Sentences with phrase «major public figure»

«Marina Abramovic is a major public figure, but other than that, she is not special.

Cody, having played in only one game last season, wasn't too major a public figure, and maybe that's why law enforcement and prosecutors think they can get away with providing virtually no information about what transpired.

If you aren't a major public figure, it's unrealistic to think you can publish your book and the world will just stumble upon it.

Any free thinking person should know that the best way to a pay day is to accuse a major public figure of wrong doing of any kind publicly.

A lot of blockchain companies or specific crypto coins have set up Telegram groups which heavily link to their Instagram pages, which they have used to generate viral content or endorsements from major public figures, celebrities or crypto - currency influencers.

In the six years covered by his collection, he wrestled with two major public figures — former President Goodluck Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, I feel sick to my stomach to find out that yet more highly esteemed Christian public figures have major skeletons in their closets.

Our earliest copies of those documents are more plentiful and closer to the time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).

Moreover, Muslim influence in Nigerian public life is far disproportionate to the numbers: almost every major figure in the current military government, including the president and all but one cabinet member, is Muslim.

The public, then, has a difficult time evaluating a major publication such as U. S. News & World Report (December 22, 1997) when it makes the announcement — for which no source is given — that charitable activity was «up 9.5 percent in two years,» a figure that corresponds to AAFRC figures for that time period.

The subject was almost certainly a public figure; the major elements of the biography will thus address public actions; but it would have been that private world of friends and family which occupied....

This has been the backbone of our betting against the public philosophy, as these figures have allowed us to determine which teams are being hammered by the majority of public bettors, and identify the optimal threshold for fading the public across all six major US sports.

Since a slew of major political scandals have erupted in New York and Albany is the seat of state government, I figured a workshop on public corruption would be on the bill.

For the first time, major party lists were filled with easy to control party functionaries and public servants, instead of the usual business figures.

«It is therefore necessary that as the major opposition party, the PDP under my leadership takes up this challenge in order to put the records straight and put some facts and figures in the public domain for the sake of prosperity», Adagunodo said.

Senior Tory party figures launched a major damage limitation exercise late on Wednesday night when it became clear that the documents had been leaked to the BBC hours before they were due to be released publicly by the Commons public administration select committee.

Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.

Based on J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski, the movie sticks to the formula of Strong's other scripts, focusing on major moments in the life of a public figure rather than concentrating on any one period in history.

I have focused here on John's professional life because he was a public figure and a major force in American education reform.

The public school revenue figure he used is accurate, and it has the virtue of being comprehensive in pulling in the three major funding sources.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

The numbers, distributed at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure in North Carolina's school choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special education classes than do traditional public schools.

Before he dies, Alice Schroeder needs to perform the ultimate public service — lock herself in a room with Buffett, and only come out when she's fully documented the real nuts & bolts, facts & figures, and dollars & cents of his major stock picking successes!]

With more than 1500 square meters of public space, the Gallery organises temporary exhibitions by major international figures and previously unseen projects by up and coming and local artists.

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts brings back the Mitchell Artist Lecture, a landmark public program that annually features major figures in the world of artistic collaboration.

After the 1995 public debut of its International Artist - In - Residence (IAIR) program, Artpace quickly earned an international reputation for commissioning new artwork from artists who went on to become major figures in contemporary art, including Nancy Rubins, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Cornelia Parker, Isaac Julien, Teresita Fernandez, Christian Marclay, Arturo Herrera, Trevor Paglen, Rachel MacLean, Mark Bradford, and others.

Phyllida Barlow is a central figure in the development of Contemporary British Sculpture; she has not only had major exhibitions throughout the UK but through her extensive teaching career, at Slade School of Fine Art, has guided and influenced many younger artists yet, until now, none of her work has been acquired for public collections in this country.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

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.

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Open to the public, we regularly mount exhibitions of work by major figures in northwest art, drawn from our rich and extensive holdings of art works.

Known for his large - scale sculpture, furniture, and installations carved out of cypress and redwood, Blunk remains a greatly underappreciated figure despite his presence in major public and private collections.

Iconic works by major 20th century figures, such as Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys and Mark Rothko, will join artists introduced to the public by Tate Modern, including Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916, Lebanon), Meschac Gaba (b. 1961, Benin) and Cildo Meireles (b. 1948, Brazil).

In our own artistic climate, we can see these values in the application criteria for major portrait prizes where the subject has to be a notable public figure (celebrity) or a personal relation of justifiable importance.

27 Oct 1997 Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art The first major exhibition in Ireland of the work of Andy Warhol, one of the defining figures of 20th - century art, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 20 November.

Tracing projects generated by the Trust — realised and unrealised — the material gives a unique insight into the evolution of public art and charts a major shift from permanent bronze and stone figures to temporary interventions, installations and projections.

Among these are Negev at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987; Space of Dragon, Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea, 1985; Becalmed Beings, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 1993; Space of Unknown Growth, Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1997 - 98; Unrecognized, Citadel Park, Poznan, Poland, 2002; Space of Stone, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2003; and her last major public work, Agora, a sculptural group comprised of 106 unique cast - iron figures measuring over nine - feet tall permanently installed in Chicago's Grant Park in 2006.

About VAS The Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VAS) provides a public forum for engagement and dialogue with major figures in international contemporary art and culture.

These include the major public installation «Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads» which opened in New York on 2 May and will open at Somerset House in London on 12 May, the day of the fountain event, Lisson Gallery hope to open of one of the most significant living artists, cultural figures, and champions of human rights in China's solo exhibition.

But despite the onslaught from the influential denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

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.

At a time when the government trying to push through major changes to the funding of claims by people injured through no fault of their own — which will impoverish the public purse and boost the already bloated profits of insurers — it confirms what we have said all along: the government has no real grasp of the figures or data.

Say someone does this who isn't a mega public figure or person facing major threats for their safety — would the service still be provided legally, assuming they are paid?

Given the almost universal public denunciation and disapproval of infidelity (which doesn't exclude the barely hidden schadenfreude at the deliciously scandalous goings - on of celebrities, famous preachers, major political figures, sports heroes, or even your office coworker caught in flagrante), you'd think that infidelity must be quite rare.