Sentences with phrase «of leading performers»

He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music.

Some of the leading performers in maths in the world, including Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong use this teaching style.

The writers, Jeff Cox and Liz Flahive, are married; insanely prolific executive producers Mark and Jay Duplass, responsible for a large percentage of indies released each year, are brothers; two of the leading performers, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, have been dating for years.

A solid concept and the promising comedic pairing of Steve Carell and Tina Fey fall victim to sloppy filmmaking and a needlessly convoluted mystery plot in Date Night, a disappointing comedy that fails to fully deliver the indelible stamp of personality that makes either of its lead performers special.

Ronit is probably the main character of the film, but it seems like all three of the lead performers could be considered the protagonist in a way.

David M. Rosenthal's direction is similarly uninspired, and you can practically feel the fatigue of the lead performers straining to elevate the hackneyed material.

In 2012 movie audience giddily fell for the vocalizing vixens of «Pitch Perfect» making household names out of lead performer Anna Kendrick and puffy breakout star Rebel Wilson.

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The proof is in the metrics: According to a study by Workboard, 69 percent of high - performing companies surveyed rated companywide communication of business goals as their leading tool for stacking a team of top performers.

«Because of the yawning gap between the leaders and the led, employee morale is suffering, talented performers» loyalty is evaporating, and strategy and execution is suffering at American companies,» he wrote.

The company's shares, which have come off 10 percent since a 2017 peak in May, were 4.9 percent higher by 0800 Eastern Time, making them among the strongest performers in the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European stocks on Thursday.

Some of the leading franchise names, including Quiznos and Cold Stone Creamery, were among the 10 worst performers in the SBA loan portfolio between 2004 and 2013, which collectively had a default rate of more than double that of other franchises, according to the investigation.

Jag Shoker is a leading performance coach and the founder of Inspired Movement TM — a high performance coaching and consultancy business for business leaders, sports professionals and creative performers.

Steelmakers and non-ferrous metal firms - some of the worst performers since Trump announced steel and aluminium tariffs - led the gains.

Economically speaking, Angola has been one of Africa's leading performers.

Most recently, the Dow was trading down 250 points, or 1 %, at 23,908, with losses led by a decline in shares of McDonald's Corp., which was among the best performers among the Dow's 30 components in Monday trade after reporting better - than - expected quarterly results.

Five of the top 10 performers in the third quarter were US - listed American depositary receipts (ADRs), with India - based MakeMyTrip, an online travel company, leading with an 89 % rise on its first day of trading.

The FSR 50 salutes top performers whose 2012 revenues led the industry across five segments of the full - service restaurant industry: Casual Dining; Family Dining; Upscale Dining; Restaurant Groups; and Independent Operators.

The Benin international has been an impressive performer at the Stadium of Light over the last couple of seasons, but looks to have fallen out of favour with new manager Paolo Di Canio, leading to speculation that he could leave the club this summer.

Last season Koke finished as one of La Liga's leading assist - makers and provided 16 assists in all competitions and Simeone may well fear that Atletico Madrid may be set to lose another key performer.

The Brazilian international bagged his 11th Premier League goal of the season to emerge as the star performer for the visitors, while Simon Mignolet deserves credit for his second - half save in particular to deny Matt Phillips to preserve Liverpool's lead as he put in a great performance too.

Wenger will look to re-ignite talks to bring in the box to box performer as he looks to bring in a player who can add some much needed steel to his midfield and may look to come up with an offer that could involve the use of a squad player in a part exchange deal with the likes of Marouane Chamakh & Sebastien Squillaci, both with extensive Ligue 1 experience, leading the list of possible candidates.

The Saints will have a slender lead to protect in the second leg, as Redknapp picked out Virgil van Dijk as one of their star performers after the Dutchman produced a dominant display.

Here was one of the big time rock bands whose lead performer played a FLUTE for gods sake!

In 2015, Moore led a group that included second - team All - MAC performer Ben McCord, who caught 39 passes for 612 yards and five touchdowns, and led the team with an average of 15.7 yards per reception.

Huang Bowen gave Evergrande the lead after just six minutes, but Cerezo, without many of their key performers, levelled just four minutes later when Takaki Fukumitsu beat the Guangzhou offside trap to score.

Looking increasingly like the leader United lacked throughout the last season, Smalling has been one of United's best performers this season and should lead the defence once again tomorrow at St. Mary's.

The standard of lead commentators lags well behind their overseas counterparts, particularly when the incumbents have very poor knowledge of the game and are appointed by management who make no effort to recruit better performers, including former players.

Craig Gardner, the team's joint - leading scorer in the league and one of the star performers under Alex McLeish this season, is a major doubt with an ankle injury while Alexander Hleb and Sebastian Larsson are both doubts as well after failing to last the fill 90 minutes against Fulham and Aston Villa respectively.

As if the task at hand wasn't daunting enough, Holloway will be without arguably his two most consistent performers this season in Charlie Adam, who pulls all the strings in the heart of the Blackpool midfield, and striker DJ Campbell, Blackpool's leading goalscorer in the Premier League this season with nine goals.

Ever since he signed from Crewe Alexandra in Paul Lambert's first season at Aston Villa Football Club, I've been impressed with his style of football and his ability to keep the midfield ticking, which has made him a strong performer and led to Sherwood tipping Westwood to play for England.

He was a leading performer in the election and it was felt that had the Conservatives lost he might well have won the party leadership and been Leader of the Opposition, while if they won he would probably be given Trade and Industry, the job he had always wanted.

Philosopher AC Grayling lectures on humanism, while 40 leading women poets and performers read the whole of Sylvia Plath's celebrated work Ariel.

The Administration believes this will lead to more efficient spending by ensuring a greater share of dollars go to research activities rather than overhead, while many outside government fear such a cap would make NIH - funded research unaffordable for some performers.

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

Automakers lead reductions This year's top index performers include a half - dozen automakers — BMW AG, Daimler AG, General Motors Co., Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, with scores of 100 or 99 — along with Royal Philips NV, Nestle SA, BNY Mellon Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Gas Natural SDG, all of which scored 100 points on the index.

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

In the Europe ranking, other strong performers relative to their population size include Denmark (seven universities — led by Aarhus University) and the Republic of Ireland (nine universities in total).

The Alexander Technique is a mandatory part of training in many leading music, theater and dance schools around the world, which believe that it not only improves musical and technical skill, but also lowers stress and anxiety in performers.

In terms of new participants, we find material from stunt performer Isaac Hamon, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Nick Keller, Weta Workshop sculptors Kim Beaton and Jamie Beswarick, Weta Workshop concept artists Frank Victoria, Lindsey Crummett, Greg Tozer and Johnny Fraser - Allen, hair and makeup designer Peter Swords King, costume designers Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck, costumer Amy Craven, textile artist Kelly Olatunji, Weta Workshop technician Kim Docherty, special makeup and prosthetics supervisor Jason Docherty, prosthetic makeup artist Georgia Allen, master swordsmith Peter Lyon, additional costumer Emma Evans, lead creatures designer Andrew Baker, digital creature supervisor Simon Clutterbuck, textures technical supervisor Glen Sharah, senior shader TD Christopher George, VFX supervisor Chris White, texture artist Daniel Bennett, actor Manu Bennett, Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour owner Russell Alexander, supervising art director Simon Bright, art director Brian Massey, set dresser Ben Whale, Middle - Earth Minstrel editor / author Bradford Lee Eden, sound designer Dave Whitehead, composer David Long, and musician Neil Finn.

Since then, he has worked steadily as a leading and supporting actor in a wide variety of Hollywood and international films, gaining a reputation as one of th e most reliably solid performers on either side of the Atlantic.

As the parents, veterans Sam Waterston, Tess Harper and Gail Strickland lead these novice teen actors in setting standards that these young performers will spend the rest of their careers trying to emulate.

Cases include the 1970 murder of a jazz musician leading a double life, a graffiti artist's fatal overdose in 1982 and the 1971 death of a young circus performer.

Sally Field is the only performer who really goes toe - to - toe with the leading man, and the scene where they have at each other is one of the best in the film.

A Los Angeles man leads a double life as a rocket engineer by day and a performer of sex magic rituals by night in this drama series set in the 1940s.

Jason Bateman, so strong right now on Netflix's «Ozark», plays another neurotic man - child; Rachel McAdams, as his wife, is a fine dramatic performer with the comic timing of a lead door.

The standout among the younger performers is Miles Teller, whose to - the - screen - born poise and controlled nervous energy make a jolting contrast to the pouts and droopiness of some of the other secondary male leads.

A British - born performer who trained formally as a ballet dancer, Will Kemp gained widespread acclaim for such accomplishments as his lead contribution to Matthew Bourne's production of Swan Lake — with a cast that consisted almost exclusively of men.

As also demonstrated in David Mackenzie's prison drama «Starred Up,» he's a ferocious physical performer, possessed of a hard - bitten masculinity not overly common in his generation of leading men.

You admire the skill and wit of the performers — a superb cast led by Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Richard Gere and Rebecca Hall — in much the same way you might savor the movie's candlelit ambience.

It looks like as though this group has the solidarity that would protect them from a breakup, but the success of one of their troupe leads to envy by the others and, given that the winner of an audition by a Saturday Night Live type TV program called «Weekend Live» is the two strongest performer in the Commune, things start to look bleak for the other five.