Sentences with phrase «loose knit group»

Matt Pollard, Lead STEM Teacher at Paradise Creek Regional High School in Moscow and an enthusiastic advocate of the program expressed, «It's been fun to watch the growth of Science After Hours from a small loose knit group of friends and colleagues to a larger get - there - early - to - get - a-seat affair; its growth has been spectacular, warranting larger venues.

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In 1963 he resigned his professorship at Wisconsin and moved to LaJolla, California, where he was one of the founders of the Center for the Studies of the Person, a loose - knit training - research group of persons from various helping professions.

Consider this quote from Stuart Murray's The Naked Anabaptist: «The Anabaptist movement began as a loose - knit coalition of groups who were forming in various places across central Europe — the sixteenth century equivalent of the «emerging church.

America's Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, condemned the appointment, describing the alt - right movement supported by Breitbart News as «a loose - knit group of white nationalists, unabashed anti-Semites and racists».

A new book documents the overlooked contributions of a loose - knit, unconventional bunch of 1970s physicists called the Fundamental Fysiks Group

Wu You Zhi Xiang, a loose - knit group known in English as Utopia, is gathering signatures on an open letter denouncing genetically modified (GM) crops.

Some jurisdictions, notably Shanghai and Singapore15 have built pounds to hold strays, while in other locales, private citizens have formed humane societies and loose - knit groups of volunteers to care for rescued dogs.

By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly alongside Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, thus becoming part of a loose - knit group that art - writers, curators, and collectors would soon be calling the Neo-expressionist movement.

Rivers was a leading figure in the New York School, a loose - knit group of painters, writers, dancers, and musicians who formed the core of the East Coast avant - garde in the 1950s and «60s.

The 19th - century Hudson River School of landscape painting consisted of a loose - knit group of painters, inspired by Romanticism, who were based in New York City during the 1850s, and who came under the influence of the English - born artist Thomas Cole (1801 — 1848).

In fine art, the term «St Ives School» refers to a loose - knit group of artists (mainly exponents of abstract art) who flourished in the Cornish seaside town of St Ives, in England, from 1939 to the mid-1960s.

The most progressive loose - knit group of American painters were called the New York school since most of them worked in the city.

Best known for his Impressionist landscape painting, John H Twachtman was a member of «The Ten», a loose - knit group of American painters from Boston and New York, who were interested in Impressionism and who exhibited together 1898 - 1919 in opposition to the more conservative Society of American Artists.

The phrase «New York School» is an umbrella term usually applied to the loose - knit group of 20th - century painters based in New York City during the 1940s and 50s.

The term «Ashcan School» - first used in print in the book Art in America in Modern Times (1934) edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr - refers to a loose - knit group of American painters active in New York (c.1900 - 15), whose works depicted scenes of everyday urban life in the city's poorer areas.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.