Sentences with phrase «powerful as critics»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

It involves a powerful company, a cocksure entrepreneur in CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gadfly critics who seemed less wacky as time went by, and even the occasional counter-villain, notably media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Critics say a focus on engagement as the paramount metric and on connecting people as an end in itself are what made Facebook such a powerful medium for disinformation.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Meanwhile, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups and CFPB critics, the Chamber of Commerce, said it will «consider every approach to address our concerns,» which many interpreted as a threat to sue.

That means Millennials can become especially powerful cross-generational advocates of brands — as well as influential critics.

Second - term Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson, who will also serve as Official Opposition Finance Critic, could be a powerful force in this important role.

His has been an inestimably powerful influence containing the centrifugal forces within an evangelicalism that, they believe, is not nearly so unified as either its friends or critics have usually assumed.

And if friction is equated with divisiveness, then the powerful can appeal to Christ's call for unity as a way of silencing critics.

Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

That change in course is seen by some critics (rightly, I think) as a desire to avoid conflict with Big Food — and its powerful lobbying arm — in the midst of a presidential election year.

That change in course is seen by some critics (rightly, I think) as a desire to avoid conflict with Big Food — and its powerful lobbying arm — in the -LSB-...]

In all these ways, the ERG has behaved as though it is above the rules, vocally flouting the basic code of behaviour for ministers, while Theresa May's weakened government pretends that one of its most powerful critics, Rees - Mogg, is really just the chair of a reading group.

Of all the struggles I've encountered while working with others as a life coach and while dealing with my own roadblocks, the inner critic is the most powerful and the most ubiquitous.

Critic Consensus: Donald Sutherland delivers a powerful turn as the titular Getty in Trust, yet another telling of the affluent family's saga.

Critic Consensus: Though its politics are as obvious as its outcome, American Violet is an earnest docudrama about the justice system with a powerful performance from Nicole Behairie.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

Cast as Diana Guzman, the fierce and vibrant protagonist of Kusama's story of a high school girl who takes up boxing, Rodriguez went on to earn almost universal acclaim for her powerful portrayal, winning the admiration of audiences and critics from Sundance to Toronto.Of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent, Rodriguez was born in Bell County, TX, on July 12, 1978.

Joey Berlin, president of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, said in a statement that her work as an actress along with her activism give her a powerful voice, making her the perfect candidate to lead the night.

Joey Berlin, president of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, said in a statement that Munn's work as an actress along with her activism give her a powerful voice, making her the perfect candidate to lead the night.

If film critics were as powerful as the Ranger team claims, they'd be the richest people on the planet, and the rest of us could all go home, because movies would never suck, and they'd all make a billion dollars.

The movie's got the «god» part down: Batman, Superman, and the debuting Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, a delightfully entertaining ass - kicker) come across as all - powerful goliaths, striking the most epic superhero poses this critic has ever seen (Snyder's signature slo - mo, while as excessively implemented as ever, lends itself to characters of this magnitude).

And while Khan Academy's prominence engenders fear of standardization and deprofessionalization among some critics, Bergmann, Sams, and Smith see instructional videos as powerful tools for teachers to create content, share resources, and improve practice.

The story of a deaf girl and her tormentor from elementary school that wants to reconnect has gotten a lot of praise from readers and critics as being powerful and a great read.

Unlike the critics who argue that e-reading still isn't powerful enough to change the publishing industry as a whole, for now the reading public is proving that digital reading is a recognized power player in terms of overall sales.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable could then be seen as a powerful riposte to his critics, a large - scale demonstration that neither Hirst nor the Young British Artists movement with which he was so associated, is a busted flush.

When unveiled at St Paul's Cathedral in London last year, Bill Viola's video installation of the four martyrs was lauded by the art critic Jonathan Jones as «visionary... a powerful modern altarpiece».

In part due to the lasting influence of powerful critics like Clement Greenberg, Abstract Expressionist sculpture has yet to earn the same level of recognition in the art - historical canon as, say, Pollock's splattered canvases or Rothko's color field abstractions.

Two decades later, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire recognized flânerie as the powerful engine of a new art movement in Paris and, inspired by Poe's man of the crowd, promoted it in his landmark 1863 essay «The Painter of Modern Life,» which heralded the arrival of the quintessential artist - flâneurs — the French impressionists.

How could I resist learning that Harris knows both Tony Kushner, the playwright, and Robert Storr, the powerful critic and curator, especially when each comes across as one of the guys?

Abstract Expressionism was being promoted as the «all - American» art which personified the «free world», and in this context many critics found Glasco hard to categorise, and he became uneasy with the accompanying pressures of the increasingly market - dominated and political New York art world, determined by the opinions of a certain powerful group of critics, dealers, collectors and institutions.

Art historians and critics have often been divided between those who dismiss Turrell's work as a New Age techno - spectacle and those who regard his command of optical sciences and artistic practice as a powerful vehicle for raising questions about constructions of «the real.»

Barry Schwabsky, critic and contributor to Artforum, Flash Art, and Art in America elaborates «Andric suggests that the abstract feelings to be found by way of actual places, far from being diluted by compromise, are as resonant and powerful as those without any referent in reality... That Andric's works always show us a place, letting it spread itself out before our gaze, is crucial.

They were noticed by Clement Greenberg, the powerful New York critic who at the time kept a hand in the Washington art scene, and were shown as a group for the first time in a one - person exhibition at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in Manhattan.

Saltz's call for a Richter replica prompted a lengthy discussion, some of which centers on how daring and darling Saltz is, as well as debating the ethics and implications of a powerful critic soliciting a faux - ist work.

In Agnes Martin: Night Sea, art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson offers a powerful point of entry for this casual viewer, using as its starting point the 1963 painting of the book's title, which Hudson identifies as both an exemplary and exceptional work within the artist's oeuvre, «a shimmering realization of control and loss that the artist would never repeat.»

In the end, Siegel's art history has more intrinsic ties to society and how it has evolved than does the art history constructed by critics such as Greenberg, powerful galleries, collectors, and museums.

It «charts the powerful, straightforward story of an artist whose natural gift as draughtsman was second in the 20th century only to Picasso's», writes the Financial Times's critic Jackie Wullschlager.

The review also points to another tendency in Frankenthaler's early reception — particularly in magazines such as Time and Life, which covered the female Abstract Expressionists (or, according to one article, «The Vocal Girls»)-- that emphasized her good looks, privileged background, and alliances with powerful men, among them the critic Clement Greenberg and the artist Robert Motherwell, over considerations of her work.

Art critic Mel Gooding identified 1964 — the date of the earliest paintings in the exhibition — as the moment Hoyland broke away from «playfully cerebral optical ambiguities», and launched his «powerful assertion of the painting itself as a complex object».

Untitled adopts a very different pictorial space from her earlier work, in what some critics have seen as a dramatic and powerful shift.

Subsequently, as a result of comments from critics, I thought it might more likely be something to do with ozone reactions because the earlier proposal seemed unlikely to be powerful enough on its own.

While some critics immediately denounced the map for counting tree plantations as forests, others recognized the value of the map in providing a foundation for more powerful applications to come, including global high - resolution deforestation tracking.

«Greens and GM critics,» says Paarlberg, «argue that powerful new technologies should be kept under wraps until tested for unexpected or unknown risks as well.

The powerful 13 - inch laptop known as Apple» s «Workhorse» slashed everything coming ahead on its way and scored the top place when it came to reviews and specifications by users and tech critics.

Upon launch, critics raved about the Galaxy S8, praising its massive Infinity Display and powerful internals, though also not without criticizing Samsung for some pretty suspect design decisions, such as the fingerprint placed close to the camera.