Sentences with phrase «stalwarts of»

1998 The Reverend Howard Moody Howard Moody was, according to The Village Voice, «a longtime activist and one of the stalwarts of the religious left.»

Social media and commentators went wild discussing the whopping price tag and whether it made sense for Apple to pit its 18 karat gold model against the stalwarts of the Swiss watch industry.

The erstwhile stalwarts of the smartphone segment — HTC, LG, and Sony — have been relegated to the «others» category, with all three vendors seeing a downturn in their fortunes in 2016.

Sensor Tower Store Intelligence shows that this surge in user growth led Coinbase to surpass stalwarts of the store such as YouTube, Netflix, Google Maps, and Spotify, and double the downloads of Snapchat and Instagram, two of the most heavily downloaded apps on Apple's platform the United States.

I guess the issue that needs to be brought to the forefront is the huge cost, compared to traditional life insurance, that people are paying because they believe that these stalwarts of the older age life insurance business are really there for them.

I first met John Cage in the late 1950s, when he and the painter Robert Rauschenberg were early stalwarts of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

For the coveted gallery exhibition slot during Frieze Week, Hannah Barry chose two stalwarts of her stable: James Capper and Shaun McDowell, presenting solo shows of new work on each of the two floors of the South London gallery space.

Creative Music Workshop Players is an evolving collective of improvisers convened in early 2015 and comprised of stalwarts of D.C.'s experimental music scene including Luke Stewart, Layne Garrett, Nate Scheible, Phong Tran, Patrick Cain, and others.

There are artists working today whose technical skills rival the museum stalwarts of 400 years ago, and there are those who combine humor, satire and the fantastical, along with the likes of Tim Burt

Her paintings convey a profound sense of history, recalling figures such as Mary Heilmann and stalwarts of Modernism, but they shy away from grandiloquence.

The StART Up Art Fair «s Selection Committee, stalwarts of the Southern California scene, seemed to accept the difference between typical art / craft fair staples and what some of us look for in our museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and studio visits with equanimity in the process of the selection of artists.

Other stalwarts of the New York art scene that recently closed locations include Mike Weiss Gallery, CRG Gallery, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, Murray Guy, Kansas, Feuer / Mesler and Lisa Cooley.

Interestingly, given the continued strong growth in the mobile games segment overall, it is not the group of big «pure play» mobile game companies, such as GREE, Gung - Ho, and Mixi, that performed best, but rather some of the traditional stalwarts of the industry, such as Take - Two, Square Enix, and Ubisoft.

The writing has been on the wall for a while, but one of the long - standing stalwarts of the video game console business has announced that it's leaving the market in favor of the world of mobile gaming.

Today we delve a little deeper and take a look at a couple of stalwarts of the Sith Empire and Republic.

And then it's onto picking one of the eleven playable classes, where again there's a familiar selection of things like paladins, thieves, fighters and other stalwarts of the genre, but muddled into the mix are the Chanter and Cipher.

As such, this past week on February 9th, I purchased 25 shares of Emerson Electric (EMR) and 20 shares of Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), two stalwarts of dividend growth.

Ally, one of the stalwarts of the online banking game, has an easy - to - use interface and modern features like chat support and remote check deposit.

Yet many of the original trendsetters and stalwarts of the Christian fiction genre were men: James Scott Bell, Jack Cavanaugh, Frank Peretti, Gilbert Morris, and Michael Phillips.

The new styling is intended to put the Legacy in direct competition with the stalwarts of the segment.

As such, the ATS Sedan is designed to challenge the world's best premium cars while being aimed at stalwarts of the compact luxury sedan segment such as the BMW 3 - Series, Mercedes - Benz C Class Sedan, Audi A4, Lexus IS, Jaguar XE, and Volvo S60.

Audi, stalwarts of the top class of sports car racing since before it was first called Le Mans Prototype 1, exited the category last year, and with Porsche rumored to follow, this could be the final year of a factory - versus - factory, Goliath - versus - Goliath battle for the overall win in the world's most storied endurance race for quite a while.

The stalwarts of this class; Honda Accord, Nissan Altima, and Toyota Camry have a major stronghold.

Before the national stalwarts of the charter school movement settled in a drain New Orleans, a group of city residents who resided on the West Bank of the Mississippi River — Algiers — formed a nonprofit that would eventually be the first organization to open schools.

Even stalwarts of the New Orleans charter movement don't see the placement in a district with an elected board as a threat to school autonomy.

The first part of the film is actually typical of early Arnie, full of the usual 80s suspects such as Bill Duke, Sonny Landham and fellow Governor Jesse Ventura who were all stalwarts of the bone headed action movies of the time.

Fans of the genre and newcomers alike will find the game to have a certain charm, but frustrations will creep in and I found myself appreciating the stalwarts of the genre even more by the time I saw the end credits.

The Half Blood Prince is a hugely significant book in the series, and whilst it is tempting to lament some things not given enough time or emphasis in the film as they are in the novel — like Greyback the vile werewolf, the abominable Bellatrix, old stalwarts of the Order of the Phoenix and Ron's Quidditch insecurities (although the main Quidditch scene is satisfying, particularly the final save by Ron)-- one must remember a conceptually vast 500 + page novel is being distilled into a two and a half hour film.

Three stalwarts of made - for - TV productions — Harry Hamlin, Michael Ironside, and Steve Railsback — team up for this erotic thriller.

But stalwarts of the Old Lizard Guard remained — until another extraordinary discovery in the mid-1990s.

The stalwarts of New York's progressive political coalition join in the singing, along with Patrick Gaspard, the former White House political director under President Obama, Senator Chuck Schumer, and the four Democrats running for mayor.

Makinde while throwing his weight behind the zone to produce the next National Chairman of the party, remarked that he was not in support of imposition either to impose older generation or younger generation on the party as being championed by some of the stalwarts of the party.

Stalwarts of political parties yesterday met with the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, advising him against going ahead with the controversial 30,027 additional polling units created by the Commission he heads.

Stalwarts of political parties yesterday met with the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, advising him against going ahead with the controversial 30,027...

The aspirants, while resisting the list that emanated from the purported primary of the party held recently in a hotel in Ibadan, the state capital, declared that they were surprised that the governor and some stalwarts of the party supervised the party's primary in a hotel, a decision they likened to what happened in George Orwell's political satire, «Animal Farm».

Stalwarts of opposition political parties in Oyo State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and Action...

He was accompanied by Mr Kweku Richet Hagan, Regional Minister, Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs, Regional Chairman of the NDC as well as other stalwarts of the Party.

The rally brought together stalwarts of the party and hordes of supporters.

She's also earned the support of stalwarts of the Democratic coalition such as the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and her employers at the New York State Nurses Association, which made a big investment in helping the party win a majority in 2014.

The governor said the new plot was in furtherance to his earlier allegation that Fayemi, in cahoots with leaders and stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti and Abuja, were seeking to return to power through the backdoor, by enlisting a section of the Judiciary to revisit the 2014 governorship election in the state.

Political stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday brought glamour to the 70th birthday anniversary of one of the loyalists of former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, Cardinal James Odumbaku.

But some stalwarts of the APC in Rivers State have described the statement credited to Senator Wilson Ake as «everything wrong with Nigerian politics.»

All these District Chief Executives who are stalwarts of the party at the district level and the constituency level, the Ministers of State [he appointed], that is an organisation.

Stalwarts of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have been left in tears and equally opened fire on President John Dramani Mahama, over his recent politically - charged big blows directed at their three - time flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, during his nationwide campaign tour.

Few months after the elections, some stalwarts of the NDC have called on the former president to stage a comeback in the 2020 elections.

The Colombian defender came to Inter Milan from Granada over the summer, but has already become one of the stalwarts of Mancini's defense.

If this change is being pushed by the pro-style stalwarts of the college game, it's one of the more short - sighted tactics we've seen in recent years.

Frenchman Maurice Trintignant was one of the stalwarts of the early days of F1, indeed for a few years he held the record for most GP entries.

Between them, they've won 50 out of 60 Major tournaments in the last 15 seasons and become stalwarts of a sport that is reticent to let them go.

As great as that show would be, the DMV pulled out, Kutcher is suing, and these two stalwarts of creative ingenuity and governmental efficiency are battling it out.