Sentences with phrase «poster child for this»

Now, three years later, the school could be a national poster child for school improvement.

She's a perfect poster child for the topics I'd like to discuss today.

My sister is the actual poster child for all of this.

Smart security cameras are the new poster child for smart homes, now that smart lighting has more or less become normal.

The gas revolution is a good poster child for the importance of technological innovation.

Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti serve as poster children for such arguments.

This is a truly, truly poster child for what is to come.»

«There is widespread appreciation of MASS MoCA's effective economic impact — it is something of a national poster child for how the arts and creativity can be generators of jobs and economic growth,» state Representative Gailanne Cariddi (D - North Adams), who represents the northern Berkshires, said in a statement.

Reporters, Internet columnists and even some scholars began parading Gutenberg before the public as a kind of poster child for...

He quips, «I am the ideal poster child for why our veterinary schools should continue to be comprehensive in their education.»

Brodsky's campaign manager Jon Lipshutz said the Westchester assemblyman, whom the Post dismissed as «an Albany fixture» and «reflexive gadfly» and hit for being too close to «poster child for Albany dysfunction» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, would have gone to speak to the paper «if we were invited.»

In addition to Locke, young - adult author Amanda Hocking is the other main poster child for self - publishing: just 26 years old, she started publishing her own books through the Kindle platform last year after being repeatedly rejected by traditional publishers, and has since sold more than $ 2 million worth of her novels.

Jeff Who Lives at Home Jay and Mark Duplass, once poster children for the Mumblecore movement, are edging nearer and nearer the mainstream, and from all I've heard, it's working out pretty well for them.

Common Cause celebrated former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s conviction, calling him the «poster child for corruption and the wholesale flaunting of our campaign finance and ethics laws.»

Then, just as her husband used their son Dante as a prop when he spoke in December about the dangers that the police pose to young black males, McCray trotted out their daughter Chiara to be the city's poster child for recovery from depression and substance abuse.

BPA, in turn, is becoming this year's poster child for all our doubts and fears about the safety of plastic.

The company is a carefully chosen poster child for Obama's stimulus plans: While so many manufacturers struggle with slowing sales, Cardinal Fastener is growing and adding staff, thanks to its focus on the green energy industry.

New York State has become the national poster child for cigarette tax evasion and bootlegging.

But although Germany is the world's poster child for renewable energy, its grids can not yet cope with the erratic nature of wind and solar power.

Despite being a prohibitively expensive and unproven technology, it has become the new poster child for clean coal.

That program has transformed Germany into a global poster child for green energy.

Agatha was the inspiration for my founding a company called Agatha's Apothecary, she's the sometimes reluctant four - footed canine poster child for my passion to help dog owners find the tools to keep their much - loved pets healthy.

It's also home to some dangerous coal ash ponds — in other words, it's an ideal poster child for the nastiness of coal.

Predictions: Job Simulator has pretty much become the social media poster child for VR over the last year, so it's got a good shot at bringing down Overwatch.

In addition to my reputation as an award winning resume writer, I also happen to be «poster child for job - changers,» I understand firsthand the dreams — and worst nightmares — of my clients who are making transitions.

Our financial sector may be the world's poster child for industry prudence and stability, but that doesn't necessarily help them stand out to the average Canadian consumer.

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

You might recall EpiPen as last year's poster child for out - of - control drug prices.

He is Scripture's poster child for perseverance.

«I was involved in the Hampton Creek / Unilever extravaganza and that became the next poster child for updated regulations,» she says.

Considering Williams once referred to herself as a «poster child for plastic surgery», this seems like a poorly thought - out attack.

Pardon my cynicism, but I spent 3 decades with the Department of Health, Andy's poster child for runaway, out of control metastisizing of one State agency with one very important mission into a bazillion boards, commissions, off - budget private corporations (HRI) etc., etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Poster child for brain - dead TV - buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via «independent expenditure» groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political operatives expect that candidate allies will try to...

Quickly, though, establishment Democrats began quietly complaining that Ellison might be too progressive — and that his past could make him a fundraising poster child for the Republican Party.

To call a former Vice President of Nigeria the «poster child for political harlotry and master of the double cross... and that «his loyalty is for the highest bidder» goes beyond the boundary of civility.

Darn it, I'm a flipping poster child for what a healthy fifty plus woman looks like.

Heche's hyper - publicized former relationship with actress and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres was particularly notable — and refreshing — for its degree of openness, something that made the two women veritable poster children for gay pride in Hollywood and elsewhere.Born in the small town of Aurora, OH, on May 25, 1969, Heche was raised as part of a fundamentalist Christian family.

Producer J.J. Abrams — director of the feverishly overvalued «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» and poster child for overwrought mystery box marketing — has done the project no favors with his involvement.

We then see Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a brain surgeon, get abducted by sole Jigsaw survivor — and poster child for Stockholm Syndrome — Amanda (Shawnee Smith) to take care of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), who's now on death's door.

With its faster pace and stress on shooting over scavenging, King of the Kill boasts an active and hotly competitive community of players, and has gone on to become something of the Battle Royale poster child for eSports tournaments and events.

Supporting actors include: Chris Pratt («Parks & Recreation») as Scott Hatteberg, poster child for sabermetrics; Robin Wright as Beane's ex-wife; and fantastic writer / director Spike Jonze (came0) as Wright's zenned - out new husband and the polar opposite of Beane.

Whether the image is of a frail, pitied person in leg braces (think poster child for a telethon) or of the inspirational disabled person (think quadriplegic who summits Kilimanjaro), there's a failure to accept and value disabled people as they are.

«The Mary Walker leadership team is the high - functioning poster child for doing this well, and the results are there,» said Mike Siebersma from the Education Northwest's Success Now!

Jeep Renegade: «Extremely functional, unexpectedly capable off - road, and an excellent poster child for Jeep's personality.»