Sentences with phrase «so prominent persons»

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One of the reasons people took Tony Robbins» statements so harshly is because he is a prominent leader in the self - help community.

Warren Buffett, No. 3 on Forbes» list of the world's richest people and most prominent among the low - tax dissenters, wrote an op - ed in The New York Times arguing that, in concert with budget cuts, Washington should raise taxes — especially on dividends and capital gains — for those earning upwards of US$ 1 million a year and even more on the 8,000 or so Americans making $ 10 million and up.

Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to write a book about it, and get 23 prominent church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» classes.

So prominent that most atheists have never heard of this person.

I discovered that mental health practitioners do wonder why religious delusions / hallucinations are so prominent in patients with serious mental health diagnoses, especially schizophrenia — why do the delusions / hallucinations experienced by these persons have a religious theme?

Yeah, even at the time many thought so, but a lot of people also see it as one of the most prominent examples of Gothic art.

A few prominent nutbars like Rand Paul are exploiting the remaining Christian sheep, since it's so easy to manipulate such people, but other Republicans know they can only take that exploitation so far and long term it is not a path to success.

And what they say may be true... But context is often the key to putting forward a message, and Google creates a prominent platform for Wikipedia, and with most of its competitors essentially copying Google — perhaps due to its success; I'm not a «Master Mason» so I wouldn't know all the insider practices of businesses — doesn't Wikipedia end up being the defacto source for «Truth Creation,» that is, the go - to source for those who wish to access a truth becomes a go to source for those with an interest in governing by creating those things which people believe to be true, assuming most people live their own lives according to what they believe...

I do not think so, because the Ijesa, particularly Irogbo community in Ilesa has never denied him or his father, Sheik Ali Aregbesola, and his mother, Iya Olobi is very prominent among her people from the community.

A better practice usually is to include a prominent heading and message bullets, often alongside a smaller frame containing the video, so that people can walk away with SOME part of your message even if they don't stick around.

Frankly, Ed Balls did not exhibit such skills in the BBC programme, and if the other leadership candidates are so good at getting people to do what they want why weren't they more prominent in the coalition negotations?

«A Democratic district leader is a non-paid position... yet so many [prominent] people came out here,» he said.

«Hillary's put so many of her chips in New York — her headquarters, being the senator here — that anything less than a 30 - point win would be tough for her, and her people are telling everyone as much,» said a prominent Democratic operative involved in campaigning.

«Our concern is that there should be a greater independence in the watchdog agency — putting watchdog in quotes — so that it is not merely a substitution of one government agency's judgment for another government agency's, and being subject to the same criticism of some of the issues being swept under the rug,» Mr. Silver said, echoing concerns raised by some prominent advocates for disabled people.

In early 2013, she played a prominent role as one of the hosts for a delegation of 10 people from South Korea who came to UC San Diego for a weeklong series of programs and meetings so as to inform their own plans for national approaches to research ethics in Korea.

Certainly this past year with President Clinton and so many prominent people embracing a plant - based diet has been great, but I think this year's going to be better, and the year after that, even better.

He's 7 now, but when he was a baby it was so prominent I constantly got comments from people that he had some food stuck on him still, or they thought it was a bruise.

NR: [The Board's] charge really has been to give the Alliance a more prominent place in terms of advocacy at the federal level, to have a seat at the table when people are talking about legislation and regulations that impact charter schools, and to also be present when the media is talking about the topic... If the past twenty years have been about growth, the next twenty need to be about taking some of the lessons of the past twenty, so that we continue growing but that we're not making the same mistakes we have in the past.

According to a flier handed out by anti-mascot activists at a Thursday, November 2 meeting of the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, the predominantly white students in the class of 1967 who chose to be represented by Johnny Rebel — a term for a Confederate soldier, and the stage name of a prominent white supremacist musician — did so to send «a clear message that people of color were not welcome at Savanna High School or in Anaheim.»

What amuses Perry is to populate her novels with prominent figures, and give us glimpses inside the lives of the people that made the era so significant in history.

Google has put in a lot of work on improving the look and image of its prominent operating system, Android and so far, they've got people...

Prominent people are so worn down by overexposure I find it hard to really admire any of them.

On the site, have a prominent simple explanation of how it works, and have a «complaints» form also prominent, so hopefully people prone to fly off the handle can be caught early and mollified.

The most recent, high - visibility version of this would be the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, which was supposed to pay back great returns for investors, but ended up wiping out significant sums of money from many prominent (and a much larger number of not - so - prominent) people.

She also knew that it was important for Purrfect Post products to be elegant and attractive, so people would place them in prominent areas of their homes where cats would be happiest to find and use them.

Interestingly the game has dropped the classic cartoony look and feel that both Serious Sam 1 and 2 had making for a more nitty - gritty realistic look to the game with piles of blood added in for good measure, luckily though the fast paced crazy gunplay which was most prominent in First Encounter will be back, so I will be looking forward to taking out legions of headless screaming bomb people once more.

This past February, two prominent New York institutions announced moves within days of each other that respond to the status of the public domain and the political economy of people and goods under the shadow of an accelerating so - called isolationism on the national stage.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Tague's artworks are so large and prominent that they dwarf participants sitting inside of the pyramid and introduce the unsettling idea that the artist has not only invited people to worship their most insidious cultural priority, but him as well.

I'm such a virtuous, right - thinking person» so prominent in the art of right now — gets an occasional look in.

Different topic: we need some type of clearinghouse to announce when prominent or semi-prominent people deny global warming, so people like me will know to ask them if they'll put their money where their mouths are.

A number of reports from prominent non-governmental organizations, including World Resources Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research, have found that forest communities and indigenous forest people are good at protecting the forests they live in, provided they are given the collective right to do so.

It is disturbing that so many prominent persons in a free society are increasingly at ease with ever more coercive and indeed fascistic methods.

So I'll mention it here, to point out once again how there typically is less than 3 degrees of separation between any prominent person who insinuates skeptic climate scientists are crooks, and Ross Gelbspan.

We already have the «I'm homeless, help me» stigma attached to people that are sitting on the side of the street with a cup, so we don't necessary need to make that a prominent part of our banner.

You all know the facts so I'm not going to repeat them in detail: our babies are dying at three times the rate of non-Indigenous babies, our old people are dying s eventeen years earlier than non-Indigenous Australians, and a prominent cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are chronic diseases — most of which are entirely pr eventable.