Sentences with phrase «figures like president»

Another ex-propaganda troll, Marat Burkkhard, was assigned to spreading racist memes about public figures like President Obama.

If you think that such historic figures like President Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King did not require speech writing help, you will be wrong!

Exemplified by figures like President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Senator Robert Wagner Sr., and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, this alternative tradition challenged machine bosses and advanced progressive causes like organized labor and gay rights.

Okupe stated, «It is absolutely impossible to oppose the incumbent especially a towering figure like President Muhammadu Buhari and hope to defeat him.

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General Fusion also established an advisory board of experts in various aspects of commercializing fusion power and added impressive figures to its board like Jacques Besnainou, the former president and CEO of Areva Group North America, and Frederick Buckman, who held executive positions with various utilities as well as the Shaw Power Group, an engineering and construction outfit.

Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.

As Nick Bilton writes in Vanity Fair, there's good reason to think the popularity of social media has peaked, with prominent Silicon Valley figures like former Facebook president Sean Parker and venture capitalist Mark Suster saying they think the technology has become addictive and unhealthy.

Famous figures from the era, like Butch Cassidy, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill were all known to frequent the hotel, and even President Theodore Roosevelt has been a guest.

As Mullin notes, the incoming president's ability to avoid the mainstream press and get his message out via Twitter, Facebook and other social media makes the Obama administration look like an old man trying to figure out how to use Snapchat.

The party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even if the President isn't a controversial figure like Donald Trump.

StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series, film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.

Awareness of Twitter's brand has also gotten a boost from frequent tweets by public figures like U.S. President Donald Trump, who is among the platform's most high - profile users.

Plaudits from foreign leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, as well as leading figures of the economic and diplomatic world, have helped to cement this image.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

And when he said things like, «No man should be allowed to be President after he's 35,» and, «If a black man gunned me down right now I'd figure it was all right because of what whites have done to blacks,» the quotes were trumpeted in newspapers all across the country.

Bayern need a figure like former president Uli Hoeness again.»

«This explains why they have continued to keep people like the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in detention, even after he has been granted bail by the courts and have been after figures like Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu as well as politicians perceived to be interested in the 2019 Presidential elections.

The president joined in on the verbal jabs and roasting of political figures — even himself — joking that it was «another calm week at the White House» and adding: «we finally have it running like a fine - tuned machine.»

Many of them had been overseen by figures like former SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros, who was among those charged.

Like in his 2017 address, President Akufo - Addo's figures on the progress of the economy were used to take subtle jibes at the Mahama administration, and the state that it left the economy in 2016.

Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state - sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption, monumental incompetence, the persecution of opposition figures and their families, the violation of court orders, the intimidation of the National Assembly, the Judiciary and the Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media, the targetting and cold - blooded murder of Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite Muslims, the gradual and incremental Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of the Church and Christian clerics, the covert support for and encouragement of murderous Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on and so forth are now the cornerstone and hallmark of President Buhari's govermmemt.

While heads of state like U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have resisted such calls, they and other high - profile figures and institutions have criticized what appears to be Moscow's increasing anti-gay posture.

But the panel of judges, for Euractiv.com, found that Cameron's influence fell short of those wielded by lesser - known figures like Richard Corbett, a member of EU president Herman Van Rompuy's Cabinet, and Philip Lowe, the Commission director - general for energy.

The poll found Mr. Stringer's numbers would suffer somewhat if more candidates, like Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. — seen as perhaps the most likely figure to take on Mr. de Blasio — or Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, entered the hypothetical race.

Endorsements in the race have so far have been split along local and national lines, with Mr. Rangel racking up big - name national figures like former President Bill Clinton and Senator Chuck Schumer, and Mr. Espaillat locking down much of the city's prominent political establishment, including Comptroller Scott Stringer and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

«The father figure of this country is President Buhari and if his language does not represent unity, there will be agitations like we are witnessing now.

Privately, Mr. Trump's impulses had led him to ignore political protocols and his own Republican allies, like Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Mr. McConnell, who had groused about the president in recent days that the Senate would consider an immigration bill «as soon as we figure out what he is for.»

Congressman Charlie Rangel, likely to survive another two years in Washington, said today he can't wait to work with the major political figures — like President Barack Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio — who spurned him.

A senate president that has access to raw cash and power is quoting figures like he has educate the whole nation.

Many historical figures in the past like Chinese President, Chiang Ching - kuo and Mongolian leader, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal were all married to Russian women.

Pete Travis's film presents an assassination attempt on a US President from eight different points of view, and the impressive cast features reliable figures like Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt.

The narrative is partly driven by the culture shock produced by Everett's incongruous arrival in the rural Irish outback, a bit like those recent scenes of President Obama quaffing Guinness in the Emerald Isle except transplanted to the set of Father Ted, and partly by the impudent, ambiguous, seemingly indolent figure of Boyle.

YAMATO: With Steven Spielberg behind the camera and powerhouses like Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks playing two of the Washington Post figures who published the Pentagon Papers in defiance of enormous government and corporate pressures, it's no wonder «The Post» was made so quickly; it truly reverberates with a timely urgency in the face of President Trump's attacks on the news media.

Shakur's brushes with the law and criticism from Washington figures like Vice President Dan Quayle add interest and context to the music that has aged terrifically.

Changing My Mind is divided into four sections — «Reading,» «Being,» «Seeing» and «Feeling» — and the essays cover topics ranging from personal experiences traveling the world to authors who have influenced her own writing to thoughts on public figures like Katharine Hepburn and President Obama to advice and lessons on the writing process.

Other real - life figures, like President Warren G. Harding and Harry Houdini, make appearances, lending more depth to this bravura performance.

The stellar lineup includes Sony Computer Entertainment's Executive Vice President, Development, Phil Harrison; French MTV Best Music Award - winning directors, the brilliant Alaux, Houplain and de Crécy from H5; game designer legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi; hyper - active Tokyo pop designer collective FuriFuri; game designer and master of eccentric excellence Masaya Matsuura; up - and - coming wireless game studio Newtgames; plus a new edition of GAMEHOTEL's popular Designer Toy Showcase featuring urban vinyl figures by the likes of Michael Lau, Eric So, Brothersfree, and other Hong Kong designer stars (see below for full lineup details).

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

Mass education, mass - media, and a succession of authority figures (like the past three presidents of the Royal Society) chosen by committee who are clearly inadequate — it's a recurrent historical pattern, and fourth century Rome is probably as good a place as any other to look for understanding.

The president painted a grim picture of climate - change impact on the Arctic with mind - boggling figures like the 300 million acres of boreal forest that burn every summer now throughout the Arctic.

«Much like we see globally, I think businesses and investors are grappling a little bit with a recovery that hasn't yet taken off, and I think people are trying to figure out how quickly will the growth occur,» Sheeraz Haji, president of the Cleantech Group, said during a conference call Friday.