Sentences with phrase «political prominence»

Clearly a person of political prominence in Kenya (among other notable attendees, the Canadian High Commissioner spoke at the book launch), Mr. Miguna appears to have many supporters and detractors active in both traditional and social media.

It's not often I find myself daydreaming of rising to political prominence in a third - world banana republic somewhere; in fact, that's never run through my mind.

Rhode Island Governor - elect Gina Raimondo rose to political prominence engineering a difficult pension reform in the Ocean State back in 2011.

Someone whose father Rawlings brought into political prominence?

Pirro would go on to gain his own political prominence as chairman of the Onondaga County Legislature, and later as only the second elected Onondaga County executive.

(Hochul rose to political prominence by opposing licenses as Erie County clerk.)

Ms. Moskowitz's political prominence carried a cost: Other charter school leaders have expressed reservations about her seemingly endless appetite for combat with City Hall.

Many years ago, a local San Francisco city politician who has since gone on to national political prominence was at a rally.

Even then His disciples did not completely understand Him; they thought of the Kingdom in terms to which their earlier education had conditioned them, the restoration of that realm in which, centuries before, their ancestors had had a few decades of political prominence.

Kupchan considers how those principles associated with the West — democracy, capitalism, and secular nationalism — will continue to endure as new states outside the Western world gain greater economic and political prominence.»

But there the crusty pol and the personable young professor recently raised to political prominence were, going on and on about the minutiae of which health care plan will give more money and choice to the middle class and who voted for what and when in the fetid world of senatorial maneuverings.

Many a Senator and Congressman owe their political prominence to a popularity born and nurtured during these celebrations, and when a grand barbecue is on the tapis, there is no man quicker to respond with his money and his influence than the politician.

Mr Heath made the quote in the early 1970s - when the green movement first came to political prominence:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on her slow and steady rise to political prominence: «I'm very ambitious.

When Gordon Brown first came to political prominence he was a very different figure to the man who says he will leave the Labour leadership by the autumn.

Andrei Ujicâ's documentary The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, for instance, used extensive footage of the notorious Romanian leader not to probe into the man's inner life, but to subversively present an extended version of his brand of public pageantry over the course of his decades of political prominence.