Sentences with phrase «figureheads who»

Meanwhile, the film focuses on figureheads who wax on Detroit from afar — Bruckheimer, Coppola and Cooper haven't lived in the city for decades — while voices of everyday Detroiters are lacking.

Ray Sharma, founder of XMG Studio in Toronto and Tony Clement, president of the Treasury Board of Canada were the two figureheads who introduced the massive initiative last year.

Can he get this country's focus back on the average person, or is he just another lame - duck figurehead who is beholden to Congress to make all of the decisions?

AFC needs a new figurehead who is not engrained into and comfortable with a fabric he has himself constructed to bring new ideas, a will to win all, and a determination to make it happen at all costs.

Morgan, who served as Rangel's campaign director in 2002 before he moved into banking, said the congressman had become a figurehead who is good at talking about problems like affordable housing, education access and unemployment, but has failed at implementing solutions to these problems.

In the USA, in the Commonwealth and in many European countries, a mayor is a local figurehead who has the mandate and power to influence change on both a local and national level.

Rest of Cast: Elizabeth Banks hams it up with colorful finesse as Effie Trinket, a curious figurehead who introduces us to the dystopian madness behind the Hunger Games, and then takes a back seat.

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We seem to have little more than a neutered figurehead Deity, who doesn't seem to be able to handle much at all anymore.

In the days leading up to the papal visit, Patten was widely mocked, by both Left and Right, as a hapless figurehead, who was obviously overseeing an impending disaster.

Your «eternal» is just a story, made up by a specific midde eastern tribe, embellished by supporters of a specific messianic cult figurehead, then edited in the year 325 by men who were pushing their own agenda.

He was willing to break out of the comforting atmosphere of Tractarianism which would divide into those who would occupy the middle ground: Williams, A. P. Perceval, George Cornish, Thomas Keble; and those who would become High and Dry, such as Edward Churton, Palmer of Worcester, J. T. Coleridge and Joshua Watson, Gladstone and Manning, leaving Pusey as the lonely figurehead.

As Obama continues to rely upon Jesus» teachings for who to tax, who not to tax, who to support and who not to support, he dilutes his power as President and instead becomes a figurehead for special interest groups... Jesus, according to scripture, taught there was no difference between Jew or Gentile, freeman or slave, etc..

«Regardless of who serves as its figurehead, Planned Parenthood is now firmly situated within the pro-life imagination for what it is: the nation's largest abortion sales company and trafficker of fetal parts, Prior said.

About a year ago, R. R. Reno used the New Yorker's cartoon figurehead, with his characteristic top hat and monocle, as a caricature of those intellectuals in the late sixties and early seventies who failed to see the significance of the cultural revolution occurring all around them.

I am upset at AFC reputation in transfers but I have looked at who does what at AFC instead of blaming the figurehead, I wish more so called fans would do the same, learn about the club they supposingly love.

Jorge Mendes is said to be a figurehead in the organisation who had acquired partial rights of a number of Portuguese and Brazilian stars when they were younger and demanded large payoffs to either relinquish their stakes or sanction transfer deals.

Uncle Jim can tell you about the figurehead legislator who replied, when asked what his position was on the Monroe Doctrine, «If the boys are for it, I'm for it.»

They couldn't find anybody better for that role than the larger - than - life 36 - year - old, a player who has made an entire career from being a figurehead.

If Xavi could be considered the ultimate figurehead for the latter, then Xabi Alonso who Benitez selected to build his Liverpool team around — a more gritty, pragmatic take on the deep - lying, Spanish midfielder — would similarly sum up the contrast in approach.

In André - Pierre Gignac, the striker no - one wanted, who matched [Zlatan] Ibrahimović's brace at Stade Vélodrome, they have a fittingly unglamorous figurehead for their resistance to the billionaires from Paris.»

A sprinkling of high profile MPs have joined the group, including former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox, who is increasingly seen as a figurehead for right - wing backbenchers.

The political shifts which destroyed Scottish Labour were clear to everybody apart from the party's figureheads, who remained oblivious to the changing landscape post last year's independence referendum.

The primary figurehead for this leftist trend was Tony Benn, who narrowly missed being elected deputy leader of Labour in September 1981, under new party leader Michael Foot.

Better Together Mk.II has some serious thinking to do about how to organise and who to select as its figurehead.

A group of educated samurai forced the ruling shogun to step down in 1868 and reinstated the emperor, who had until then been only a figurehead.

It shows Charles Darwin not as a figurehead in a great fight but as a real human and a devoted father, loath to waste paper, who gave his children discarded manuscript sheets to scribble upon.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit) stars as enigmatic WikiLeaks founder and director Julian Assange, who would go from computer hacker to the figurehead for one of the most subversive movements on the internet — a man who was feared by governments, hated by corporations, and praised by those who think these entities have far too much power over individuals.

Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence, X-Men: Days of Future Past) continues to be the reluctant figurehead of the rebellion, who finally comes on board once she sees her own district has been nearly destroyed in Snow's vicious attacks.

Freddie isn't the only subservient character in the film as Lancaster is also revealed as a figurehead for The Cause with his wife Peggy Dodd (Amy Adams) as the person who is really in charge.

Pat O'Brien may have played the titular character in this ode to the legendary Notre Dame football figurehead, but it's Ronald Reagan's gridiron all - star, George Gipp, who inspired football's most famous inspirational motto: «Let's win one for the Gipper!»

For Heineman, one of the major challenges of the production was gaining access to figureheads on both sides of the border who didn't necessarily have a reason to trust him.

That seems to be the feeling of Robert Redford, the event's founder and figurehead, who has announced his intention to quietly bow out.

But first, Julian must confront Chang, a mysterious retired policeman - and figurehead of a divine justice - who has resolved to scourge the corrupt underworld of brothels and fight clubs.

When Isabel (Allie Gallerani), who's voluntarily checked herself into Rosewood following her parents» death, finally meets the institute's obviously deceitful figurehead, Dr. Cairn (Franco), the insidious potential of the pair's exchange is minimized in favor a dour swapping of philosophies that sounds tin - eared in its reliance on empty platitudes and one - liners.

A figurehead of Captain Morgan that hung in my room all through high school glares down at a sign that reads, «Any who dare not use the proper means of checking out a book.»

«She's not just a figurehead or a banner carrier, she really does know what good teaching looks like,» says Allyssa Jones, who works under Parker - Brass as the Boston district's program director for the performing arts.

The bright red signage and iconic «Captain», who has been the figurehead of the Flight Centre brand since 1988, combine to make Flight Centre one of Australia's most recognised brands.

Or learn about the actual people who make our games apart from figureheads like Cliffy B and Peter Molyneux?

You start out by meeting Aloy, the main protagonist in Zero Dawn, along with her parental figurehead, Rost, who basically raises Aloy and teaches her the basic skills she'll need to survive within the embrace.

The painting pairs the figurehead dictator of a brutal repressive state who has aspirations of world dominance; with a pop star whose video did in fact achieve a kind of cultural world domination.

Awardees will be paired with individual mentors who will help guide their artistic processes, will participate in a series of roundtable discussions and symposia, will gain access to numerous career development workshops with major Atlanta - arts figureheads, and will get the opportunity to spend five days on Ossabaw Island off the coast of Georgia.

Just as corporate America is demanding law firms with diverse attorneys who serve as more than figureheads, law firms will soon demand that law schools provide them with a pool of qualified, diverse attorneys.

In order to get the DAPPs approved they needed to get whitelisted by the curators who were basically known reputable figureheads in the Ethereum community.

Stephen Parkinson is Theresa May's current political secretary and former Vote Leave figurehead, who hit headlines for outing Sanni as gay in a Downing Street statement.

are pure figureheads, something like golf and country club presidents who come and go regularly at the whim of the annointers therein, said wannabe presidents lusting to have their official presidential posed - for images hung in the hallowed halls of past presidents for all to see.