Sentences with phrase «of leading political figures»

World perspective: She's one of the leading political figures of our time — and she'll be at the REALTORS ® Conference.

You can apply to be in our audience, and get your chance to grill our panel of leading political figures and experts on all aspects of the EU debate.

Not exact matches

Advances in AI have led to researchers creating realistic audio and videos of political figures that are designed to look, and talk like real - life counterparts.

Leading political and business figures have paid tribute to Sir Eric McClintock, a prominent businessman and public servant, who died in Sydney on Tuesday at the age of 99.

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

Leading political and business figures have paid tribute to Sir Eric McClintock, a prominent businessman and public servant, who died in Sydney on Tuesday at the age of 99.

That thought is why we find these ideas expressed by leading figures of political movements — like workingmen's parties, land reform movements, and labour organizations.

The best speech from a leading political figure I have heard in recent years was the one May delivered to the Police Federation in the early summer of 2014.

Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

On Thursday, South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leading figures in the anti-apartheid struggle, added his voice, saying: «If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.»

The effort is being led by state Democratic Party co-chair and close Gov. Cuomo ally Keith Wright, an assemblyman and Manhattan Democratic chairman who is being aided by some of the state's most prominent black political figures.

WILLSBORO — One of the region's leading political figures has resigned from his leadership posts in the Republican Party

WILLSBORO — One of the region's leading political figures has resigned from his leadership posts in the Republican Party more

Once a highly popular political figure in his hometown, Ganim was convicted in 2003 of 16 counts of racketeering, extortion, bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion after a lengthy investigation by the FBI that led to the convictions of 10 other friends and colleagues of Ganim.

From leading a coalition to risking the future of the UK, David Cameron has been at the centre of many high voltage historic situations without being especially interesting as a political figure.

At the end of their first week of witnesses, federal prosecutors sought to refocus attention on Silver as they continued to create a portrait of a powerful political figure whose greed they allege led to multiple corruption schemes.

Privately, Mr. Trump's impulses had led him to ignore political protocols and his own Republican allies, like Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Mr. McConnell, who had groused about the president in recent days that the Senate would consider an immigration bill «as soon as we figure out what he is for.»

The meeting which held up to the early hours of Saturday was based on negotiation to persuade the former VP to lead an interim government of national unity that the president has been attempting to sell to diverse political figures in recent weeks, Sahara reporters had reported.

Based on the novel that has become the de-facto national book of Azerbaijan and littered with historical figures that led the country's independence movement, this is a story that should be ripe with political and social comments for a tumultuous world today.

In it, she tackled eight tumultuous decades of U.S. political and social history — and changing fashions — filled with dozens of national figures (including LBJ, JFK and Jackie O) and had to factor in an equally daunting number of celebrities in the cast: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Oprah Winfrey and, of course, Forest Whitaker in the lead role, among them.

His empathetic (though his protagonist denies, in «Wall» that a writer can have such empathy, but is limited to his own focus on the world) portrayal of such characters reveals that, apart from his political awareness, to which he has given voice in sundry articles on such leading figures as Malcolm X, Wideman is keenly aware of social issues as well.

The quasi-scientific measuring variable so important to «getting the figure right» led to some ugly consequences - phrenological racism and a mechanized vision of human behavior that empowered oppressive political systems.

Hans Haacke (b. 1936, Cologne) is one of the leading figures of conceptual art and one of the most important political artists working today.

In a space of months, the position, power and popularity of these political operatives shifted dramatically, leading the artists to re-stage portraits of the same figures.

This groundbreaking survey of two decades of black American art and the political activism of African - American artists introduced leading figures such as Barkley L. Hendricks and Melvyn Edwards to enthusiastic new audiences.

He's also well known for his many biographies of leading figures such as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Balthus, Rudolf Nurejew and Liza Minelli as well as for Ronnie and Nancy: Their path to the White House, the story of the social and political rise of the Reagans.

No less a figure than the artist Hans Haacke — whose long - standing commitment to rendering transparent economic, social, and aesthetic structures throughout culture has led him to be immanently associated with the paradigm — used the phrase «consciousness industry» as early as the mid-1980s to describe the sophisticated networks of institutional support necessary to make visible ostensibly adversarial avant - garde artistic gestures.4 Works seeking to emphasize the moral, political, and intellectual forces that determine and enforce culture, he observed, were nevertheless dependent on a museum or gallery platform designed to privilege aesthetic experience.

With the right of the Tory party mutinous, and clear signs that the Conservatives» support in their rural hinterland is drifting away, the decision by David Cameron to fire environment minister Owen Paterson, a leading figure on the Conservative right who also appeared to «get «the countryside, earlier this year made little political sense.

Our clients include governments, heads of state, leading political figures and high net worth individuals.