31 Sentences With "acted as spokesman for"

Lindbergh eventually acted as spokesman for the America First Committee, promoting xenophobia and his isolationism.

Mr. Savjani has acted as spokesman for the Asian community in Malawi from 1971.

In the second session of the 33rd Congress, Breckinridge acted as spokesman for Ways and Means Committee bills, including a bill to assume and pay the debts Texas incurred prior to its annexation.

Latterly, he became a strategic communications advisor in Afghanistan where he also acted as spokesman for the British Forces.Robin Matthews is the UK Libertas Party Leader. Libertas Insider 10 March 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2009.

Subsequently he withdrew his candidacy in favor of a joint opposition candidate, André Mba Obame, and acted as spokesman for the opposition. He has been Vice-President of the National Union, a unified opposition party, since its creation in February 2010.

He has also lectured in Europe, China and North America. Fraser sits on the board of the Common Weal, a Scottish think tank, campaigning and advocacy organisation. During the run-up to the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum Fraser acted as spokesman for the group 'Architects for Yes'.

Cartoonist Gary Larson included the character in several of his The Far Side cartoons. In commercial for Bridgestone tires during Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, Mr. Potato Head is driving a car and Mrs. Potato Head is nagging him. Mr. Potato Head has also acted as spokesman for several causes.

During this legislature, he acted as Spokesman for the Parliamentary Group of Ciutadans. In that electoral campaign, the tribal heart of Cs was also designed. In the remodeling of the executive after the 2012 elections, the Secretary of Communication role was removed, and Jordi Cañas became Secretary of Political Action and Strategy.

A community worker, Bunting was a member of the North Belfast Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG) and also acted as spokesman for Ihab Shoukri around this time. He was also involved in talks with local leaders from neighbouring nationalist areas in an attempt to reduce tensions at North Belfast's numerous interface areas.

In the time prior to the formation of the Syndicate, routing of road-based companies was described as chaotic. Smaller travelling companies found themselves in debt because of stiff competition. Klaw, who acted as spokesman for the Syndicate, was quoted as saying, "The Theatrical Syndicate has brought order out of chaos, legitimate profit out of ruinous rivalry."Hodin, Mark.

He then served as secretary of the nunciature to the United States until 1987, and occasionally acted as spokesman for the mission. He was pastor of St. Mary Church in Bellevue from 1987 to 1989, President-Rector of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, from 1989 to 1996, and pastor of St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Omaha from 1997 to 1998.

David Suchet's French Canadian Bigfoot-hunting character in the 1987 film Harry and the Hendersons is based on Dahinden. For a year, Dahinden acted as spokesman for Kokanee beer, and appeared in commercials in Canada. Dahinden died of prostate cancer on April 18, 2001, in British Columbia. In an obituary in the National Post, his friend Christopher Murphy remembered a remark of Dahinden's.

He was narrowly defeated by Democratic Congressman D. Worth Clark. Callahan was "a prominent figure in the nation's mining industry", having been president of Callahan Consolidated Mining, and of the Eastern Lead company, and having "frequently acted as spokesman for district mine operators before congressional committees". In 1936, he was chairman of the Northwest Mining association."Miners' Session Attracts Many", Spokane Chronicle (December 4, 1936), p. 3.

Activists Bob Hicks (1929-2010), Charles Sims, and A. Z. Young, workers at the Crown-Zellerbach plant (Georgia-Pacific after 1985, later acquired by another), led this new chapter of the Deacons for Defense. Charles Sims, a World War II veteran was the president of the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons. He acted as spokesman for the Deacons, demanding fair treatment and threatening violent retaliation in the event of attack.

This guarantee was essential after the treatment of Jan Hus, who was tried and executed at the Council of Constance in 1415 despite a promise of safe conduct. Emperor Charles V commenced the Imperial Diet of Worms on 23 January 1521. Luther was summoned to renounce or reaffirm his views. When he appeared before the assembly on 16 April, , an assistant of the Archbishop of Trier (Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads at that time), acted as spokesman for the emperor.

Wilfrid (c. 633 – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon. In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman position at the Synod of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted.

Edward Sam M'bomah is a Sierra Leonean military commander. He is at the rank of Major General and is also the Chief of the Defence Staff of The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces. In February 2007, M'boma acted as spokesman for the RSLAF in declaring that no voting booths for the upcoming federal elections will be placed inside the army barracks. Instead, the booths will be placed among other civilians, thus eliminating the chance that military personnel votes can be separated from that of civilians.

Henry Burton. Signatures of Samuel and Katherine Chidley on the initial covenant of the Bury St Edmunds Congregational Church. John Goodwin, an 18th-century satirical engraving. Samuel Chidley acted as spokesman for his church repeatedly in the 1640s, invariably on a variation of Duppa's founding principle of "Detest & Protest against ye Parish Churches." The first recorded instance seems to have been in June 1645, when he, together with two other members, John Duppa and David Brown, took part in a conference with Henry Burton of St Matthew Friday Street.Brown (1650), p. 1.

A new generation had initiated obscurantism, continuing from where Asaf Haler Celebi's surrealism had left off in the 1940s. Ilhan Berk perhaps Turkey's most daring and durable poetic innovator, who acted as spokesman for the group (often identified as the Second New) pontificated "Art is for innovation's sake." The forms and values of classical poetry, too, are kept alive by a group of highly accomplished formalists who are clustered mainly around the monthly Hisar which ceased publishing at the end of 1980 after 30 years. His works have been translated into over thirty languages.

In 1952, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo held Grupo Raptura's first show, which opened on December 9. At the same time, the seven members released for the first time a document (known as a manifesto) stating what they hoped to built upon and promote. While all founding members contributed to the initial document, Waldemar Cordiero acted as spokesman for Grupo Raptura's main ideologies and wrote the majority, if not all, of the documents contents. This document is brief, but is sure to include a list of trends that were prevalent with opposing groups of the time.

According to Adam Fortunate Eagle, this demonstration was an extension of already prevalent Bay Area street theater used to raise awareness. The Sioux activists were led by Richard McKenzie, Mark Martinez, Garfield Spotted Elk, Virgil Standing-Elk, Walter Means, and Allen Cottier. Cottier acted as spokesman for the demonstration, stating that it was "peaceful and in accordance with Sioux treaty rights". The protesters were publicly offering the federal government the same amount for the land that the government had initially offered them; at 47 cents per acre, this amounted to $9.40 for the entire rocky island, or $5.64 for the twelve usable acres.

In this position, he acted as spokesman for the party in the 2004 legislative elections, and offered to resign after the Pan-Green Coalition failed to win a majority. He joined the People Sovereignty Action Network and protested the 2010 signing of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement. By 2012, Chung had been named deputy magistrate of Pingtung under Tsao Chi-hung. Chung acted as Pingtung County Government spokesman during the 2014 Taiwan food scandal, accusing the Ministry of Health and Welfare of "setting up" Pingtung in a leak of confidential information to Ting Hsin International Group, one of the companies involved in the food scare.

For three years, Fergusson acted as spokesman for the European Democratic Group on political affairs. He supported calls for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics, arguing that the invasion of Afghanistan and the internal exile of Andrei Sakharov showed the two sides of the Soviet Union: "Aggression without, and oppression within". When Barbara Castle criticised the expenses of the European Parliament, he described her as "the single most damaging export the United Kingdom has on its hands today". When in 1982 the European Union proposed that the electoral system for European Parliament elections be changed to the party list, Fergusson led the Conservative MEPs' opposition.

The actor Neil Morrissey developed Palace Ale, a beer on sale in the ground, while actor Bill Nighy is patron of the CPSCC, a Crystal Palace-based charity. Radio DJ David Jensen is chairman of the Crystal Palace Vice presidents Club and acted as spokesman for the CPFC 2010 consortium during their takeover bid for the club. Actor, writer and producer John Salthouse was on the books of Palace as a player from 1968 to 1970 under the name of John Lewis, and was also a mascot for the club as a child. He incorporated the club into his role as Tony in Abigail's Party.

He was especially critical of IRA killings of other republicans and Protestant civilians. With the rise of Adams' faction in the republican movement in the late 1970s, Morrison succeed Seán Ó Brádaigh as Director of Publicity for Sinn Féin. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Morrison acted as spokesman for the IRA hunger strikers' leader Bobby Sands, who was elected to the British Parliament on an Anti H-Block platform. According to an intermediary between the IRA leadership and the British government, "Danny Morrison, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams were the only individuals of sufficient clout to offer the 'persuasion, education and knowledge' to push through any deal" between the strikers and British officials.

He acted as spokesman for German industry towards trade unions and laid the foundation of today's system of cooperation between the unions and employers in Germany. The introduction of the eight-hour day is a prime example. About the time of his election to the Reichstag, Stinnes began to buy up leading German newspapers, one of his main objects being to organize a solid and powerful bloc of opinion in Germany in support of law and order and the promotion of the highest industrial and commercial efficiency. His newspaper purchases included the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin, formerly the organ of Otto von Bismarck and then of all the succeeding German governments, the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten and the München-Augsburger Zeitung, the latter being one of the oldest newspapers in Germany.

The meeting in Rotterdam at Erasmus University in June 1994 established the first draft of objectives, the conditions of membership, the structure to be adopted for office bearers and members of council, and election procedures. The Erasmus meeting also decided that it was necessary to take the proposals to a wider forum to gain support for the creation of a European Business History Association; it was also decided to establish a steering committee to plan a first conference. The Business History Conference held at Erasmus University in October 1994 was taken as the opportunity to present the proposals to a large representative group of business historians drawn from many European countries. Tony Slaven acted as spokesman for the steering group and presented proposals to a general meeting at the Erasmus conference.

At this point the UAW voluntarily cooperated with the nascent Women's Liberation Movement organisation in Australia, actively distributing leaflets at rallies. The UAW's most noted contributions were submissions to the National Wage Cases: firstly in 1969, where 6-year UAW member and future Parliament member Joan Child acted as spokesman for the ACTU's test case; then in 1972 alongside the Women's Electoral Lobby with partial success, followed by 1974 and 1983. As the UAW saw their efforts come to fruition with the introduction of progressive legislation and encouraging results in the workforce, they remained persistent in supporting equal treatment at the workplace. In 1981, for example, NSW state secretary Lee Gorman pledged the UAW's support in pursuing the case of four women appealing to the Anti-Discrimination Board for being stood down by the Urban Transit Authority for being pregnant.

As a more than > competent guitarist with an affinity to jazz, he often provided the group's > musical impetus and direction, and as the Nigerian highlife made inroads > into the consciousness of Londoners in the early 1950s Hughes acted as > spokesman for the group, spelling out their philosophy and aims. After Campbell began playing guitar in the mid-1950s, Hughes felt marginalised and left to form his own band, the International Rhythm Band, also known as the Nigeria Union Rhythm Group. Hughes recorded music for advertising and films, before rejoining Campbell for a tour of Nigeria in 1957. He later replaced Campbell as resident bandleader at the Club Afrique, successor to the Abalabi, and recorded an album, Highlife from Nigeria, for Melodisc Records in the late 1960s, with his group credited as Brewster Hughes and His Highlifers.

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, thanks to his professional background, he acted as spokesman for the Right on justice-related subjects: also of note is his commitment with respect to other significant issues, namely security of citizens, immigration, reduction of the tax burden, safeguarding national identity, and the liberal professions. On 8 May 2008, he was appointed Minister of Defence, office he held until 16 November 2011 when Berlusconi IV Cabinet was replaced by Monti Cabinet. On 21 December 2012, La Russa with Guido Crosetto and Giorgia Meloni founded Brothers of Italy (FdI), a national conservative partyParties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck split from the PdL because FdI accused Berlusconi and Alfano (President and Secretary of PdL) to be too close with Monti Cabinet (the founders of FdI opposed this cabinet). On 4 April 2013, La Russa was appointed President of Brothers of Italy (FdI).

During the early 1990s, Fabre edited two weekly newspapers, La tribune des démocrates and Le temps des démocrates. He participated in the 1991 Sovereign National Conference and acted as spokesman for the conference. On 1 February 1992, Gilchrist Olympio founded the UFC as a federation of parties;"Historique du mouvement patriotique togolais", UFC website (accessed 16 February 2010) . Fabre was designated as the UFC's Secretary-General, while Olympio led the party as its President. In late December 2002, when the National Assembly voted to remove presidential term limits and thereby allow President Gnassingbé Eyadéma to run for re-election, Fabre denounced the move and urged "the Togolese people to mobilize immediately to oppose this coup de force of President Eyadéma"."Constitutional 'coup' in Togo", BBC News, 31 December 2002. Ahead of the June 2003 presidential election, Fabre and another senior UFC official, Patrick Lawson, were arrested on 3 June 2003, apparently for inciting rebellion. They were released a day later, but only after being charged with involvement in a May 2003 incident in which a gas station was set ablaze."Togo: Opposition leaders released", IRIN, 3 June 2003.