Sentences with phrase «whose central focus»

For instance, one of my clients works in the medical transplant field, and she's writing a thriller whose central focus is about an illegally obtained organ.

Obama, the candidate, spoke strongly for the need to fix a seriously flawed law, but changed the game by attaching policy strings to the $ 70 billion plus in stimulus money directed to education, paving the way for a $ 4 billion competition whose central focus is to fix failing schools and incentivize innovation.

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Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller's investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump's inauguration.

Once that vision snapped into focus, Plank saw an opportunity not just to be a collector of human activity data but also to be the central processor that turns that data — regardless of whose device or app collected it — into useful insights.

I want to talk about some of the issues involved here from the perspective of a central banker — whose primary focus is, of course, monetary policy.

Paris, France, April 3, 2018, 5.35 pm CET — GenSight Biologics (Euronext: SIGHT, ISIN: FR0013183985, PEA - PME eligible), a biopharma company focused on discovering and developing innovative gene therapies for retinal neurodegenerative diseases and central nervous system disorders, today announced topline results from the REVERSE Phase III clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a single intravitreal injection of GS010 (rAAV2 / 2 - ND 4) in 37 subjects whose visual loss due to 11778 - ND4 Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) commenced between 6 and 12 months prior to study treatment.

The not - entirely - sympathetic central character aside, the movie also deserves recognition for its unexpectedly intimate focus on Vinny's close - knit Rhode Island brood (whose outrageousness Younger claims to have toned down for the movie), from his devout Catholic mother Louise (Katey Sagal) who can't bear to watch his fights to his fiancé - berating sister.

Nikki Baughan: Following in the footsteps of Sarah Gavron's similarly themed Suffragette in its focus on an ordinary woman whose domestic discord opens her eyes to wider issues, this Swiss drama features a brilliant central performance from Marie Leuenberger.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Central Ohio Poms and More Rescue, based in Canal Winchester, is an all volunteer organization whose mission is to focus on the rescue of poms and small breeds from shelters and puppy mills.

Without wishing thereby to weaken the possible ethical and social impulses evinced by the collected works, a central impulse emerges in the focus upon a visuality of the artwork whose multiplicity of meanings and appeal to the senses disallow any fixed definitional determinations.

At No. 3 is Donna Haraway, the distinguished American professor emerita whose writing is central to debates on identity, feminism and ecology and other inclusions are French philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist Bruno Latour (9) and the writers Judith Butler (48) and Chris Krauss, (77) both of whom have been a key influence on the focus of so many of today's artists on issues of gender and sexuality.

The exhibition will also include other works of the 1990s from the IMMA Collection by artists such as Kiki Smith, whose presence references a central focus of the period on issues of identity, gender and the politics of the body and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, whose works imply stories which must be imagined by their audience.

One of the most precocious of this group is Andreas Gursky, whose initial work of the early»80s — modestly scaled, infallibly exposed, sharply focused images seen from a central perspectival position located somewhere above the scene — seemed to proceed in step with the Becher legacy.

It focuses on a generation of African women artists who started to work in the early 1990s and in whose practice the body is central.

The Jewish Museum exhibit in which it was featured is a compact and focused show, curated by a talented young Jewish Museum curatorial assistant, Rachel Furnari, featuring work by seven contemporary artists whose wide - ranging explorations of the complicated intersections of national, ethnic, and sexual identities are central to their artistic practice.

The paper underlines the central role of the UNFCCC and points to a constellation of actors - multilateral institutions, governments, businesses, states, cities and citizens - whose capacities and specialized focus can contribute to climate governance, emission reductions and adaptation investment.

Rebecca, whose background is in highly regarded central London firms, is a commercial contracts specialist with a focus on intellectual property (trade marks, copyright and patents), as well as on information technology, media and... more

She was also a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for women executives and business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city girls.

If you learn you are pregnant and are considering adoption, we will refer you to Friends In Adoption, a pro-choice adoption agency whose mission is to «keep the central focus on the needs of each child and to provide compassionate adoption services for the unique individuals involved in the adoption process.»

Dad Central Canada, a group of professionals whose work focuses on promoting Father Involvement in Canada.

Chase A. Mallory — Chase Mallory is an experienced central Ohio criminal attorney whose practice focuses on traffic and OVI defense.