Sentences with phrase «of her political career when»

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It is likely, therefore, that Morneau, whose political career began last autumn when Stephen Harper dropped the writ, will be tempted to draw on the work of the master as he embarks on a new era of deficit financing.

But perhaps unburdened by the death of Skelos» political career, sources are coming forward to offer more detailed accounts of what exactly happened in those critical years of 2013 and 2014 when campaign finance had one of it's best chances of actually getting approved in both houses.

This was one of the few occasions when a sex scandal is strong enough to ruin a career without the press having to find a political angle to justify it.

I think that was true when he was an academic, true when he was in the army and true of his political career as well.»

«One of the things most troubling to me was Secretary of Defense (Robert) Gates», not quotation, but recitation of when he was sitting with Obama and Hillary and she was acknowledging that she opposed the surge in Iraq solely to help her political career.

«When they know they're not running, they should wrap them up within months of ending their political careers,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a government watchdog.

His remarks revealed considerably more interest in a political career than he expressed on Wednesday, when the father of five told a breakfast meeting sponsored by the Wall Street Journal:

For an intelligent, experienced and talented man in the prime of his political career, the taste of defeat was bitter; all the more so when his forward propulsion was stopped dead in its tracks by his own brother.

There were also mutterings about a possible future political career when Thatcher's granddaughter, Amanda, confidently read out her passage from the Bible in front of a global audience, despite being only 19 years old.

Paterson said he'd been walking in the march since 1976, back when for a politician, the «howl of a drag queen» was the kind of endorsement that could kill a political career.

ALBANY — Dean Skelos, the former Republican leader of the State Senate whose political career ended this year when he was convicted of federal felony charges, has filed papers to collect his pension.

Mr. Levy's political career ended abruptly when, under the cloud of an investigation by Mr. Spota's office, he agreed not to seek another term.

Ironically, it was the Clintons, not his father, who boosted Andrew's political career when President Clinton appointed him Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary in February 1993.

I tend to agree he was the victim of highly selective justice, but I also recall him lecturing me for alleged xenophobia when he was still on the political career ladder.

His political career began in 1966 when served as a member of the Yonkers City Council.

But the Democrat's political career crashed and burned in July 2009, when he resigned abruptly from his seat and pleaded guilty to three felony counts of conspiracy for looting money from nonprofits he helped subsidize with pubic funds.

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Steven Spielberg has been trying to set up a movie based on the political career of The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, for quite a while now, but ran into some complications earlier this year when Liam Neeson, who had been signed on for the lead role, dropped out of the project.

TRUMBO: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

On Friday, December 8, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» to discuss the following topics: the ongoing revelations of sexual predation and harassment in both Hollywood and the political realm; what's currently getting Oscar buzz; what is currently out in cinemas that we recommend (including Coco, The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and the upcoming The Shape of Water); and highlights from the careers of actor Claude Rains (1889 - 1976) and film composer Ennio Morricone (1928 ---RRB-, both of whose birthdays are on November 10, when we originally planned to celebrate them (a podcast we had to cancel for various reasons).

The public may only learn about the true cost of education when a popular political figure stakes a political career on telling them.

When I wrote recently at Writer Unboxed, an authors» site, about the difficulty of knowing how to handle one's political and social opinions alongside one's career work, the response was strong and in some cases anguished.

In 1999, when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York, (Giuliani started his political career as Associate Attorney General under President Reagan, infamous for his ignorance and inaction during the AIDS epidemic, and his en masse firing of union air traffic controllers on strike in 1981) Giuliani sued the Brooklyn Museum for opening the much - hyped exhibit Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, which included the work of then - emerging British artists such as Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst.

Enshrined as the first work of Pop art — which Hamilton defined as «popular, transient, expendable, low - cost, mass - produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business» at a time when Warhol was still drawing shoes — the piece will be just one highlight of the artist's first comprehensive survey when it opens at Tate Modern this month, chronicling a career that spanned both political art and collaborations with Mick Jagger and the Beatles.

The groundbreaking exhibition explores the vibrant and experimental years of Haring's early career when he started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and enjoyed a frenetic social life.

Ik's career trajectory — he rejected abstraction during the 1980s, when he felt the political repression in Korea mandated he make work more rooted in the world — is a reminder of the navigations many Korean painters, from the 70s until now, have faced.

Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings celebrates three artists who employed paint to express their engagement with social and political issues, and human concerns that traditionally preoccupy men and women in later life, for this is an exhibition of works from the second half of their careers, from a period when the outward battles have been won but when the inner battles commence.

Representing every phase of Copley's work while illuminating the political and psychosexual themes, visual puns, and vaudevillian Americana to which he repeatedly returned, the exhibition traces the artist's career from the late 1940s, when he began teaching himself to paint and was introduced to Surrealism and the Surrealists, into the 1990s.

[ANDY REVKIN responds: I daresay I've brought Dr. Hansen's research and conclusions as much or more publicity over the course of his career than any other science writer, starting with a 6,000 - word cover story on global warming in Discover Magazine in 1988 that opened with his Senate testimony and continuing through the period when political appointees at NASA tried to stop him from speaking out.

Klaus started his political career in December 1989 when he became Federal Minister of Finance.

The power of the network was exemplified last year when Ryan Asao, then chair of his local network (now president of the Arcadia Association of REALTORS ®) introduced the Million Dollar Pledge, seeking at least 100 YPNers to pledge contributions of $ 10,000 in political action funds over the lifetime of their career.