Sentences with phrase «played leading roles»

Prior to his screen work, Handler played leading roles in seven Broadway productions, among them the world premiere production of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, I HATE HAMLET, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, BROADWAY BOUND, and MASTER HAROLD... AND THE BOYS.

That early success and love of teamwork foreshadowed an illustrious career in which Smith has played leading roles as an educator, administrator and particle physicist.

Witze noted that one of her stories «allowed me to explore the rich history of Pluto exploration in advance of the historic New Horizons mission flyby — with the added twist of a brother / sister pair of researchers, each of whom played leading roles in uncovering the secrets of Pluto.»

David Cameron calls him the «big man» and he played leading roles in the victories of 1st May and at Crewe and Nantwich.

He has published seminal works on blood pressure management through his role in the BPLTTC and played leading roles in a series of trials that define the clinical management of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

While Mason has been strumming away, Groupon has been banking on Lefkofsky to play the lead role in an epic comeback story.

But even Apple, which has played a leading role in the watch's wardrobe displacement, clearly sees the merits of a wearable clock.

BlackBerry wants to push beyond communications into mobile computing, and eventually play a leading role in the «Internet of Things,» the term for a predicted revolution in which many ordinary objects will be given computing power.

Noto has played a leading role in directing the company's product vision, especially in shaping the platform's future around live video streaming.

Ms. Lowe played a leading role in the agency's rate - rigging cases.

Musk — who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar - energy company — unveiled what he has called the «alpha» version of the Hyperloop plan in a blog post on Monday.

She played the lead role in managing Europe's debt crisis, keeping the EU intact while setting even Greece on the road to recovery.

A panel of Canadian CEOs recently expressed their views on financial literacy in a poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., and 51 % said schools should play the lead role in building the country's foundation of knowledge.

Forbes reported late Tuesday that Thiel, an early backer of Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal, had played a lead role in financing the litigation.

Yet the anti-export sentiment is especially problematic, some economic experts argue, because exports have played a leading role in the economic recovery.

Russell Simmons may not have invented rap music, but he did play a leading role in its astonishing success.

In the past, the companies have played a leading role in supporting the rules.

As a founding member of the Fair Tax Coalition, The Vancouver Board of Trade played a lead role in achieving a one - per - cent reduction in business property taxes, bringing the total tax reduction to 10.2 per cent.

«Russia will continue to play a leading role.»

In the early 1980s, Currie played a lead role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta.

Investors rallied behind Ethereum after Google co-founder Sergey Brin credited the digital currency with playing a leading role in the technology renaissance.

This group meets twice a decade to study ways to improve the nation's multifaceted financial system, and has historically galvanized the nation's financial institutions into action, playing a leading role in China's domestic and foreign fiscal policies.

The resurgence of U.S. shale production has played a leading role in delaying the market rebalancing.

As a final note: As we saw last year, Canadian companies are also playing a leading role as deal brokers for clean energy projects beyond our borders.

Knowing where you can play a lead role in owning the audience's attention will help you fill your editorial calendar with impactful content that helps you meet your business goals.

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

And play a lead role in arranging sharing of all market data necessary for financial - stability analysis, which is now managed in silos.

To be sure, global policy liquidity has played the lead role in pushing asset prices to new highs, with strong correlations across both risk - free and risky assets.

Rep. Mike Conaway (R - Texas) played a leading role in the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation.

We favour Canadian participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership and we encourage our Governments to take the hard decisions that will allow us once again to play a leading role in global trade policy development.

«I've been talking about UBI for years,» said Rocky Fernandez, Region 5 director for the California Democratic Party and district director for State Senator Bob Wieckowski, who played a leading role in getting UBI included in the platform.

She played a leading role in the regular UK - China Economic and Financial Dialogues, and Prime Ministerial Summits, and the once in a decade President Xi's visit to the UK, and helps develop policy objectives as well as inward and outward investment opportunities between the UK and Asia.

We will continue to play a leading role in examining the impact of international reforms on the Asia Pacific region with an aim of identifying common interests and fostering cross-border collaboration.

Jeff was promoted into his current role in January 2013, where he is responsible for managing the global Glass Lewis sales team, marketing, and plays a lead role in developing and managing relationships with strategic partners.

Other technologies like autonomous vehicles, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and the internet of things will all surely play leading roles in shaping this new era as well.

This country can play a leading role in nudging Washington and Beijing toward co-operative global institutions, such as a revised IMF and World Bank, and an enlarged AIIB that sustains the global liberal order.

The end game being creating experiences that provides a stage in which buyers can play a leading role.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

Also the oppositions to a dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process theology and feminist theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process theology.

Such tendencies spurred the orthodox party to muster enough strength to play a leading role in the defeat and assassination of Dara Shikoh at the hands of his brother Aurangzeb, who was his rival for the throne.

The irony of the film was that Vanessa Redgrave, a sympathizer with the Palestine Liberation Organization, played the lead role of the French - Jewish cabaret singer, Fania Fenelon.

Iqbal not only prepared the necessary intellectual atmosphere for the Pakistan movement but also played a leading role in the agitation for Pakistan.

Birbiglia himself plays a leading role along with Keegan Michael Key (Key & Peele) and Gillian Jacobs (Community) in this funny, heartfelt look at making things up as we go along.

The far north of European Russia is showing strong signs of a religious revival in which the laity are playing a leading role, according to two researchers at Keston Institute, Sergei Filatoy and Roman Lunkin.

Evangelicals played a leading role in the banning of alcohol in the United States during the Prohibition era.

He is named first in Paul's list of witnesses, and he is given special mention in the Gospels of Mark, Luke and John.39 The fact that Peter seems to have played a leading role in the primitive church could have been due to the fact that he was the first to «see» the exalted Jesus.

, the establishment of incipient Syrian power in Damascus under Rezon to the north (11:23 f.), and, from the very center, the early insurrection of the Ephraimite Jeroboam (11:26 - 28) who, upon Solomon's death, played a leading role in the North's secession from Israelite union.

He played a leading role in developing the nation's two most influential evangelical seminaries, Fuller in California and Gordon - Conwell in Massachusetts.