Sentences with phrase «major national figure»

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Bank loans come in all shapes and sizes, from microloans of a few hundred dollars, typically offered by local community banks, to six - figure loans by major national banks.

After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:

«18 It is partly in response to that void of an Italian Reformation that we may understand Gramsci's fascination, and not Gramsci's alone but that of almost every major modern Italian intellectual with Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian contemporary of Luther and Calvin.19 Gramsci treats Machiavelli as a Reformer in secular guise, a «precocious Jacobin,» with a vision of a people armed, a national Italy, and Gramsci used the figure of Machiavelli's Prince to express the unifying and leading function of the modern Communist party.

The AEG owned and operated arena continues to distinguish itself as the host of major, high - profile events of national and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awardnational and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY AwardNational Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awards shows.

He was also a central figure for the Dutch national side, helping them reach the semi-finals of three major tournaments over the course of his 67 caps.

The 80 - year - old Democrat, however, seems all but assured of victory Tuesday in his bid for a 21st term representing the Harlem - based 15th District where he grew up and emerged as a major figure in state and national politics.

With figures suggesting that almost 20 % of children of school age in the UK are bilingual, its findings could have major implications for young people's personal and professional prospects, as well as national health and education systems.

But it also changed figure skating in myriad ways, from the level of security skaters now enjoy at major events like the national championships («Where were her coaches?»

Today, NCATE has 33 member organizations, including the two national teachers unions; the major subject - based associations in English, math, social studies, and science; and policy and administrator groups (see Figure 1).

Influenced by E. D. Hirsch, he supported a national curriculum and serious and high - stakes national tests and was a major figure in the painful evolution of this effort.

I also had a paranoid sense of shadowy, Olympian forces weighing in from farther above; I've been told that the most powerful figures in the current literary world, the buyers for the major national bookstore chains, have been known to offer to increase their orders for a book if its cover is changed.»

Major League Gaming and the National Basketball Association both have a white figure (a gaming controller and a basketball player), against a dual colored background.

In the dead center of NEXT «s layout at Merchandise Mart this weekend, in what would otherwise be prime real estate for galleries willing to shell out big bucks for sprawling, centrally - located booths, is instead the Art Chicago NEXT Talk Shop, the site of CONVERGE Chicago: Contemporary Curators Forum, a 4 - day series of public panels and talks with major national and international figures from the art world.

A lone figure walking beside an indigo swimming pool; a boat passing before the entrance of a cave as a great black bird swoops by; a girl dressed in white, clambering high in the branches of a vast tree on a starlit night: these are some of the strange and poetic recent subjects of the painter Peter Doig, the subject of a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer.

The «Cult of the Artist» is the major theme of the current exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin): the artist as the core mythical figure of the Western world.

These figures look even worse when compared with those of other major London museums: over 6.5 million visitors each for the British Museum and the National Gallery last year, 5.7 million for Tate Modern, 3.3 million for the V&A and 2.1 million for the National Portrait Gallery.

A pioneer in the revival of lithography during the early 1960s and a relentless explorer of the possibilities of paint, June Wayne has been a major national and international figure in the...

As a major retrospective of their work continues at Edinburgh's National Gallery of Modern Art, WILLIAM COOK charts the spectacular rise and fall of these enigmatic figures.

This wide - ranging collection of objects dates from the colonial era to the late 1920s and encompasses the major genres of American art — from the founding tradition of portraiture and the first «national» style of landscape painting to a diversity of still life and figure painting.

The man is no less than a major figure from one of the most well recognized environmentalist organizations there is, having been featured on a national TV news discussion, and for the continuation of his research work he can only dredge up 22 followers as of today?

Among major media figures in Canada, few people can claim as much credit as the National Post's Terrance Corcoran in the prolonged and woefully effective campaign to mislead the Canadian public on the science and policies regarding climate change.

According to the National Association for Law Placement, a trade group that provides career counselling to lawyers and law students, only about 17 percent of the partners at major law firms nationwide [US] were women in 2005, a figure that has risen only slightly since 1995, when about 13 percent of partners were women.

Home prices rose in 83 % of the nation's 178 major real - estate markets in the second quarter, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors.