Sentences with phrase «occupy center stage»

So family interaction with all its potential for both destruction and healing continues to occupy center stage in my practice.

In creating within such constraints, as he has done here once again, the artist allows his prodigious visual imagination and his idiosyncratic, confident and highly skillful treatment of paint to occupy center stage.

Compared to the women artists around her, she was enormously successful, an exception to the rule that only men could occupy center stage in the New York art world.

Afghanistan's resilient people occupy center stage in Elliot's personal and vivid journey through this devastated and complex land.

Though this push for reform of public schools dates back several decades, it has steadily moved from the margins of the political debate to occupy center stage in the tussles over domestic policy.

Lindaman, a Harvard University graduate student, and Ward, an assistant professor at Indiana's Vincennes University, take many of the major historical events that occupy center stage in standard U.S. history textbooks and show how texts from other countries involved recount the same episodes.

As the Prophet receives the divine message, he has the archangel Gibreel, transformed into a character, first lurking in the shadows and then occupying the center stage with his elaborate dream concerning the city of Jahilia (jahiliyya = the pre-Islamic era of darkness and ignorance).

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

Although preaching still occupies center stage here, in recent years worship services have become more diverse and express the vocational pluralism of theological training.

Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.

As teacher shortages once again become widespread in California and across the nation, discussions of how to recruit and retain high - quality teachers are occupying center stage in policy circles.

The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan occupies center stage in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and is a conflict that traces its roots back to the Indo - Pak partition (for more about the partition, see Beyond the Book for An Unrestored Woman).

And let's face it, where tablets are concerned, design occupies center stage.

The Levy Pants revolution, the Lucky Dog cart, and Reilly's hunting cap all make appearances; while Reilly's slovenly bed occupies center stage of the courtyard, fountain spewing from its center.

As teacher shortages once again become widespread in California and across the nation, discussions of how to recruit and retain high - quality teachers are occupying center stage in policy circles.

Not exact matches

Winnebago's modest, low - slung headquarters — Potts occupies a windowless corner office on the second floor — sits at the center of campus, largely obscured by warehouses and rows of motor homes in various stages of production.

Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen...

The tyrants occupy the center of the stage.

Track occupies the Olympic center stage, yet it is not the favorite sport of any country.

«The distribution of the world's fresh water, already an important topic will occupy front and center stage for years to come in developing adaptation strategies to a changing climate,» says Cliff Jacobs of National Science Foundation, which funded the research.