Sentences with phrase «statesman holding»

Jesse Eisenberg does his overeager pup thing as Ben's student chaperone on a campus visit and for a while the dynamic recalls his breakthrough role in Roger Dodger, with Douglas handing out the dubious advice on dating and sexual politics, but in this case he's just another slice of youth that Ben uses to convince himself he's still young at heart while simultaneously building his ego as the charmer of an elder statesman holding court.

Throughout the book, the understanding and behavior of the statesman holds the center of attention.

-LSB-...] 11.35 am: The New Statesman held a hustings for the Labour leadership candidates last night.

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He is not a politician whose only thought is to gain and hold political power, but a statesman whose central concern is for the right conduct of public affairs.

With Independence, these statesmen had to find a way to secure liberty that balanced popular engagement with a national structure, held together under a rule of law.

Statesmen, with a $ 50 donation, receive a special lapel pin and are invited to the exclusive PAC Statesmen Reception held annually at SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC).

Instead, Salmond holds the SNP's international affairs and Europe brief, an appropriate role for the party's now semi-elder statesman.

He has a reputation as the aggressive, menacing power behind Jeremy Corbyn's throne — but today John McDonnell gave a masterclass performance as reasonable statesman trying to hold Labour together.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

On Sunday, the FSB and New Statesman will be holding an «in conversation» event with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.

But for all the former prime minister's apparent desire to have taken on the retiring SNP leader Alex Salmond's role of holding «Westminster's feet to the fire» over their promises, Brown also showed a statesman - like touch that perhaps the first minister lacks

He is the political editor of the New Statesman, a position he has held since June 2014.

When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman.

With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United States known as Statesman.

Statesmen, with a $ 50 donation, receive a special lapel pin and are invited to the exclusive PAC Statesmen Reception held annually at SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC).

Tibia Plateau holds down the space with a certain weight, like an elder statesman, given Clark's eighteen year fixation on the piece, resting its bones in the corner, watching over the younger works in the room, everything else having been completed this year.