Sentences with phrase «many leading figures»

Spitzer was a leading figure in targeting Wall Street, insurance industry and other corporate abuses.

Rufian is a leading figure in Sumate, a movement of Spanish - speaking independence supporters whose motto is: «It's not about your origin, it's about your destiny.»

Hogan, one the wrestling world's lead figures in the 1980s and»90s, emphasized a distinction he drew between his true personality and the bombastic persona he used professionally with «artistic liberty.»

As part of the deal, Geometric CEO and founder Gary Marcus, a neural science professor at New York University and leading figure in A.I., became director of the A.I. Labs team at Uber based in San Francisco.

When visiting leading figures from Europe, there were discussions that the U.S. and Europe met eye - to - eye on, like fighting the so - called Islamic State, while other issues revealed divided opinion including Russia and climate change.

Historians believe that Talat Paşa was the leading figure in the Armenian genocide.

There's also a whole host of views from anchors Geoff Cutmore, Steve Sedgwick and Karen Tso, as well as leading figures from business and finance.

As hybrid publishing grows, many of its leading figures are starting to debate its downsides — and how to make books that are genuinely worth reading.

Milan is becoming a major cultural destination that could attract creative businesses away from London, according to leading figures in the city for its design week.

The installation is an introduction to blockchains as seen by the artist, 35 this year, and is centered on three views of the concept as represented by three of its leading figures: Blythe Masters, head of Digital Asset Holdings in New York; Balaji Srinivasan, head of 21.

He's a leading figure in the struggle to shore up a fragile world economy.

«Roberto is a leading figure in the European banking community with unique insights into market dynamics in Italy and across Europe.

As the President and CEO of WBCSD Peter Bakker is a leading figure in the corporate sustainability dialogue, bringing great experience and recognition to Global Opportunity Report.

Every month, The Property Chronicle features an in - depth interview with a leading figure in the industry.

Plaudits from foreign leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, as well as leading figures of the economic and diplomatic world, have helped to cement this image.

The Tezos Foundation shared that Ryan Jesperson, «who became a leading figure in the Tezos community in recent months» and previously served as COO of FinTech company Divvy, will replace Gevers as president.

Nabeel Rajab, a leading figure of pro-democracy rallies in 2011, had criticized prison abuses and the Yemen war.

A regular podcast involving leading figures in the industry that dissects the issues that matter, and sets the agenda for the week ahead.

Each episode of «Markets Now» will feature exclusive analysis from leading figures in investing and markets.

One of the church's leading figures in child protection said the findings of a new report which found... More

BioLogos has a helpful feature on their website that shows multiple constituencies with leading figures.

By all accounts — except, of course, the accounts of the leading figures themselves, and their devotees — such a catharsis and calling to account has been a long time coming.

Finally, at least regarding this personal attack, what you represent as blood lust and voyeuristic glee strikes me as something more akin to a mass catharsis regarding not just Tony Jones, but also several other leading figures in the Emergent movement.

A leading figure in the Faith Movement, Fr Dominic was a popular speaker at the Faith Summer and Winter conferences, the annual theology seminar, and the Faith Forum at Glasgow University and Evenings of Faith in London.

He was active in the National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP) and was a leading figure in the international council of Atlanta which played a significant part in keeping peace between the races.

His resignation from the Harvard philosophy department (and total retirement from university life) where he had graduated and taught from 1899 was the source of some distress to American philosophers who had regarded him as one of the leading figures in a distinctively American tradition,

Jamie Cutteridge caught up with Christian activist and leading figure in the New Monasticism movement Shane Claiborne to talk about American evangelicalism... More

Jamie Cutteridge caught up with Christian activist and leading figure in the New Monasticism movement Shane Claiborne to talk about American evangelicalism and Donald Trump

Nestorius became the leading figure in this controversy.

Sherwood Eddy, a leading figure in the YMCA, was so impressed with Niebuhr's speaking ability that he contributed money to hire an assistant at Bethel Church and thus free Niebuhr to be a roving ambassador to college campuses.

Karl Kautsky, one of the leading figures of the Second International, maintained that Christianity was originally a revolutionary organization.

Though it is not a Catholic institution, many of the leading figures at the centre, including Professor James Arthur, its director, are Catholics and much of its work fits in well with Catholic educational thinking.

The leading figures of liberal Catholicism were people deeply and permanently rooted in the Catholic tradition who were, nevertheless, also deeply at home in cultures shaped by the Enlightenment.

Francis Bacon was a leading figure who attempted to eliminate formal and final causes from modern empirical science.

St. John Paul II was fascinated by the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, astronomy) throughout his life; for decades, he hosted at Castel Gandolfo a bi-annual seminar of leading figures in those fields, so that he could keep abreast of developments in their disciplines.

Leading figures within the Catholic church will gather for the funeral of the former Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor on Wednesday morn...

Ishiguro, who after three novels has already been hailed as «one of the leading figures in the new generation of British novelists,» might seem an unlikely successor to Forster in the Merchant - Ivory corpus.

From «Legends of the Jews», which is a compilation of a vast amount of aggadah, i.e., exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash compiled by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1873 — 1953), who was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City for half a century until his death in 1953:

This theoretical turn was widely accepted by the leading figures of the mainline's teaching ministry — academics, denominational leaders and curriculum writers alike.

As we have suggested above, 20 leading figures in the business and economic world are warning of the danger of a moral vacuum.

In comments released as leading figures attend the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week, Dr Rowan Williams said there is «little or nothing» to suggest rising gross domestic product (GDP) eases poverty levels.

So the leading figures of the Renaissance commended the study of the classics as the means of nurturing our human potential.

His death and the scandal provoked by it, when he had become one of the leading figures of the Church, was a sort of posthumous vendetta, one of those favors that the gods bestow on those whom they love.

The leading figure of the present generation has been Al McFadyen (his major book is The Call to Personhood, and another is due soon on sin, with special reference to child abuse and to the Holocaust), and he has been joined by the ethicist Nigel Biggar.

I also want to ask for opinions about evangelicalism in the light of events with leading figures and something that has has also been written in the recent press.

Erasmus was in contact with the Elector at the time (as with so many of the leading figures in Europe), having dedicated a recent new edition of Suetonius» History to him.

G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81), a leading figure in the German Enlightenment, found the manuscript in the library at Wolfenbüttel, on his appointment there as librarian in 1770, and published parts of it as «Wolfenbüttel Fragments by an Unnamed Author» between 1774 and 1778.

[13] Charles Birch became one of the leading figures in framing and gui (ling the World Council of Churches Conference on Faith, Science and the Future that was held at MIT in 1979, which focused on the quest for a «just peace and sustainable» society — one now replaced by the title «justice, peace and the integrity of creation.»

The leading figure in this movement is Thomas Bray, who after his brief experience as Commissary in Maryland organized the Society for the Promoting of Christian Knowledge, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and a series of less conspicuous charitable enterprises.

Told through the experiences of several of the leading figures in Australia's Fair Food movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agriculture.