Sentences with phrase «most leading figures»

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Christine Todd Whitman is arguably the most prominent figure ever to lead the Environmental Protection Agency under a Republican president, and she has critical words for Donald Trump's potentially disastrous pick Scott Pruitt.

No, not the David Hogg, of Parkland, who has become one of the most recognizable figures of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student - led #NeverAgain movement.

Other industries might have very small costs of goods sold that produce high gross margins, but large operating expenses can eat up most or all of that gross profit and thereby lead to less attractive net income figures.

Instead, it reflects a tendency to respond to all economic data as if it is coincident (reflecting the current state of the economy) rather than carefully distinguishing leading data — primarily new orders and order backlogs, from coincident data — primarily income and production, from lagging data — employment figures, particularly payrolls and the unemployment rate, which are essentially the most lagging data series in economics.

And so, they were led to suppose that Heavenly bodies should express the perfection of their nature by moving in what they thought to be the most perfect of geometrical figures — the circle.

Last year Michael celebrated 10 years leading Wines of Chile UK and has been one of the most influential figures in Chilean wine and in the international wine community in recent years.

I want to do the lazy thing, where I look at the preseason predictions, look at the standings, and figure out which manager is leading the most surprising thing.

In turn, Spurs fans can rest easy moving forward and it looks as though it was a mere innocent crossing of paths rather than anything concerning which could lead to the Premier League outfit losing their most influential figure.

Probably the most memorable story leading up to the draft came from Rick Bonnell at the Charlotte Observer, talking about Rich Cho and the six - figure scouting service he built from scratch:

An association with the leading company in an industry — sales figures show that Gatorade is the most popular sports drink — should boost the reputation of the D - League.

In 2008, the most recent year for which figures are available, Texas led the nation in total athletic revenue, amassing a jaw dropping $ 138.4 million — almost $ 20 million more than second - place Ohio State.

He hopes to strengthen his squad in January, by when a promising run of fixtures could have led to them vastly improving their prospects, but acknowledges that even if they have, interest in his most influential figure is likely with so many rival clubs having so much money to spend.

Haidee Johnstone of Leading Lady, a company that specializes in lingerie for mothers - to - be, new moms, and full - figured women, says «Fit, support, and comfort are the three most important words when choosing a sports bra.»

One on one time with a father figure is when your son will pick up most of his unconscious tendencies, so make sure Dad is a good role model and leading by example every step of the way!

As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the US.

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

Most Egyptians thought that a deal had been done to keep him out of court, and so were all the more surprised to see the frail figure led into the courtroom cage lying in his hospital cot.

After years of Blair and Brown, most of the leading figures in the Labour Party who might be strong candidates — David Miliband being the most obvious example — are too Blairite / Brownite to appeal to an electorate that backed Corbyn in such overwhelming numbers.

The «no» camp had the bigger reason to cheer as the most up to date polling figures came out with an ICM survey for the Guardian giving them a 16 - point lead.

The Assembly has conferred on you a new Bureau, composed of some of the most redoubtable figures of contemporary African politics — their Excellencies Yoweri Museveni, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, King Mswati III, and Idriss Déby Itno — and a new Commission led by the accomplished Foreign Minister of Chad, with an equally accomplished Ghanaian diplomat as his Deputy and a new set of apparently solid Commissioners.

The awards ceremony, which was well attended by leading figures and awardees from most parts of Africa, including government officials and diplomats, is the sixth in the series, having been previously held in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

YNN's figures show Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat (29 - 29), but four districts are still in play and Republicans are leading most of them — making the GOP gitty there is a real chance they could take back control of the state Senate.

The two most senior figures in the Welsh Conservatives will return to the matter which has so divided them in recent months and led to the sacking of four Tory frontbenchers.

The effort is being led by state Democratic Party co-chair and close Gov. Cuomo ally Keith Wright, an assemblyman and Manhattan Democratic chairman who is being aided by some of the state's most prominent black political figures.

In his more than three decades leading the Buffalo Teachers Federation, Philip Rumore has become one of the most influential and controversial figures in the city's education landscape.

Silver's arrest came after he had led the Assembly for over 20 years, becoming one of the most powerful and savvy figures in New York state politics.

But it was Draper's suspension that most infuriated senior figures and led directly to the row.

As Iain Dale writes in a piece about compiling a list of the most 50 most powerful Lib Dems, some of the leading figures on the Lib Dem «left» seem increasingly marginalised.

There was some speculation that Jim Murphy, one of the most high profile Labour figures in the later stages of the campaign, would return from Westminster to lead in Holyrood.

The most popular figure and the one most had tipped to lead them to elections was Alhaji Imoro Egala.

Ms. Clinton enjoyed the backing of most leading Democratic Party figures in the state, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin, former Sen. Herb Kohl and former Gov. Jim Doyle.

But openDemocracy has now discovered that Cambridge Analytica's establishment links run even deeper, leading to one of the most senior figures in Northern Irish unionism — a PR man who has represented everyone from British Airways to Russian oligarchs — and raising questions once more about who gave the DUP a secretive # 435,000 donation for its Brexit campaign.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Starting with a random setting of its weights, the proverbial blank slate, the algorithm figured out which actions would lead the all - important score to increase — when exactly the paddle was most likely to successfully intercept the ball on the bottom to break a brick on its upward trajectory.

So break even analysis helps you figure out which price is most profitable, not which price leads to the most sales.

Kirshner, an expert on supernovas, has taught or collaborated with most of the leading figures in the revisionist cosmology.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Three years ago, PubPeer user had flagged some of the figures mentioned in the notice — noting that he was «led to this paper by a story on Retraction Watch» — most likely, a 2014 post that flagged an ongoing discussion about one of Sinnreich's papers on PubPeer.

Decreases in the attractiveness of faculty careers and concomitant increases in the attractiveness of nonacademic careers lead to even sharper shifts in the share of students finding a particular career most attractive compared to all other careers (the measure used in Figure 2).

Furthermore, according to the most recent U.S. Census figures, over 30 % of American households are led by single parents.

The coaching programs were created for you to put systems in place right away that will eventually lead you to getting all the dates you want with great guys in far less time then it will take most women out there, who are trying to figure out men and dating after 50 on their own.

Its sole joy is in trying to figure out which of its leads is overacting most.

Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era.

While not quite as transcendent as its first outing, Jessica Jones season 2 continues to prove that its lead character is one of the most complex and fascinating figures in the MCU, both on film and television.

I don't know how thin these characters are, as they are rich historical figures and are very often very well - portrayed, but there is something lacking about the expository aspects of Philip Dunne's, Gina Kaus» and Albert Maltz's script, which pays little mind to secondary characters, and isn't even all that layered with the leads, who, to a lesser extent, join most all other characters in supplementing a sense of melodrama.

He is one of Hollywood's most sought - after leading men and Chris Hemsworth cut a dapper figure as he attended the 2018 Critic's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday.

He kicked off the entire franchise all the way back in 2008 and has continued to be one of the most important figures in the series, with three standalone films, practically leading the Avengers in two battles to save the Earth, going up against Captain America for the Avengers very own civil war, and helping Peter Parker become Spider - Man.

If you were to conduct a straw poll asking people to name the 3 most exciting, unpredictable and watchable leading men working in movies today, it goes without saying that all three of these men would figure prominently on such a poll.

Filmmaker Tyler MacIntyre, working from a script written with Chris Lee Hill, delivers an admittedly spellbinding pre-credits sequence that's as creative as it is entertaining, and yet it's not long before the movie segues into a surprisingly tedious midsection rife with almost eye - rollingly conventional elements - with, ultimately, the most obvious example of this the two leads» relentlessly sarcastic, sardonic demeanor (ie both Sadie and McKayla come off as one - note, one - dimensional figures with few, if any, distinctive attributes).

She's perhaps the most indispensable figure of this new cast and I'd pay to see a movie she leads any day.