Sentences with phrase «national figure»

He has devoted his career and life to the welfare of animals and is a leading national figure in animal welfare causes.

The last two attorneys general have become national figures by using the office in aggressive and sometimes creative ways.

This state has an average vehicle theft rate that's on par with national figures, although it has been steadily decreasing over the past few years.

So the question is whether we can imagine leading national figures embracing national standards.

You can't apply national figures to individual constituency contests and get the right answers.

For one thing, he's not a well - known national figure.

She became a noted national figure in the field.

They say analysis of the 30 data points is more informative about likely future emissions than national figures in wider use because it allows errors to be tracked more closely.

It was the place in town to see emerging national figures of the generation that came to be called, variously, «Neo-Geo» and «The Pictures Generation» — Jim Isermann, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Jim Shaw, and Charles Ray, among others.

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The Brown sisters, who are still performing with their siblings as The 5 Browns, join a growing chorus of other national figures who have joined the fight to enact the Child Victims Act in recent months.

That's why an equally impressive array of national figures such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, and local organizations such as the East End's premier Tea Party group, the Suffolk County 9 - 12 Project, have wholeheartedly rejected your candidate and endorsed my candidacy.

Labour's campaign was supported by visits from national figures such as Arthur Henderson, and a host of Labour MPs from south Wales such as David Watts Morgan, Tom Griffiths, David Grenfell and T. I. Mardy Jones, as well as prominent Welsh nationalist figures such as future Liberal MP William John Gruffydd and Principal Thomas Rees.

This biopic recounts the real - life scandal that engulfed the American National Figure Skating Championships in 1994, when champion skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) was found guilty of ending the career of her rival Nancy Kerrigan.

She says they are especially lucky being able to tap national figures at iconic institutions like the Smithsonian and the National Archives.

Giffords has never had to run in a year like 2010 though and she will have to find ways to distance herself from national figures like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) who is something short of popular in the district.

New Yorkers love to assume that their politicians are national figures by default, even as one by one they flame out on the big stage.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

The effort was organized in part by the law's authors and has drawn support from political outsiders and extreme national figures including Newt Gringrich.

Consequently the proportion of disadvantaged KS2 pupils attaining the expected standard in reading was above national figures.

Collect local data on recent animal adoption and purchase behavior, and benchmark the results against national figures.

As a minister and community activist, Rev Yearwood is one of the most prominent national figures working to involve communities of color in climate activism and green economy solutions.

Oberholzer continued to warn that although national figures indicate there are enough primary teachers this year, they often hide local shortages, in areas such as Oxforshire and Buckinghamshire where she is based.

Since that first starburst statistic, ABC's Sunday game ratings and share have fallen steadily, dropping to 7.4 / 21 the second Sunday and to 5.0 / 14 on May 1 and a horrendous 4.2 / 12 on May 8, the most recent date for which national figures are available.

CAFE is led by popular national figure Preet Bharara, host of the chart topping podcast «Stay Tuned.»

National figures show that far more people are dying of synthetic opiate overdoses than are dying from overdoses related to heroin, cocaine or meth.

So, I was already across what kind of data were available in the supply and demand area and I wasn't aware of any figures that were publicly available — certainly not national figures.

But even if the opinion polls had been broadly right, any attempt to extrapolate national figures to a nation of 60 million people taking part in 650 different elections, was a task with such a high margin of error as to make it basically meaningless.

But National Grammar Schools Association chairman Robert McCartney said the fact that three - quarters of England had no grammar school meant that it was not fair to compare national figures on pupils on free school meals.

But for those in LA, these debates involving national figures may ultimately be less helpful than a discussion about research that focuses specifically on the performance of existing charter schools in the city.

In addition to its lavish marble statuary, mausoleums and tombs, La Recoleta is renowned for the esteemed national figures that are interred here, notably Eva (Evita) Perón.

«The traditional burial of poets, statesmen and great national figures, and indeed kings and queens, has actually ceased... partly because you couldn't find any more room for the bodies,» Carpenter said.

In his native Italy, Antonio Rosmini is a celebrated national figure, recognised by secular as well as religious institutions as one of the truly notable thinkers of the 19th century.

The club said it pays permanent employees the Voluntary Living Wage, which is higher than the statutory national figure.

I was very disappointed by your coverage of Michelle Kwan's eighth national figure skating championship (Scorecard, Jan. 19).

On January 10, 2012, an important national figure, Mr. Arafat, resigned, as a result of his discontent over proposed reforms to the emergency medical system under a new health law and of criticisms from Romanian President Traian Basescu.

The NYT determines there is «near - universal agreement,» that though de Blasio is «on more of a glide path to re-election in New York City than any mayor in a generation, he is still struggling to project his political voice in a job that has long produced towering national figures.»

There was never a better chance than in 1981 when four substantial national figures launched a left - of - centre party built on principles of social justice and internationalism in a yawning political vacuum, with Labour and Tories at their most extreme.

City taxpayers will foot the bill for the mayor's aide and NYPD detail during his jaunt to Iowa, a presidential - candidate proving ground where de Blasio already embarrassed himself trying to be a relevant national figure during the 2016 race.

Lamont did not shine during the campaign and there have already been calls to replace her with a more significant national figure, perhaps even a current UK MP such as Jim Murphy or even Gordon Brown at some point.

Such an unequivocal statement is rare from high - profile national figures who often refuse to categorically rule out any possibility of a presidential run, no matter how small.

Both Malloy and Foley are bringing national figures to Connecticut to raise money and gain attention for their campaigns.

The polling by Lord Ashcroft found that despite the dreadful national figures, the party is actually running level with the Conservatives in most of the marginal seats that David Cameron needs to win a majority next year.

Whoever wins the Democratic primary — especially if it's Newsom or Villaraigosa — will instantly become a major national figure and player in national politics in 2012 and beyond.

In the myriad of CGI memories that are being publicly broadcast, the defining characteristic that made Tony Benn and Bob Crow national figures is all too often omitted: threat.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the presumptive GOP gubernatorial nominee and a rising national figure on the right, told an Iowa - based radio show Wednesday night that opponents of a federal mandate for contraception coverage should be willing to «go to jail» to fight the law.

The IDC - Republican power - sharing agreement again looked tenuous in November 2017, as more state and national figures began calling for the IDC members to rejoin the mainline Democrats.

Why should people join and work locally for the party if national figures constantly weigh in with comments that undermine progress at this critical time?