Sentences with phrase «included prominent people»

The campaign is similar to the Committee to Save New York and New Yorkers United For Marriage, two other consortiums which included prominent people from all walks of political life who backed Cuomo's fiscal agenda and same - sex marriage effort, respectively.

This vehement defensiveness has been accompanied by continual attacks on opponents and even colleagues who question any of his methods; such people, including prominent people who are actually warmists of a sort such as Judith Curry and Craig Loehle, have earned epithets like» #AntiScience» and of course the dread word «denier».

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In the short - but - punchy talk that was recently recommended on both the blogs of both top VC Brad Feld and prominent angel investor Joanne Wilson, Forman offers a handful of tips to companies that want to both make themselves appealing to that vast pool of talent that actually wants a life outside work, and get up to date on cutting - edge people management practices, including:

«It was a private offering that only went to about 20 people, including your colleague Chris Collins, his chief of staff [and] a prominent D.C. lobbyist,» Franken said, according to Politico.

Monumental's investors include some of the most prominent business people in the Washington area: Fernandez heads his private investment company Fernandez Group, philanthropist and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, investor Fredrick Schaufeld, real estate scion Mark Lerner, whose family also owns baseball's Washington Nationals, investor and philanthropist Earl Stafford, Capital One founder Richard Fairbank and real estate investor Michelle DiFebo Freeman.

These two persons are prominent in the book of Esther, included in the Old Testament because it gave instructions for Purim and described the event which was commemorated.

Some benefits of meditation that are less observable for most people include: falling asleep more easily, more ease in fighting addictions, altered states of mind (which are most prominent in people who have spent over 1,000 hours meditating such as Buddhist monks).

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

People on the list, which includes prominent Central New Yorkers, are not accused of wrongdoing and might not even testify.

Asked if these people included Mayor Bloomberg, Mr. Linares repeated that they included «very prominent New Yorkers.»

A better practice usually is to include a prominent heading and message bullets, often alongside a smaller frame containing the video, so that people can walk away with SOME part of your message even if they don't stick around.

The feud could have passed as child's play and considered as such had it not been involved with not just any ordinary person than a prominent legislator who among other things serves as the mouthpiece of a whole constituency including women.

After being nominated by a host of prominent speakers, including former President Bill Clinton (via video) and Mayor Bill de Blasio (in person), Mr. Cuomo underscored the liberal achievements of his administration, including legalizing same - sex marriage and passing strict gun control measures, apparently pushing back on left - leaning Democrats who have questioned his progressive credentials.

Other prominent members of the 25 - person panel include former Manhattan US Attorney Benito Romano, Bronx DA Robert Johnson, Franklyn County DA Derek Champagne, Rockland County DA Thomas Zugibe and Onondaga County Executive Joanne Mahoney.

However, prominent MPs — including Jacqui Smith and Bill Rammell — said that Brown was the right person to lead Britain through its economic crisis.

The statement said: «These are people who have spent months and days in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State and the dungeon of the Department of State Services for attempt to blackmail and extort money from eminent Nigerians, including prominent businessman, Femi Otedola; and a former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu.

For such people, the prominent places where they choose to catch their fun at night include bars and strip clubs.

The outcry from British politicians came after the Foreign Office initially described the announcement of the execution of 47 people, including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al - Nimr, as disappointing.

Excess human growth hormone does have well - known side effects including acromegaly, in which people develop a prominent jaw and enlarged hands and feet.

When his turn to question Holdren arrived, Rohrabacher began by requesting permission to submit the names of 100 climate scientists who disagree with the consensus on global warming, including people Rohrabacher described as prominent academics.

The film does at least feature people of color in prominent roles, including Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Benedict Wong, but this may be cold comfort considering the erasure of the central protagonist's ethnicity.

In addition to the usual dorm counselors that can help students adjust to college life, Stanford University has created the Resilience Project, where prominent people, including former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, tell their stories of failure.

It was disclosed this week that when Arne Duncan was superintendent of Chicago schools, he kept a list of people — including some prominent ones — who asked for help in getting certain children into the city's best public schools.

A prominent figure in the Brooklyn art scene since for nearly two decades, Mr. Andrew was included in Brooklyn Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture (2014).

«I think there is a particular moment now, where a whole lot of people, including prominent galleries, are wiling to do things that three or four years ago they would not have done.

More recent clearances have been government projects where there have generally been lengthy periods of notice for people to move out, including the demolition in April of Hei Qiao (Black Bridge), a village in which many prominent artists such as Zhao Gang, Sun Xun, and Liang Yuanwei had their studios.

Frequently changing exhibitions include one - person shows by Guild Artists, national and regional juried competitions, and curated shows including prominent artists such as Christo and Jean Claude, Faith Ringgold, Robert Gober, Kiki Smith, and Jasper Johns.

Her work has been included in many prominent exhibitions including Voice, which was curated by Kara Walker, and a recent one - person exhibition at the University of Arkansas.

He proceeded in giving back generously to Canadian people by helping to establish several prominent institutions in Alberta including the Glenbow Museum, the Calgary Zoo and the Banff Centre for the Arts.

More than 800 people, including prominent artists and cultural figures — Kevin Beasley, Hannah Black, Heather Hart, Juliana Huxtable, Thomas J. Lax, Glenn Ligon, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, and Sarah Workneh, among them — have signed a petition expressing their support for the parole of Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panthers.

Jonathan Monk has participated in numerous recent group exhibitions at prominent institutions including: Power to the People: Contemporary conceptualism and the object in art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2011); Exhibition, Exhibition, curated by Adam Carr, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Piazza, Turin, Italy (2010); Pictures about Pictures.

Silvermine's exhibitions include one - person shows, national and regional juried competitions and curated shows, which have included prominent artists such as Christo and Jeanne Claude, Faith Ringgold, Brent Green, Robert Gober, Julie Heffernan, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Kiki Smith and Jasper Johns.

The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.

A number of reports from prominent non-governmental organizations, including World Resources Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research, have found that forest communities and indigenous forest people are good at protecting the forests they live in, provided they are given the collective right to do so.

The crowd of more than 60 people who gathered for the talk included prominent business people from the Butterfield Fulcrum Group, Flagstone, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Halifax Finance, The Greater Halifax Partnership, Eastlink, Aliant, Armour Group, McInnes Cooper and Nicom IT Solutions, among many others.

«In 1927 Emily Murphy and four other prominent Canadian women — Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards — asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, «Does the word person in Section 24 of the B.N.A. Act include female persons?»

Rounding out the top 10 mentioned activities (and scoring less than 5 out of 10 in effectiveness) include: speaking at a prominent event, being featured in a media article, advertising, and a casual in - person meeting.

The biz today scrambled to update its website to include prominent instructions on how to uninstall its code, as more and more people complained on torrenting forums about the slightly hidden software.

Many people, including some of my prominent psychiatric colleagues, think it should include a mandatory mental fitness...

Held on Friday, June 16, 2017, the meetup proved to be popular among Bitcoin enthusiasts, with over 130 people in attendance, including many prominent OTC traders, mining factory owners, exchanges, Chinese Bitcoin companies, and Bitcoin application developers.

He further explained how some prominent people in the bitcoin space decided to «kill» the Bitcoin XT proposal, which included deleting posts with the words Bitcoin XT from discussion forums, expulsion of a «massive» number of users from these forums and most importantly, Coinbase — the largest and best known Bitcoin startup in the USA — was temporarily erased from the official Bitcoin website for picking the «wrong» side.

She has profiled chefs including Heston Blumenthal, Marco Pierre White, Ben Shewry, George Calombaris and Shannon Bennett, as well as other prominent people including Julia Gillard.