Sentences with phrase «very public figure»

He is a very public figure and just like famous people, politicians, etc, everything in his life is up for speculation.

It wasn't possible to push him aside; he was already a very public figure.

KW: Aspiring actor Tommy Russell asks, as a black man who is also a very public figure, do you think black male celebrities, entertainers, sports figures and politicians get treated more harshly for their transgressions and mistakes than others?

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

Moreover, if God needed to intervene to influence three people to notice Peter and ask this question, that would obviously not be difficult for him to do — though, since Peter had been a very public figure, we have no reason to assume God needed to intervene even this much.

With respect to the two cases cited here, the only thing more acceptable about Maher's comment was that it was directed at a very public figure who has done everything she can up to and including having a reality TV show to stay in the public eye.

What's it like being the child of a very public figure?

Not exact matches

«In a world where information travels very, very fast and through different media, figuring out whether information is public or not is challenging,» says Daniel Hawke, the former chief of the SEC's market abuse unit, who recently joined Washington, D.C., law firm Arnold & Porter.

As his father was, Keller is very much a public figure.

Snapchat still hasn't figured out a scalable way to make revenue, and public markets will not be very forgiving of the inevitable bumps in the road.

There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

Anyway, yes, this is all rather ugly in some very unpleasant ways, but I think the overall conversation here has been relatively civil — at least within the framework I'm working from that all public leaders / figures / role - models who are authors, speakers, event sponsors, etc., commit themselves to public scrutiny and accountability.

In more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issue.

If that were to happen, there would less accountability for public figures, the news would be very carefully stage - managed, and we would all be impoverished.

But in his writings and speeches, Lincoln is very much a public figure, and ¯ even in his letters ¯ he tends to remain cordially aloof.

Although it is a private building, it is a very public display and they should not be surpised that people are upset when they refuse to celebrate someone who is almost universally admired for charitable works because they don't want to honor «religious» figures or entertain requests from religious organiations.

That could be true, but Petrino's account has long had lots of very interesting follows that are highly unusual for public figures associated with academia, so to speak.

As a child when visiting or being in public I had to act right, talk right, sit right, dress right... and to tell you the truth «right» was a very hard thing to figure out.

I once spent an afternoon with a prominent public figure who I enjoyed very much, but who was widely criticized in the media.

Leveson wants to know if Murdoch thinks there's «a distinction between those who hold themselves out as having a public figure like politicians or like newspaper proprietors and those who don't come into that category, like people's who've achieved fame, made money, because they are very good at what they do.»

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

«Behind the headline figures long - term unemployment actually came down in the quarterly figures, and very importantly the number of new jobs created in the private sector outstripped the number of jobs lost in the public sector,» Mr Clegg told MPs.

Yes we emphatically are... I think David still attracts an extraordinary amount of attention, he's still a very interesting figure for the media and the public and he does reflect and represent change.

«During the run off primary in 2009 for comptroller and public advocate, he was very involved in figuring out polling operations, what tactically made sense,» said a Brooklyn Democratic operative.

«It's coming up very quickly, and public sentiment is moving away from them, so what they're doing is, they're probably spending seven figures on these flyers, sending them out, trying to change that opinion.»

As the very word «planet» seems to carry a «psychological weight,» he figures that more planets could encourage that public interest.

Some of the names were very famous people, like Richard Nixon, and others were public figures who were less well - known.

We are now in a very open and modern society so it is no wonder that these figures have been made public and are not shocking.

Though the film fails to answer these questions, it very squarely implicates Cruise as the public figure with the most potential power to hold the church accountable for its abuses.

They are all public figures who will have very public opinions about it.

But the percentage of low - income students is similar across the two sectors nationwide — 8 percent at privates vs. 9 percent at publics, and the distributions are very similar (Figure 3).

As a matter of public policy, however, the public's willingness to endorse online education very much depends on the justification given for it (see Figure 5).

The latest issue of Education Next examines this very issue of how the opinion of the public is influenced by voices of powerful figures, such as the president, in an article entitled «The Persuadable Public&rpublic is influenced by voices of powerful figures, such as the president, in an article entitled «The Persuadable Public&rPublic».

It seems to me most conventional publishers these days are only interested in authors who already have a large following or well - known public figures, so I very much doubt any of them would be interested in me!

Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.

The Toronto Public Library have been providing some very illuminating figures that really drive home how expensive e-books really are.

The public figures (Robinson, Preston) seem to be very careful about appearing elitist these days because they're so often accused of being elitist.

In our celebrity - obsessed world, public figures find it very difficult to have truly private lives.

Speak about some public figure, this is going to be a very good subject for your essay writing, however, remember that all your ideas for a reflective essay should be presented in official way, without outraging someone, as at this point, you are going to blamed in non-observing the ethic of academic writing.

Despite being a very public and influential figure, he is not required to report his holdings to the SEC because he is a resident of the North Pole.

I always figured the very first thing I would spend a large windfall on would be a competent Certified Public Accountant.

«His charm and good nature resonated with people both young and old and enabled him to transfer his warm persona into the face of a trusted pet brand,» says Alice Kim, director of marketing for Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. «His desire to bring the very best nutrition to dogs and cats along with his name recognition both worked together to grow the brand because he was a public figure who pet parents truly liked.»

To a far wider public, who might be drawn to William Blake — of course, also a very radical figure, I would say, up to this day — that'll be an interesting journey to go on.

Despite the very public and acrimonious conflicts that were part of his time as head of the LACMA, Deitch says, «I rented the Wooster Street gallery to the Swiss Institute for five years, and figured that would cover my journey to Los Angeles.

Gehry is also among the very few architects in history to be both respected by critics as a creative, cutting - edge force and embraced by the general public as a popular figure.

Nijinsky refers to the Russian ballet dancer and tragic public figure of the same name who had suffered from schizophrenia and had only very recently died when Kline made the work.21 The dancer's death in London was covered in the international press, as was his reburial in Paris.22 Given the painting's title, the viewer's expectations and attention are oriented towards a figure, whether human and bodily or otherwise.

Being a public figure, even though you are not super rich, still is very loaded.

Reynolds returned from a long visit to Italy in 1753, and very rapidly established himself as the most fashionable London portraitist, and before long as a formidable figure in society, the public leader of the arts in Britain, and in a position to help raise both its quality and status.

Antony Gormley produces sculptures, mostly in metal and based on the human figure, which include the 20 metres (66 ft) high Angel of the North near Gateshead, one of the first of a number of very large public sculptures produced in the 2000s, Another Place, and Event Horizon.

(as usual, existing links to other recent papers that I have missed or recent public statements by other senior climatologists referencing a target figure will be very welcome!)