Sentences with phrase «only public figure»

He's not the only public figure pushing for reach extension these days.

Berisha told the New York Times that he didn't initially intend to focus on Reagan for the study, but he was the only public figure with progressive dementia who gave a large number of speeches over a span of time.

... not important enough to put the marketing term «dice» on it... so its labeled development is by another lesser known team... but don't fall for it... 90 % of the people behind the scenes are the same... its only the public figures with the team that get swapped around... there is no «dice» any more... EA doesn't work like that...

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As of the writing of this story, Inc. located only one personal profile for him as well as one public figure profile.

According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their Web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1,334 start - ups got funded, but only 13 % as many achieved an IPO (81 last year) or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price (95 last year).

The blue check badge is only available to some public figures, celebrities, and brands.

«The wave of public outcry triggered by Cambridge Analytica is only the beginning... Ultimately, the marketers who figure out a more customer - centric way of gathering data will create a competitive advantage for their company.»

With respect to the two cases cited here, the only thing more acceptable about Maher's comment was that it was directed at a very public figure who has done everything she can up to and including having a reality TV show to stay in the public eye.

Only once does Bloom slow down to exegete what he calls the California orange grove Orphism of the New Age of folks like Shirley MacLaine, «the handsomest of the movement's public figures.»

Mitt's blatant pandering to the Bible Belt not only diminishes him as a public figure, it reinforces his image as a chameleon of expedience who puts the changeability of most of Washington to shame.

According to owners and licensors Darrel and Chris Painter, Don Cherry's Sports Grill has been successful not only because of its connection to one of Canada's most popular public figures, but also because the company gives its individual locations a winning game plan and the autonomy to take advantage of their own opportunities.

«We would also like to add a second sheet of ice to offer more rink time to our figure - skating classes, the Jaguar Youth Hockey team, and the public, who have only 1 1/2 hours of rink time on Fridays and Sundays.

While each woman is entitled to her opinion on the topic, such public figures speaking out against breastfeeding photos only serves to remind us that we've been conditioned to believe that breasts are only to be viewed publicly as sexual objects, not as biological vessels for feeding our children.

Given that other public figures, like politicians, who actually have some power, were judged influential by only 38 %, it is no shock that religious leaders, who don't, scored so low.

Cannadine concludes that throughout her premierships she was the dominant figure in British public life, and she not only made the political weather, but went some way towards changing the political climate, too.

The DVLA Board which only approved the sum of $ 3.6 million and had no knowledge the sum had almost tripled, expressed shock when the figure became public.

To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states.

«In an ideal world, these figures would be of interest only to academics and the church itself but in a country where the church in question has a privileged legal and constitutional position, they must be subject to wider public scrutiny and their implications drawn out.

The public, which, because of its good sense, wouldn't know an Ipsa if it smacked them in the face, will only take home the 11 % figure.

Johnson was seen comparatively positively by the public — in December 34 % saw him as an asset for the Labour party and only 20 % a liability, giving him a better rating than any other senior Labour figure.

Given that he is a public figure — not only a peer of the realm but also the deputy chairman of the Conservatives, the party's biggest single donor and one of the architects of its general election strategy — that right must surely be somewhat circumscribed.

Seeking to reassure the British public about public protection, Dr Reid released figures showing that of the 27,500 crimes committed by Britons which had not been entered into the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), only five had gained employment.

Donna has not only been the zoo's leader and public figure, but the engine that has made it go, helping to make the Buffalo Zoo one of the premier zoos in the nation and a true local treasure,» said Legislator Savage.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

It survives in spite of the Church of England commanding little public support, with only 16 % of the population professing to affiliation according to the 2013 British Social Attitudes survey (and only 1.4 % being in Church on any given Sunday, according to the Church's own attendance figures).

To do so would only encourage vexatious complaints against MPs and other public figures.

Harriet Harman is, interestingly enough, the only candidate whose figures contrast strongly between the public and a whole and swing voters.

And the policy appears to have worked: more than 200 needle exchanges are now operating in Britain and figures just published by the Public Health Laboratory Service suggest that only about 6 per cent of men and 7 per cent of women now injecting drugs in London are HIV - positive.

As history shows, assassination attempts on public figures are only too common.

Our website and social media content uses only fictional names, except in cases of public figure and celebrity parody or satirization.

But a lengthy meditation by a famous person on their own public image is only interesting if that public figure is doing real reflection.

Taking aim at everything and everyone, from «Indiana Jones» and «Iron Man» to Amy Winehouse and High School Musical., DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

99, took on a daunting challenge: figure out how to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools, the only school district in Massachusetts ever to be placed in state receivership.

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

Rayner commented: «These stark figures show that the average teacher is now thousands of pounds worse off than they were in 2010, and the government's plans to continue with the public sector pay cap will only make matters worse.»

Only 23 percent of education programs at private institutions are NCATE - accredited, compared with 69 percent of the education programs at public institutions (see Figure 3).

Only 22 percent of small private institutions and 63 percent of small public institutions possess NCATE accreditation, compared with 44 percent of large private institutions and 74 percent of large public institutions (see Figure 4).

About 97 percent of public school teachers claim to be certified in their teaching area, while only 83 percent of charter school and 54 percent of private school teachers do (see Figure 2).

When asked whether «local taxes to fund public schools in your district should increase, decrease, or stay the same,» only 29 percent of the public favor an increase (see Figure 1a).

Those figures, though, include only students who attend BIA secondary schools, not public schools, according to Gaye Liea King, special assistant to the director of the Office of Indian Education Programs.

Although a majority of teachers perceived two of the three statements in Figure 2 in a way that is consistent with CCSSI's position, only a minority of the public perceived any of these statements in the same way that CCSSI does.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

In Milwaukee, the number of students using vouchers has increased sharply (see Figure 2), but the voucher itself has been worth only between 50 and 70 percent of per - pupil spending in the public schools.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

The budget wrangling comes amid new figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) this week which show the problems seem to only be mounting at both schools in the state's pilot program.

Families living in this area are the only ones in the city who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools, from elementary school through high school, over other options in DCPS or at public charter schools (see Figure 1).

Justice, a Republican, has promised to convene a task force as early as this week to figure out a way to resuscitate the insurance agency, whose severe funding shortfalls have resulted in rising co-pays and other health - care costs not only for public - school teachers but also for state employees across the board.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.

She had only this to say about charter schools, which are free from union rules: «When schools get it right, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools, let's figure out what's working» and «share it with schools across America.»