Sentences with phrase «controversial figure»

It offers a starting point for investigating one of the most controversial figures in English history as well as the changing interpretations and narratives of history.

The film is set to explore both the public and private lives of one the most controversial figures of the last century.

One might think this to be an incredibly controversial figure at the heart of the whole matter.

The idea is to make big miners — sometimes controversial figures on the network — less relevant.

Some of them may be more well known than others and some are more controversial figures than others but all have great stories to tell and I wish we could fit them all in.

Clearly this is a one - sided view of a highly controversial figure.

In a way, if I was this massively controversial figure, it would have been harder for people to sign up for this mission.

More generally, one has to ask why controversial figures are being put in high positions so close to the election.

He's one of the most famous and controversial figures of the new millennium, whose loose tongue wins him critics and fans alike.

Stiles, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The First Tycoon, his 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, offers a deeply personal portrait of George Armstrong Custer, the enigmatic and controversial figure who has long been more caricature than man.

The IPA, which was founded in 1996 and is a group of domestic and foreign journalists who defected from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (who put on the Golden Globes) and captained by Mirjana Van Blaricom, as controversial a figure in the awards season race as their is.

The most controversial figure throughout this whole ordeal has likely been Rashad McCants, one of the biggest stars on UNC's 2005 national championship team.

Even so, his central interests will make themselves clear; expect intricate urban landscapes, a close attention to repetition and patterning, subtle references to consumer culture, and an abiding interest in controversial figures like the infamous 1970s terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

The two moderators focused on some of the future president's campaign gaffes as well as his personal relationships with controversial figures such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright and activist William Ayers.

After a failed attempt to revive his career in England's lower leagues, the often controversial figure made a move to Italian outfit Lazio in 2015.

The director of Hugs for Harlem, Michael Green, has a history of posting anti-semitic quotes and rants from controversial figures like Louis Farrakhan.

The contribution he made to the Church there has only recently been acknowledged - his work being overshadowed by the somewhat controversial figure of Bishop Polding who had been novice master at Downside.

There was no more charismatic or controversial a figure during the Swinging Sixties than Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing.

Chris Burden first gained international attention in the 1970s as an influential and often controversial figure in the West Coast body art, performance and Conceptual Art movements.

Artist William Pope.L, a fairly controversial figure on the national art scene who lives in Maine an...

But Mr Watson told Sky News: «Len McCluskey is a very controversial figure and he's very critical of people who are supposed to be on his side a lot of the time.

Former state Assemblyman Robert Straniere (R), a somewhat controversial figure even within his own party, is stepping into the void but New York City Councilman Mike McMahon (D) is the favorite.

Margot Robbie plays controversial figure skaing champ Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya.»

The IDA will present its 2013 Career Achievement Award to Gibney, who directed two films about controversial figures in 2013 — «The Armstrong Lie,» an examination of cyclist Lance Armstrong that opens theatrically in November, and «We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,» a documentary about Julian Assange that opened in the spring.

The important thing was when the most controversial figures came to speak — the Holocaust - deniers or the BNP — when you heard someone who was, ideologically, persona non grata, it forced you to think.

Eva Moskowitz is a pioneering and sometimes controversial figure in urban politics and American education.

McAfee provides regular insight on global hacking scandals and internet surveillance, and has become a hugely controversial figure following his time in Belize, where he claims to have exposed corruption at the highest level before fleeing the country amid accusations of murder (the Belize government is currently not pursuing any accusations against him).

There is no evidence of independent Jewish writings of such a purportedly controversial figure in the relevant time period (a curious omission).

Bushnell became one of the leading controversial figures in nineteenth century American Protestantism because of his upholding a new method for theology.

In 2012, former PGA Tour player and controversial figure Casey Martin earned his way to the Open through sectional qualifying.

Rumours of a summer coup by Labour MPs against Corbyn persist and, even if his successor is also on the Labour left, he or she is unlikely to retain so controversial a figure.

«As Media Matters continues its campaign to highlight the worst of Roger Stone's history, we encourage other networks to follow suit and agree to keep this notoriously controversial figure off of their airwaves moving forward,» said Media Matters President Bradley Beychok.

Argentinean president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been snubbed amid continued tensions over the Falklands but controversial figure FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid in South Africa, will be attending.

Ahmad, who has since been convicted in the US for «providing material support to terrorism,» was one of several controversial figures which the Conservative party have accused Labour's Sadiq Khan of «giving cover to» in the past.

The news story may have been small, but it played on strong narratives, such as the Home Office's policy of preventing controversial figures from coming to the UK and frictions with the Islamic community.

While the majority of the film takes place in and around the kidnapping, Leo wears heavy facial prosthetics and a fat suit to closer resemble the trash talking controversial figure.

Ford was the mayor of Toronto from 2010 - 2014, and a highly controversial figure due to the multiple domestic violence allegations against him and his long history with drug addiction.

But while the pic is far from perfect, it's a deft portrait of an inimitably controversial figure — and one that features a wonderful lead performance.

The article outlined a long history of high expectations and underwhelming results and made Oppenheimer a well known if controversial figure in the field of education.

Mark S. Schneider, President Bush's new pick to head the National Center for Education Statistics, is a far less controversial figure than his first choice for the job, comments last week from researchers and education advocates suggest.

Greenberg became an extraordinarily controversial figure, widely reviled as authoritarian, elitist, and exclusionary by such artists as Ronald Bloore, and praised by many others as a great eye, a defender of high artistic standards, a stimulus to creativity and a generous entrée to art abroad.

Richard Prince is one of the most high profile and controversial figures working in contemporary art today.

These deal with controversial figures Bernadette Devlin, an Irish political activist, and the idealistic car manufacturer, John DeLorean.

Damien Hirst is still working and creating artwork to this day, as well as winning countless awards and being an overall controversial figure in the modern art community.

Like Schutz, Neel cast a sympathetic eye on the historic funeral of a politically controversial figure, and constructed a painting unconstrained by photography's documentary assertions.

He's also a rather controversial figure, having made remarks about «global warming Nazis» and said,

Ver's support of BCH has received increasing criticism throughout the industry and especially on social media, while Ayre's publication has also attracted heat for its unflinching support of both «Bitcoin Jesus» and controversial figure Craig Wright.

As recently as the 80s, as controversial a figure as Antonin Scalia was confirmed unanimously.