Sentences with phrase «of local figures»

The proponents of the PR fad have not addressed some essential questions: won't PR favourize electoral lists full of central party functionaries at the expense of local figures?

Some works are purely visionary and abstract while others — such as in photography — capture the grim social realism of local figures or street scenes.

Not exact matches

«From our standpoint, instead of having a patchwork of local governments trying to figure out how to legally classify these things, the bill just creates this baseline framework so no matter where you're at in California, these scooters will be classified for legal reasons under the same category,» Gray said.

Prominent local business figure Gene Tilbrook has been appointed deputy chairman of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Instead of setting up costly field offices, iBwave's management figured the firm could expand more quickly and without a lot of regulatory headaches by retaining local contractors who would sell as well as help customers implement the company's technology.

We don't know the death toll for the ethnic Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang, where local officials, in the words of one government terrorism expert, «bend figures as much as during the Great Leap Forward,» nor do we know how many people are currently held in «re-education camps.»

The local property market is beginning to show signs of stability as the rental market gains strength, according to the latest Real Estate Institute of Western Australia figures.

Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.

Local news service Xinhuanet reports that Wang Qisha, chief of the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), gave the figure in a report published on Sunday.

Anyone who shops there regularly knows how much of a headache it is when the line wraps around the entire store, so it's best to figure out when your local Trader Joe's is busy and avoid those times.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

The company credits its success with its «understanding» of Turkish culture and focuses many of its campaigns around prominent local figures and musical hits.

A quick look at local contractors, showed me that BBB figures prominently in all of them.

Next we figure out the tax consequences of buying a home (we calculate taxes at the federal, state and local level) and consider how home value appreciation and mortgage payments impact your equity in the property.

About one - third of tax filers opt to itemize deductions on their federal income tax returns (figure 1), and virtually all who do itemize claim a deduction for state and local taxes paid.

Bank loans come in all shapes and sizes, from microloans of a few hundred dollars, typically offered by local community banks, to six - figure loans by major national banks.

[The above figure] shows the growth in per capita spending by federal, state, and local governments following the troughs of the four recessions.

If you're ready to reap the rewards of your hard work, don't try to go it alone and figure out bookkeeping, payroll, taxes, marketing, vendor negotiation, industry trends, and local and federal regulations on your own.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

Now that the Republican tax reform bill is officially law, blue states are scrambling to figure out ways around one of the law's few actual tax increases: its new limit on deducting state and local taxes.

A handful of shareholders, including two C - suite execs, are in line for nine - figure payouts once Novartis completes its acquisition of local pharma company AveXis.

Official figures show that in 2011, Australian banks accounted for 78 per cent of the local business credit market, but that proportion fell to 74 per cent last year and shows no signs of picking up.

This figure appears to replace an earlier 33 % or «one - third of mobile searches are local» that was repeatedly mentioned by Google executives including Eric Schmidt.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

 However, Statistics Canadaâ $ ™ s figures from actual payroll data show that average wages paid by local governments have increased at a lower rate than overall average wages and at rates above the rate of inflation over the past twenty years:

Yet Reid says the figures probably understate the actual level of financial stress experienced by local families because banks are still doing everything they can to avoid foreclosing on a property, a cumbersome and costly process.

Trade data for the same month revealed the country incurred its first trade deficit in local - currency terms since early 2014, mainly due to a surge in imports, although the figures were probably affected by the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday.

So while you might not want to invest time figuring out the intricacies of Yahoo!'s algorithm, obtaining some favorable reviews on the Yahoo! Local Listings sure couldn't hurt for that 10 %.

Although largely a local media figure, Allman's remarks drew national attention both because of how out - of - line they were and because they exemplified a broader pattern in conservative media of personally attacking Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and other survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people.

Deming was named in honor of Mary Ann Deming Crocker, the wife of Charles Crocker, an important figure in the local railroad industry.

As an estimated $ 5 billion project employing as many as 50,000 people, the Amazon HQ2 is likely to have a broad impact on the local community in terms of what people pay for real estate, how long it takes them to get to work and what dollar figures they see on their paychecks.

Yeah well it prettu much was along the lines of showing the wealthy and privelidge such figures have, protected by a team of security anf local police.

in context that GOD created... He can cause it to happen in HIS way... laws of nature did not exist until there was something for it to influence... the writers of the Bible did not believe in flat earth or the sun revolving around the earth... seems to me you cant see figures of speech, but only false stuff... so why don't you tell the weather man at your local TV station to stop saying surinse and sunset eh?

I am right there with you... I too think there is a «3rd option» — one which doesn't think in terms of our own local fellowship being our only «family» and which doesn't look to one person to figure out what to feed us.

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?

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

You can see God evolving from this local tribal deity who IS a bully to a parental figure and eventually to a Spirit of Love.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

My local cinema had 24 screenings of the thing on Friday night, so I picked one of the many sell - outs and went along on my own to watch it and try to figure out just why it is so popular.

With pimento cheese's recent surge in popularity (see Molly's harissa - spiked version, or this local - Austin version with Sriracha) I figured it was damn well time to make develop a palatable version of my own.

I went to my local farm and sourced a high quality piece of beef heart and came home to figure out what to do with it.

Naturally, this led to me trying to figure out what to do with a loaf of day - old bread from the local bakery that was too amazing to toss out.

With salmon, blueberries, and an assortment of produce figuring heavily in the menu, the recipes also emphasize eating local and seasonal as much as possible and in such a way that is relevant in the Pacific Northwest and the Nordic countries this time of year.

Told through the experiences of several of the leading figures in Australia's Fair Food movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agriculture.

I always eat them at my local greek restaurant but couldn't figure out what kind of cheese they were made of.

Brazil, a leading exporter of soybeans and key competitor with the US, is worried that rising production costs for soybeans could eat into local farm profits next season, while global stocks rise, according to fresh figures from the...

«X years no NCAAT» ignores Chambers's approach, which has been instead of scouring the world for the best recruits he could get and figuring out a strategy for that hodgepodge of kids to get the most wins possible — doing his damndest to make inroads to local recruiting hotbeds by establishing deep relationships, and consistently coaching those kids to play the game the way he envisions it.

Early last week in Sarajevo, Valentine Piessev, a Soviet member of the International Skating Union's figure skating committee, lodged a bitter complaint with local Olympic officials: The pro-American crowds at the Zetra Ice Arena were just too demonstrative in their support of the U.S. figure skaters.

Not a lot of details there, though it will be easy for local media to figure out who that Wilmington - based agent was.

In the 40s he gradually forsook pay diving for treasure hunting, prowling from one wrecksite to another, most of them located on tips from local fishermen who had worked over round rocks but never figured them as the ballasts of old ships.