Sentences with phrase «play extraordinary roles»

«Rosalind Barnett has played an extraordinary role in dispelling conventional «wisdoms» about the capability and capacity of girls and women,» McCartney said.

Leo Castelli, the New York art dealer who played an extraordinary role in shaping contemporary American art and fostering international acceptance of painters like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella, died on Saturday night at his Manhattan home.

Leo Castelli, the New York art dealer who played an extraordinary role in shaping contemporary American art and fostering international acceptance of painters such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella, died Saturday night at his Manhattan home.

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Designing extraordinary experiences already plays a role in modern marketing.

It is this approach that now plays an important role in justifying the extraordinary concentration of endowment assets and cultural prestige in just a few schools at the top of our university system.

If the philosopher has an extraordinary role to play, it as a gadfly.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

Like all FPI staff, the right candidate for this position will have a commitment to reversing the extraordinary racial and economic disparities in wages, income, and opportunity in our communities, and will have a desire to focus on the role state and local governments can play in improving conditions for all New Yorkers.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement «it's extraordinary that Harriet Tubman, a civil rights icon and New Yorker, will get her rightful place on the $ 20 bill so that future generations of Americans will learn her story and the integral role she played during a painful time in our nation's history»

«I am honored to have been selected as the next leader of this extraordinary organization that plays a pivotal role in helping so many vulnerable New Yorkers get back on their feet,» Quinn said.

They should at least pause to consider, amongst the myriad of issues and concerns closest to them, one of the darkest episodes of New Labour's decade in power, namely the role allegedly played by a number of Ministers in what has come to be known as «Extraordinary Rendition».

UNSW's Associate Professor Suzanne Hand, who is a specialist in extinct bats and their ecological role in Riversleigh's ancient environments, says the bats could have played a role in the extraordinary preservation of the ostracod sperm cells.

Technology also plays a starring role in an extraordinary first - person account by Amanda Boxtel, who tells how, 18 years after becoming paralyzed in a ski accident, she learned to walk again using a robotic exoskeleton.

Revive & Restore plays a role in this story, introducing George Church to the extraordinary Russian scientist Sergey Zimov, who has started a project in northern Siberia called «Pleistocene Park,» which is using wild grazing animals to generate climate - stabilizing grasslands.

With the extraordinary growth in internet traffic, combined with the non-stop demand for cloud - based services, datacentres play a critical role in meeting the data explosion requirements.

The pampered plutocrats of the bronze age adore football in a bread - and - circuses sort of way, but it turns out that the stone age crew were once themselves pretty useful at the beautiful game, and a sensational pre-credit sequence tells us the extraordinary role that football played at the dawn of time in shaping life on earth.

Mathilda learns life - ending ways under the tutelage of Léon Montana (Jean Reno, playing a similar character to his role in Nikita) after her family are murdered by corrupt DEA monster Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman on extraordinary form).

This is an extraordinary take on the routine role - playing formula, although the writing occasionally enters cornball territory.

Emily Blunt delivers an extraordinary performance in the lead role (rather than simply acting drunk, she plays Rachel as an alcoholic desperately trying to look sober), but it feels like she's in a different film — one that isn't marred by soapy plot turns and Taylor's messy direction.

Showing his extraordinary ability to play in both comedy and serious roles, Nighy has been in high demand for the past 20 years in Hollywood, even in voice roles for such animated films as Rango and Arthur Christmas.

The film is yet another reunion with his frequent collaborator Michael Shannon, who takes on an unusually non-malevolent role as a father on the run with his young son, who possesses extraordinary powers, and childhood friend, played by Joel Edgerton.

Wiley Wiggins plays the freshman kid who makes it to the big time party, and Matthew McConaughey appears in an extraordinary role as an older boy who still hangs out with high school kids in an effort to stave off his own mortality.

Even with a predictably strong performance from Day - Lewis, who once again immerses body and soul into his role, the film is a letdown, as is Sheridan's limited use of Breaking the Waves's extraordinary Emily Watson, who plays Day - Lewis's now - married former flame.

But there's a complete avoidance of advertising's questionable strategies and practices, and a disconnect from the role advertising plays in energizing excessive consumerism that has promoted extraordinary and damaging debt.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

«She is an extraordinary institutional citizen, serving on a number of school - and university - level committees and playing an indispensable leadership role in our Mind, Brain, and Education Program.

Hence, due to the character's success in front of audiences, did you maintain / expand his role in Henry IV, Part II because you became connected to this extraordinary character you created, or was it because the actor who played the part was an audience favorite?

Most of all, the students and teachers in our Great Expectations initiative became energetic advocates for the extraordinary role expectations play in teaching and learning.

BBY: We want to continue to play a strong role in challenging expectations and assumptions about African writing and to put the continent on the global map by publishing some of its extraordinary stories.

Winston Churchill played many roles during his extraordinary life.

«We know that Indies play a huge but sometimes under - valued role in local communities, and we want to support their extraordinary efforts in building buzz around books.»

«The whole idea is that if an agent looks at this in its entirety, it is all driven around true guest engagement, and their customer having an unbelievable holiday, and making them recognise what an extraordinary time they are able to have, and the role the person who booked that, the travel agent, played.

The developer has reassured its fans that the world - famous stealth mechanics will still play a pivotal role in the upcoming title, and I'm inclined to trust them, especially after the extraordinary leaps forward made in MGSV in that regard.

Take a look behind the scenes of Game of Thrones, the role - playing game adaptation of George R.R. Martin's extraordinary saga, coming soon to Xbox 360 ®, PlayStation ® 3 and PC.

This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.

These extraordinary materials play the crucial role in Wallace's works and are used with an intention to invoke the aesthetic qualities they are not usually associated with, cleverly deceiving viewers into seeing them as paintings, and not as mixed - media works of art.

Commenting on the political role of AE, Saunders points out: «One of the extraordinary features of the role that American painting played in the cultural Cold War is not the fact that it became part of the enterprise, but that a movement which so deliberately declared itself to be apolitical could become so intensely politicized» (275).

Continually looking forward, the ICA lays claim to extraordinary legacy, being home to the Independent Group, as well as playing a pivotal role in the development of Pop Art, Op Art and Brutalist Architecture.

His crisp, linear works on popular subjects played an important role in the extraordinary increase in visual imagery available to a broad American audience during his lifetime.

The United States has a long history of extraordinary technological achievements in all aspects of life, and the federal government has played a critical role in this process, driven mainly by national security needs.

The Goldmark Award commemorates the extraordinary contributions of former LFW Board president, Charles A. Goldmark, who played a singularly important role in the creation of the IOLTA program, designed to complement state and federal funds that enable low - income people in Washington state access to the civil justice system.

When the family has been unable to fully meet a child's needs, other adults who play a significant role in the child's life have extraordinary potential for influencing the child in taking charge of his or her life.

A specific category would also provide recognition of the unique nature and the extraordinary role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations play in their communities.