Sentences with phrase «in the history of american»

In 1997, Robinson's uniform number, 42, was retired across all of MLB, a symbolic gesture unmatched in the history of American team sports.

These two types of expertise don't always overlap; Robert De Niro has given some of the greatest performances in the history of American cinema, but by his own admission he doesn't have much to say about how he does what he does.

In the history of American business and entrepreneurship, lots of success has come from others making similar types of trade - offs.

However, if I were to pick someone from this list to bring into any company in any industry and make a high - level, lasting impact, there are few executives in the history of American business with a better track record than Lou Gerstner.

«When he took over as CEO,» the representative said, «he was handed one of the toughest jobs in the history of American banking.»

Even with boatloads of pre-launch buzz, Jet is still going up against Amazon, one of the most cutthroat competitors in the history of American capitalism.

What has emerged on the wintry plains of North Dakota is a distinctive, if not unique event in the history of American environmentalism, and a seminal struggle over civil rights and Native American sovereignty.

This is an incredibly important work for anyone interested in the history of American capitalism and the rise of conservative politics in the second half of the twentieth century.»

I plan to visit Old North Church, Boston Harbor, and Faneuil Hall — all important places in the history of the American Revolution.

Both Clinton and Trump have the highest unfavourable ratings of any presidential candidates in the history of American polling.

A minor figure in the history of American philosophy and theology, although somewhat more prominent in Methodist circles, McCabe's importance rested as much in what he attempted to do in the area of philosophical theology as in what he accomplished.

An emeritus professor at Columbia University, he received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard.

During the course of the decade the militancy of its rhetoric rose as its mass appeal correlatively declined but as is usual in the history of American socialism it was based far more on idealistic zeal than on class interest.

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

The failure of both the Communist party and the New Left to link their socialism to any genuinely American pattern of values and attitudes, and the use of foreign categories to analyze American society, is typical of all but a few moments in the history of American socialism.

His cogent profiles of important figures in the history of American religious liberty are themselves reason enough to read the book.

Msgr. Ellis has frequently quoted the remark made to him by Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., that Schlesinger considered «the prejudice against your Church as the deepest bias in the history of the American people.»

By the mid-1960s, then, the tension that had driven the classic story line in the history of American Catholicism seemed largely resolved.

Meanwhile a series of forces converged to bring about the greatest turning point in the history of American Christianity.

If the Civil War is the most important event in the history of American constitutional interpretation, then President Abraham Lincoln was the Constitution's most important interpreter — its preserver, protector, and defender.

In August, the team lost to the Texas Rangers 30 - 3, the worst loss in the history of the American League.

Super Bowl 51 will surely go down as one of the most watched event in history of American sports largely because Fox is broadcasting the game live on all possible devices including live streams through computers, tablets, smartphones and even through home held devices such as xbox One and Apple tv etc..

Big vs. small government, Blue vs. Red states, the Union vs. the Confederacy: each of these pairings represents different iterations on a recurring theme in the history of American politics.

Rising up from the burgeoning netroots in 2007, OpenLeft attempted to do something slightly novel for online politics — use the blogging medium not simply to pontificate, but to make progressive politics more interactive, a la the Internet, couched in the history of the American left and guided by strategic thinking.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same - sex marriage «a major turning point in the history of American civil rights.»

AAAS headquarters was dedicated 4 September 1997 as the AAAS William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering, in honor of the Association's long - time treasurer, a pivotal figure in the history of American science policy who died in 2007.

Golden's memoranda from this period reflect an important episode in the history of American science policy after the second world war.

The lack of even one openly gay or lesbian living astronaut in the history of American spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astronaut office

There have been times in the history of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) when the organization discouraged people with diabetes from following a low - carb approach to weight loss and blood glucose management.

«The estate is a milestone in the history of American landscape architecture and a landmark in our social history, as it represents the finest work of Beatrix Farrand, America's first professional female landscape architect.

It should be noted, if only in passing, that Mr. Spielberg has this year delivered the most astounding one - two punch in the history of American cinema.

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World brings to light a profound and missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence.

Rick McKay's exceptional new documentary Broadway: The Golden Age presents a veritable avalanche of interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of the American theater, preserving for posterity their wise words and disarming anecdotes.

... may be the most unapologetic, intimate portrayal of a religious man in the history of American cinema.

Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker whose work as a screenwriter and director hold a significant place in the history of American cinema, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four...

Fans of writer - director David O. Russell like to compare his films to those of Preston Sturges, who in the 1940s produced the most singular run of movies in the history of American comedy, including The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero.

Dramatizing this revealing episode in the history of American dynastic politics and political theater, director John Curran (The Painted Veil, Stone) portrays Senator Kennedy (Jason Clarke) as half stooge of his family legacy, half schemer, equally paralyzed by ego and insecurity.

The event, broadcast on September 20, 1973 to a worldwide TV audience, remains the most watched in the history of American tennis.

Muscle Shoals Year: 2013 Director: Greg «Freddy» Camalier Freddy Camalier's masterly Muscle Shoals is about the beginnings and heyday of the recording scene in Muscle Shoals, Ala., a tiny town that improbably changed the face of rock «n» roll, putting out along the way some of the greatest records in the history of American music.

Roman Holiday Year: 1953 Director: William Wyler Start by casting the male lead with one the most honorable, decent leading men in the history of American cinema.

Hank Williams is one of the most brilliant and tragic figures in the history of American music.

Another writer - director who was himself, like Fuller, at the forefront of a particularly important moment in the history of American independent film, John Sayles, used his time introducing Park Row to eloquently characterize the film, in one of the overall best, most informed, beautifully delivered speaker presentations I've ever seen at TCMFF, as «Citizen Kane printed on butcher paper.»

«I, Tonya», on the other hand, is a fearless and inventive examination of the characters and events surrounding one of the biggest scandals in the history of American pop culture.

This ranks among Haynes» best work, confirming him yet again as one of the most valuable and idiosyncratic voices in the history of American cinema.

I, Tonya follows Harding's life and her involvement in one of the biggest scandals in the history of American sports.

Besides its title — one of the most evocative in the history of American movies — the film was memorable for its merging of art - film reserve with populist seduction.

It's a funny role for Streep when you think about it; she's easily one of the most heralded actors in the history of American movies, and not exactly a persona known for being easily blown aside — remember, she won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher.

For millions of people, Nancy Kerrigan being attacked in January 1994 was a defining cultural moment and one of the most high - profile scandals in the history of American sports.

Silver opened his school at a time in the history of American education when innovators could get traction for their dreams, with support from private foundations, state governments, local boards of education, and graduate programs like those at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

These ideas combined to become what is certainly one of the strangest oxymorons in the history of American education, an educational philosophy that championed anti-intellectualism.