Sentences with phrase «great national institutions»

Over decades Parliament, government and other great national institutions have allowed media preoccupations to set the context of discussion.

Attlee, with the vision to build a great national institution.

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«We have been encouraged by the great progress Secretary Shulkin has made and believe that he remains the best person to lead this important federal public institution on the behalf of the American people,» the group's national commander, Denise Rohan, said in a statement Monday.

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

In a move that many believe is intended to strengthen National Australia Bank's (NAB) tier one capital ratio, the Australian - based banking institution is offloading its US business Great Wes...

Today, the Cheltenham meet is a national institution, held every March, the first of the great social sporting occasions of the year in England, on the scale of Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley and the British Open.

And One Nation is a country where we defend and improve our great institutions, like the National Health Service.

The great public institutions like Kings College, the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Ibadan, Zaria or Ughelli — once the great national pride of Nigeria — are as a result underfunded and abandoned, so that the private, for profit secondary schools, may now thrive.

«I did not expect to be talking at a symposium like this with that title under my name, but when the message came through two days before January 20 that my resignation letter had been rejected, I figured that I better figure out what to do in this new role and certainly celebrate the opportunity to continue to lead this great institution, this noble enterprise called the National Institutes of Health.»

It was high - profile research projects with institutions like these that helped win Alireza the L'Oréal U.K. fellowship, whose sponsors include the U.K. National Commission for UNESCO, the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the U.K. Resource Centre for Women in Science, Technology, and Engineering.

Like other great science institutions — New York City's American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, for instance — the Academy logically might have focused on galleries and displays showcasing portions of its 20 - million - specimen collection, a cornucopia ranging from giant Galapagos tortoise shells to Maasai tribal shields to tyrannosaur fossil bones.

When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty.

We recommend borrowers consider local banks and mortgage lenders over national ones, as these institutions have a greater interest in investing in local communities.

If you don't already have a bank, we recommend considering a local bank or credit union over a national bank, as regional institutions generally have a greater interest in lending to and working with entrepreneurs in their communities.

From Group Material co-founder Julie Ault's personal art collection from the 1980s and»90s on view at Artists Space to Fiona Tan's film of the Sir John Soane Museum's antiquities collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (echoing Alain Resnais's great 1956 documentary of Paris's national library, «Toute la mémoire du monde») to the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming show of graffiti art collected by the late artist Martin Wong, artists and institutions are devoting considerable efforts to showing groups of historical art objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gesture.

The program is also available to national audiences at the series website which also offers past episodes and conversations with visionaries behind New York's greatest institutions.

Beirne has exhibited extensively and to great acclaim since the early 1970s at institutions including P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the National Center for Contemporary Art in Kaliningrad, Russia; TV Gallery, Moscow; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; the Sculpture Center, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Artists Space, New York among many others.

In a review of the retrospective, the Wall Street Journal's David Littlejohn called Liu «the greatest Chinese painter in the U.S.» Liu's works have been exhibited extensively and collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and the Los Angeles County Museum, among other institutions.

Founded in 1966, it was one of that great wave of new institutions that included the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Camden Arts Centre in London and the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

Not only were the great collections that changed hands in the 19th and 20th centuries lost by the Corcoran to institutions in other cities and later to the National Gallery and the Smithsonian, but seminal movements in American art, such as the emergence in the 1950s and»60s of abstract expressionism, pop art and even the Washington Color School (which started in its own back yard!)

Perhaps no institution better embodies the con - straints of German memory culture than Munich's Haus der Kunst, completed in 1937 as a leading example of National Socialist architecture and a showcase for yearly Great German Art Exhibitions.

Brian Griffin's photographs are held in the permanent collections of major art institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Arts Council of Great Britain; the British Council; the Mast Foundation, Bologna; the Art Museum Reykjavik; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga.

Dr Nicholas Cullinan says: «It is with great pleasure that I return to the National Portrait Gallery, an institution that I have grown up with and where I first worked fourteen years ago.

Saatchi has made a number of very significant donations of top contemporary artworks to numerous institutions, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection (which lends works to museums and galleries around the country), the National Arts Collection Fund, and the Paintings in Hospitals program.

The Global Scenarios Group set of scenarios include characterisations in which institutions and governance as we know them persist with minor reform; «barbarisation» scenarios consider futures in which «absolute poverty increases and the gap between rich and poor... [and] national governments lose relevance and power relative to trans - national corporations and global market forces...» (Gallopin et al., 1997); «great transitions» scenarios contain storylines in which sustainable development becomes an organising principle in governance.

Listing certifications from institutions such as the National Association for the Deaf, the National Virtual Translation Center, or the National Association for Interpretation on your CV is a great way to show proficiency as an interpreter or translator.

Besides educating professional on coding and important coding changes and updates, these institutions provide a great national forum for continuing education in all areas of the healthcare industry, as well as news, discussion forums, and a wealth of other information.