Sentences with phrase «than political figure»

And are fictional characters easier to recognize than political figure heads?

He amassed more followers on Twitter than any political figure in the state, aside from House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Not exact matches

Or at least publicly ridicule them all more harshly than the media hounds unpopular political figures.

Our goal, even more than collecting data, was to make students think of administrators like political leaders — as figures who can be challenged and even given the heave - ho.

If you scroll down your Facebook feed for more than two minutes, you're sure to spot some sort of rant about a political figure.

Historically, Jesus WOULD have been considered more of a political figure than a religious figure and study, based on facts, would prove this.

As someone who has participated in more college commencements than he'd care to remember, and who has written and delivered an honorary doctorate citation for a political figure with whom he quite vehemently disagreed, I think I have some advice for my colleagues on other campuses.

One looks in vain in Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Wesley, Edwards, and all the major figures of three centuries of Protestant writing, for any more than incidental treatment of the problems of the economic, political and legal structures of life.

I figured I was safe since political dramas aren't typically my thing, and I couldn't possibly see Bradley Whitford (aka Josh Lyman) as anyone other than the bad guy in Billy Madison.

Federal prosecutors are calling for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to be sentenced to time in prison longer than any other political figure in recent history.

I was mostly speaking to a mentality than a reality and there are many a political figure who in the states who want to scale back to a more pre-WWII neutral stance where we don't interfere in other nations affairs.

The anonymous Labour figure who spoke to Huff Po today saying that Labour support drifting to Ukip was softer than Tory support may have had an interesting political point, but it spoke volumes about the party's mentality.

Incidentally you can check the figures in your new chum Peter Oborne's book the Rise of Political Lying in which he charts the addiction of New \ Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse than the Conservative s Party I think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire....)

Trump will embark on his first foreign trip as president Friday less as an anti-Obama figure than as a latter - day Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton — a wounded president fleeing political storms at home for an uncertain welcome overseas.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

The NYT determines there is «near - universal agreement,» that though de Blasio is «on more of a glide path to re-election in New York City than any mayor in a generation, he is still struggling to project his political voice in a job that has long produced towering national figures.»

There was never a better chance than in 1981 when four substantial national figures launched a left - of - centre party built on principles of social justice and internationalism in a yawning political vacuum, with Labour and Tories at their most extreme.

... More than Ken Livingstone's disastrous campaign, this hypocrisy, this abject political cowardice by Labour's senior political figures will be the real travesty.»

Few figures in recent British political history have a more divisive reputation than Dr. Richard Beeching.

It features a slew of political and Hollywood figures — including NYC Mayor Bloomberg, former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee, and the Bush twins (Barbara and Jenna)-- all but dropping the f - bomb to raise awareness about famine in the Horn Africa, where more than 30,000 children have died in just three months.

It seems every politician wants to take a stand against crime and criminal activity and every candidate wants people to think they aren't criminals and thus people should have respect for political figures, but when push comes to shove, actions speak louder than words, and right now everyone remains silent.

But ultimately she was both too new to the area and too liberal for much of the district — even though a portion of it featured some of Teachout's best results during her 2014 gubernatorial bid — and attack ads may have had a larger effect on her than on a longtime resident and political figure in Faso.

Less than 24 hours after Dylan Byers broke the story of five women accusing political journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment, the CNN journalist tweeted: «Today alone, 5 people reached out w / sexual harassment allegations against 5 different media figures.

You'd struggle to find a political figure more dedicated to tackling educational disadvantage than Baroness Sally Morgan.

Spota, who has arguably been Suffolk County's most formidable political figure for more than a decade, has faced recent demands that he resign amid increasing scrutiny of his office and how he has exercised his authority.

A political broadcast on the eve of the election has been described to me by senior Scottish Labour figures as one of the worst they had ever seen: focusing on damning Nicola Sturgeon as a «broken record» rather than emphasising a positive Labour message.

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

He made more than $ 200,000 in 2013, according to payroll records, and at least another $ 62,000 as the county's Conservative Party chairman, a position that has made him an influential political figure in Suffolk County.

Newsday identified more than 100 of these political figures who have had at least one family member on a public payroll in Nassau County since 2015.

More than a half - dozen consultants and firms earned six - figure sums during his nine - month campaign, the eyebrows of political veterans.

The full results of the poll haven't been published on the YouGov website yet, but it looks as though they will reinforce the idea that if any political figure has gained from this Olympics — other than Seb Coe — it is Boris.

Ms Yingluck is one of more than 100 political figures summoned by the army.

After again making the statistical adjustments listed above, students in secular private schools scored substantially higher on the political tolerance index than students in assigned public schools, while students in religious / non-Catholic schools scored substantially lower (see Figure 2).

I too find that our national conversations about improving education become mired in political considerations and surface features of schools, rather than in figuring out how to improve instruction and social services for ALL students.

«This enhanced edition contains more than an hour of video from the archives of NBC News featuring some of television's most memorable appearances by major political figures in U.S. history including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Barack Obama among many others.»

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

Let's face facts: A well - written long post about a political figure will get less interaction on social media than a meme that features a short sentence on a cropped photo of the person in mid-sneeze.

Whether we are discussing the struggles of an entire nation such as Greece or following the political rumblings of a high - profile figure such as Donald Trump, we do more than simply gloss over news snippets.

The couple divorced in 1998, but for more than 20 years, 3030 Chain Bridge Road was an engaging salon where a national roster of artists and curators felt at home, and a dynamic mix of political, cultural, and education figures regularly gathered to socialize, solve problems, and raise money for various campaigns and causes.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

In the late seventies, however, he produced more than a hundred portraits of public figures, among them political leaders, dictators, and religious figures.

No less a figure than the artist Hans Haacke — whose long - standing commitment to rendering transparent economic, social, and aesthetic structures throughout culture has led him to be immanently associated with the paradigm — used the phrase «consciousness industry» as early as the mid-1980s to describe the sophisticated networks of institutional support necessary to make visible ostensibly adversarial avant - garde artistic gestures.4 Works seeking to emphasize the moral, political, and intellectual forces that determine and enforce culture, he observed, were nevertheless dependent on a museum or gallery platform designed to privilege aesthetic experience.

This figure is quite arbitrary, based on his understanding of the political reality possibly more than of climate science.

For more than a decade the wind industry and its political enablers have trotted out mythical figures, all based on fanciful modelling, claiming that the total cost of renewable power to consumers is less than -LSB-...]

In 2011, FrontPageMag writer David Swindle examined how Wikipedia entries describe polarizing political figures from the left and the right — and found sections detailing «controversies» among right - leaning figures were vastly longer than those of left - leaning figures:

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

The sad reality is that a succession of political figures, civil servants and complacent companies have preferred to sit on the sidelines than enjoin the fight.

«For nine months, Backpage.com has respectfully, and repeatedly, asked the Senate to take the steps necessary to permit Backpage.com to obtain a review of the constitutional issues by judges, rather than by the same political figures who issued the subpoenas

WASHINGTON — Facebook on Wednesday said that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to President Trump during the 2016 election — a figure far higher than the estimate of 50 million that had been widely cited since the leak was reported last month.