Sentences with phrase «by white directors»

Some of the films in the collection are made by white directors, but the difference between our films and films like HALLELUJAH or GREEN PASTURES is that those films were intended for a broad audience.

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But Spiegel has assembled an impressive executive roster headlined by COO Emily White, former director of business operations for Facebook - owned photo - sharing app Instagram, suggesting that monetization efforts are coming sooner rather than later.

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At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

Her company is achieving that goal by selling wines — selected by wine director Kristin Olszewski — that include a white blend made from Oregon grapes, a Pinot Noir from California's Mission Ranch Vineyard, and a sparkling rosé made from Santa Ynez Valley, California, grapes.

He drew up his own plan to save the banks in 2009, and he was welcomed to the White House by then - National Economic Council director Larry Summers for a talk.

White House communications director Hope Hicks (played by Cecily Strong) also appeared on the show and told the Fox anchors that there were «no real jobs» in the administration.

Congress gave the FBI Director a 10 - year term in office because, in the wake of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, it wanted to protect the FBI from interference or instruction by the White House.

FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump last May, and the White House says it was because he mishandled the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that Trump was easily convinced by his advisers and Republican lawmakers to release the memo, despite the White House's concerns that it would precipitate a showdown between the president and the intelligence community, including the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who has asked the president to prevent the memo's release.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

«Pakistan should not be reassured by this speech, but it could have gone a lot worse for them,» said Joshua White, a National Security Council director under Barack Obama.

By contrast, firing an FBI Director who is investigating the White House, for reasons that are transparently political and self - protective, is an outrageous breach of faith with the American people and with the Bureau itself.

BP could ultimately be made bankrupt by promises that are beginning to be extracted from its punch - drunk directors in closed sessions at the White House.

Co-founder and Executive Director of United We Dream, Cristina Jimenez explains, «Our movement is led by undocumented immigrants and people of color, and under Trump we've seen our members targeted in phishing attacks online and chased by white supremacists out in the streets.»

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Mr. Mnuchin will be joined on the trip by Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, and Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House's National Economic Council, and potentially other Trump advisers as well.

At a White House roundtable, led by National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, featuring people in the real estate industry, the topic came up.

They were also likely drawn by the way in which Pope Francis has embodied the gospel message, said Melissa Rogers, executive director of the White House Office of Faith - based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

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The directors would look back as they strolled to their offices after introducing him, and they would see a guy in a floppy Beatle haircut pulling a white rat — a real white rat, gutted and stuffed by a taxidermist and mounted on a skateboard — toward the microphone and roaring to the kids, «What kind of a greeting is that»?

Institute for Physical Fitness in White Plains, N.Y. boasts versatile backyard playground equipment designed by Director Bonnie Prudden, who gives instructions for building and using the apparatus in her new fitness book.

F1 should not react to recent «unsafe release» incidents by banning teams from using pit stop traffic lights according to race director Charlie Whiting.

FIA race director Charlie Whiting was left «perplexed» by Ferrari's pit stop blunder in Bahrain in which the rear left tyre wasn't changed and Kimi Raikkonen hit his mechanic.

«Not only is T - Mobile offering the most flexible and affordable family plans among national carriers today, we are also making it more affordable than ever for families to add their kids or other family members by eliminating the associated monthly service fee until 2012,» said Ashley White, marketing director of value offers at T - Mobile USA.

Dan White, executive director of the state board of elections, said he would review Saunderson's complaint and decide by Wednesday whether to mount a formal investigation.

By Luke Tate, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Mobility, White House Domestic Policy Council & Josh Miller, Director of Product Management, White House Office of Digital Strategy

Against a black - and - white spell - out in the 9th June, 2017 letter by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, which ordered the Managing Director of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) to dole out some Ghc10.4 million to McDan, Mr. McKorley's claim that he has no supply contract with the Ghana Cocoa Board hangs out as the alternative fact.

Gina Haspel, Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the Senate, according to four senior U.S. officials.

That message was delivered to Paterson by former White House political director Patrick Gaspard, who is now at the DNC.

After the story broke on Thursday, RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel spoke by phone with White House political director Bill Stepien.

Chinese officials are hoping to mollify President Trump's oft - stated displeasure with America's huge trade imbalance with China by pledging to import «at least $ 200 billion» more in made - in - the - USA products, the director of the White House National Economic Council said Friday.

A man who has been quoted as White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci's PR rep continued the shame campaign against Reince Priebus by publicly accusing the ousted White House chief of staff of having an affair.

Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the...

(reported by the Boston Globe's James Pindell on April 16, 2015) An associate director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs at the White House.

The director of the Office of Government Ethics says White House counselor Kellyanne Conway misused her official position by hawking Ivanka Trump's product line on TV and recommended the White House punish her.

Burton was among those considered to replace Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary but was passed by in favor of Jay Carney who had served as Vice President Biden's communications director.

Black voters approve 5 - 1; Hispanic voters approve by 19 percentage points and white voters disapprove almost 2 - 1,» Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

«I am very disturbed by multiple reports from Capitol Hill that your Congressional liaison team is urging some Members of Congress to avoid a vote on repeal this year,» the executive director of the Servicemembers Legan Defense Network, Aubrey Sarvis, wrote Obama in a letter to the White House dated today.

That's exactly what the tax reform plan released by the White House and congressional leaders will do,» said Corry Bliss, the group's executive director.

Yesterday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer told a panel at Netroots Nation that a 1996 questionnaire published by the Windy City Times and signed by Barack Obama in which he favored marriage equality was actually not signed by the Pr... Read

By contrast, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer addressed Netroots Nation and got mostly heckles and boos from an audience that thought he was evading questions on issues such as jobs, gay rights and Social Security — and that the White House is ignoring its base.

Remote rural areas of Ulster County are typically where there is little or no broadband at present,» read a press release on the initiative, to be spearheaded by County Deputy Planning Director Chris White.

Black voters still approve of de Blasio by a lot; white voters don't,» Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

That amendment was the subject of a January video produced by Effective NY that features Willie White, executive director of South End neighborhood group A Village Inc..

Fueled by name recognition and deep connections in more conservative corners of the city's media and night - life world, he has raised nearly $ 1 million for his campaign from celebrities like Andre Agassi and through fund - raisers headlined by bawdy comedians and a Sinatra tribute band — or, in one case, hosted by Anthony Scaramucci, the short - lived White House communications director.

Informed sources tell CNN that White House political director Patrick Gaspard met early last week with the Democratic governor to let him know about the administration's concerns he could not win the governor's race next year — a problem that could affect races down - ticket, not the least of which Senate seat now held by Kirsten Gillibrand.

Informed sources tell CNN that White House political director Patrick Gaspard met early last week with the Democratic governor to let him know about the administration's concerns he could not win the governor's race next year - a problem that could affect races down - ticket, not the least of which Senate seat now held by Kirsten Gillibrand.

The brash, blustery behavior by Anthony Scaramucci, the White House communications director, illustrates the way New Yorkers have taken over the West Wing and are turbocharging its culture.