Sentences with phrase «significant national figure»

Lamont did not shine during the campaign and there have already been calls to replace her with a more significant national figure, perhaps even a current UK MP such as Jim Murphy or even Gordon Brown at some point.

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He was active in the National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP) and was a leading figure in the international council of Atlanta which played a significant part in keeping peace between the races.

To defeat the union movement, they had figured, meant defeating the most powerful and economically significant of their number: the National Union of Mineworkers.

Party figures point to the National Infrastructure Commission - an arms - length body which would take a «strategic» approach to Wales» infrastructure and have access to new financial resources - as a significant achievement and something that was not in Labour's manifesto.

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.

It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up to levels attained during the early 1970s when civil rights cases had a central place on the national political agenda (see Figure 1).

Visitor figures released by the Croatian National Tourist Office (CNTO) reveal a significant increase in visitors to Croatia over the past 8 months.

Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s is organized by the Arkansas Arts Center, the Columbia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum, in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Significant support is provided the Dedalus Foundation.

This is illustrated in Figure 11, which shows this allocation into national obligations with, to give a few prominent examples, the US's share (29.1 %) of the total mitigation requirement appearing as the large red wedge, the EU's share (22.8 %) as the large purple wedge, and China's share (10.4 %) appearing as the smaller but still significant blue wedge.

These figures are a significant improvement over a national position of 28th highest and 2008, once the state saw 4, 223 vehicles stolen, a speed of 237 vehicles per 100, 000 citizens.