Sentences with phrase «major supporters at»

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Major colleges are up in arms over the reversal of an obscure rule that allows their alumni and supporters to make tax - deductible contributions to their teams, in return for priority seats at football and basketball games.

I was at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia last week, and it was very clear from my conversations with former DNC chairs, U.S. politicians, Bernie Sanders supporters, business executives, and even celebrities and athletes: a Clinton presidency will be viewed as positive for Canada-U.S. bilateral relations and a major step in the right direction for trade with Canada.

I should probably note at this point that I have been a staunch (and somewhat lonely) supporter of comments and the value of reader engagement since the days when I was the «communities editor,» or social media editor, at a major national daily newspaper in Canada in 2008, when anti-comment opinions and emotions in the newsroom were just as heated as they are today.

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, a cohost of a popular television movie review program, emerged as a major supporter of Kids after interviewing director Larry Clark at Cannes.

Harry Kane scored the only goal of the game early in the second half to secure all three points for Spurs at Wembley, and naturally it would have been a major disappointment for Arsenal supporters to lose against their bitter rivals.

Disillusioned Arsenal supporters want to see major changes at the club this summer with the Frenchman set to remain, and that includes somewhat of a squad overhaul.

... he is facking stubborn and i'm really mad by those supporters in London... you need to make a major riot at the end of this season!

Given the talismanic forward's troubled demeanour in recent weeks, this will be a major concern for Arsenal supporters as his contract expires next summer and so the race is on to get him to commit or risk losing him to Atleti at the end of the season with Manchester United linked with a move for their French forward.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

In turn, Man Utd are seemingly looking in the right places even though it will be a major setback for Jose Mourinho and supporters to see De Gea leave, but if he's keen on a return to Spain, then surely they're better off bringing in a replacement who wants to be at Old Trafford for the long run.

All in all, it doesn't look as though Henry will return while Wenger is still at the helm, which will come as a major disappointment to supporters who have also seen another club legend in Patrick Vieira seemingly forced to go elsewhere to continue his coaching journey.

At the other end of the spectrum, both football and class, we find the stereotypical ideal of the officer and the gentleman — a cross between Bertie Mee, Alf Ramsey and «the can't think of his name England» supporter who always dressed in St. George colours and a stupid big hat, and could be found at all major international sporting events 40 years ago, symbolising the Corinthian spirit of the true football supporteAt the other end of the spectrum, both football and class, we find the stereotypical ideal of the officer and the gentleman — a cross between Bertie Mee, Alf Ramsey and «the can't think of his name England» supporter who always dressed in St. George colours and a stupid big hat, and could be found at all major international sporting events 40 years ago, symbolising the Corinthian spirit of the true football supporteat all major international sporting events 40 years ago, symbolising the Corinthian spirit of the true football supporter.

Our friends at No Kid Hungry are major school breakfast supporters, so we loved their #PoweredByBreakfast hashtag during National School Breakfast Week.

Supporters of the two main political parties, incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the major opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), were involved in another violent attack at Wulensi in the Northern Region on Thursday evening.

President Obama's recent signing of the FAA Reauthorization Bill — over the protests of at least 19 major trade unions including the UAW, Steelworkers, Transportation Communications Union (IAM) and Teamsters — shows once again the current administration's true nature, say supporters of Jill Stein's Green Party presidential campaign.

New York hedge - fund billionaire Republicans Paul Singer, a major Romney supporter in 2012, and Daniel Loeb are funding a new Human Rights Campaign initiative to further LGBT rights internationally, reports NYT columnist Frank Bruni, who spoke with Singer at his offices in midtown Manhattan.

The Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a race - conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.

At noon, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will rally supporters of his re-election campaign at a «major event» in BuffalAt noon, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will rally supporters of his re-election campaign at a «major event» in Buffalat a «major event» in Buffalo.

In possibly the quote of the decade, John Major's press secretary, Tim Collins, described John Redwood's supporters in the 1995 Tory leadership contest as the «swivel - eyed barmy army, from ward eight at Broadmoor.»

However, the ousted National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and his major supporters were absent at the meeting, although the Caretaker Committee said they were invited.

Election Day is Tuesday and the two major party candidates for governor held get out the vote rallies across the state over the weekend, as the contest comes down to whether supporters will turn out at the polls.

Two supporters — Louis Miller, chief of Malaria Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleague Xinzhuan Su, also at NIH — described Tu's contributions in a 16 September Cell article, writing that they have «no doubt that the major credit must go to Youyou.»

Upton lamented «a major gap between the science of cures and the way we regulate these therapies,» and DeGette, an outspoken supporter of human embryonic stem cell research, vowed to «take a comprehensive look» at how Congress might intervene.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

K12 was a major supporter of the effort, donating at least $ 300,000 in 2012 to «Families for Better Public Schools,» a Georgia political action committee behind a constitutional amendment that would further the charter school industry by bypassing the legislature and state board of education to create a new, politically appointed commission that would have the authority to independently override state and local control and approve new charter schools and online virtual schools.

Thomson Sport, the UK's leading Sports Tour Operator as voted at the British Travel Awards 2009, is today pleased to announce a major new three - year commercial partnership with Arsenal Football Club, under the terms of which it becomes Arsenal's exclusive Official UK Travel Agency Partner, Official Team Travel Supplier and Official Supporters» Travel Supplier.

He was a supporter of Picasso throughout his life, writing Picasso: His Life and Work in 1958 and curating two major solo shows of his work at the Tate.

On the eve of the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's «Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules» retrospective, supporters gathered at the museum to pay homage to the art, to the artist and to the woman instrumental in bringing some of the major works to the museum, which owns about 90 Rauschenbergs.

This session looks at raising funds from individual supporters at every level, from members to major donors.

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This distinction and this dualism are significant in terms of the history of the Whitney's collecting practices, as the museum was an early, major supporter of Abstract Expressionism, and sought to provide a more diversified and complex picture of what was happening in New York at the time.

Most recently in Austin, Deal Booth was a major supporter of Ellsworth Kelly's «Austin» at the Blanton Museum of Art.

It is heartening all the same that Katter appears to be getting better informed — rather than cede that responsibility, as Labor and LNP do, to a party machine that puts obligations to allied organisations, major supporters and backers ahead of an MP's direct obligations to the community at large.

If American environmental groups want to reduce pollution, stave off the worst impacts of climate change, and preserve wild lands, they ought to do something that many of their staffers and major supporters will find hard at a time when groups like the NRA are under attack: embrace gun culture.

Back in 2012, I was on a panel at SXSW with then - Obama digital director Teddy Goff, where I criticized how both major campaigns were digging deeply into their supporters» social network profile information, a process I called «Facebookization.