Sentences with phrase «impact on critics»

In the early 2000s, the Boston University graduate made a precocious impact on critics and curators with a technical skill lending his surreal figurative paintings...

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So, let's take a second and genuinely thank our haters, critics and naysayers for the positive impact they have had on our lives.

Ottawa, its critics claim, wants to green - light the plan even before its own scientists have assessed the environmental impact on hundreds of streams and rivers along the proposed route.

NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.

While a number of vocal critics dispute the wisdom of these actions, there is general agreement - based on a growing body of evidence - that forward guidance and quantitative easing have had a significant and beneficial impact.

At the time of the decision, some critics worried about its impact on consumers, smaller brokers, and agents who advertise on third - party sites.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

Finance Critic Tracy Redies was «very concerned» about the impact on real estate developers:

Some critics have argued that changes to tax rates have impacts on behavior that will reduce the first round direct cost estimates.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

More recently, as part of the Nestlé Critics coalition, we have reported Nestlé to the UN Global Compact for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles, including for its impact on water.

* Cites «changes in market» for its ground beef products * Lists assets of $ 219 million, debt of $ 197 million * Has secured $ 56 million in DIP financing April 2 (Reuters)- Ground beef processor AFA Foods filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and said it plans to sell some or all of its assets, citing the impact of media coverage related to a meat filler critics have dubbed «pink slime.»

Examples of aeroplanes running on biofuels and so on allow that the new runway need not have the devastating environmental impact that critics of the scheme claim it will.

But he was not unhappy enough to decline to go along with a deal which removed the possibility of critics of austerity having any impact on policy.

Critics are not happy with Sen. Chuck Schumer, who appears to be staying quiet on how the Senate health bill may impact New York state.

EJ McMahon: «You don't have to be a fan of the federal tax deal to realize its impact on states like New York has been misrepresented by most of its leading political critics.»

In the end, critics said the city's plans for the Upper West Side will barely have an impact when they start taking effect when school begins on Sept. 7.

BY E.J. McMAHON Founder and research director, Empire Center You don't have to be a fan of the federal tax deal to realize its impact on states like New York has been misrepresented by most of its leading political critics.

A plan to alter passenger limits at Westchester County Airport has run into a roadblock, with lawmakers questioning the impact on nearby towns and a chief critic accusing County Executive Rob Astorino of playing politics to satisfy airlines eager to expand.

Despite heated rhetoric on both sides of the aisle — critics said an IG would hamper and hamstring the NYPD's work and advocates promised it would bring about the wholesale reform community activists were crying for — the apparent impact of the new office, at least so far, has been minimal.

Environmental critics contend the sonar pulses are too loud, producing a devastating impact on whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals that rely on echolocation to communicate, navigate, and locate prey.

Advocates are pushing to enrich the lives of rodents and fish in the lab, but critics worry about the impact on research

An Iowa corn field today, whatever critics say of its environmental impacts, is an extraordinary technological achievement and produces more food on an acre than almost any acre known in history — certainly any nonirrigated acre.

«I don't believe the evidence of a crater off Madagascar, and the impetus is on Abbott to prove it,» says Jay Melosh, an impact expert at the University of Arizona and an outspoken critic of the theory.

Critics, however, contend that GM food gives agricultural corporations an unfair economic advantage over small producers and that GM foods have a negative impact on biodiversity.

I often hear critics dismiss carbon removal approaches as both too expensive and too small - scale to have a material impact on mitigating climate change.

Negative reviews really don't have that much of an impact on box office, and a studio bribing a critic would basically be burning money for no reason.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

Jorja Smith, the Brit Awards Critics» Choice winner who made her Stateside impact on Drake's More Life mixtape, provides one of the record's more low - key entries with «I Am,» seemingly dealing with the issue of her own identity being debated and suppressed by those who don't value her perspective.

It seems quite fitting that James has now made a documentary about the extraordinary life of one of the best film critics who had a tremendous impact on the film industry.

Extras: New program on the film's cinematography featuring a conversation between Lassally and critic Peter Cowie; excerpt from a 1982 episode of «The Dick Cavett Show» featuring Finney; new interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on director Tony Richardson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1967; new interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie's impact on British cinema; illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar - winning score for the film; new interview with the director's - cut editor, Robert Lambert; an essay by scholar Neil Sinyard.

The impact of that win on the Academy was minimal (though the film at least earned two Oscar nods it wouldn't otherwise have received), but the same can't be said of last year's choice: shrugged off by audiences and boasting no heavyweight industry names, «The Hurt Locker» became the most critic - steered Best Picture winner in Oscar history, as every major critics» group in America lined up behind the indie Iraq drama to raise its profile in the face of the threatening populist shadow cast by «Avatar.»

«This year has brought heightened awareness of the impact movies and cinema culture have on setting our social norms,» states EDA AWARDS and AWFJ founder and film critic Jennifer Merin.

«Scott Weinberg has had a profound impact on the psyche of my career more than any other film critics out there,» says James Wan, director Saw and The Conjuring, in his exclusive introduction.

In recent years, critics of charters have moved beyond looking at the academic impacts of charters and have begun to consider other impacts, such as the influence of charters on school segregation.

Members who write for children came together to critics the «detrimental effects» of the current trend in education policy, as they feel the increasingly restrictive rules and focus on testing will have a negative impact on children's writing ability.

«This is the best evidence to date on the impact of retention on a student's likelihood of graduating from high school, the chief concern raised by critics of test - based promotion policies.»

This is the best evidence to date on the impact of retention on a student's likelihood of graduating from high school, the chief concern raised by critics of test - based promotion policies,» says West.

But without research to show the impact, experiences like landing on the moon or the sinking of the Titanic could be closer to entertainment than education, argue critics, who say much of what's being marketed as virtual reality is not groundbreaking — or even new.

Critics argued that the tests focused only on cognitive impacts, that the questions were not age appropriate, and that the process was intentionally designed to prove Head Start was ineffective and therefore should be terminated.

«Governments have seemed unwilling to have a key school reform rigorously tested against the evidence, and too often the critics have also wanted to make their case without reference to the emerging data on how structural change is impacting on attainment and value added.

But critics wonder what the NBPTS standards really tell us about the quality of teachers where it counts most: their impact on students and student achievement.

The Obama Administration, charitable foundations, conservative critics of teacher unions, and various others are encouraging state governments to revise teacher evaluation systems to consider the impact of individual teachers on their students» achievement.

If there's anything supporters and critics of school choice can agree on, it's the likelihood that a pair of state Supreme Court hearings Friday will have an impact on public education beyond Nevada's borders.

If there's anything supporters and critics of school choice can agree on, it's the likelihood that a pair of state Supreme Court hearings on Friday will have an impact on public education beyond Nevada's borders.

Calculating the fiscal impact of these programs would seem straightforward on the surface, but critics and supporters of educational choice strongly disagree about such programs» fiscal effects on taxpayers, state budgets and schools.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

While some critics have focused on what they see as the A-F grading system's complexity, other critics say the current model doesn't do enough to cancel out the negative impacts poverty can have on a school's rating.

Critics fault air bags because they inflate only on frontal impact.

Critic and journalist Sara Keating was in studio with me and Angela Dorgan of First Music Contact (they of Hard Working Class Heroes) was on the line (the snow caused some travel trouble) and we had a lively discussion about whether or not the Arts had felt the positive impact of the Celtic Tiger or whether artists had largely been left behind.