that have informed Piper's practice from the very beginnings of his career as part of Britain's BLK Art Group in the 1980s.

Yong - Ik, younger than the core Dansaekhwa artists, began his career making abstract work, but moved away from what he saw as a sort of amorality linked with abstraction in the 1980s, after a political awakening, he said.

Since the beginning of his career, Chan has combined his artistic practice with political activism and writing.

It is no accident that he began these works in the late 1960s, at a time of exceptional political and social upheaval, but they exemplify the audacity that marked his whole career.

Sam Green began his career making traditional feature - length documentaries steeped in the political; his Academy Award - nominated The Weather Underground tells the story of a group of radical young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government during the late 1960s and «70s.

The groundbreaking exhibition explores the vibrant and experimental years of Haring's early career when he started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and enjoyed a frenetic social life.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» Causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.

«Since the beginning of my career, I've striven to organize shows that spur conversation, and I think in today's political climate, Robert's works will certainly do that.»

Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1942, Cruz Azaceta arrived in New York City in 1960 as an artist in exile — a political and psychological condition that has marked his work since the beginning of his career.

Unearthing the Banker's Bones is a continuation of the social and political concerns that have informed Piper's practice, from the very beginnings of his career as part of Britain's BLK Art Group in the 1980s.

Pink Woman Torso was painted during a prolific period in the artist's career as the previous year he had begun a new series of his Women paintings centered, in part, on the image of the modern American women that was being forged by the social and political movements of the 1960s.

Representing every phase of Copley's work while illuminating the political and psychosexual themes, visual puns, and vaudevillian Americana to which he repeatedly returned, the exhibition traces the artist's career from the late 1940s, when he began teaching himself to paint and was introduced to Surrealism and the Surrealists, into the 1990s.

But her artistic career did not begin with a vision to inspire socio - political dialogue; it began with the innately human desire to make sense of her personal experiences.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.