Sentences with phrase «former leading figure»

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From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

Leading figures within the Catholic church will gather for the funeral of the former Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor on Wednesday morn...

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

The former Southampton youth product was ruled out of yesterday's game, but had previously been a key figure in the system which accommodated Alexis Sanchez in a central role, and his absence may have played a big part in Giroud getting the nod to lead the line.

Arsenal broke their transfer record to sign Fekir's former team - mate Alexandre Lacazette last summer and the forward's departure has led to Fekir becoming a key figure in Lyon's side.

The former defence minister was a leading figure in the 1984 Welsh miners» strikes, and entered parliament in 1989.

Leading figures in the party, as well as party activists, are former members of the Conservative party, not least Nigel Farage himself.

Mahmoud Jebril, a leading figure in the push to privatise state - industries under Gaddafi, and Ali Aziz al - Eisawi, former ambassador to India, led the diplomatic efforts.

The Kennedy leadership campaign team, led by the formidable former Ashdown spin doctor Jane Bonham Carter, went to great lengths to recast their candidate as a serious political figure.

The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove: The 48 - year - old former newspaper columnist was a key figure in the party's modernisation that led to its return to power in 2010.

Though the comptroller has not been personally implicated, the federal corruption trial of two leading figures from that campaign gets underway this month, with Liu's former press secretary testifying after a grant of immunity.

Ms. Clinton enjoyed the backing of most leading Democratic Party figures in the state, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin, former Sen. Herb Kohl and former Gov. Jim Doyle.

A series of high - profile figures led by Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, have also rejected the White Paper's claim that the remainder of the UK would agree a currency union to share the pound.

The meeting which held up to the early hours of Saturday was based on negotiation to persuade the former VP to lead an interim government of national unity that the president has been attempting to sell to diverse political figures in recent weeks, Sahara reporters had reported.

In speaking with such members of the gay community as U.S. representatives Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank, as well as radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, activist Larry Kramer, and former N.J. governor Jim McGreevey, Dick is able to explore the complexities of leading a double lifestyle, as well as highlight the double standards of a media that has become obsessed with covering the sex lives of gay public figures.

The film's leading lady was former silent star and future cult - figure Louise Brooks, the hauntingly beautiful leading lady of G.W. Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora's Box, here making her last film appearance.

And yet, despite those observable similarities, it was announced early last year that Margot Robbie would star as Tonya Harding in director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, a fictionalized depiction of the fallen former American Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, leading to the totally frenzied and unjust trial - by - media of Harding.

There's a quick montage early on in I, Tonya — the Margot Robbie - led biopic of former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding — where her mother (Allison Janney) runs the gamut of abuse.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

Yvonne Leung, the former head of the University of Hong Kong's student union, and a prominent figure during the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, led students in a protest last month to call for a more democratic governance structure at the university.

Starring It - actors Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace in leading roles, the former as an android and the latter as a doctor akin to Sigourney Weaver's character Ellen Ripley, Charlize Theron is also involved as the semi-villainous corporate figure, with Idris Elba, Guy Pearce and newcomer Logan Marshall - Andrews also among the top - billed names..

Led by an amazing performance by the very talented Margot Robbie, I, Tonya is a wildly entertaining black comedy and biopic of American figure skater Tonya Harding, a former U.S. Champion best known for her involvement in a 1994 incident in which fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at the Cobo Arena with a police baton.

The infamous former figure skater is the subject of an upcoming Craig Gillespie biopic, set to hit theaters in December, with Margot Robbie playing lead

The reports led to heightened scrutiny of former district schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a divisive figure in education policy who often boasts of score gains under her tenure.

The four man team, already basking in the glory of the critical acclaim showered on its recent PSN release, won both the New Studio award and the Micro Studio gong at an event filled with leading industry figures and opinion formers.

Over the past 49 years, the New York museum's artist - in - residence programme has supported over a hundred visual artists of African and Latino descent, with former residents including leading figures such as David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

This style subsequently gave way to a sustained period of abstraction, as Guston became a leading figure in New York's abstract expressionist scene of the 1950s along with Jackson Pollock, a former school friend of Guston's in California.

Brock had also met with a number of leading Democratic Party figures, including former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and former Vice President Al Gore.

Jay Dalton, former general counsel of oil and gas contractor Wilbros Group, was recognized by the SEC as a key figure in the events that led up to the sentencing late last month of two former Wilbros executives to prison time for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Woodsford employs a panel of arbitration experts that includes John Beechey, a leading figure in international arbitration and former President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

A former Lincolns Solicitors partner, he has over 15 years» international financial services experience, and is known as a leading figure in Ireland's legal market.

Despite flourishes, including a softly lit image, that are sympathetic to Hearn, the piece includes the most exposition on the block size debate, elaborating on Maxwell's own difficulties as a leading figure in the bitcoin community and detailing former Bitcoin Core lead maintainer Gavin Andresen's thoughts on the debate.