Sentences with phrase «great public figure»

For that alone, I would say that as a Realtor, it does not make you a great public figure, but it does make you something special.

Besides the established fact that legends have a way of springing up about great public figures, there must also have been an almost irresistible urge on the part of some to bolster the claim that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, especially since his behavior was m some ways most unmessianic (see p. 97).

Wakers can be great public figures - Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Simone de Beauvoir, Diana Vreeland, Carl Sagan, John Peel, Susan Sontag, Alistair Cooke, Margaret Thatcher, etc - but they don't have to be.

Not exact matches

Putin does not propose officially to rehabilitate the figure of Stalin, but he does little to challenge the public presentation of his predecessor as someone who made Russia a great power, and who stood up to the West.

«We are exceptionally excited to host a conversation with Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States and one of the most inspirational public figures of our time,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

As of July 2015, its valuation hit nearly $ 51 billion, equaling the record set by Facebook in 2012.394 It recently secured an additional $ 3.5 billion in investment, bringing its total funds to $ 13.5 billion — a figure «far greater than most companies raise even during an initial public offering,» which Uber has avoided.395

The second follows him to Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, where his fame as a preacher and public figure reached its apex and where he made his greatest forays into politics, particularly in the antislavery cause.

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

Given the nature of their task, it is doubtful whether censors ever enjoyed great public esteem, but it is not doubtful that they cut poor figures today.

Mr Burnham has asked for public responses to help alleviate the problem of overcrowded roads in Greater Manchester, with figures showing that residents across Greater Manchester lose nearly 40 hours a year as a result of congested roads.

When we look back at the historical data summarised in Figure 1 below, we find the period since the mid-1980s has been one in which successive governments have opted for small, year - to - year reductions in the growth of overall public spending, rather than greater reductions over a shorter period.

Lord Hague said an «age of greater transparency» would require more and more openness by public figures and that politics would be diminished if all were found to be squeaky clean.

«The new government is opening up the pay of middle and senior management to greater scrutiny, and will require any six - figure salaries to be approved - or vetoed - by elected councillors in the full public glare of the council chamber,» he added.

It's great to spew rhetoric and spew mistruths, but it's not so easy to sit down and do your homework and figure out that someone is doing great public service.»

The Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 30 — who has been suing NYC for seven - figures over an alleged injury she suffered on a street — successfully made her way to the altar to wed fellow activist Marcus Bright, 33, in a public ceremony at the Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Queens.

Dominique Sharpton, 30 — who has been suing the city for seven - figures over an alleged injury she suffered on a street — successfully made her way to the altar to wed fellow activist Marcus Bright, 33, in a public ceremony at the Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Queens.

Public figures including Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Palin's comments, saying, that the mosque is «a great message for the world that, unlike in other places where they might actually ban people from wearing burquas or building a building, that's not what America was founded on nor is it what America should become.»

Even if you don't personally know someone who is transgender, there's much greater awareness for gender identity than there used to be, thanks in part to public figures like Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and Jazz Jennings from the TLC reality show I Am Jazz.

As the world's greatest detective, Batman figured out that Lex Luthor was manipulating public opinion against Superman — and directly caused the bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building with all the death that entailed — yet still decided to go ahead with his plan to kill Superman because, I du n no, he'd already gone through all the prep and it'd be a shame to let those cool SFX go unused.

· Finding the Wonder Woman Within — Feel the power of Wonder Woman as award - winning poets and inspiring public figures reveal the impact and importance of DC's greatest heroine.

It's a chilling likeness to the man who helped destroy the career of one of the greatest figure skaters of all time — but allowed her to take most of the public's blame.

The intriguing documentary marks the feature film directorial debut of Randall Wright, who does a great job of humanizing his subject to the point where you really feel as though you know this inscrutable, if charismatic public figure.

While I didn't get the opportunity to interview the man himself, it was great chatting with the cast about what it's like working with him, their favorite»80s pop culture landmarks, and for Lena Waithe, the importance of being an openly gay public figure.

For instance, Mildred unloading on a skeptical public figure in her dining room is as discomfiting and hilarious as movies get, McDormand pushing a great movie to greater heights, the scene's searing uncomfortability a testament to the sterling work happening on all sides of the camera.

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

These and other misstatements of fact, tales, and quotes out of context are used to impugn the reputation of a public figure who dared to ask black parents and students to exercise a greater sense of responsibility.

As shown in Figure 4, recipients at public institutions appear to derive substantially greater benefits from the program.

While not all of Indianapolis's charter schools are great, as a group they have far outperformed Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) schools — and none of them is in a position to keep shortcomings a secret (see Figure 2).

Appendix Figure 2 shows the substantial difference in average net prices charged to low - income students (publics charge substantially less, on average), although there is greater variation in the distribution of prices across private, non-profit colleges.

«If you tell me that Chicago public schools are producing greater gainsamong disadvantaged students than other disadvantaged students across Illinois, it might be that Chicago students have figured out how to focus more narrowly on tests,» he says.

The numbers, distributed at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure in North Carolina's school choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special education classes than do traditional public schools.

Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.

A great resource for figuring out how much you want your personal life to become part of your public «book life» is the book BookLife by Jeff Vandermeer.

I did not go to great lengths to seek the book out, but the local branch of my public library had it available when I looked at the titles, so I figured it couldn't hurt.

The second book of this series «Theology in Public» presents a great figure, St. John Chrysostom, and his theological teaching.One of the most significant sermons of Chrysostom is the one which bears the title «On the Devil.»

Seth Godin showed up in a Level 2 way by starting the Domino Project rather than waiting on the traditional publishing industry to figure out a better option for getting great ideas out to the public.

The results could be skewed by the fact that while we have many Portuguese language books, we are partnering with a few great Ukrainian publishers bringing biographies and autobiographies of current politicians and public figures, while Brazilians have to choose between Queen Victoria and Robespierre.

The greatest case study of a public figure I've made along these lines is Donald Trump.

I would just ask that it not be presented to the public without thorough facts, figures and percentages... and I beg you to shower The Napa County Animal Shelter and it's employees with greater respect and admiration.

«Figure Study II is one of the greatest acquisitions the Contemporary Art Society has ever made and the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public collection in this country... Its display with Figure Study I offers a rare opportunity to understand the artist's thinking across two works from a critical moment of Bacon's career».

The large, colorful prints on view depict such public and historic figures as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Jimmy Carter, Sitting Bull and Alexander the Great, and were made by Warhol between 1977 and 1986.

Watch FAD's highlights from London Art Fair 2012 here: London Art Fair opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, presenting over 100 galleries, featuring well known «greats» of the 20th century such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney and leading figures within contemporary art.

2013 Oh Christmas Tree, Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Salzburg One Foot in the Real World, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing since the 1990s, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville White Light / White Heat: Contemporary Artists & Glass, The Wallace Collection, London Mak Hix: The Collection Exhibition, Cock «n» Bull Gallery, London Art from Britain and Poland from 1990, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (con) TEXT, Sharon Arts Centre, Peterborough, New Hampshire Stedelijk @ TrouwAmsterdam: Contemporary Art Club, TrouwAmsterdam, Amsterdam Mad, Bad & Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors, Freud Museum, London Frayed: Textiles on the Edge, Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth Be Dramatic, Bechter Kastowsky Galerie, Vienna Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California Writings Without Borders, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong do it, MU artspace, Eindhoven do it, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Ordinary / Extra / Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich Fail Better, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Postcard Narratives, Room Artspace, London Arthouse, Museum of St Albans All You Need is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The Virginia MoCA, Virginia Beach More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina Economy, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh & CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

Gallery visitor figures are on a spectacularly rising curve and press and public interest has never been greater.

At the root of this sorry affair is the crucial question of whether Americans are free to lambast public figures on matters of great import.

Thus, several of the 35 law professor blogs with the greatest overall readership (based on data provided by Paul Caron) are absent from this graph, and some of those that are included appear relatively peripheral to this network, while some of the sites near the center of this network appear to have smaller overall readership (though some of these are omitted from Caron's figures because they lack public site meters).

This is all public available info (cancelled flight), our expenses were of course greater than the $ 240 max but still they require more info than we provided (which was a lot and they could figure out it's not free to stay somewhere a few days).

Figures such as Vitalik Buterin, who has previously protested the avarice which is now endemic to the industry, won't take kindly to featuring here, but will surely concede that with great wealth comes great public scrutiny.

As of now, «About 30 percent of all malls are owned by public companies — and we expect that figure to rise to 50 percent and greater over the next three to five years,» says Morgan Stanley's Niehaus.

Probably should have asked you first, but figured that since your blog is so public, you have a great many people reading anyway.