Sentences with phrase «uential gures»

Munich is a city of gleaming o ce - blocks and glorious baroque churches, tra c curling out towards the motorways and tourists crowding before the famous clock at the gothic town hall with its carved gures dancing as it chimes out the hour.

The reader has to wait for the main subject of the title until the last two chapters as the middle part focusses comprehensively on the earlier life of the two gures.

Some interesting facts and gures are presented.

A sharp rise in unemployment fi gures, escalating tensions in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia, the election day's muggy weather and England crashing out of the Mexico World Cup were all contributing factors.

Cook's furry red cheeks ensured that he became a highly recognisable fi gure.

But what tempts national fi gures to participate?

I am there to advise them on journalism for a scene in their play, but we get talking about Obama and they plainly identify with him in a way they absolutely do not with any British political fi gure.

Paying to see the nation's favourite political fi gures in playhouses is the latest trend.

TOTO won't release sales gures — beyond saying unhelpfully that the company is «the recognized leader in the toilet category,» which would puzzle industry leader Kohler — but, at least temporarily, gi ji obutse helped to give them the ushing edge in a clogged nation.

That empowering experience set the tone for her remarkable 30 - year career, much of which she has spent fi guring out how to help people take almost miraculous control over their lives.

You flick the upshift paddle yourself — it's faster that way — and feel the car pull with a force that seems to be sustained all the way to triple fi gures.

Overall Morningstar Rating is derived from a weighted average of the performance fi gures associated with its 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year (if applicable) MorningstarRating metrics.

A Buster Cube is a hollow cube that you can ll with kibble or other treats, and the dog must gure out how to roll the cube around to get the treats.

Presented by world - leading galleries, highlights include Thomas J Price's (Hales) startling triple portraits of men of African origin; Reza Aramesh's (Leila Heller Gallery) metamorphosis of mythical animal and subjected gure; and a six - metre - high ubiquitous toy - human gure by KAWS (Galerie Perrotin).

Meanwhile Curator Claire Liley picked out some of her favourites as: «Thomas J Price's startling triple portraits of men of African origin from Hales Gallery, a six - metre - high ubiquitous toy - human gure by KAWS from Galerie Perrotin and some superb classical modern works by Magdalena Abakanowicz from Marlborough Fine Art».

Each have a prolific multi-decade artistic career deserving of further scholarship, but a palpable coincidence further connects these three gures: Betty Parsons was the founder of the eponymous gallery which launched the careers of the likes of Pollock, Rothko and Newman; Arakawa and his wife co-founded the Reversible Destiny Foundation, seeking a new model for architectural practices by borrowing from disciplines including experimental biology, quantum physics, and medicine; Lohaus co-founded the Wide White Space gallery (WWS) in Antwerp in 1966, which exhibited artists such as Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo and many others.

The «Bat» paintings were made after a friend gave Doig a papier - maché fi gure of a man dressed as a bat, a character that crops up regularly in Trinidadian carnival.

By his own admission: «I paint landscapes and some of them have fi gures in them, that's all you need to know really.»

The fact that in all but one of these images the man is playing against an invisible opponent, and that in the large - scale painting the fi gure is staged in a jungle, just in front of a blue brick grid, is a fantastic tease that presents a nice taught wire to hang conjecture on.

Charlotte Perriand Considered one of the most in uential gures in design and architecture from the early Modern movement, Charlotte Perriand (1903 - 1999) was instrumental in introducing the «machine age» aesthetic to interior design through the steel, aluminium and glass furniture she created at Le Corbusier's studio in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Corie Humble's large scale mobile series investigates the vast possibilities of how a circle and line can be deconstructed and recon gured into new compositions while playing with weight, movement and gravity.

In addition to its contributions by Keith and Elms, the book features newly commissioned essays and responses by leading gures including Charles Gaines, artist; Rita Gonzalez, Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dave McKenzie, artist; and Steven Nelson, Professor of African and African American Art History, University of California, Los Angeles.

This environment has inspired new sculptures re ecting mystic spirits, wavy gures and plants ying with the wind.

All aspects of Essenhigh's works are alive and conscious in their own world, personifying substances such as light and nature to interact with gures in space.

The story of these fi gures and their complex relationships is contained in the archive's prints, drawings, and manuscripts.

Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, a highly accomplished artist who drew on both indigenous and European artistic conventions, is a pivotal fi gure in this rich cultural interchange.

gures) and abstract painting structures that are constructed and dismantled throughout the painting process.

Sweet & Maxwell, which obtained the fi gures, said companies were trying to cut their overheads by shedding excess offi ce and retail space and this often put the landlord at a disadvantage, leading to a dispute and then litigation.

Accordingly, the court accepted the claimant's suggested discount fi gure of 0.95 resulting in a bigger multiplier and a higher loss of earnings claim.

The 2001 census recorded just over two million cohabiting couples in England and Wales — a 67 % increase on the fi gures from 1991.

In 2006 — the last year for which government fi gures are available — that estimate had increased to 2.9 million households and 2.4 million of those were «vulnerable» (defi ned as households including older people, families with children, and householders who are disabled or suff ering from long - term illness).

Twenty per cent of Australians have at least one parent who was born overseas, and the number of languages spoken at home by Australians is more than 400 (Australian Bureau of Statistics fi gures 2009 — www.abs.gov.au).