Sentences with phrase «forceful presence»

In 2011, Cuomo had urged business and civic leaders to become a more forceful presence in Albany, particularly as a counterweight to labor unions.

Chuck's demanding and forceful presence on set raises some eyebrows from the producers (Noth and Azaria).

A Wall Street Journal report later quoted an anonymous source claiming that independent directors on RIM's board have long deferred to Balsillie, «the most forceful presence in the room by far.»

With one film under their belts, Radcliffe, Grint and Watson have settled in more comfortably in their roles — Radcliffe especially, who is a far more forceful presence here than he was in the original film.

Their overwhelming physicality and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture, site, and viewer.

The source says that in board meetings, Jim Balsillie is «the most forceful presence in the room by far.»

Without Balsillie's forceful presence on the board, Heins may be less constrained when making difficult decisions.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Kentucky coach John Calipari was grateful for P.J. Washington's forceful presence in the locker room and under the basket in the second half.

Both teams» strengths were as clear as they had been all day... Team Valvassori kept a dynamic presence in every position and Team Audley was led by a forceful presence at the net.

At that time most of the room tended to be against him but he remained a forceful presence.

Sue Sullivan, a former hospital executive with a history of community involvement, isn't a forceful presence on the stump, several local Democrats complained.

He's the guy with the forceful presence and dark, gruffly handsome features, who always makes a memorable impact on the sidelines.

Balsillie reportedly has a «forceful presence» in meetings that dictates the agenda, while Lazaridis mostly presents device plans.

She has never waivered from her kinship with paint as an expressive medium, and is one of few artists who could be credited with such a forceful presence in post-war art.

From the time of his first exhibition with Michael Werner, in Berlin in 1968, Lüpertz was already a forceful presence in German art.

Each makes its forceful presence known while withholding some or all of its fundamental semiotic «raison d'etre.»

Joan Jonas, a diminutive woman with a forceful presence, reconfirmed her status as a high priestess of the avant - garde earlier this year with They Come to Us Without a Word, an ecologically themed multimedia installation and performance piece that was arguably the biggest hit of the 2015 Venice Biennale — «a triumph,» declared the New York Times.

There, he studied under the Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, whose dogmatic, forceful presence would have lasting effects on the artist.

Those documents, which are housed in the Library of Congress, show that from his first days on the bench, Thomas was an independent and forceful presence.

«Catalyst has been a forceful presence in promoting the advancement of women in business, and in documenting their disappointingly slow progress to proportionate senior management levels and board representation.

Each session, the Advocacy Fund and its grassroots activists are a forceful presence on Beacon Hill for issues that relate to improving — and defending - access to reproductive health care and greater health equity for all people across Massachusetts.