Sentences with phrase «public figures like»

Another ex-propaganda troll, Marat Burkkhard, was assigned to spreading racist memes about public figures like President Obama.

The paintings — made with different materials including oil, acrylic, silkscreen ink, glitter, and one mushroom — depict various entries in the current US nuclear inventory as well as public figures like Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, Beatrix Ruf, Stefan Kalmár, and the Grinch.

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

Changing My Mind is divided into four sections — «Reading,» «Being,» «Seeing» and «Feeling» — and the essays cover topics ranging from personal experiences traveling the world to authors who have influenced her own writing to thoughts on public figures like Katharine Hepburn and President Obama to advice and lessons on the writing process.

Even if you don't personally know someone who is transgender, there's much greater awareness for gender identity than there used to be, thanks in part to public figures like Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and Jazz Jennings from the TLC reality show I Am Jazz.

Months after the #MeToo movement initially burst onto the scene, new allegations continue to surface against public figures like New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who quickly resigned from office.

America has a long history of strange public figures like him.

This is probably common with people who try to present a certain image to the public, such as public figures like politicians, certain religious figures, swindlers and con men.

Awareness of Twitter's brand has also gotten a boost from frequent tweets by public figures like U.S. President Donald Trump, who is among the platform's most high - profile users.

In the case of a public figure like Palin, Facebook and Twitter provide a chance to tell her story as she wants it told — which does not necessarily mean that the result is the REAL story.

Leveson wants to know if Murdoch thinks there's «a distinction between those who hold themselves out as having a public figure like politicians or like newspaper proprietors and those who don't come into that category, like people's who've achieved fame, made money, because they are very good at what they do.»

With this painting, Jonathan Yeo paid homage to Sienna Miller, and the courage of a public figure like herself to do a sitting in such state.

Not exact matches

While a lot of public places like airports and malls have begun to install charging stations to prevent us being tethered to ground - level outlets, it's time we figure out this wireless charging business.

It was initially available to public figures such as celebrities, but has since expanded to others like journalists and bloggers.

I confess that like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

What's it like being the child of a very public figure?

When I watched that I was like, «Man, I've just lost an enormous amount of respect for him as a person, but as a public figure, and celebrity and entertainer, he hit that out of the park.»

«The best defense to speech that you don't like about yourself as a public figure is to develop a thick skin.

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

That makes support for elite private schools an effective wedge issue that works for parties like Mr. Kenney's UCP — as long as no one figures out the impact of this level of support on public schools.

There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

Tracking an address in this manner is possible with coins like bitcoin because addresses are public and someone could use services that track these addresses to figure out who's sending cryptocoins to a particular address.

While Fluke was giving public testimony, she is not a public figure in anything like the same sense.

«For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BBC.

Join me and publish for years... and when others don't like what we write or how we behave, we can stop the Freedom of Speech, retract that we are Limited Purpose Public Figures, and scrub the Internet clean!

The Court later expanded this holding to include public «figures,» like film celebrities rather than limiting the holding merely to government officials.

Georgetown has historically been politically active, with the list of government officials and politicians who have spoken there reading like a who's who list of American public figures through history.

Only once does Bloom slow down to exegete what he calls the California orange grove Orphism of the New Age of folks like Shirley MacLaine, «the handsomest of the movement's public figures.»

Our public figures — like Mitt Romney — often turn out to be enslaved to the ideas of bloggers and social media mavens.

Ayn Rand, like so many public figures makes good points about many things but falls short about courses of action and relationships with others.

I agree with the general idea that your «pet peeves» are the things you struggle with yourself or are attributes in yourself that you don't like, and that public figures generally preach against their own «pet peeves.»

Like any public figure, Warren has his detractors, from liberals who decry his consistent stand against gay marriage to theological hardliners who believe his motivational brand of seeker - sensitive Christianity sells the gospel short.

It's no surprise that market - setting books like Pinnacle and Bookmaker lead the way with six - figure limits while more public sportsbooks are limiting Super Bowl wagers to significantly lower amounts.

Is their a game or two that look like stone cold public games, that the public figures to be all over?

«We would also like to add a second sheet of ice to offer more rink time to our figure - skating classes, the Jaguar Youth Hockey team, and the public, who have only 1 1/2 hours of rink time on Fridays and Sundays.

So, first I would recommend trying to nail down what it is he does not like about public restrooms and then figure out how to work with his fear; i.e. if he is afraid of the big toilet, consider carrying a reducer.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

(My 10 month old figured out where the boobies are and likes to go looking for them when we're in public!)

It makes sense that a newspaper guy like Capehart would make this observation, since while part of the joy of the blogosphere and Twitter is that they make us all potential journalists, it's the job of trained and experienced reporters to hold politicians and other public figures responsible for their words and actions (how depressingly rarely they do it in practice is a story for another day, and for many a Daily Show segment).

Given that other public figures, like politicians, who actually have some power, were judged influential by only 38 %, it is no shock that religious leaders, who don't, scored so low.

Thus far, however, the UN's intervention has kept itself to the surface of much deeper changes happening in the country and by engaging extremely problematic figures like Abdelhakim Belhadj, it has lost much of its legitimacy in Libya public consciousness.

Did the leaders of non-state organisations (I think of figures like Lech Wałęsa, co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland), or the mental maps of broader publics play as important a role, or were they less critical to the course of international politics?

Kennedy's friendly and generous nature meant he was a widely liked figure both at Westminster and among the general public.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

Now if more of the juries of our peers acted like they had at least half a brain in their heads, we could rid Bronx streets of all shades of criminality, regardless of color, ethnic group, religious affiliation, charitable association, education or diseducation, political power or disenfranchised, bank account of seven figures or unemployed public asistance recipient.

A: Lord Ashcroft says that he likes his privacy, but he must have known that anyone who takes a seat in the Houses of Parliament becomes a public figure, and as a consequence loses the type of privacy enjoyed by people who are not involved in Westminster politics.

Once we factor in spending on the likes of debt interest and benefits, the government's figures show spending on public services will have to be cut between 2011 and 2014.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Like Silver, Heastie's strengths also lie in being an inside power broker, rather than a more public figure or stand out debater in the Assembly.