Sentences with phrase «whose first president»

Antioch, whose first president was the education reformer Horace Mann, got into trouble ahead of the rest, thanks to a tiny enrollment and endowment and a zealous expansion that spun off more than 30 graduate campuses under the name Antioch University.

Not exact matches

«If we were at the thickness that was introduced with the first smartphone, your phone wouldn't break in a normal drop event,» said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Gorilla Glass at Corning, the 167 - year - old glass maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm thick.

First, it's almost impossible to imagine that a U.S. Congress and President whose ideological makeup looked even remotely like the current crop would seriously consider anything approaching Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget proposal.

Clinton, who pushed boundaries as First Lady of Arkansas and then of the U.S., launched her own political career in 2000, becoming a twice - elected Senator of New York and then Secretary of State under President Obama, whose legacy she had promised to build on as pPresident Obama, whose legacy she had promised to build on as presidentpresident.

The controversial tactics of Cambridge Analytica — whose former vice president, Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon, later worked for Trump's campaign and in the White House — first came to light in March in news reports that it had amassed data from tens of millions of Americans through a Facebook quiz app.

No matter how one feels about Michelle Wolf, the comedian whose performance at the Saturday dinner got a thumbs down from President Donald Trump, the notion that the First Amendment or journalism generally benefits from the country watching a hotel ballroom full of black - tie guests hobnobbing with the D.C. blue book...

Pressed to it, he also will name President Ronald Reagan, in whose second administration he first came to Washington to serve as general counsel to the then commissioner of Social Security.

I am told Mr. Romney, if elected president, will be the first Spanish president, yet I don't see him working for a good resolution to help with immigration of the people whose country his family immigrated to, and he was born in.

«I never thought, as a first - generation American, whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn't want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe... that we'd have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.»

It is really the first of its kind,» said Karen Ross, president of CAWG, an organization whose growers represent about 60 percent of the total annual grape crush.

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates President and CEO Ted Baseler notes, «With Chateau Ste. Michelle as our first pearl, over the years we have developed or acquired other wineries that meet our high standards of quality and whose wines are distinctive.

«He's not only a highly successful businessman, whose background is perfectly suited to the needs of the LPGA, he is also a first - class, well - respected, quality individual,» said LPGA president Judy Dickinson when she announced Mechem's appointment in November.

Zidane, whose first game in charge will be on Saturday against Deportivo La Coruna at the Bernabeu, is the 11th coach to be appointed in Florentino Perez's 12 years as club president.

In these circumstances it does not fall to the Queen to decide who shall be First Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new governFirst Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new governfirst business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new government.

Unrelenting in his determination to see to the disgrace of his predecessor whose administration he has been touting as the worse thing ever to happen to Ghana, the President, The aL - hAJJ's ongoing investigations have uncovered, has tasked the various state intelligence agencies to conduct forensic investigations into business activities of some persons with links to the former first family.

Part of the committee's recommendations read, «The President has no powers under Section 171 (2)(c) of the constitution or any other existing law to extend or elongate the tenure of a permanent secretary, whose tenure expired by efluxion of time or age, whichever comes first.

Anybody can claim the money because the money belongs to everyone and belongs to nobody (apologies to the proponent of that political maxim, President Muhammad Buhari, whose whistle - blowing scheme is harvesting these discoveries in the first place).

Addressing the launch ceremony for the first phase of the interoperability project in Accra on Thursday 10th May, 2018, an elated Vice President Bawumia praised the «hardworking Ghanaians and Ghanaian institutions» whose efforts had resulted in a platform that provides «a financial transactions engine that is versatile, efficient, robust, and enhances patronage.»

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter school.

The Governor could also learn something from President Obama, whose State of the Union address was an example of the sort of politics Mr. Cuomo wisely avoided during his first term.

Protesters also took aim at Carl Paladino, whose published remarks about President and First Lady Obama have led many to call for his removal from his school board seat.

When President Donald Trump makes his first address to a joint session of Congress tonight, at least four undocumented immigrants whose temporary legal status could be revoked will be in the House watching him speak as guests of Democratic members of Congress.

Delivering the first of six State of the State addresses planned around the state this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday located the cure to the nation's political fever in New York, implicitly offering himself as an antidote to a president - elect whose name went unmentioned.

«Today, the White House announced that «The President looks forward to signing the 9/11 health bill into law, once it passes both houses of Congress, to help the first responders whose health and livelihood were devastated by the events of September 11th.»

Cheers and jeers filled the room as the board discussed how to handle Paladino, a Buffalo developer whose comments about President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in an Artvoice article last week garnered national attention for their racist nature.

He mentioned that, they are beating a path as the first in Ghana to institutionalize the visionary leadership of a former President whose post-president life has been fully dedicated to furthering the well - being of his people and humanity.

Gillibrand rose in politics thanks in part to former President Bill Clinton as well as Hillary Clinton, whose Senate seat Gillibrand took when President Obama appointed the former first lady as secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton will campaign alongside Barack Obama in North Carolina on Tuesday in their first joint appearance of the election season, expecting a boost from a sitting president whose popularity is strong among the sorts of voters Democrats need to turn out in the battleground state.

AAAS» first president, William Redfield, was «a citizen scientist of the first rank,» the owner of a steamship company whose observations form the basis for the field of meteorology, Holt said.

This view is strongly supported by Germany's Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, whose president, Theodor Berchem, declared such cooperation with foreign first - class universities to be essential in establishing German universities in the first league of international science.

«The wind was blowing 30 miles [48 kilometers] per hour this morning,» says Arnold Boezaart, vice president for grant programs at the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, whose four - story arts complex boasts the first commercial SWIFT attached to a mast jutting from its outside wall.

Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is black, and decidedly odder than the original; Zaphod Beeblebrox now conceals his second head beneath the first, and is played with hyperkinetic gusto by Sam Rockwell as a President of the Universe whose patent idiocy recalls one or two Presidents much closer to home; Marvin the eeyore - like Android (voiced by Alan Rickman) has a cute appearance comically incongruous with his deeply depressive nature; and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the well - nigh disposable token female of the original radio show, has been elevated up to a genuine love - interest for dressing - gowned hero Arthur Dent (Martin «The Office» Freeman capably taking over from Simon Jones — although Jones turns up briefly as a «ghostly image»).

Other returning characters include Ezra Miller as Credence, a pawn of Grindelwald who appeared to meet his demise at the end of the first film, MACUSA President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo) and Scamander's fiance Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz), whose photo was seen in the first film.

It's fitting that Jackie keeps John Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) on the film's periphery, a powerful and almost haunting ghost of a presence who utters almost no words but whose brutal death and its aftermath is graphically displayed, the sudden, jarring explosion of the President's skull determining a sudden new path for the First Lady, who in the midst of her grief and shock must pack up her belongings and leave the White House and her former life behind.

First up, they've purchased a pitch called First Man which will star Johnny Knoxville as a rowdy guy whose wife is elected President of the United States.

Fuller, the visionary thinker and inventor whose work spanned fields from architecture to philosophy, was about to address a 1988 conference of business executives at Rockford College in Illinois, but was first reacting to a speech just concluded by the college's president.

When asked whose thinking had influenced the plan, the senior campaign official listed former Obama higher education officials (including Rohit Chopra, formerly of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Bob Shireman, who oversaw many of Obama's first - term higher education accomplishments) and college presidents who have long supported the administration's focus on holding colleges accountable, such as SUNY's Nancy Zimpher.

Other equity warriors followed the path carved by our nation's first black president, whose education secretaries (Arne Duncan and John King) also wielded their respective pulpits expertly, moving issues like «teacher quality» front and center in the reform agenda.

President Barack Obama is inviting K - 12 students to participate in the first White House Student Film Festival, whose films must focus on technology in education.

For the first time in U.S. history, Americans may be about to elect a president whose signature issue is early childhood.

Nick Timiraos reports: There's two big groups of people who may see little relief from the provision from President Obama's housing plan that would allow more borrowers to refinance: jumbo borrowers with loans that are too big for government financing and homeowners whose first mortgage exceeds 105 % of the value of their home.

But as soon as the purchase was publicized, the criticism started — first of then vice president - elect Biden, for purchasing from a breeder, and for the Secret Service contingent that arrived at Brown's Wolf Den Kennel with him; then of Brown, whose kennel was cited for record - keeping problems and warned about maintenance and sanitation shortfalls by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

Finally, no treatment of political art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.

Also included in the show are works by Josef Albers, whose work was recently added to the White House walls at the request of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Its first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, a brilliant painter of lively and elegant portraits as well as an influential lecturer / author whose Discourses authoritatively addressed many aesthetic topics — including the preeminence of history painting.

But, as examined in CSPW's previous post, Governor Bill Walker and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — a state that has first - hand experience with oil spills — complain that the President is not doing enough to fill the Trans - Alaska Pipeline with oil, even as they work to relocate indigenous communities whose lands are being lost to ice melt and erosion.

I also want to acknowledge Law.com Executive Editor David Snow, who gave me the freedom and encouragement to blog on whatever I wanted; Law.com Vice President Jill Windwer, whose vision and hard work have made Law.com a leading destination for legal professionals on the Web; Jennifer Collins, the former Law.com editor who first invited me here; and ALM CEO Bill Pollak, one of the few corporate leaders in publishing or in any industry who truly gets social media.

As Silverglate was writing that first post, the Justice Department was in Miami, unsealing an indictment against Ben Kuehne, a respected Miami lawyer whose clients have included former Vice President Al Gore.

The firm is led by Dennis Fitzpatrick, president, whose expertise includes first - party property insurance, cyber risk coverage, environmental litigation, professional liability defense, construction litigation and subrogation matters.