Sentences with phrase «first named director»

It was first established as a company limited by guarantee in 1994, and its first named Director was Derek Draper, then employed as a Researcher by Peter Mandelson.

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«Our first name for the Holoroom was the Marriage Savior,» says Kyle Nel, executive director of Lowe's Innovation Labs.

In 1988, Houston - based Waste Management, the nation's leading garbage hauler, launched its first large - scale curbside - recycling program under the direction of a man named Bill Moore, the company's first recycling director.

The designer and DJ has been named the first African - American artistic director of Louis Vuitton — the largest brand of LVMH (lvmuy), the world's largest luxury group.

Their first test case is in support of a small business owner named Melanie Kohler, one of the first #MeToo women to post allegations of assault against director Brett Ratner.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

Saracen Mineral Holdings managing director Raleigh Finlayson has received the top honour at Business News» 2018 40under40 awards, named First Amongst Equals ahead of a diverse field of Western Australia's young business and community leaders.

Benita Fortner, Director of Supplier Diversity at Raytheon Company, was named First Vice Chair of the WBENC Board.

The William J. Alcorn Award was named in honor of WBENC's first Chair of the Board of Directors, William J. Alcorn, retired Senior Vice President and Chief Purchasing Officer of the J.C. Penney Company, for his years of dedication and outstanding leadership.

Now the 89 - year - old, the Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's love story Call Me by Your Name.

Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications has named museum design executive Julian Jackson to be its first executive director after founder Bruce DuMont, the museum said Monday in a news release.

Some department chairmen and laboratory directors have a reputation for publishing papers with their own names appearing first, when all the ideas and all the work were those of other professors or graduate students.

It was first described and recognized by name by Count Giuseppe Nuvolone, Vice Director of Piedmont Agricultural Society, the Royal Academy of Agriculture where in 1798 he read his celebrated «Instructions for the Cultivation of Vines and the Best Method for Making and Storing Wine».

This scholarship is named in honor of the late Terry L. Vorhees, founder and first Executive Director of the Southeast Produce Council.

• In 1984, when she was named athletic director at San Diego State University, Mary Alice Hill, 46, became the first woman to head the athletic department of a Division I school.

Metra's board of directors today named a new chairman to oversee the commuter rail agency, the first time the job has gone to someone from suburban Cook County.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

In court documents, Oddo's land - use director, Robert E. Englert, claimed that the names were replaced simply because the developer's submissions were too similar to existing Staten Island streets and could confuse first responders in an emergency.

The governor also recalled some top aides of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, by naming Vincent Tese, the former economic development commissioner and current executive chairman of Bond Street Holdings; and Joseph Spinelli, the state's first inspector general and now managing director of Navigant.

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has named David Moore as the county's first office of public integrity director.

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She also praised the out members of the de Blasio administration, including «community organizer» Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental relations, and «scores of others,» whom she cited by first names, for «doing good progressive work.»

Although scientists from every field that NSF supports are eligible, only three social scientists — the previous two were men — have ever captured the Waterman, named after NSF's first director.

It took me at least a year before I could call my PI [principal investigator] by her first name, for example,» says Sural - Fehr, who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a member of the board of directors of the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA).

► «Engineer Jill Hruby was named director of the Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, becoming the first woman to head one of three U.S. government labs charged with developing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Tuesday.

Collins, who in 2008 stepped down after 15 years as director of NIH's genome institute, spoke publicly about his ideas for the first time since his name surfaced as the leading candidate to head the agency.

Soon Lorius was named director of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) in Grenoble, France, the first of many prestigious positions he held.

In 2003 Dr. Nurse was named President of the Rockefeller University until 2011, when he was appointed the first ever Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute in London, a biomedical research and discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying human health and illness.

Meave Leakey, Director of Field Research at TBI and research professor at Stony Brook University's Department of Anthropology, received the 2016 Hubbard Medal, named for the first president of the National Geographic Society, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, often called National Geographic's highest honor.

The feeling was mutual, and when Vaccarello was named creative director at Saint Laurent, he brought Pecheux with him to do the makeup for his first collection.

I have started to embrace Jonathan Saunders, I resisted him at first being named as creative director of DVF.

In 1997, Kors was named the first - ever women's ready - to - wear designer and creative director of Céline, where he helped to turn the French fashion house around with successful accessories and a critically acclaimed ready - to - wear line, before leaving in October 2003 to concentrate on his own brand.

This sequel is squarely in the mindset of the first two Pie movies, but director Jesse Dylan (How High), who happens to have a father named Bob and brother named Jakob, doesn't really do anything inspiring.

Submarine is a Welsh film that director Richard Ayoade adapted a screenplay based off the novel by the same name, about an awkward teenage boy and his first real relationship with a girlfriend.

But you could probably do better than spending 89 minutes with this Michael Bay - produced haunted house tale / board game adaptation from first - time director Stiles White, featuring a mostly no - name cast.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

It's certainly unique to hear Angelina Jolie sharing a scene with Seth Rogen, or Jackie Chan acting opposite David Cross, and it would be easy for the film to coast on its marquee names, but first - time director Jennifer Yuh effortlessly pulls off a tricky ensemble juggling act that gives everyone a slice of the spotlight.

In - jokes for horror - film fans abound (the dog is named Jason, the monster in the Friday the 13th series; a cafe is the Craven Inn - Wes Craven directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street), and it's possible that those fans will be satisfied with the expensive, surreal special effects unleashed by director Renny Harlin.

This was also the first time Joseph not only got top billing (his name was even bigger than the director's name in the end credits) but his character completely carried the film.

This movie isn't the first movie he has directed however this one definately is one that will get his name out there as a director.

It's the first non-horror movie for Roth, who made his name with Cabin Fever and has since largely stayed in that genre as a director.

A video played: First, it showed a virtual rendition of Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus, then the names of Metal Gear director Hideo Kojima and Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro.

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

Since first appearing on the scene with Cold Prey in 2006, Norwegian director Roar Uthaug - not pronounced how it looks to English speakers but an awesome name, nonetheless - has earned himself quite a reputation, thanks to his ability...

Director Roger Michell is best known for the fluffy fantasy of «Notting Hill» (1999), targetted directly at an American market and presenting a view of London life whose only link to reality was the place names — but since then he has elaborated a much darker vision of romance in Britain's capital, first in the Hanif Kureshi - scripted taboo - breaker The Mother (2003), and now in «Enduring Love», starring Daniel Craig (who also featured in The Mother) and Rhys Ifans (here a million miles away from the comedy of «Notting Hill»).

If you take notice of the credits for Marvel's Black Panther this week when you're waiting for the last post-credits scene, you may notice Donald Glover and his brother Stephen's names popping up during the «Special Thanks» section, and director Ryan Coogler has revealed to Collider that the two offered notes on the first draft -LSB-...]

This leads us, weirdly enough, to the director's newest effort, Going in Style, a modernized remake of the 1979 crime comedy with the same name, which serves as Braff's first studio project.

With The Hippopotamus set to receive its North American premiere this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the first poster and trailer have arrived online for director John Jencks» upcoming adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1994 best - selling comedy novel of the same name; take a look below... A country manor mystery that's actually a deliciously -LSB-...]

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