Sentences with phrase «with longstanding ties»

For more than two decades Mr. Schimmel has been one of the most influential forces in the Los Angeles art scene, with longstanding ties to prominent artists there like Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, Ed Ruscha and Catherine Opie.

First, in these cities, the schools have been anchors of their communities for years, with longstanding ties to generations of students, their families.

Farley, who is married to Wall Street lawyer Richard Farley, a Democrat with longstanding ties to the Kennedys, didn't comment.

Robert Gaddy, an Albany - based lobbyist with longstanding ties to Rochester leaders, will face a harassment charge after he was accused of striking a 71 - year - old columnist and political activist in the face.

Star witness Todd Howe is a disgraced former lobbyist with longstanding ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cuomo's former aide, Joseph Percoco.

The state and federal probe into the de Blasio Administration has expended to include Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs, as well as union officials and consulting firms with longstanding ties to City Hall, WCBS 880's Stephanie Colombini reported.

InterMedia is run by Leo Hindery Jr., a prominent Democratic fund - raiser with longstanding ties to Mr. Ramirez, who arranged for a meeting between Mr. Hindery and the new state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, in early 2007.

The attribution of the attacks are supported not just by U.S. intelligence agencies, but also, for example, by detailed reports from French intelligence agencies (a country with longstanding ties to Syria including a League of Nations mandate for Syria from 1920 - 1941).

It takes more than 15,000 Christmas - tree farms to produce that annual harvest, most of them small, family - owned businesses with longstanding ties to their land.

Not exact matches

Security analyst have also warned that isolating Pakistan could lead it to seek closer ties with Russia, Iran and China — rival powers whose influence in the region is a longstanding concern for the U.S.

Thailand, another American ally in Southeast Asia, has also increasingly turned toward China, raising the prospect that Washington faces frayed ties with two of its longstanding partners in the region.

Cuomo has longstanding ties to the Clintons, beyond the fact that he now shares a home state with them.

Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.

The fact that these families have invested heavily in these schools (especially through their taxpayer dollars), along with their ties to the schools (which are often longstanding institutions in their communities, for better or worse) also makes their desire to overhaul them rather understandable.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

O'Connell became the all - time leader in Sebring victories with his seventh class win on the historic circuit, breaking a longstanding tie with motorsports legend Phil Hill, who tallied six career victories on the Sebring course.

Titled Sound and Vision, this program offers visitors exposure to exceptional film and video work, with a special emphasis on film / video's longstanding ties to art photography.

The exhibition brings together a range of practitioners, some with a longstanding commitment to activism — such as Nancy Brooks Brody, an original member of the collective fierce pussy, and Vaginal Davis, who has long critiqued systematic oppression tied to gender, race, class, and sexuality — alongside emerging artists such as Sable Elyse Smith, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Chris E. Vargas, whose works variously plumb mechanisms of regulation.

The exhibition brings together a range of practitioners, some with a longstanding commitment to activism — such as Nancy Brooks Brody, an original member of the collective Fierce Pussy, and Vaginal Davis, who has long critiqued systematic oppression tied to gender, race, class, and sexuality — alongside emerging artists such as Sable Elyse Smith, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Chris Vargas, whose works variously plumb mechanisms of regulation.

Just as our relationships with our artists are deep and longstanding, so too are our ties with the individuals who make up Dia's Board and who help shape its vision for the future.»

Through the gallery's longstanding reputation, ties with major museums, art foundations, curators and critics, SGA exposes its represented artists to broader audiences, thus fostering a greater understanding of their artistic strategies and the context in which their ideas arise.

«As a Sportlifestyle brand, PUMA has longstanding ties with the Caribbean.

Florence was the only city in Italy with any longstanding established ties with Paris in the latter half of the 19th century.

Irwin Mitchell is set to launch an alternative business licence (ABS) joint venture with insurer esure, deepen ties with the longstanding client.