Sentences with phrase «tumultuous periods in»

My term has coincided with one of the most tumultuous periods in Indigenous affairs in recent years.

The «Assassin's Creed» series has never been one to shy away from tumultuous periods in history, and «Assassin's Creed: Unity» will explore one of Europe's most gruesome chapters.

Dillon writes, rather breathlessly, «Children are returning to classrooms across the nation during one of the most tumultuous periods in American education...»

He was NPR Justice Correspondent for five years during the George W. Bush Administration, covering one of the most tumultuous periods in the Department's history.

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.

The new device also comes during what is perhaps the most tumultuous period in BlackBerry's existence.

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...

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.

He presided over the most tumultuous period in United States history, blazed a path for freedom and human dignity, and shaped a new vision for a still - young union.

- 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.»

Where We Are explores six decades that represented a tumultuous period in the history and culture of the United States.

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.

The exhibition focuses upon a tumultuous period in the history of the United States when life in the country changed drastically due to war, economic collapse, and demands for civil rights.

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«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

This followed a tumultuous period from 1966 - 1982 in the economy / housing / equity markets / Oil and geopolitics and was the start of a resumption of the long term uptrend.

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

The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe.

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.

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.

Their brief relationship was one of the happiest periods in their often tumultuous lives but was tragically cut short by Wollstonecraft's death in childbirth.

«His involvement in the town board for 20 years shows a commitment to serve and it was, from what I understand, through some tumultuous times through periods of growth and periods of contraction.»

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).

I absolutely loved the extreme amount of tension built into each and every scene and the acting by the talented cast gives you an idea of what it must have been like to deal in booze during that tumultuous period.

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.

Life - changing events for this protagonist (her father losing his job, acceptance into college, the loss of her virginity) bump up against funnier, more inconsequential ones; it's one of the most authentic depictions of that tumultuous period on the cusp of adulthood I've ever seen in a film.

However, The Age of Rage isn't so much asking the question of how we got here, but instead purely capturing one of the most tumultuous political periods in American history, with an unflinching (somewhat) subjective eye that isn't afraid to get intimate with individuals who possess the most extreme sets of values.

Director Brian Helgeland (A Knight's Tale) does a superb job of recreating this tumultuous and triumphant period in American history.

The lawsuit, filed in May and set for a September hearing, caps a tumultuous period at the school characterized by increasing bitterness between the Palmer and Trinity camps.

Restorative justice has gotten a lot of attention on the international stage — with bodies like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission playing a large role in trying to foster a sense of national unity after a tumultuous period.

Bui's story ranges through many time periods: the present, her childhood in California, her parents» extensive and exhausting process of attaining refugee status and their tumultuous time in Vietnam.

In hindsight, this tumultuous period — of hedonism and racial tensions, excess and fear, progress and resistance — hastened the death throes of a country on the brink of financial disaster and of a world on the brink of war.

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.

The game is set during the tumultuous period of 18th Century Paris and places the player in the shoes of master assassin, Arno.

However, the grindy shooter survived a tumultuous development period and a rocky first year, and things saw a dramatic upturn with the release of The Taken King in 2015.

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.

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.

Biographical overviews, artist talks, video interviews, and additional resources provide insight into this tumultuous but artistically fertile period, spanning Allied occupation and the escalation of American troops in Japan during the Vietnam War, the country's spectacular economic growth and subsequent crash in the 1980s, the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and on.

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 fluIn 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 fluin 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 fluin the modern period's political and metaphysical flux.

After amassing a formidable archive of their own, they decided to focus the exhibition only on the years 1960 - 1985, a time period that encompasses both a key period in the history of art and a particularly tumultuous era in the political history of many of the countries represented in the show.

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 — 1985 is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the pioneering artistic practices of Latin American and Latina women artists during a tumultuous and transformational period in the history of the Americas and the development of contemporary art.

ArtInfo August 4, 2010 Top Ten Shows to See in New York «Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 - 1917» at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through January 24, moma.org During this tumultuous period, when the artist's friends — including André Derain and the poet Apollinaire — were fighting on the front lines of the first World War, Matisse was working in the south of France on what would become the hardened core of his later oeuvre.

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.

He lived in Alabama in the tumultuous period of the early 1960s, and then moved with his family to South Central Los Angeles, caught in the riots of 1965.

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 nation was gearing up for what would prove to be one of the most tumultuous periods of its young life, a moment of widespread cultural, political, and artistic upheaval in the U.S. and abroad that saw both the rise of the civil rights movement and the start of the Vietnam War.

This tumultuous period is the topic that Susan E. Cahan, associate dean for the arts at Yale College, bravely grapples with in her new book Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power.

This exhibition attempted to make sense of what happened to the visual arts in the United States during this tumultuous period.