Sentences with phrase «era of american»

For replicating such a scrappy era of American history, it's too bad hand - to - hand combat felt tame and underwhelming.

At an influential event in Colorado today, the conversation is about the natural gas revolution, the coming era of American fossil fuel self - reliance, and, surprisingly — the smart grid.

The golden era of American energy is now underway.

We know what works when it comes to American energy because in just a few short years our nation has emerged from decades of energy scarcity, dependency and uncertainty into this new era of American energy abundance and leadership.

Tillerson said regulatory policy needs to be updated to acknowledge the new era of American energy abundance:

«Today we're taking a common - sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

The mass majority of exports, jobs, tax revenues, and other economic benefits will accrue to foreign countries, and we will miss a historic opportunity to achieve a new era of American leadership.

Last November, addressing the nation on the evening of his election, President Obama declared that «a new era of American leadership is at hand.»

Obama's address was appropriately focused on building a new sustained era of American prosperity using a mix of austerity and smartly targeted long - term investments in education and science.

That year de Kooning was assigned to a portion of the mural Medicine for the Hall of Pharmacy at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, which drew the attention of critics, the images themselves so completely new and distinct from the era of American realism.

An exciting new perspective on the greatest era of American art.

Major artists from every era of American art are on view, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt.

But in this exhibition her interrogation of race, racism and slavery is an assault rooted in the antebellum annals and civil rights era of American history, not in the here and now.

Looking back along the history of institutions from museums to laboratories, Mark Dion keeps one foot in the golden era of American naturalism and the other in that of postwar institutional critique.

Cage also composed Primitive (1942) for Wilson Williams, and Our Spring Will Come (1943) for Trinidad - born dancer Pearl Primus whose choreography was based on Langston Hughes» poem Our Spring (1933), voicing the racial politics and discrimination underlying the era of American modernism.

When the artist and teacher Hans Hofmann arrived in the United States from Germany to teach an art class at The University of California at Berkeley a new era of American artistic achievement began.

The forties ushered in the first great era of American painting and sculpture as Abstract Expressionism came of age and finally removed the yoke of European domination.

The several - months - long journey ostensibly begins in St. Joseph, Missouri, but for Buck, whose father was an eccentric amateur adventurer, the journey really began in his boyhood, during his family's covered - wagon camping trips through New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the 1950s: «I had told myself that I was out on the trail seeking adventure, knowledge of an epic era of American history, proof that a modern crossing could still be done.

Though it may sound like a summary of the week's headlines, this is the world as it appeared more than a century ago on the cusp of The Gilded Age, the unalloyed era of American progress that serves as backdrop for Barry Werth's new work of popular history.

Really, it was just interesting to grab a final quick dash in a car that's style and concept, in a way, embodies a particular recent era of American automobiledom that I don't think many people are going to miss.

“ The freewheeling, wide - open era of the American automobile, unfortunately, is over.

This curriculum is designed to guide you and your students through a Facing History and Ourselves unit about the Reconstruction era of American history.

Obama is one of the often lauded, hyper - educated African - American Democratic elected officials whom many thought had ushered in an era of American post-racialism.

Masterfully shot and with an impeccable eye for period detail, Spielberg's film brings a pivotal era of American history to life in sensational fashion.

Looking back at the gallery of saints and sinners of the last great era of American filmmaking — the «Raging Bulls» and «Easy Riders» — only two survivors still function at the height of their powers: Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

Although the script suffers from a few moments of predictability, Cormac and Marianne Wibberley's screenplay still brings another era of American history to life.

«Roman J Israel ESQ» is cleary influenced by the golden era of American cinema produced in the 1970s.

For replicating such a scrappy era of American history, it's too bad hand - to - hand combat felt tame and underwhelming.

The docuseries will reportedly feature modern women getting «to experience the ultimate era of the American Housewife.»

The script is not perfect, and there were a few minor scenes that did not ring true - but the overall package is amazing - the perfect cast from top to bottom, most of the script, the acting, cinematography, directing, score, everything about this movies pays homage to a by - gone era of American Films and does it with taste and class.

Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.

The building's elegantly restrained colonial architecture, the gray sky, the stately camera movement and music all convey an austere gravity, which, together with Schrader's use of Academy ratio (inspired, he has said, by Pawel Pawlikowski's «Ida»), point us back not only to an earlier era of American religion but also to such European cinema models as Bergman's «Winter Light» and Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest.»

With great care they followed clues in the well - preserved wood to trace the craft's history to the era of the American Revolution

«It is clear that Congressman Zeldin will have the resources necessary to get out his message and become an increasingly valuable leader in the cause of pursuing a new era of American strength this year and beyond,» said his spokeswoman, Jennifer DiSiena.

The central reason why New York Republicans have not prospered in the post-civil rights era of American politics is because they have been deemed to be too liberal.

I truly believe that we are standing on the threshold of a new era of American progress.We are moving to a more...

Watching the NBA, the NFL or even the Cosby Show from France doesn't make one an expert in the Jim Crow, segregationist era of American history or in the struggle of African Americans.

Niebuhr wrote in the «consensus» era of American history.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

Benjamin Franklin helped set the new tone in his tireless strings of maxims and projects for the public good, and by the era of the American Revolution, political writing was saturated with the ideal of public usefulness.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

This isn't just a financial crisis, this is the end of the 60 - year era of American global leadership.

Or would Trump seek to appease an audience that had, just a year ago, recoiled at his election and the era of American protectionism it seemed to usher in?

With 65 lighthouses from all eras of American History still standing and spread among 5,000 miles of coastline, it is no wonder that Maine is often referred to as The Lighthouse State.

The exhibition shows the importance of home in the lives of five families through various eras of American history.

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.

The EU is targeting products with political punch, revisiting a list compiled during George W. Bush - era trade disputes of symbolic American brands.

• Until 2011, the Obama administration permitted the NSA's continued collection of vast amounts of Americans» email and internet metadata under a Bush - era program called Stellar Wind.

The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz are just a few of the incredible deep dives he has done into the eras and moments that define who we are as Americans.

«With it ends a 70 - year geopolitical era of Pax Americana, one in which globalization and Americanization were tightly linked, and American hegemony in security, trade, and promotion of values provided guardrails for the global economy,» they continued.