Sentences with phrase «prominent citizens of»

As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.

In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.

She was daughter of Martín Amador, one of the most prominent citizens of the Mesilla Valley.7 In May 1908, García was preparing to build a house on land he owned facing the railroad depot by having a supply of adobes made.8 As time went by, he acquired numerous pieces of property throughout Las Cruces and Mesilla Park.

Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa was founded in 1867 by 15 prominent citizens of Des Moines, Iowa.

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A Lesson in Skepticism A couple of generations ago (1938) a prominent citizen of Monroe was confronted by his frantic wife, «I have heard on the radio that the Martians are invading.

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Mr. Whitehead was one of New York's most prominent citizens.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzer conquered the Kingdom of Judah and many of its prominent citizens were taken into captivity in Babylon starting in 605 BCE.

At the same time the Star of David held a prominent place in its heraldry and the Jews were considered its most loyal citizens.

As a Roman citizen, either because his family had been prominent in the service of the Emperor or because they had paid a large amount of money for the privilege, Saul would have indirectly absorbed the predominant Greek philosophy.

The priesthoods were reserved, in most instances, for the more prominent citizens, and at Rome the emperor himself expressed his religious function in the rôle of pontifex maximus.

We also call on the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs to stamp its feet on this seemingly creeping tribally motivated hate speeches being made by prominent citizens from the Region.

In Britain, infrastructure investment programmes are now prominent features of both the main political parties» programmes, while proposals for a universal citizen's income, a monthly payment to every citizen by right and the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to help cover the state's liabilities for vital public goods continue to gain traction.

That college trustees, themselves some of our more prominent citizens, may begin acting more like stewards of the institution they serve — yea, even as student advocates!

Both concerned citizens and prominent politicians were able to ask questions and voice opinions at last night's debate on merging Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse.

«It will protect the citizens of the state of New York who have every right to be protect and bring a claim because of the negligence of others,» said E. Stewart Jones, a prominent attorney who supports the measure.

A prominent component of relevant case law is the Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled unconstitutional certain restrictions on corporate campaign spending during elections.

«Billion - dollar personnel costs in both counties should not only push officials to make some tough decisions here, but get citizens to demand action and realize this problem is one of the big reasons Long Island is so unaffordable,» said Doug Kellogg, communications director for Reclaim New York, a Manhattan - based government watchdog group chaired by Rebekah Mercer, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.

The EFCC had commenced investigating Azibaola last year sequel to a list sent to the commission by a committee set up by the Federal Government to probe contracts awarded by the ONSA from 2011 to 2015 which indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, including serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Mr. Coleman, 65, an attorney and a prominent legislator for decades — currently the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and vice chairman of the Public Safety and Security Committee — has been a strong supporter of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Second Chance Society reforms that aim to reduce the number of people going to prison and give people in prison second chances at being productive citizens.

They're the two most prominent citizens in the frontier town of Presbyterian Church, which, despite its scenic mountain setting, is shot by Vilmos Zsigmond as relentlessly dour and close, all sepia brown and soaked in palpable stink.

Vaughn, a man seemingly without a past, has only been in the coastal community of Southport, Maryland, two years but is already one of its most prominent citizens and has been named Man of the Year.

This mace, a ceremonial symbol of authority of the town's most prominent citizens, was originally made in the late AD 1400s for Stratford - upon - Avon's Guild of the Holy Cross.

More prominent citizens, professors of education, and veteran teachers in the «protected» districts need to begin speaking out.

The problem is that not one of them can be classed as a prominent citizen.

When Billy Wood, a young artist's male model, is found murdered, it appears to be «a death of no importance», but because of Oscar's sharp deductive and reasoning skills, it becomes quite important to a number of prominent British citizens.

Beneath the seemingly placid surface, Corbett finds a literal reign of terror, and although he is a hometown boy, white and the son a prominent citizen, he finds himself in just as much danger as the black community.

British citizen R. H. Naylor, a prominent early twentieth - century astrologer, is widely credited as having birthed the tabloid versions of horoscopes.

The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.

The Bretton Woods Committee is the nonpartisan network of prominent global citizens, which works to demonstrate the value of international economic cooperation and to foster strong, effective Bretton Woods institutions as forces for global well - being.

Therefore, instead of passing unfair, ineffective laws, NAIA advocates developing animal control programs that encourage dog owners to properly socialize, train, and care for their dogs, so that they can become good canine citizens and remain prominent members of the cultural landscape.

Under the leadership of prominent Wichita citizens Mrs. David V. Walker and Mrs. Joseph S. Prestridge, the Society's first real shelter was built in the 1920's at Lincoln and Oliver.

This committee became the Ocean Front Hotel Corporation (OFHC), a group of twenty - four local businessmen and prominent citizens.

Finally, José de la Guerra, the pueblo's most prominent citizen, convinced Pacheco to allow a handful of prisoners ashore to perform odd jobs.

The Captain Stirling Walk meanders for two kilometres (1.2 miles) past the beautifully restored 1841 Rose & Crown Hotel, Western Australia's oldest continually operating pub; the 1896 - built Guildford Grammar School, which has schooled many prominent Australian citizens; and the school's Chapel of St Mary and St George, one of the finest examples of gothic architecture in Australia.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of Omaha's historic Gold Coast District's most recognized landmarks, the 10,200 square foot home was built by prominent citizens Charles and Bertha Offutt, after whose son the nearby Offutt Air Force Base was named.

The hotel is made up of sixteen elegantly appointed rooms, each named for a prominent citizen or family in Natchez history.

Mushroom Kingdom citizen Toad, a prominent member of the Toad community, is speaking out against what he calls a «wackification» of a «perfectly sensible way of doing things».

Turns out the man was none other than John Armstrong, a prominent local citizen [He's currently running for District Attorney], and the owner of the winery I mentioned in my last post.

The final part of the exhibition presents a show within the show curated by a prominent contemporary industrial designer, featuring spy tools used by the GDR and the Soviet Union on their citizens: technological instruments capable of breaking down the barriers of the private sphere, selected for the prophetic beauty of their rational design as related to contemporary computers and smartphones.

Citizens for Affordable Energy ($ 315,000) promotes an all - of - the - above approach to the U.S. energy supply, and, on one page of its website, does promote a book by prominent skeptic Chris Horner, but otherwise avoids the Warming issue.

Long considered one of Kenya's most prominent and outspoken activists, Maathai, who also spent a term in Parliament, has advocated for ordinary citizens to participate in environmental stewardship.

The Gertler Law Firm also was a leader in a group of prominent Louisiana law firms that obtained a groundbreaking and unprecedented judgment against the tobacco industry, which ordered the tobacco companies to establish a $ 241 million cessation program for the citizens of Louisiana.

The government, in its white paper «The process for withdrawing from the European Union», identified the following prominent examples of areas as being of interest to UK citizens living in the EU so as to have to form the subject of negotiations in the context of agreeing a withdrawal agreement, whether by way of transitional provisions or a permanent new «future relationship» between the EU and the UK:

After all, Southern Louisiana has taken costly beatings that have driven up insurance for citizens across the board — 2005's Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Gulf oil spill were but two of the most prominent disasters.

The Council is a national, bipartisan group of five organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, business executives, pastors, and prominent coaches and athletes who promote solutions that ensure our next generation of Americans will be citizen - ready.