Sentences with phrase «major establishment figures»

But, unlike Clinton who spent much of the «80s in the political minor leagues, doing favors for and building relationships with the major establishment figures within his party, Obama has, from the start, been a lone wolf — and proud of it.

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The Portuguese has long since defined himself and his teams against an adversity, whether it's an unappreciative or outwardly hostile establishment, a major rival such as Barcelona or figures on the inside to be used to create tension.

The Dictionary of British Sign Language / English, with its endorsement by no less an Establishment figure than the Princess of Wales, is a major step in this struggle.

But it turns out that I am woefully out of date: according to The Language Police, the sensitivity guidelines for one major publisher warn against paying too much attention to figures like Harriet Tubman (along with Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington Carver), because they are «acceptable to the European - American establishment.»

Included too, with their own photographic work, are such historical figures as archaeologist / writer / secret agent Gertrude Bell (1868 — 1926), who played a major role in the establishment of modern Iraq.