Sentences with phrase «tumultuous first»

«I suspect it hasn't been a priority in this very tumultuous first year of the Trump Administration,» said Kent Scheidegger of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California, who supports the changes.

Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.

It's been a tumultuous first ten years for the Welsh Assembly, which - despite its reliance on coalition government - has produced some markedly different policies to England.

With a staff full of licensed therapists and professionals experienced in working with children and families, the Wright Mommy and Me offers classes aimed at nurturing both Mama and Baby and helping you both through the often - tumultuous first year and beyond.

After a tumultuous first half where City were 2 - 0 up at half - time and had many chances to score more, United came out in the second - half with a point to prove and a comeback to start.

They claimed that the gospels do not describe Jesus» appearance or personality or his setting within the sociopolitical and historical events of the tumultuous first century.

This account of Trump's tumultuous first days in office comes from interviews with nearly a dozen senior White House officials and other Trump advisers and confidants, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations and moments.

«It was a tumultuous first week of the quarter that has left the markets caught between more truculent tweets on trade from President Trump, and slightly more diplomatic messages from his advisors.

On the economic front, we have had a tumultuous month capping a tumultuous first -LSB-...]

State Department staffers, demoralized after a tumultuous first year of President Donald Trump's administration, gave a round of applause to Pompeo, who responded as he boarded the aircraft with a casual, «Hi, I'm Mike.»

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If I have learned anything from the first year of the tumultuous Trump presidency, it is this: While our pugnacious Commander in Chief doesn't seem interested in picking his battles, I have to pick mine.

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A real - life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind - the - scenes, moment - by - moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since...

Global markets have had a tumultuous start thus far in the first few trading days of 2016, with a number of factors affecting market sentiment, triggering global equity markets to sell off.

BNS gets the honor of my first buy of 2016 a tumultuous year so far, to say the least.

Believe me I have seen that stare untold times since, and just about Every time she fixed it on me, even when matters were tumultuous Or worse, the obscure part of me that remembers everything woke And shouted o my god there it is again, just as it was the first time!

The first focuses on Vatican II and its tumultuous aftermath; the second, on the intellectual currents that influenced the Council.

It's been a tumultuous season for first - year North American League of Legends team Echo Fox.

Under Malatinsky, Spartak won their first league title in 1968 before he fled to Vienna in the tumultuous Prague Spring.

A tumultuous seven day period that began with a dire draw against Newcastle United and was followed by the transfer of the Arsenal captain to Barcelona, ended with a 2 - 0 loss to Liverpool in the Gunners» first home fixture of the new Barclay's Premier League season.

After refining your skills during these first few tumultuous months, you'll soon be a newborn expert and you'll look back on your first diaper change or bath and laugh (hopefully)

Heath became the Conservative Party's first elected leader in 1965, a reign brought to an end by Margaret Thatcher in a tumultuous party leadership election in February 1975.

The introduction of grammar schools, reducing other schools to the equivalent of secondary moderns, is an example of a tumultuous and contentious policy change that requires the verdict of the voters first.

The IDC was first formed in 2011 with a breakaway group of Democrats dissatisfied with the previous leadership of the Senate and the tumultuous two years the party spent in power in the chamber.

A tumultuous ten years in the Senate has resulted to the first mid-decade decrease in experience in a half century.

Ending what has been a tumultuous six - month long negotiation process, last week the Greek Parliament approved the first package of austerity measures required by Greece's creditors as part of the «Greekment» reached in the early morning hours of 13 July 2015 in order to initiate talks on a Third Fiscal Adjustment Programme (or «Memorandum») and avoid Greece's expulsion from the Eurozone.

It would be the first happy surprise in the five ridiculously tumultuous months that he's been governor.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to issue its first major opinion on abortion in nearly 10 years on Monday, closing out a tumultuous term marred by the absence of one its judges.

Already, new state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia faces tumultuous times, as foreshadowed by her appointment, which came after a hastily - called Board of Regents meeting Tuesday where she was introduced for the first time to half of its members.

In 2008, the party won control of the chamber for the first time in a generation, only to lose it after a tumultuous two - year term.

If you look at the final PMQs of this year... and then compare them with the first session of the year, back on January 7, you'll get a pretty good indication of what a tumultuous year in politics 2015 has been.

Stefanik, first elected in 2014, has avoided discussing the real estate developer, and has generally remained silent on national politics during the tumultuous election cycle.

Despite a tumultuous summer, Wall Street saw its best performance in the first six months of this year since 2011.

Henig charts the tumultuous growth of this revolutionary procedure, from the research that led to the birth of the first test - tube baby in 1978 to present - day debates over cloning and genetic engineering.

Phalan experienced first - hand the sort of tumultuous incident that can accompany working abroad, when he ran into some unexpected difficulties after a group of villagers began wondering what he was up to.

I had the talented and quite entertaining @edwardsizzahands (yes that's the name he goes by) do my hair after a tumultuous experience with the first hairdresser, more on that at a later time.

After a tumultuous 2014, Spark Networks has released its first financial report of their 2015 «crawl, walk and run» growth strategy.

Martin Scorsese's intrusive insistence on his abstract, metaphysical theme — the possibility of modern sainthood — marks this 1973 film, his first to attract critical notice, as still somewhat immature, yet the acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.

I've spent the past few months researching another tumultuous year, 1917, in which the U.S. made a radical policy turnaround in entering the first World War, Russia overthrew a czar and installed the world's first communist government, and the 22 - year - old medium of the movies entered its early adulthood.

With Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield and Emayatzy Corinealdi all aboard to co-star, the drama will sidestep usual biopic conventions by focusing on one specific period of Davis» life, a tumultuous five - year span that saw him pull back from music and navigate a fraught relationship with first wife Frances Taylor Davis.

I wonder if a general lack of care with the negative during its first tumultuous run has resulted in less than perfect elements; the extended sex scene shot on Bolex featuring Mick and his two lovelies (rumoured to be real, as most of Roeg's sex scenes are) especially suffers from colour blanching and print scratches.

Reluctant at first, Wesley eventually gives in to the tumultuous training program, accepting his fate as an assassin in order to track down his father's killer.

I've had quite the tumultuous history with the first Dead Snow films.

The franchise has never reached the heights of that first emotionally tumultuous film, despite the five sequels that followed it.

To see it on the big screen where it belonged, after more than three decades of anticipation, was like seeing it for the very first time and to then get to sit on stage with him afterwards to talk about its tumultuous history only made the night even more memorable.

From their first youthful introduction, to their ambiguous ending in Before Sunset, to their tumultuous disarray of emotions in Before Midnight, these characters, their essence and the basic fabric of their beings, attract me, entrance me even, because they play out like real people on a larger than life scale.

Gary Oldman is one of the greatest actors on the planet — and he proves it again as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, director Joe Wright's rip - roaring take on the celebrated Prime Minister's first tumultuous month in office in May, 1940, when France and Belgium are a whisper away from surrendering to Hitler and Great Britain may be next.

In Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning, Thomas Newkirk discusses how having even one known strength can infuse us with the confidence to get through life's toughest lessons, and it turns out that new teachers regularly do bring certain strengths and have some advantages over more veteran teachers that help them to navigate the tumultuous seas of those first years.

Still, scores should not get worse — even after the first, perhaps tumultuous year of a transformation, said Reilly Pharo, vice president of education initiatives with the Colorado Children's Campaign.

This past October, the newly reconstructed Fedika Girls Elementary School reopened for the first time since a suicide bomber destroyed it during the tumultuous elections of 2005.

Reichgott Junge candidly shared with guests personal details of her challenging journey as an original champion of chartered schools, the tumultuous legislative passage of the nation's first charter law in Minnesota twenty years ago, and chartering's subsequent explosion onto the national stage.