Sentences with phrase «other national figures»

The Brown sisters, who are still performing with their siblings as The 5 Browns, join a growing chorus of other national figures who have joined the fight to enact the Child Victims Act in recent months.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

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Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

In August and September, Johnson and other security officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, became «increasingly convinced» that Russia had perpetrated the election process by hacking the DNC and other political figures.

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Prominent figures of other governments, including those of Russia, Israel, China, and Venezuela, have floated the idea of a national digital currency, though some Venezuelan parliamentarians have opposed the «petro's» issuance.

I should note, however, that on the basis of a much broader set of regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, the 50.2 number was a large outlier — a figure closer to 48 was implied by that other data.

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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.

Other biographers have placed Bach as a synthesizer of various national styles, the cul - de-sac of Reformation music, or the artistic antipode of that other great figure of the age, Isaac NeOther biographers have placed Bach as a synthesizer of various national styles, the cul - de-sac of Reformation music, or the artistic antipode of that other great figure of the age, Isaac Neother great figure of the age, Isaac Newton.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Rabbi Benny Lau, another senior figure in the national - religious community, said the fact that only Orthodox worshipers feel at home at the Western Wall is damaging to the Jewish people and that the «sectoralization» of the site «distances other Jews from their heritage.»

The internet will not give you the figures on how many people have died in anguish fully believing God was on their side and that they were fighting in his name or at least in his honor, defending their national religion as much as they did their lands from other soldiers who had been told essentially the same story on the other side.

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

Other examples of Bonapartist political figures who tried to «stand above» or balance traditional political divides and embody the «national interest» are plentiful — especially in Latin America with figures like Peron.

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

While many leading figures and national executives of the party have by and large cited voter apathy among their supporters in their strongholds especially in the Volta Region for their defeat, others are of the opinion that the party's campaign team failed at their job.

New figures published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of people wishing to study in the UK long - term have fallen to their lowest level since 2007, following a 16 % fall in applications to study at further education and other institutions last year.

The human rights experts said though some local and national figures, as well as some media representatives had publicly denounced any form of hate speech and incitement, other officials still needed to follow suit.

Whilst British political parties of all hues have fraternal relations with like - minded parties around the world, convention states that senior party figures do not campaign in each other's national elections.

«The other issues for example is the fraud and the corruption that is associated with large sums of money given out by the past National Security Adviser which went to several political figures and again these were huge sums of money, over $ 2bn and the sheer size and the enormity of what we are talking about, must not be diminished in any way or trivialised in anyway by any suggestion that it is partisan.

Whereas the chiefly single - celled prokaryotes barely figure in the CBD, fungi at least get a mention in the updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which is part of the convention: «Parties may choose on a national basis to include other taxa, including algae, lichens and fungi.»

In Mexico, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) indicate that in 2010 there was a population of 32.5 million children from 0 to 14 years old that, in relative terms, represent 29 percent of the total population of which at least three in 10 children have Stunted Growth syndrome, some cases are solved by correcting lifestyle habits as healthy eating, sleeping and physical activity, but others require specialized care.

National Cancer Institute; National Cancer Institute Physician Data Query (PDQ); American Cancer Society Facts & Figures 2016; GLOBOCAN 2012; NCI Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER); National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines for Patients; ClinicalTrials.gov; Melanoma Research Foundation; CRI grantee progress reports and other CRI grantee documents

Sources: American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures 2016; GLOBOCAN 2012; SEER Cancer Statistics Factsheets: Leukemia (National Cancer Institute); What You Need To Know About ™ Leukemia (National Cancer Institute); ClinicalTrials.gov; CRI grantee progress reports and other CRI grantee documents

Brett A. McGuire, a Hubble fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and colleagues plan to use the spectroscopic data they collected to figure out how this and other complex chemicals arise in outer space (Science 2018, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aao4890).

Sources: National Cancer Institute; National Cancer Institute Physician Data Query (PDQ); American Cancer Society Facts & Figures 2016; GLOBOCAN 2012; NCI Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER); National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines for Patients; ClinicalTrials.gov; breastcancer.org; CRI grantee progress reports and other CRI grantee documents

He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.

Rather than approaching online dating as an entirely personal thing, people are instead comparing themselves against other's performance, measuring themselves up, assuming that their figures aren't as good as the national whole.

Very loosely based on Russian arms deal Viktor Bout (aka «the Merchant of Death»), and composites of several other figures in the world of arms dealing, Lord of War tells the story of Yuri Orlov (Cage, National Treasure), a Ukrainian raised in the United States that finds a way to make a fast buck buying and selling weapons and ammunition to various factions involved in aspects of war, initially with underworld types in his neighborhood, then eventually expanding throughout the world.

To sustain engagement, I mentioned that Martin Luther King Jr., who paid the ultimate sacrifice for speaking out peacefully against hate and racial division, is the only historical figure other than Columbus honored with a national holiday in his name.

In this brief, the Hassels also call for a national commitment to reallocating other existing and new spending to higher teacher pay, which together with reach models can make teaching a six - figure profession.

(The national figure is about 13 percent, but the state - to - state variability is wide — although Texas, along with California and a handful of others, has long been a low - end outlier.)

The ability of such figures to capture the attention of the nation was dramatically demonstrated, it is said, by the rapid spread of the recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and those included in other reform statements.

When asked to grade the public schools, respondents in this survey offer assessments that look much like those observed in other national surveys of education attitudes (see Figure 9).

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

Schools are also struggling to retain staff, with the National Audit Office figures stating 8 % of qualified staff left the profession for reasons other than retirement in 2016.

To arrive at the new figures, Abrams pored over teachers» contracts and bell schedules for a sampling of districts where the amount of instructional time is close to the national average — and accounted for days lost to standardized testing, professional development, and other reasons.

President of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, Rev. Hesburgh was one of the nation's most influential figures in education, civil rights, and other national and international affairs.

Judging from the many organizations that offer awards and financial support to writers under 35 or 40 (The New York Public Library, The National Book Foundation, Granta), and the seven - figure deals that seem to be given to more 20 - something debut writers than debut writers in any other age group, it would be tough to deny that book publishing is youth - focused.

That $ 17 million dollar figure (which, apparently, was just too good for the National Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy, and others to pass up) is based on some very dubious math (indeed, the paper notes that birders spend just $ 0.40 for each bird seen, whereas hunters spend $ 216 for each bird shot, suggesting, it seems, that dead birds are far more valuable than live birds — a point NAS and ABC, of course, ignored entirely).

I figured as much going in, based on the room designs I could see on the hotel's website, but was willing to accept this thanks to the price and thanks to the fact that the hotel sits directly atop the Bethesda Metro Station, making it an easy 20 minutes or so to the National Mall or other sightseeing opportunities.

He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

I've yet to figure out how I'm going to do it, but the plan is to visit the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's «Bridget Riley: Paintings, 1964 — 2015» (15 April 2016 — 16 April 2017) and then head straight to the Bosch fifth centenary show at the Museo Nacional del Prado (31 May — 11 September 2016) for the legal high to end all others.

As a figure of outstanding significance in contemporary art, her stature has been recognized by such awards as the American National Medal of the Arts (1991), the French Grand Prix National de Sculpture (1991) and the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Prize (1999), among others.

His exhibition Weaving Magic at the National Gallery gives some clues as to why he — and other figures such as Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn and Craigie Horsfield — find it appealing.

These figures look even worse when compared with those of other major London museums: over 6.5 million visitors each for the British Museum and the National Gallery last year, 5.7 million for Tate Modern, 3.3 million for the V&A and 2.1 million for the National Portrait Gallery.

Other famous works by Haring include: «Subway Drawing» (1980 - 81, Hyde Collection, New York); «Andy Mouse» (1985, Keith Haring Foundation, NY); «Berlin Mural» (1986, Berlin Wall, now lost); «Acrobats» (1986, KHF, NY); «Acrobats» (1986, KHF, NY); Skateboards (1986, KHF, NY); «Pop Shop Poster» (1986, KHF, NY); «Untitled» (Figure on Baby)(1987, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa); and «Boxers» (1988, Daimler Collection, Berlin).