Sentences with phrase «who changed the course»

If Cameron does so he will be remembered as a leader who changed the course of British history and reasserted Britain's place as an independent nation state.
In this show, we'll discuss the value of women in healing, historically and currently, how women can ask for what they need from their healthcare provider, and important women healers who changed the course of medicine.
This is a very uplifting film and shows the bravery and determination required of those who change the course of history.
Justin Long and Donald Faison are teaming up for «The Wave», an indie feature that follows an image - obsessed attorney (Long) who changes course on a high - stakes insurance case when a life - changing, drug - induced night on the town with co-workers, including Jeff (Faison), ends up changing his outlook on life (via The Hollywood Reporter).
Almost everyone can name two or three teachers who changed the course of his or her life.
By doing this, you can know who changed a course, deleted a group, or took other actions.
«Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last» is the story of two brave men who changed the course of history in sports.
Nathaniel's Nutmeg; or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History.
Armstrong tracks the influence of Mathew Brady, who changed the course of war photography, and whose stable of photographers shaped our vision of the Civil War.
Is there a «first» in your past who changed the course of your life?
Morris Animal Foundation started with a man who changed the course of veterinary medicine forever.
It was Schapiro, in fact, who changed the course of the young artist's life by introducting him to a group of surrealist exiles, including Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst.
This will be the first exhibition in America to group the work of these three pivotal post-War avant - garde figures together, artists who changed the course of Italian contemporary art with influence well beyond their national borders.
As energy analyst Amy Myers Jaffe noted, «With leadership and tenacity, George Mitchell, in my opinion, will go in the history books with Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, and even Alexander Graham Bell, as a great American, who changed the course of our history through invention and genius.»

Not exact matches

Your original mandate will probably change throughout the course of a project, so hire someone who can adapt and pivot with ease.
There will always be outliers, of course, people like Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson who seemingly change the world and create business empires all on their own.
Of course, those who reported directly to the exiting leader will feel strongest about the change.
«Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is,» he said.
Of course, things change, and in 2006, when the state legislature made good on his pledge, Romney, who has of late extensively revised the positions he took in the Bay State, vetoed the bill.
For Vaynerchuk, young people have «course - corrected from being built as a good student, a great manager, a great thinker, an operator, to somebody who needs to be completely creative, chaotic, and has a stomach for adversity and change at a rapid pace.»
It's a tactic familiar to anyone who has watched items in their Amazon basket change price over the course of a day (or an hour)-- but traditional retailers are starting to get in the game, too.
Witty, in my opinion, is someone who understood the power of doing well by doing good — which, of course, is the theme of Fortune's «Change the World» effort and our CEO Initiative.
Erratic leaders, who mandate frequent deadlines but constantly change course, net few results save for finger - pointing.
But according to Pandora's new CEO — who quickly began implementing a number of changes to reinvigorate growth ranging from investments in Pandora's ad tech, marketing, distribution partnerships, and new content launches — most of their new growth initiatives are «still in early stages, and their impact will build over the course of 2018.»
The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who is considered a hawk on North Korea, said the United States is facing an «unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the Korean Peninsula.»
Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.
She's a wife, mother and world shifter who has transformed her own life and, as a result, ignited a movement for women entrepreneurs that is changing the course of history in their lives and in the lives of those they love most.»
Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?
Those who are without Christ, facing an eternity in Hell and she has an opportunity to witness to them and tell them of the most wonderful gift of Gods salvation that can change thier eternal course and she choses to talk to them about something that she thinks makes them feel good.
You know, I saw this TV programme about a child who had that, and they [went on a course / rode horses / had therapy / changed their diet / etc] and got better.
That, of course, means that the eternal god must have changed its mind, which it never does, or all the time, depending on who you ask.
There are plenty of millenials (and others), of course, who want precisely nothing from the church, and if Christians want to manipulate style or substance in order to change numbers, it's a losing proposition.
This is in a way the experience of the shepherds of the field, who are terrified at the realization that God is real, and his actions will not only change the course of history (as an abstraction), but their history.
Eventually, the White House changed course and extended the religious exemption to other religious organizations and will force insurers to provide and pay for contraceptives to people who work for religious organizations who oppose contraceptives.
I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?
Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real history which is a history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new in the changing course of history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind events in its theological reflection on morals.
Of course, God can change people... but several Christians I know who experience same - sex attraction have followed the Lord for many years (in some cases, their whole life) without losing these attractions.
We are going to look for friends and family members who are headed down a path that will lead to arguments or personal harm, and try to speak words of wisdom and encouragement to them to change their course of action.
The core of that change, of course, is from understanding who we are as individuals with inalienable rights to beings changing for the better over time in some pseudo-Darwinian or Hegelian Historical sense.
The atheist professor with docorate degree of course who claims he can change our belief in God on our first class meeting by the end of semester challenged Jesus» birth date, but didn't challenge the use of our year from the time Jesus» death which probably wasn't January 1st either, lol.
While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.
Most of us did improve, of course, but the professor who proctored our exam said that over the years, the test has not changed, but the scores have steadily decreased.
They laugh because they are in on the secret: that they serve a God who uses indentured eunuchs to change the course of history, orphan girls to reverse the decisions of kings, and rebellious pagan queens to put it all in motion.
These contributions are, of course, put in relation to everything else, so it is not a question of our trying to tell God something God does not already know, or persuading God to change the evaluation of someone, like the brother who commits suicide.
For many who still call themselves liberal, all these diverse and frequently contradictory movements constitute The Movement, a continuous course of progressive change.
Speaking humanly, it was Paul who transformed an obscure Jewish sect into a universal faith that decisively changed the course of history.
LaBeouf said, «To hear him say that he was disappointed in me probably changed the course of my life... Zack can't not shoot straight, and bless him for it,»cause in that moment, I needed a straight shooter who I couldn't argue with.»
People who ask these questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, who is responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.
However, there are many people who are quite open to changing their minds in the course of listening at home (or in the car / train etc via podcast).
While postexilic priestly law appears to be increasingly concerned with ritual — a concern perhaps inescapably induced by general environmental and ideological changes — it is essential to remember that all of the major codes of law in the Old Testament were preserved, transmitted, and of course edited, by the postexilic priests who, in the very act of incorporating so - called prophetic law in the total legal corpus, place their approval upon it.
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