Sentences with phrase «important national figure»

On January 10, 2012, an important national figure, Mr. Arafat, resigned, as a result of his discontent over proposed reforms to the emergency medical system under a new health law and of criticisms from Romanian President Traian Basescu.

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Maybe you figure that you just aren't important enough to lose a national vote.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also has a role to play, said Nelson, and is an important figure (Not so much current Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, he added.)

Hidden away in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery is a collection of comic caricatures of important diplomatic figures from overseas.

«We have no idea why the computer did that,» says Rogers, «but this kind of thing is important to the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board, and this is how you figure this stuff out — you'll never figure that out in the lab.»

«Figuring out how atoms rearrange themselves in this material is important, and to our great surprise, what we expected to be a slower process is really rapid,» said Gleason, who was a postdoctoral researcher at SLAC and Stanford University at the time of the 2012 experiment and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has established a «Recommended Daily Allowance» (RDA) 3 for protein (see Figure 2), but it is important to recognize that no set allowance, based on averages, can speak for the widely differing requirements of individuals.

But perhaps more important than forging youngsters into a competitive, top - flight band capable of winning national championships was the fact that Prof simultaneously served as a father figure to so many who were being raised without a male role model.

Of Thee I Sing is basically a baker's dozen, brief biographies of important figures in American history, from Father of the Country George Washington up to Maya Lin, the artist / architect who, while still an undergraduate at Yale, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial located on the National Mall.

For the Democrats, a party that philosophically believes that government should and can play an important role in providing for both the national and economic security of our country, the public's desire for government action is an enormous opportunity to demonstrate leadership (see Figure 1).

It's National Women's History Month — a perfect time to introduce your students to important female figures in history What their lives tell us is...

Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean - Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban» Palma de Plata» in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.

During the past year, there have been several important solo exhibitions of his work worldwide: Seeing Things at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Figure In / Figure Out at The Louvre, Paris; Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany; Tony Cragg in 4 D from Flux to Stability at The International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice; It is, Isn't It at the Church of San Cristoforo, Lucca, Italy; and Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Figure 4 shows a loss of sea ice extent through May below the 2007 level (National Snow and Ice Data Center plot); contributions to the loss were especially important from the Barents and Chukchi Seas (Figure 5).