Sentences with phrase «first public confrontations»
One of the first public confrontations came in 1989 when Maathai openly protested the building of a $ 200 million, sixty - story skyscraper in Nairobi's Uhuru Park that was slated to be used for government offices.
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NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — typically a close ally of de Blasio, a fellow Democrat — has made criminal justice reform the central mission of her second year as speaker: Sweeping proposals have driven her rapid emergence as a visible public figure, leading to her first real confrontation with the mayor's administration.
Ms. Mark - Viverito — typically a close ally of Mr. de Blasio, a fellow Democrat — has made criminal justice reform the central mission of her second year as speaker: Sweeping proposals have driven her rapid emergence as a visible public figure, leading to her first real confrontation with the mayor's administration.
Despite strong reviews and preternaturally ripe direction on the part of first time writer - director Jake Kasdan (who was twenty - three at the time), the film was issued to the public in the traditionally lackluster month of January, and like many of its brethren in Stiller's filmography, may have dumbfounded audiences with its meld of comedy and confrontation.
Commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, The Living Pyramid is the artist's first major public artwork in New York City in three decades since her iconic urban intervention, Wheatfield — A Confrontation in 1982.