Sentences with phrase «de force at»

«The Encyclopedic Palace,» Massimiliano Gioni's tour de force at the center of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, is an amazing show about fixations, obsessions, the...
Urs Fischer has enjoyed some great shows at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, the New Museum and a tour de force at the Peter Brant Foundation.
It stars a troubled teenage boy who closely recalls the central figure of Fast's tour de force at dOCUMENTA 13, Continuity (2012).
It was a technological tour de force at the time, featuring all - aluminum construction and everyday civility.

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As a tour de force of semantic gymnastics, Casey has few equals in the annals of modern jurisprudence; it is, next to Roe itself, perhaps the starkest reminder of the extent to which our Constitution has become, at the hands of the Court, a thing of almost infinite plasticity.
I had seen pictures of his great Vence Chapel (in the hills above the French Riviera) but because I was so convinced, a priori, that this could have been only a tour de force, I did not really see what I was looking at.
The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.
Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.
Yet there does seem to be some ability to recognize their legitimacy when they are propounded to those at lower levels of development, and once they have been understood and appropriated, the process can be reversed only by a tour de force.
Stephen Durfee, former chef at the renowned French Laundry, turned this campfire classic into a tour de force using our 3 oz bars.
But if you want to take about incredible stats look no further than Kevin De Bruyne who after the disappointment of a failed spell at Chelsea — thought whether this was the fault of him or Jose Mourinho is up for question — has gone on to be a quite spectacular tour de force in the Bundesliga.
In total, she tallied four first place finishes on the day at the West Alameda County Conference finals on May 11, further cementing her status as a track tour de force for 2013.
This transformation was reminiscent of the legendary Johan Neeskens, who began at right - back before turning into a midfield tour de force.
Two weeks after New York Police Department officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man they thought was armed with a gun, de Blasio launched a task force aimed at improving city responses to emergencies involving the mentally ill.
At 10:30 a.m., opponents of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announce a lawsuit against him that will try to force him to pay his own legal bills, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.
While Public Advocate Bill de Blasio anxiously awaits the results of Saturday's recount to determine whether he will be forced into an October 1 runoff against former City Controller and 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee Bill Thompson, at least one of de Blasio's lesser - known opponents in -LSB-...]
Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.
When Mayor de Blasio first announced his plans to close the ATR pool, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina pledged to do so without resorting to forced placement — a policy that allows the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to place a teacher from the ATR pool at a school whether or not the principal wants to hire that teacher.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a key force behind Nixon's candidacy, condemned the governor for bullying «organizations that are doing good work at the community level because they have different political views.
The program also played into what de Blasio considers his biggest success yet in forcing developers to include affordable housing; the 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove project along the Queens waterfront, where 27 percent of the units are to be available at below market - rate rents.
At 2:30 p.m., de Blasio chairs a Cities of Opportunity Task Force Meeting, JW Marriott, Grand Ballroom 7 — 3rd Floor, 10 South West St., Indianapolis, IN.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Clinton were forced to defend a joke made by the mayor at the Inner Circle charity dinner over the weekend that critics considered racially offensive.
We replaced the DE plate filter with GEA Centrifuge system, which operates at approximately 100BBL / hr and uses force of gravity rather than Diatomaceous Earth to clarify beer.
Garcia was in the city for a fund - raiser last night organized by de Blasio's friends at the Working Families Party, and his supporters were eager to make the connection, to see Garcia's surprise forcing of an April 7 runoff against Rahm Emanuel as the latest manifestation of a grassroots wave building across the nation.
At the time, de Blasio said a task force would be created to review «symbols of hate» on city property with an eye toward determining whether removals were necessary, the Associated Press reported.
NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, joined by Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James Rubin, today announced the arrest and indictment of landlord Daniel Melamed by the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force («Task Force»), on charges that Melamed endangered the health and safety of rent regulated tenants, including a six year old child, during demolition and construction that began in February 2014 at his 14 - unit building at 1578 Union Street in Brooklyn.
«We believe in a parent - friendly, family - friendly approach... to get parents what they need,» de Blasio said during a press conference at City Hall announcing the agreement, which followed threats from New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to pass a law to force the city to streamline the process if the city didn't do so willingly.
Mr. Bratton has since said he's optimistic the budget will include more police officers — even though Mr. de Blasio did not include any new cops in his preliminary budget released in February, and while he's said his conversation with Mr. Bratton is ongoing, he has also continued to indicate that the police force is at an appropriate size.
«I think the fact that our police force has once again performed so well is an indication of how good it is in its current state,» Mr. de Blasio told the Observer at an unrelated press conference when asked what he'd say to those who think Islamic State - inspired threats require an increased headcount.
Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a group of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion on Thursday to announce a new national effort to force his signature issue of income inequality into the upcoming presidential campaign.
On Thursday, de Blasio sought to address all of those criticisms at once, laying out a detailed but linear narrative of how the city's current homelessness problems developed, and unveiling a closely - guarded plan for addressing street homelessness that seemed intended to blunt the force of any proposal Cuomo could unveil next month.
He has often been criticised for lacking substance, but today's tour de force was aimed at showing the world that he has got ideas in his head and they come from the heart.
Bratton's comments came at a wide - ranging state Senate hearing on public safety during which he forcefully defended comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made after a grand jury declined to indict in the Eric Garner case and acknowledged the size of the NYPD's patrol force is too small.
In February, Mr. de Blasio announced that nearly all charter schools could stay at their current locations, but that these three would have to move because they impeded programs for students with disabilities and forced elementary school students to attend classes in high school buildings.
Today at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the 30 members of a task force «that will develop real - time strategies to strengthen the city's workforce and help workers develop» more advanced job skills.
In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.
The result is at once a technical tour de force and an unsettling puzzle.
The findings, described in two related papers published online April 5 in Science and The Lancet, were called «a tour de force» by David Sullivan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who was not involved in the new research.
«It's a tour de force,» says George Church, a synthetic biologist at Harvard University.
«This study is a tour de force,» said Andrew Stewart, MD, the director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who is unconnected with the study.
«It's a tour de force of molecular genetics and a wonderful use of the full genome sequence,» says Paul Sternberg, at Caltech, California.
The work is «a tour de force,» says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the Zoological Society of San Diego.
«I think there are a lot of mini tour de forces in the corn genome that we can use for looking at human disease.»
So it was a technological tour de force when Cohen's team at Genethon succeeded in mapping virtually the whole of chromosome 21 last year.
«This [blood test] is a technical tour de force,» says Eric Karran, director of research at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity.
«This work led by Professor O'Donnell is a technical tour de force, providing a wonderful resource for other biomedical researchers,» said Mike Murphy, Ph.D., programme leader, Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University, U.K. «A particularly important aspect is the focus on platelets, which are readily available from patients» blood in diagnosis, prognosis or as a biomarker in assessing therapies.
At those large de tunings, the trapping forces are so feeble that atoms as cold as 0.01 kelvin can not be held in the trap.
Thomas Lemberger, a physicist at Ohio State University in Columbus who was not involved in the study, says that the work is a «tour de force demonstration» of precision atom handling and growth techniques.
«This is a tour de force demonstration of what is possible when one harnesses the chemistry of DNA and combines it with nanoparticles whose shapes encourage a particular crystal structure,» said Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.
Cecilia de Castro, lead author of the review, commented: «This study comes at a pertinent time, providing further evidence to highlight the importance of the IMO Ballast Water Convention, which has recently reached 35 per cent of world merchant shipping tonnage and will enter into force on 8/09/2017.
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