Sentences with phrase «national figures who»

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.

Berntsen is a national figure who's announcement wa covered on every channel.

Even George Lansbury (1932 - 5), the predecessor with whom Corbyn has most in common, was a national figure who'd held ministerial office.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a national figure who is often mentioned as a presidential candidate, will headline a fundraiser Friday night for the state Republican Party at private home in West Hartford.

Not exact matches

The Kremlin recruited «hundreds of agents» both in Russia and in the US who were either «consciously cooperating with the FSB or whose personal and professional IT systems had been compromised,» the dossier says, citing «a number of Russian figures with a detailed knowledge of national cyber crime.»

Large employers who combine the benefits under one insurer have begun to demand insurers hit a specific dollar figure of medical cost savings per member, per year, said David Dross, national pharmacy practice leader at Mercer, part of Marsh & McLennan.

«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

But she does not discourage a comparison of her plight to that of Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had to withdraw from a national championship in 1994 after being clubbed in the knee with a tire iron.

«The Apprentice» made Trump a national pop - culture figure way beyond New York tabloids and glossy magazines, but more importantly, it promoted a different view of Trump: a confident but measured businessman who knew how to spot a good deal and foster success, and when to cut someone loose with a simple, «You're fired.»

The 17 - year - old is the school's student news director, who not only interviewed his fellow students during the horrific massacre at his school on Wednesday, but then spoke with passion to national media figures, providing footage that has now circled the globe.

Initially, I was caught off guard that this thread turned into being about public figures from Emergent Village who gained some degree of national - level prominence coming out of the «emerging church» movement.

Why is it that we would not give any special weight to the views of the local butcher, plumber or architect on national economic issues, but will give religious figures who know no more than the foregoing, some kind of free pass?

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.»

The internet will not give you the figures on how many people have died in anguish fully believing God was on their side and that they were fighting in his name or at least in his honor, defending their national religion as much as they did their lands from other soldiers who had been told essentially the same story on the other side.

Martin Luther King, Jr., whatever problems people may have with his personal life or philosophy, is deservedly lifted up as a figure who helped remedy a great wrong in our national experience.

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

I was moved recalling the many sports figures remembered in Farewell in your year - end issue, but I'm afraid you forgot Ferenc Puskas, who in the 1950s was one of the best soccer players in the world and the captain of a Hungarian national team that set new standards for play.

Trump's status as a controversial figure within sports circles grew after he made comments at a rally in Alabama about players in the NFL who were kneeling during the national anthem:

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

The majority of mothers in the UK say they wanted to breastfeed for longer (90 % who stopped by 6 weeks; 63 % of mothers interviewed when their babies were 6 to 8 months old — National Infant Feeding Survey figures).

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The ad distorted figures compiled by WHO and UNICEF in an effort to demonstrate that national breastfeeding rates are at acceptable levels and have not been endangered by formula advertising.

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.

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They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

«You have to do much more work to figure out who to target in a 45 percent turnout election» than in a presidential year, said Jeremy Bird, Obama's 2012 national field director.

Other examples of Bonapartist political figures who tried to «stand above» or balance traditional political divides and embody the «national interest» are plentiful — especially in Latin America with figures like Peron.

Democrats endorsed Ned Lamont for governor Saturday, putting their stock in a wealthy Greenwich businessman who became a national figure in 2006 with his antiwar challenge of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming special election to replace former Rep. Michael Grimm, as the party is poised to nominate Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

According to Abdulaziz Suleiman, who spke on behalf of the coalition, said: «Mindful of the concerns generated by the clause in the Kaduna declaration that advised the Biafran Igbo to relocate from northern Nigeria and for northerners in the South East to do likewise, and our commitment to the unity of our dear country, we immediately opened channels for dialogue and interaction with government agencies, national and international groups, institutions and figures.

When I read the email from Ed Miliband to all party members yesterday afternoon, I thought Left Futures should run a competition with a prize for the first person who could identify «Paul», the possibly mythical figure who it is said has joined the Labour Party because of the «reforms» now backed by Labour's national executive: I -LSB-...]

Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood has challenged the People's National Convention's (PNC) Abu Ramadan, to furnish the Electoral Commission with names of people who registered with NHIS cards ahead of the 2012 elections, since they claim the EC's figure of 56,000 is spurious.

These population figures do not include expatriates with nationality of the affected country, or former nationals, who may also be affected by the ban.

Pataki noted that his national PAC, Revere America, spent well over six figures targeting Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform, including outgoing Rep. John Hall, who lost to Republican Congresswoman - elect Nan Hayworth.

The National newspaper said the list included friends of Prince William, aristocrats and leading business figures who collectively donated about # 650,000.

Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state and failed 2016 Senate candidate who has become an unlikely national Democratic figure, is bringing on Jason Noble, who on Friday announced he was leaving his job as political reporter for the Des Moines Register.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

Roughly ninety percent of «Yes» voters voted for the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2015, including most of those who had still intended to vote Labour early in 2014 (see figure 1).

And yet, on the stump, Paddick is a curiously colourless figure who has struggled to permeate the national consciousness.

Ngige said he did not attach any figure to what he termed «a deserving national tribute to one of Nigeria's foremost Statesman,» adding that he only gave a summary of the number of projects the Federal Government had taken to ensure that a man who easily was Nigeria's beacon of democracy was given a decent burial.

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.

MoveOn.org is spending «six figures» on television commercials to run on national cable and called on its membership to back primary challengers to Democrats who vote against health care reform legislation.

Part of his New Year's message invoked the spirit of the Blitz, suggesting that he yearns to emerge as a Churchillian figure who can lead a government of national unity at this time of economic crisis.

The final analysis of ITV / ComRes poll figures, which represent a national voting intention rather than just those who watched the debate, places Labour on 28 per cent, Lib Dems on 24 per cent and the Tories on 35 per cent.

Uroghide who relied on figures, which showed that over N44 billion of SWV has been released to the Military Pensions Board between 2015 — 2017 by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, wondered how it came about without approval of the National Assembly.

By the tenth grade that percentage had jumped to 39 percent, a figure not significantly different from the national average of students who never received abstinence education.

Some surveys have found that the figure is even higher nationally, said Uhls, who also is the Southern California regional director of Common Sense Media, a national nonprofit organization.

«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.

«Figuring out how atoms rearrange themselves in this material is important, and to our great surprise, what we expected to be a slower process is really rapid,» said Gleason, who was a postdoctoral researcher at SLAC and Stanford University at the time of the 2012 experiment and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.