Sentences with phrase «more central figure»

Meanwhile, the Red Devils could make the Bundesliga ace a far more central figure, perhaps as the main man in their midfield.

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One of the more consistently confused figures has been Stephen Grenville, a former Australian central banker, who recently said:

Like central bankers elsewhere, Poloz is trying to figure out how to bring historically low interest rates to more normal levels without inadvertently triggering another downturn.

Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit - reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

In view of the central place of the emperor in the lives of the inhabitants of the empire, the figure of the Roman emperor must be given a far more significant place in any attempt to discern the nature of formative Christology than has hitherto been recognized.

Unless you think it makes more sense that a small group of people just decided one day to create a whole new breakaway faith from Judaism without a central figure to look upon.

The Jesus of the postpatriarchal church would more likely be the central figure in a community of Jewish women and men who participated in a new style of life together, one that profoundly threatened the established patriarchal powers of both Jews and Romans.

(24) Thirteen years later Barth stated his position even more radically: «At the risk of more headshaking and displeasure I will at any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.»

I do think with his skill he will figure out how to play well with him, but I don't think we will ever get his best with the way the team is currently set up unless we have a central striker who is more comfortable on the wings and willing to step out wide while Alexis roams around.

The powerful midfielder became more of a central figure for Juve this term, making 45 appearances across all competitions.

Coquelin has been a central figure to Arsenal's success over recent months, as he has been alert to a danger more often than not and decisive in his defensive actions.

The game will be in DeKalb, and BSU will have to figure out what the hell to do with Jordan Lynch, who rushed for a quarterback - record 316 yards in a 38 - 17 win over Central Michigan on Saturday; but NIU is still more vulnerable now than it was last year.

Fernando Llorente isn't known for his movement and acts as a more central target figure which no longer suits the way Spain play their football.

He's spent most of them figuring out how to get mass quantities of appealing food from a central kitchen to schools that are ill - equipped to do more than run the lunch line.

According to our calculations, which draw on data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other public sources, central governments hold significantly more commercial assets than private equity firms, hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, or the super-rich (see figure 1 below).

Despite the rich associations, the film finally makes little more of its central figure, a hideously deformed young man, than an object of pity.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Wymark as the inspector is the central character, who's the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes, trying to figure out the perpetrator of the violent crimes more by hit and miss and dumb luck than with logic and deduction.

More academically inclined readers might prefer a less character - driven approach, but on the whole, the book uses the central figures effectively to anchor broader stories.

No stranger to the SEMA Show, Jay Leno was in good company, as more than 100 celebrated sports figures, race - car drivers, custom - car builders and TV personalities were active at the Show, making the SEMA Show a version of «celebrity central» for the week.

A number of Samarkand's most important figures and dignitaries are buried within the necropolis» three structures but the central and inner-most tomb is saved for someone of even more importance to Samarkand than Tamerlane.

More important, Botticelli continued to make classical learning, Christian symbolism, drawing in perspective, figures on a powerful scale, and life drawing central to Renaissance ideals, like Piero della Francesca before him.

Homi Bhabha is a central figure in cultural studies and has been invited to to deliver lectures around the world at important institutions, including The University of London, England, whilst holding a more permanent position at the University of Chicago and Harvard University since 1997.

A retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York City frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, although he saw himself as more of an art director or producer.

Perez Villalta's work has been undergoing a shift of late: Though central to his practice until not long ago, the human figure — while still present — is now little more than a vague, ghostly suggestion; this shift was already becoming evident as early as three years ago, in his previous show at this gallery.

Might it not have received much more attention in Hong Kong, where a street in Central is named after Sir George and where the figure of a Chinese attendant could have caused much post-colonial mirth?

More importantly, this acquisition gives us the opportunity to preserve this unique material and make it available for research; providing our students and others with an opportunity to study and historicize two central and innovative figures of the New York art world.»

Seokmin Ko's new series of photographs Strip Show, of buildings and structures in rural and urban landscapes, brings to mind his previous series, The Square, of landscapes and cityscapes in which a mirror (held in the central part of the landscape photograph by a figure mostly hidden by the mirror) reflects back to the viewer more of the landscape — never the photographer.

By contrast, Pretty Raw positions Frankenthaler as central to an alternative account of second - generation artists figured as more «feminine,» not only for the contributions of Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, and other women, but also for the gay artists who presented a counterpoint to the previous generation's macho posturing.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order... [read more»]

Since no such effect has been observed or inferred in more than half a billion years of climate, since the concentration of CO2 in the Cambrian atmosphere approached 20 times today's concentration, with an inferred mean global surface temperature no more than 7 ° K higher than today's (Figure 7), and since a feedback - induced runaway greenhouse effect would occur even in today's climate where b > = 3.2 W m — 2 K — 1 but has not occurred, the IPCC's high - end estimates of the magnitude of individual temperature feedbacks are very likely to be excessive, implying that its central estimates are also likely to be excessive.

He gave more than $ 1 million to Cuomo's Democratic gubernatorial campaign and is widely believed to be a central figure in the Silver case.