Sentences with phrase «national figures such»

Artists of note include international and national figures such as Christian Anderson, Cristóbal León, and Frank Ammerlaam.

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.

Not exact matches

Actual machine guns rarely figure in criminal acts, in part because buying one is such a burdensome, expensive and paperwork - heavy process.The National Firearms Act of 1934 slapped a $ 200 transfer tax on them, the equivalent of $ 3,773 in 2018 dollars.

«disposable personal income», as reported by the BEA, is a total national figure for personal income after taxes, so comparing how individuals might spend that income in different parts of the country is not even considered by this report... the phrase may be poorly chosen, as might the phrase «personal income» itself, which includes not just wages and salaries, but also passive income from dividends, interest and rent, proprietor's income, and transfer payments such as social security... take all those forms of payments going to individuals, subtract out what's paid nationally in personal income taxes, and you have a national figure for «disposable personal income»

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

Such a small figure would represent something of a coup for a player who has amassed 57 caps for his national side.

I wondered, too, how the team was going to handle Malcolm and Chris becoming such national figures in such a hot, divisive topic.

Nash's plight has definitely gone viral, with such national figures as UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and Curtis Strange weighing in.

She has represented USA in several international events such as Nationals in 2016 (Bronze in solo, Gold in Team and Combo); the UANA Pan American Championships in 2011 (Gold in Team), 2013 (Gold in Team), 2014 (Gold in Duet and Team); the Mediterranean Cup in 2014 (Bronze in Combo, 4th in Team and 5th in Duet); and the China Open in 2015 (Gold in Figures, Team, and Combo).

The incidence of home birth reached a national all time low in 1987 (0.9 % of all deliveries), though it has doubled since then.5 Such low figures are, however, a recent phenomenon: 30 years ago a third of all births occurred at home.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Gardiner has been a supporter of China in his shadow portfolios, in particular surrounding the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, opposing inner - party disputes over criticism of Chinese involvement in the project, despite military and intelligence figures warning ministers that such involvement posed a threat to national security.

Crucial matters of national importance, like aviation or press freedom, are shipped out to supposedly independent figures for extended periods of rumination, while barely - there controversies, such as GCSE marking, are quickly dropped by MPs once an independent investigation has been ruled out.

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.

So far, only a few Labour figures have called for such national conversation.

Meet BP Republicans, a mid-term microsite just launched by the Democratic National Committee, with email, Facebook, and Twitter integration and featuring such Republican figures as Reps. Joe Barton (TX), Michelle Bachmann (MN), and Steve King (IA); and Senate candidates Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sharron Angle of Nevada.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

To win, Pryor must distance himself from national Democratic figures such as Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — both highly unpopular in the state.

The proportion - which is expected to reach 20 percent when 2009's figures are tallied - marks a five - point increase from 2007 and «indicates such incredible success,» said Sam Rashkin, national director of the program's section for homes.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, 10 per cent of children in Great Britain aged between 5 and 16 have a mental health problem, with 4 per cent of children suffering from an emotional disorder such as depression.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with far scarier convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national discourse has swung into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).

You'll find information on a variety of topics, including the history of the war, the Korean national flag, and such historical figures as Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

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.

The figures show 234,160 National 5 passes and 114,635 National 4 passes, as well as more than 43,000 National Certificates, Awards and National Progression Awards in courses such as early education, childcare and computer games development.

The ability of such figures to capture the attention of the nation was dramatically demonstrated, it is said, by the rapid spread of the recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and those included in other reform statements.

In addition, Robert capitalized on his ties to such national figures in the voucher movement as Wal - Mart heir John Walton and his American Education Reform Council; Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee superintendent who now heads the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and the Institute for Justice, the voucher movement's legal brain trust.

Such a high figure probably would not stand out in parts of the developing world, but it contrasts sharply with the 3 percent national rate of absence for full - time wage and salaried American workers, and the 5.3 percent rate of absence for American teachers overall.

Macro economic variables (such as inflation or national GDP) do not figure in the analysis, neither does market timing.

Pietrobono and fellow Occupy member Noah Fischer contend that art has been completely taken over by monetary interests: corporations that engage in «brandwashing» (supporting the arts as a PR play), controversial figures like David Koch using art philanthropy as a way of deflecting from his politics, and unsavory practices such as free ports (storage areas outside national jurisdictions that make it possible to buy and sell art without being taxed).

As a figure of outstanding significance in contemporary art, her stature has been recognized by such awards as the American National Medal of the Arts (1991), the French Grand Prix National de Sculpture (1991) and the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Prize (1999), among others.

His exhibition Weaving Magic at the National Gallery gives some clues as to why he — and other figures such as Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn and Craigie Horsfield — find it appealing.

Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean - Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban» Palma de Plata» in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.

Sculptor Manuel Neri's work often depicted figures such as this woman in Untitled («Seated Woman»), 1979; collection of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of the Collectors Gallery and National Endowment for the Arts.

Costs were sourced, where possible, from those responsible for managing source sites such as protected area authorities, supplemented by published national government figures.

Nevertheless, President Obama and the new Congress, beginning January 21, need to figure out a way to put funding for climate change, being cast as a national priority, on an even keel with funding for other national priorities such as health care and economic recovery.

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As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

There was a negative relationship between the national prevalence of the G allele and depression (Figure 3) such that countries with a higher prevalence of the G allele in the population had lower levels of depression.

Of course, there is no such thing as a «national» real estate market and using national price averages to figure out local price trends makes about as much sense as using a national weather forecast to make plans for a picnic in the park.