Sentences with phrase «powerful men»

Silver became one of the most powerful men in state politics during his 40 years in the seat.

My fellow actresses stood by me and stood up for me, my activist friends taught me to use my voice and the most powerful men in charge, they listened and they acted.

In this instance, however, his concern was on behalf of powerful men who have faced public allegations of gender violence and sexual harassment.

A did - he or didn't - he exploration of the legal system and our attitudes toward powerful men who commit crimes against women.

The closely watched lawsuit is unfolding amid heightened public scrutiny of allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men.

It is certainly weird and scary to think one of them may become the most powerful man on earth.

The bill introduced this month in the wake of a flood of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men in a variety of industries includes a provision that would ban confidential settlements.

The development is a similar one for powerful men accused of sexual misconduct.

Connections don't hurt, either, especially shared with powerful men.

I think there are certain kinds of industries where very powerful men have direct contact with young women who need a «yes» from them in order to succeed.

Bigger more powerful men to fry with that type of ideology.

2017 saw a wave of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men across all industries, from entertainment to politics, and the trend has continued into 2018.

These are, unfortunately, garden variety complications in many powerful men's lives, and they are developed here in predictable ways.

It's another of those enjoyable days where you get to watch powerful men brought down.

These are powerful men used to being in charge.

And the world's most powerful man says climate change is real but it is not realistic to expect immediate, urgent action.

These flowers sat between powerful men as they signed agreements designed to influence the fate of the world.

More people are willing and able to speak out on social media to hold powerful men and institutions accountable.

Whenever powerful men stray, we turn wonder, what's going on at home?

Even though this was written before the shift in the narrative, it feels very timely given everything we've learned this year about some pretty powerful men in the world.

While the specifics of the accusations against them are different, the root is the name: These are powerful men who allegedly used their influence to take advantage of vulnerable women.

But it did require being brutally honest with the most powerful man on the planet when there was something that had to be said.

He is the most powerful man in British art — and the most enigmatic.

A very powerful man and one that will most likely prove a big challenge should you face him in the game.

She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men.

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«The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.

The men stumble through a field when they encounter a mysterious, powerful man named O'Neil (Michael Smiley).

As powerful men across an array of industries have been accused of harassing and abusing women, both parties have had to deal with misconduct allegations in their ranks.

Most important of all, consider this: for all the constitutional checks and balances on a US President, the world's most powerful man doesn't have to face up to a weekly Q&A from his peers like our PM does.

Last week, celebrity chef Mario Batali emerged as one of the latest in a long list of powerful men accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace.

It went into wide release on November 10, just over a month after the first Harvey Weinstein story broke, as it was becoming clear that the flood of stories about powerful men who preyed on women with impunity was not going to slow down anytime soon.

Five days after Cuomo delivers his State of the State address, the corruption trial of his former close aide Joe Percoco is scheduled to begin — kicking off a year of fraud and bribery trials featuring once powerful men in Albany and shining a light on economic development spending.

Senator, he was: Pedro Espada Jr., once the third-most powerful man in New York State.

So if powerful men want to credibly apologize for sexual harassment, they can't blame power.

In a key moment in Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing journalism drama «The Post,» Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) is on a nighttime phone call, with several powerful men in her ear telling her, conflictingly, what she should do.

Klein may well believe much of what he's written; powerful men come to believe the myths that they've helped to construct.

Every week, it seems, a new scandal is thrown out into the public space that involves powerful men and the women they abuse, or have their way with and then kick to the curb.

The Times keeps calling Corey Johnson, the new Speaker of the City Council, the second-most powerful man in City government.

The disorientation of a meeting with such powerful men?

Deutch plays Erica Vandross, a proudly irreverent 17 - year - old who uses her sexuality to extort money from older, ostensibly powerful men who take advantage of people.

At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties and decrees determining some of the gravest issues of our time, powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and represented institutions.

Columbo usually investigated murders by rich, powerful men so arrogant that they failed to realize that their guilt was obvious to Columbo.

«The world's most powerful man seems to have lost his market - moving mojo,» Ritholtz wrote.

Christmas is the celebration of the birthday of Jesus Christ, who is the most powerful man ever born in mankind.

The change in Hollywood after the fall of Weinstein and other powerful men inspired words of solidarity from TV winners Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern of «Big Little Lies,» Elisabeth Moss of «The Handmaid's Tale» and Rachel Brosnahan of «The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.»

Early in the film, the Under - Secretary - General of the U.N. (Fana Mokoena), who seems to be one of the most powerful men left alive, tells Gerry that entire cities have fallen to the creatures, and he is the only one who can save the planet.