Sentences with phrase «figure at their center»

The startup figures at the center of Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber, which alleges Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski stole files to bring to Uber when he left Alphabet to found the startup.

But now, he's one of the figures at the center of federal and state investigations into alleged pay - to - play schemes for economic development projects and is increasingly on the outs with the administration.

Two figures at the center of a Newsday investigation into the improper handling of lucrative court appointments to Oheka Castle owner Gary Melius and a network of associates no longer hold their key positions.

Thank God there's still an interesting figure at the center of it all.

Aggressively disoriented and a sower of discomfort, Julien is not only a twisted Christ figure at the center of this most religious of Harmony Korine's pictures, but a clear manifestation of Korine's filmmaking philosophy.

It strikes a sweet balance between embarrassment and affection that the film maintains throughout — one that not only allows us to embrace this freakish figure at the center of the film but mirrors the very emotion that has made The Room a lasting cult joy.

Documentarian Laura Poitras not only offers a complete overview of all the facts but gets under the skin of the issue by closely tracking the emotional transformation of the controversial figure at the center of her film.

Electronics expert Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) is the courageous figure at the center of this unsettling reenactment, directed by Peter Berg with a sharp eye for fiery details and the morbid suspense leading up to it, but fewer ideas to prop up the mayhem.

The epic story of the battle for the Holy Land and the two larger - than - life figures at its center.

The men in the dining chairs are half turned from the film, looking back towards the projector, their eyes narrowed against its glare, studying the figure at their center.

From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial - admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell - in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth.

The art of Juan Muñoz (1953 - 2001) reintroduces human figure at the center of architectonical and sculptural space.

Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a powerful female figure at the center of these stories in which women are typically symbols of moral virtue or seductive evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.

Its power is lessened by the sketchy figure at its center that may represent Mr. Alfonzo's knowledge that he had AIDS.

Juan Muñoz reintroduces human figure at the center of architectonical and sculptural space.

The five paintings reimagine public housing projects in Chicago and Los Angeles (where Marshall grew up with his family in Nickerson Gardens), casting black figures at the center of romanticized pastoral scenes inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings.

Long a controversial figure at the center of the debate on how best to scale the public bitcoin blockchain, Garzik's company is today announcing what it believes will be a solution to the infighting he perceives as keeping money out of the established cryptocurrency market.

CoinDesk The figure at the center of bitcoin's scaling debate is launching a new cryptocurrency, one he hopes will quell longstanding issues with public blockchains.

The figure at the center of bitcoin's scaling debate is launching a new cryptocurrency aimed to quell longstanding issues with public blockchains.

Not exact matches

Look at your cost centers and figure out how they can add value.

«You need to figure out if there is a business opportunity here or just an idea,» says Jonathan York, director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, Calif..

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

The company's median compensation figure, however, shows that at least by volume, Amazon's workforce tilts more toward the fulfillment center associates than AI specialists.

A new research center at Columbia University is committed to figuring out how to turn failure into success.

It's a real word, and The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses it for a novel approach to figuring out how much of one's savings can be spent each year in retirement.

But, if you don't have the core issues figured out, you can be relevant all you want, and the affect is minimal, compared to what it could be, if God is at the center.»

It was a hard - scrabble frontier existence into which, on February 12, 1809, was born the figure who is at the center of the ninth reflection in this millennium series.

But there is a second spiritual dimension at work in Havel, and for that he draws, consciously or unconsciously, from the 14th - century movement for Czech national renewal that centered around the proto - Reformation figure Jan Hus.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

The chair of the trustee board called Epting's first 23 years a season of miracles, making Epting a beloved figure — complete with a statue of him at prayer near the campus center.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

Five Denver Nuggets players scored in double figures, led by Ty Lawson's 21 points, as the team defeated the Houston Rockets on the road, 105 - 95, on Wednesday night at Toyota Center.

One of the most talked - about sophomores in the nation, 6 - foot - 8 Jerry Lucas, will start at center, with double - figure scorers Dick Furry and Joe Roberts on either side of him.

It is because of the two suited figures sitting at the center of the room, businessmen known throughout Rome simply as gli Americani — the Americans.

Playing at home for the first time in over a week after playing a game in Atlanta and two games in Mexico as the home team, the Nets returned to the Barclays Center and had a total of seven players score in double figures.

At the National Center for Fathering, we work to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

The midwife at the birthing center helped us figure out how to setup the bed space most safely.

Last month, Patricia Trudeau waited in line for hours at the McFetridge Sports Center to sign up her 11 - year - old daughter for figure skating classes.

That year, women delivering at birth centers had C - sections 4 % of the time; that number grew to just 6 % in the current study, which relied on figures from 2007 to 2010 from 79 midwife - led birth centers in 33 states.

Betty Crase, a La Leche League Leader and former director of the LLLI's Center for Breastfeeding Information, exhaustively traced the 5 % figure back to a remark in an opening presentation given by JC Spence, MD, FRCP, at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Plymouth, in 1938 [14].

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (June 17, 2014)-- On June 7, Kansas City's National Center for Fathering (NCF) held its 20th annual Father of the Year Celebration honoring championship fathers and father figures in Minnesota at Target Field in Minneapolis.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (June 17, 2014)-- On June 10, Kansas City's National Center for Fathering (NCF) held its 19th annual Father of the Year Celebration honoring championship fathers and father figures in the metro area at Kauffman Stadium.

Here at the National Center for Fathering, our mission is to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

Next up: a certain Barack Hussein Obama (of the 1600 Pennsylvania Obamas) is the keynote speaker at tonight's National Women's Law Center Annual Awards dinner, where we'll be paying tribute to 15 women Freedom Riders, key figures in the 1960s civil rights movement.

WHITE PLAINS — In light of the new Republican tax plan which could hit homeowners in Westchester County hard, local leaders gathered at the county center on Wednesday to try and figure out ways to lower taxes for residents.

Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the New York Times bestseller «Hidden Figures,» will speak at the Stanley Center for the Arts on Friday, Jan. 20.

Dave Smith, head coach of the RPI Engineers men's ice hockey program, joined his counterpart from Union College, Rick Bennett, and other sports figures and local government officials Tuesday morning at Albany's Times Union Center to promote January 27th's Mayor's Cup.

«You don't need to hire a team of campaign - finance lawyers to figure out how to evade disclosure under the Board of Elections regulation,» said Adam Skaggs, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice.

As NY1's Josh Robin explained in a powerful report yesterday, Glenwood was at the center of the corruption trials of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, two men who at the start of 2015 were running the legislature and are now both busy trying to figure out how to make legal appeals that will keep them out of prison.

Figure skating is at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, and floor hockey at Stewart Air National Guard Base, in Newburgh.