Sentences with phrase «tumultuous periods as»

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Billionaire James Packer has resigned as a director of Crown Resorts, due to mental health problems, capping off a tumultuous period for the casino mogul.

How did they cope in different market environments such as the tumultuous period of 2007 - 09?

During the tumultuous period of mission discussion in the 1950s, Johannes Hoekendijk sought to define the missio dei as larger than the church.

Ms McBain was announced as the new chief executive of Primary Opinion in early August, ending a short period out of the corporate scene after she departed from Bellamy's in January in tumultuous circumstances.

Ms McBain was announced as the new chief executive of Longtable in early August, ending a short period out of the corporate scene after she departed from Bellamy's in January in tumultuous circumstances.

But June 8, 2009 will go down as the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern state political history: the day two Democratic senators — Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate — defected to the GOP and threw state government into a month of chaos when no bills were considered and nobody really knew who was in charge.

Herbert, writer and producer of the documentary Against All Odds, discusses 1968 as a pivotal year in the Civil Rights Movement, addresses where the quest for equality stands today, and reflects on his personal experiences during this tumultuous period.

Portman gives a nuanced performance as a woman navigating a tumultuous period of her life, showing all the ways in which she has changed («change» and mutation being key themes).

As a film about breaking down taboos and exploring the life and experience of a young woman growing up in the early 1960s, the film is invaluable, a snapshot of life at a tumultuous period of transition.

Loosely based on a graphic novel, the film spans a brief but tumultuous period in Adèle's life, from her last years of high school till some time later, when she is a twentysomething adult pursuing a career as a teacher.

Mabuse was portrayed as partially responsible for the events of the tumultuous post-WWI period.

During her three years as state superintendent of schools, Lillian Lowery guided Maryland through a period of rapid and often tumultuous change with a steady hand and a clear - eyed appreciation of the challenges facing educators, parents and students...

- Kirkus «Taylor expands on such previous books as Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich and Perry Biddiscombe's The Denazification of Germany and provides a smoothly written and well - researched history of this tumultuous period in the middle of the 20th - century.»

Introduce tweens and early teens to more from this tumultuous time period with these titles, as well as the various perspectives they offer: teen soldier, sibling, refugee, and more.

That growth rate seems more than fair as it's in line with WFC's growth of EPS during a particularly tumultuous period, which would seem to model in a margin of safety.

As a professional dog trainer, Benjamin focuses her advice on positive training techniques designed to help both parent and teen through the tumultuous adolescent period.

Credit card interest rates unchanged for 2nd straight week — Credit card interest rates remained unchanged this week as banks returned, after a period of tumultuous change, to their seasonal slow period... (See Rate report, Feb. 16, 2011)

Some of the paintings have heavier themes as they were created around the civil war and the tumultuous periods prior.

In their latest installment, the focus shifts to the Sanada clan during the Sengoku period of Japan, a tumultuous time of warring lords, where blood was spilled on the battlegrounds as frequently as the falling of rain.

Rigidly comparing and contrasting works drawn from the broad period of the 1950s through to the 1990s, the show explores such shared themes as social and political power; the acceptance of cultural differences; mortality; and the tumultuous realities of celebrity.

Each artist defines an artistic language and vocabulary that also recalls the role of Madam DeFarge in Dickens» Tale of Two Cities as her encoded knitted subversive stitchery defined a tumultuous period of history through the use of a fiber medium.

Collectively, the works communicate the complexity of adolescence as a period of tumultuous physical and emotional change.

Kobena Mercer has appropriately referred to this generation of «cinematic activists» as being engaged with the cultural struggle that takes place within the «domain of image - making» through self conscious cinematic strategies.6 In each instance, the individual filmmakers and voices that make up the collectives, workshops, and groups that formed in this tumultuous period in Britain's cultural history give shape to an image of race otherwise mediated by outside entities.

Another L.A. artist, Jonas Lund has been satirizing the art market for years as it has gone through a period of tumultuous change.

In her 1994 book The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity, the late art historian Linda Nochlin analogized representations of the disintegrated figure to tumultuous moments in the modern period's political and metaphysical flux.

The global, political turmoil of this period was to prove particularly fertile ground for Rauschenberg, as seen in Political Folly, which captured the tumultuous protests at the Democratic party convention in Chicago, and was subsequently acquired by Ileana Sonnabend herself.

These photographs are the consolidation of work made over a yearlong period, documenting the parallaxes of growing up in the county of Staffordshire and the tumultuous relationship with identity as a member of that community.

The exhibition highlights one of the most tumultuous and liberating periods of the United States» past, the civil rights era, as a catalyst for challenging discourse and reflection.

As I mentioned above, I had been told that the diploma had the potential to shake up relationships outside the course and irreversibly shift one's perspective, and I can certainly see how some of the learning involved could be difficult to tackle during tumultuous periods of a person's life.

«If you come of age in a period when you view the market as being tumultuous, that probably makes you less likely to invest in the stock market,» Barber says.