Sentences with phrase «public figures such»

The barrister Matthew Scott recently argued that IICSA came into being following «VIP paedophile ring» allegations against public figures such as Lord Brittan and Harvey Proctor.

There may be significant errors underlying the position staked out by public figures such as Cristiana Figueres and climate scientists who ascended to climate wonkdom and became political scientists (I'm thinking of Michael Mann, for example).

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes to Black artists, musicians, and public figures such as Ralph Ellison, Chuck Berry, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Viewers may spot the likenesses of public figures such as Stuart Hall, Thelma Golden or Paul Gilroy, but also portraits of anonymous friends and lovers — dressed up, undressed, and in drag — and views of cluttered bedrooms and city parks.

Enjoy free music at a giant pub in South London, be taken in by two million years of civilization at the British Museum, or be engaged by public figures such as Kofi Annan at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

His subjects range from emergency room doctors and paramedics to public figures such as author Kurt Vonnegut and guitarist Doc Watson.

Klein doesn't add much to existing media profiles of public figures such as Diane Ravitch or Randi Weingarten, and former mayor Michael Bloomberg comes off as steely and demanding, supportive but bland.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

The researchers started by asking Christian volunteers to give their own views on controversial topics, such as abortion, followed by what they thought were the views of God, average Americans and public figures such as Bill Gates.

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

Not exact matches

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies and Dun and Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory will give you vital intelligence on competitors, such as sales figures and the names of a company's chief officers.

The young hackers used SSNDOB to collect data for exposed.su, a Web site that listed the SSNs, birthdays, phone numbers, current and previous addresses for dozens of top celebrities — such as performers Beyonce, Kanye West and Jay Z — as well as prominent public figures, including First Lady Michelle Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and then - FBI Director Robert Mueller.

He was challenged on his show in 2007 by Father Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International, who observed that such a position emanating from a public figure technically fulfilled the requirements for something called heresy.

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.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

The public, then, has a difficult time evaluating a major publication such as U. S. News & World Report (December 22, 1997) when it makes the announcement — for which no source is given — that charitable activity was «up 9.5 percent in two years,» a figure that corresponds to AAFRC figures for that time period.

But the Century was hardly alone in thinking that the crash could teach a much - needed lesson; such public figures as President Herbert Hoover, former President Calvin Coolidge, John Maynard Keynes and Henry Ford thought so, too.

The autobiographies are vocational in the deepest sense; that is, these men and women, even the mystics such as Teresa of Àvila and Teilhard, are public figures deeply committed to the church and to its reformation.

Obama's minions (to include the Boston Globe of course) would accuse Romney of being Jack the Ripper and the captain of the Exxon Valdez if they thought that such accusations would deflect public attention from the unemployment rate and retail sales figures.

Bishops speak of personal encounters with such public figures, in which they have argued, admonished, exhorted, reproached, threatened, encouraged, and begged.

It also sees governments reassuring us, by such measures as public campaigns with cute figures encouraging us to «exercise more».

I am disheartened, however, when influential public figures and my fellow nutrition colleagues fawn over such developments.

While each woman is entitled to her opinion on the topic, such public figures speaking out against breastfeeding photos only serves to remind us that we've been conditioned to believe that breasts are only to be viewed publicly as sexual objects, not as biological vessels for feeding our children.

Other Prime Ministerial powers include those to recommend the appointment of key figures, including peers, religious leaders, top judges and military heads as well as the chairs of public corporations such as the BBC.

They also struggle with appearing representative of the country given the number of millionaires in Cabinet and the public schooling of senior figures, such as David Cameron and George Osborne.

He perhaps has emerged as America's first public figure to spew such hate words even while seeking the mandate to rule over all Americans.

To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states.

Commenting on these latest figures, Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: «The construction industry is now firmly back in recession and, although there are some areas of growth, such as private housing, the overall picture shows an industry clearly suffering from the effects of public sector cuts.

One reader suggested that our political figures, such as Borough President Eric Adams, Assemblymembers Joan Millman and Joe Lentol, and Councilman Steve Levin, would serve their constituents well by directing them to these public forums.

Today we laugh to think there could possibly have been such openly dishonest figures calling themselves «public servants.»

Some good - government groups have been critical of such situations, saying public employees» loyalty should be solely to the public and their government work, rather than private firms and figures.

Conservative MPs have held back from criticising their leader in public, but senior figures such as communities secretary Sajid Javid may well have been hoping that May would take a tougher stance.

Even if his tough medecine turms out to work, he's such a dislikeable figure the public will never take to him — and people like that can really cost their party votes from those who tend to base their vote on personalities

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

Nowadays, says Julie Willems Van Dijk, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute who helps county leaders figure out what to do with the data, public health officials also monitor quality of life and trends in chronic, noncommunicative disorders, such as depression, diabetes and heart disease.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

In speaking with such members of the gay community as U.S. representatives Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank, as well as radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, activist Larry Kramer, and former N.J. governor Jim McGreevey, Dick is able to explore the complexities of leading a double lifestyle, as well as highlight the double standards of a media that has become obsessed with covering the sex lives of gay public figures.

McKinnon has entertained millions of viewers with her critically acclaimed impressions of such notable public figures as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway, Ellen DeGeneres and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday Night Live, earning her two Emmy Awards, a Critics» Choice Award and an American Comedy Award.

Her presence at film festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program «The World» have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems «cinefeminism.»

As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with far scarier convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national discourse has swung into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).

After an epidemic of the mutant babies takes America by storm, parents, such as Jarvis (Michael Moriarty), have become public figures and gained book deals from their trauma.

It's never easy to dramatize such a well - known public figure, but it's harder still to concisely lay out a case for their moral negligence.

«It was extremely meaningful to have a prominent public figure use the spotlight for such a real and not glamorous issue,» she says.

For instance, about 20 percent of public school teachers went to such schools, compared with 36 percent of charter school teachers and 36 percent of private school teachers (see Figure 1).

I am amazed that such public figures would demonize public education, try to induce guilt - trips on parents for opposing school closure, and put forth what is either (at worst) a threat or (at best) really insensitive word choice.

The latest issue of Education Next examines this very issue of how the opinion of the public is influenced by voices of powerful figures, such as the president, in an article entitled «The Persuadable Public&rpublic is influenced by voices of powerful figures, such as the president, in an article entitled «The Persuadable Public&rPublic».

A more recent such tally, by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, put the figure somewhat lower, at $ 12,376 for 2011 -» 12.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.

Notice that this figure conveys conversational spaces that can be public and social, where conventional knowledge can be introduced and explained, as well as private and individual (such as occurs when students read independently or record their thoughts in reading logs, appropriating and transforming what they have learned).

Publicist: someone who generates and manages publicity for a public figure (author), business, or work such as a book or film