Former President Obama was a leading figure in its formation.
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Haftar, who is a leading figure of the Libyan National Army.
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Puigdemont is still his Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party's leading figure.
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"Oh fine," replied Kristol, a leading figure of the "Never Trump" movement.
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Schiff was already seen as a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry.
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Thursday night's leading figure, Joe Biden, sets the opposite edge of the Democratic spectrum.
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The reports filtered to Robert Mugabe, then a leading figure in the liberation struggles.
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He was a leading figure in the pathbreaking culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine.
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Bush viewed the Republican Party, of which she had been a leading figure for decades.
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The conservative counterrevolution, of which Thomas was a leading figure, at one time seemed unstoppable.
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Pompeo is a leading figure of foreign policy efforts that have taken priority under Trump.
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Kessler is a white nationalist and the leading figure of the alt-right in Charlottesville.
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" A leading figure in the main opposition Labour Party accused her of "hunting down UKIP supporters.
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Hamed became a leading figure of the migrant crowds at the Serb border, the court said.
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It said it would also invite "a leading figure from the Norwegian financial" to its board.
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Hassan was educated in the UK before becoming a leading figure in Malaysia's tech and finance world.
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It said it would also invite a leading figure from the Norwegian financial community to its board.
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Judge Sergio Moro, a leading figure in the Car Wash investigation, gave da Silva until 5 p.m.
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But one leading figure in the state party said Wednesday she was remaining by the senator's side.
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Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and leading figure on the political left, among other members of Congress.
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But inside the movement of those opposing abortion, she has been a leading figure for two decades.
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CEO Alan B. Miller is a leading figure in the healthcare industry, and has won prestigious awards.
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As of press time, only two parties have placed bids, with the leading figure standing at $650.
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She shocked observers after her democratic socialist campaign toppled incumbent Joe Crowley, a leading figure among Democratic representatives.
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Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), a leading figure on national security, said Tuesday he would be departing as well.
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He probably never imagined that he would one day become a leading figure in the conspiracy theory scene.
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Oliver was head of communications at No. 10 Downing Street and a leading figure in the Remain campaign.
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Born during the reign of Louis XV, David in the 1780s became the leading figure of Neo-Classicism.
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And a leading figure in the upcoming fantasy saga will be Hunter Biden, the former vice president's son.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading figure in Clinton's impeachment, warned that Democrats were setting a dangerous precedent.
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Leading figure of the "New Art Practice" movement and member of the Grupa šestorice autora (Group of Six Artists).
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" Jim DeMint, former Senator of South Carolina, leading figure of Tea Party movement: "Trump right about media's Russia obsession.
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His father, Benigno Aquino Jr, was the leading figure of the opposition party and was imprisoned for seven years.
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Dravis is one of Pruitt's closest aides and was a leading figure in the deregulatory agenda, according to CNN.
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"Pipemakers are profitable, so this is not a tragedy for them," a leading figure in the pipe industry said.
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A leading figure at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Madison is known as the father of the Constitution.
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As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he was a leading figure in the Trump impeachment inquiry.
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But I don't see any country or leading figure coming in and offering new breath for the Sunni world.
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She has been a leading figure in pushing for British theater to address its own allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Sayyid Qutb, a leading figure in the Brotherhood in the 20133s and 1960s, favoured taking up arms against impious rulers.
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Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, will also be reportedly a leading figure in these efforts.
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"Thurlow has been a leading figure in ICAN since its launch in 2007," ICAN said in a statement on Thursday.
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A leading figure in the British push to exit the European Union says President Obama accidentally helped the Brexit cause.
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The pardons gave Cuomo a chance to cast himself as a leading figure in the Democratic resistance to President Trump.
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Khan, a leading figure in Britain's opposition Labour Party, said on Saturday he had sympathy with Uber drivers and customers.
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Launched in 21 by Irving Kristol, the leading figure in neoconservatism, it had by 21988 a circulation of six thousand.
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Some officials have theorized that it could be a city nobleman or some other leading figure from the Ptolemaic period.
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Mr. Torshin is a leading figure in Mr. Putin's political party, United Russia, and has spoken glowingly of Mr. Trump.
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If Germany truly is the centerweight of Europe, then it matters enormously what its leading figure on foreign policy thinks.
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Rajab, a leading figure in the 2011 pro-democracy protests, has been in and out of detention since that time.
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He is now chief scientist at Baidu, the Chinese internet search giant, and a leading figure in artificial intelligence research.
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The rebel coalition will be headed by Mohammad Alloush, a leading figure in the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) faction.
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Gerardo Alminaza, a bishop, is a leading figure in a campaign against the proposed coal plant in San Carlos, for example.
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Orser, twice Olympic silver medalist, coaches some of the world's leading figure skaters, including Japan's double Olympic men's champion Yuzuru Hanyu.
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Baseball star Barry Bonds saw endorsement after endorsement cancelled in 2007 when he was the leading figure in a steroids scandal.
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Why it matters: Conyers is a veteran, a leading figure in the civil rights movement and the House's longest-serving member.
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As a leading figure in Democratic politics for a quarter of a century whose husband presided over an economic boom, Mrs.
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Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who was a leading figure in the June sit-in, tweeted in response to the new proposal.
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Trump himself became a leading figure on the American right by questioning whether Barack Obama was born in the United States.
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The Russian billionaire has owned Chelsea since 2003 and long been a leading figure in the "Londongrad" playground for rich Russians.
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He survived a gang war between two Irish mobs and was a leading figure in Boston's underworld by the early 1970s.
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Ms. Ruf's departure came as a surprise to the contemporary art world, in which she is regarded as a leading figure.
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Among them was Lai Jeng-jer, a leading figure in the gay rights movement in Taiwan who now lives in Beijing.
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Morsi, a leading figure in the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement, had been serving lengthy jail sentences since his ouster from power.
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Crispin Odey, a leading figure in London's hedge fund world, has donated to Vote Leave, a lobbying group campaigning for a Brexit.
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Panic spread in the pro-exit campaign when Nigel Farage, a leading figure on the "leave" side, tweeted his Brexit U-turn.
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His campaign, in which Genena was a leading figure, was hoping to contest the decision by the electoral commission to disqualify him.
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Apart from Schulz, the other leading figure to be the SPD's choice for chancellor is party leader and vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.
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When these young people joined Arab Spring protests in Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia in 2011, Sheikh Nimr became a leading figure.
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She was the leading figure of the Gang of Four, radicals who reached the peak of political power during the Cultural Revolution.
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Ahn Cheol-soo, another former presidential candidate, and a leading figure in the Righteous Future Party, demanded Moon Chung-in be fired.
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"It's not advisable to go up against Sloterdijk in a public setting," Axel Honneth, a leading figure of the school, told me.
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Deepak Chopra, a leading figure in the alternative health movement, is moving into the mobile app business with the launch of Jiyo.
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"Today, the first shipment of humanitarian aid arrived for our people," Henrique Capriles, a leading figure of the opposition, posted on Twitter.
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Pat Summitt coached Tennessee for decades, building the program into a perennial powerhouse and making herself a leading figure in the sport.
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Critic's Pick A leading figure of art in the digital age takes up 3D printing at a new show in the Hamptons.
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GOP candidates were quick to put out statements lauding Scalia, who has been a leading figure in the conservative movement for decades.
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Even people like Mr. Miyamoto, 65, a leading figure at Nintendo since the 1980s, is ceding control at the company's Japanese headquarters.
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Gove, a leading figure in the campaign to leave the European Union, also said he had a proper plan to deliver Brexit.
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Rajab was a leading figure in a 2011 pro-democracy uprising led by Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim majority and he has been repeatedly detained.
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But by making a leading figure at Breitbart News his campaign's chief executive, Trump is renewing his commitment to that kind of rhetoric.
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The first was the secretive Charles Martel Society, named for a leading figure of the European Middle Ages who fought off Muslim invaders.
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Celestine — a tall, lanky 28-year-old Nigerian who just became a father — is a leading figure in the Lagos, Nigeria technology scene.
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Not Really" William O'Connor on "Walter Scheel, Leading Figure in West German Thaw With the East, Dies at 97" Sarah Ouslander on "U.
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Over the past year, Thunberg, 16, has risen from a solitary protester to a leading figure in an international fight against climate change.
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Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been a leading figure in Congress championing legislation that would regulate the tech industry.
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Clinton's continued effort to be a leading figure in the party could severely hurt chances for Democrats in 2018, as well as 2020.
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Mr. Vo, 35, who works at a media company, has become a leading figure in the world of alternative museum tours in Britain.
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And the Daily Beast wrote that investigators have identified a specific Russian intelligence officer behind "Guccifer 2.0," a leading figure in the hacks.
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Mr. Elsaesser's many books and more than 200 essays established him, beginning in the mid-1970s, as a leading figure in film criticism.
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Mubarak Mohamud was a leading figure in Camden's Time for Hustling gang, before turning his back on crime to run a clothing company.
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The favorite is Boris Johnson, a leading figure in the 2016 Brexit campaign who is promising that Britain will leave the EU on Oct.
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For Poland's right-wing populist government, Donald Trump is a bit of a hero — a leading figure in the rising tide against liberal democracy.
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Ivanka Trump was reportedly a leading figure among a group of Trump administration officials pressing the president to keep the U.S. in the pact.
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John Conyers, a leading figure in the civil rights movement and the House's longest-serving member, is facing multiple harassment allegations, which he denies.
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Local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere, a leading figure in her relatively youthful 'G40' faction, refused to answer Reuters questions about the situation in Harare.
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Morsi, the leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, was ousted by military chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi in 2013 after protests against his rule.
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Led by Marwan Barghouti, a leading figure in Fatah who is currently in jail, around 2,000 prisoners total are expected to join the strike.
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Born in the south China port city of Xiamen in 1954, Huang was a leading figure in China's vanguard art movement of the 1980s.
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One of the country's most prominent Democratic governors, Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, is a leading figure in the resistance to President Trump's policy goals.
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ADAM SCHIFF, Lead Manager The House Intelligence Committee chairman, 59, has been a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry that preceded the House vote.
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ADAM SCHIFF, lead manager The House Intelligence Committee chairman, 59, has been a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry that preceded the House vote.
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Sanders is a leading figure among the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and has been highly critical of the DNC in the past.
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Mr. Ortega, who was a leading figure in the Sandinista National Liberation Front, which overthrew Mr. Somoza, knows very well how this story ends.
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Even though the Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara was a leading figure in the Cuban revolution, he was born in ARGentina. 23D.
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The favourite is Boris Johnson, a leading figure in the 2016 Brexit campaign who is promising that Britain will leave the EU on Oct.
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Another chosen speaker, Samuel Rodriguez is a leading figure among Hispanic evangelicals, a growing constituency which leans more to the right than Catholic Latinos do.
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Discussing Brexit, the host Andrew Marr asked Johnson (himself a leading figure in the Brexit campaign) about the recent anti-Brexit campaign the People's Vote.
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"Old Hats" makes you think that the silent clown could become a leading figure in the comedy scene again, but only for a delusional moment.
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Burgis recalls a meeting with a leading figure of Angola's kleptocratic regime, who argued passionately that he was protecting his people from even worse abuses.
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Dutton was also the leading figure in a party-room coup last year that ousted Turnbull, although his bid to become prime minister was unsuccessful.
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Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban won a landslide third consecutive term in power Sunday, cementing his place as the leading figure among Europe's right-wing nationalists.
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Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian prime minister who has positioned himself as a leading figure of the European far right, also has strong ties to Russia.
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General Hamdan is now a leading figure in the power-sharing government, which began taking shape this week with the formation of a new cabinet.
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A leading figure of British modern dance for over 40 years, he is especially associated with Rambert Dance Company, English National Ballet and Houston Ballet.
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Trained as a painter, Mr. Wong was a leading figure in the Modernist movement that flourished in California between the first and second World Wars.
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"If revolutionaries take to the street, they should be able to protect themselves," said Mr. Shalash, who is a leading figure in the second faction.
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Police said Shameem, 24, took orders from a former army major, Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, who has emerged as a leading figure in Ansar al Islam.
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As the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza reports, at least one senator, who happens to be a leading figure in the party, is having jitters about Trump.
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Thunberg has emerged as a leading figure in the movement since she first protested in favor of climate action alone in August outside the Swedish parliament.
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Washington (CNN)Hanan Ashrawi, a leading figure in Palestinian politics over several decades, said Monday she had been denied a visa to enter the United States.
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Its leading figure in the federal government, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, is taking a hard line on immigration in a bid to squeeze the AfD vote.
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Other big blue states are home to strong attorneys general, too: California's Xavier Becerra, for example, is a leading figure in litigation against the Trump administration.
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Environment secretary Michael Gove, a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU more than two years ago, said Khan wanted to frustrate the vote.
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That trip drew scrutiny from the FBI, and Page has been a leading figure in the investigations about potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia ever since.
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Birx, who served as a US Army physician before becoming a leading figure in the fight against HIV, is "as good as they get," Jha said.
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You rushed back from a visiting scholar position at Columbia University to join the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement and quickly became a leading figure in it.
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"Within the context of the renewed crackdown on Egyptian human rights organizations, he has become a leading figure in Egypt's human rights movement," the awards jury said.
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Wong, a leading figure in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, was released from prison on Monday and vowed to soon join the latest round of protests.
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Conyers, a leading figure in civil rights and Democratic politics who represented the Detroit area for over half a century, endorsed his son to take his place.
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Paul Bocuse, the most celebrated French chef of the postwar era and a leading figure in the pathbreaking culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine, died on Saturday.
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But now more than ever, there is no denying the status of Halvorson — who received a 2774 MacArthur fellowship in September — as a leading figure in jazz.
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She was reportedly a leading figure lobbying Trump to keep the United States in the Paris climate change agreement, alongside Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Mr. Borisov, 57, a burly former firefighter and bodyguard of the country's former Communist leader, has been a leading figure in Bulgarian politics for over a decade.
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"We've been working on this for years, and it's great to have someone who's a leading figure and a man do the same thing," Dr. Niv said.
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A leading figure in the pro-democracy protests, he was already serving a two-year term over a news interview in which he said Bahrain tortured political prisoners.
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Lizzie is a leading figure in the digital lending landscape of India since 2011 when she moved from UK to spearhead the India operations for digital lender Wonga.com.
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BACK STORY It's fitting that today, the birthday of Langston Hughes — the poet and leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance — is also the start of Black History Month.
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Mr Moore is a solid theological conservative and a leading figure in dialogue with Catholics, but also a longstanding critic of Mr Trump, in particular his personal morality.
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Arguably the most dangerous town in Saudi Arabia, Awamiya was the hometown of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was a leading figure in the province.
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"It's telling, I'm afraid, that Donald Trump treats Vladimir Putin with more respect than he does John Lewis," tweeted Kristol, a leading figure from the "Never Trump" movement.
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Red berets lay on the ground in pools of blood as several soldiers cried near the body of a commander who was a leading figure among southern separatists.
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Support from Bannon is helpful, McDaniel said, with strong Trump supporters who know Bannon was a leading figure on the President's campaign and with those who read Breitbart.
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Argento was among the first women to accuse now disgraced movie mogul Weinstein of sexual misconduct -- and like McGowan -- has been a leading figure in the #MeToo movement.
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He became a leading figure in Amnesty International and continued to try to bring attention to the abuses in Chile, calling on the American government to exert pressure.
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Now, at twenty-nine, he's become a leading figure in the movement to strike juveniles from the registry and to challenge broader restrictions that he believes are ineffectual.
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As head of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Farage was a leading figure in the 'leave' camp in the run-up to Britain 2016 referendum on EU membership.
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Alex Salmond, a former first minister of Scotland and a leading figure in the movement for Scottish independence, resigned from the Scottish National Party amid claims of sexual misconduct.
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After being elected in May 2017, Macron was dubbed as the next leading figure in Europe — challenging German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the main champion of the European Union.
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The G-Wagen was the leading figure throughout the stars and cars era, as demonstrated through the lens of Kardashian GoPros, and more recently, on Logan Paul's YouTube channel.
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FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE Thunberg has emerged as a leading figure in the movement since she first protested in favor of climate action alone in August outside the Swedish parliament.
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The Minnesota Democrat, a leading figure amongst progressives, had a head start and has already lined up support from a number of state party chairs, lawmakers and labor groups.
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For 15 years, Steve Gibson has been a leading figure in San Francisco HIV prevention for the gay community, as well as a member of the SF AIDS Foundation.
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The great preacher's son, Franklin Graham, has taken on the family mantle as a leading figure in the evangelical world and he too has friends in high Russian places.
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The showdown went viral, with "reclaiming my time" becoming a rallying cry among Trump's critics, and the newly dubbed "Auntie Maxine" emerged as a leading figure of the resistance.
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She has been a leading figure in the Democratic Party for decades, a role model for many women and a longtime ally of African-Americans and other minority groups.
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"Please sack Johnson," said Manfred Weber, a leading figure in the assembly, which must approve any deal struck by EU negotiator Michel Barnier before Britain leaves in March 2019.
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Mr. Elkann is a grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, who turned his family's auto company, Fiat, into a worldwide conglomerate and was a leading figure in Italy's postwar industrial revival.
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"Paraguay has always been a magical territory, the periphery of the periphery," says the Asunción-based architect Solano Benítez, 56, the leading figure in the country's contemporary architectural scene.
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"When you find somebody who's a leading figure in a field like that, it's kind of a pail of cold water on that part of the community," he said.
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The Italian is still very much the leading figure of the Serie A champion's back four, which has conceded just 34 top-flight goals during the whole calendar year.
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Awamiya was the hometown of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was a leading figure in the province before he was executed by the Saudi government in 2016.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a far-left populist who placed a surprisingly strong fourth in round one, is the only leading figure from the 2017 race not to back Macron openly.
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Mr. Khan will succeed Boris Johnson, a Conservative who has held the post since 2008 and is a leading figure in the campaign for Britain's departure from the European Union.
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He would succeed Boris Johnson, the extroverted Conservative who has held the post since 2008 and is a leading figure in the campaign for Britain's departure from the European Union.
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Bolton was a leading figure in the Trump administration in pressing for Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro to step down so that US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido could assume power.
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But, One Punch remains a fan favorite thanks to his all-action and has been a leading figure in the UK MMA scene during the sport's infancy in the region.
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In 2007, Gambira emerged as a leading figure in a mass protest over living conditions and the oppressive rule of then-dictator Than Shwe that was dubbed the Saffron Revolution.
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The Revolutionary Guard Corps, a part of Iran's military in which Soleimani was a leading figure, claimed responsibility for the attack, and top-level Iranian officials boasted about the strikes.
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After watching his father, Irving, help found the neoconservative movement, he joined the Reagan administration as an aide to Education Secretary William Bennett, a leading figure on the cultural right.
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"If it didn't affect women and only affected men, I would be against war anyway," Steinem, a leading figure of the women's liberation movement, told CNN in an interview Friday.
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The study was inspired by the hypothesis of linguist Charles Hockett, a leading figure in the field to help define linguistics as a science between the 1930s and the 1960s.
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Aoun is a leading figure in the Free Patriotic Movement, the political party founded by President Michel Aoun which named six of the ministers in Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government.
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Pompeo, a leading figure in the ongoing discussions with the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, and other North Korean officials, framed his disputes with Bolton as ordinary differences of opinion.
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Klitschko, who was a leading figure in protests that saw the ouster of Ukraine's Kremlin-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, said corruption was only one of the obstacles facing the country.
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The 18 arrested include Manuel Benedicto Lucas García, a former Major General who was a leading figure in the counter-insurgency, and Byron Humberto Barrientos Díaz, a former head of intelligence.
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Mohamed Roble Jimale, commander of the Somali Army's 3rd division and a leading figure in the fight against Al-Shabaab, was killed as he was leaving a compound, according to Gen.
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He became a leading figure in the fledgling rockabilly scene by covering songs originally performed by African-American artists like Big Mama Thornton ( "Hound Dog") and Arthur Crudup ("That's All Right").
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Before emigrating, Forman studied at the Prague Film Academy (FAMU) and was a leading figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement, along with directors Ivan Passer, Vera Chytilova and others.
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Palaoko is not a leading figure in the nearly four-year-old civil war that has broadly pitted the country's two dominant ethnic groups, the Dinka and Nuer, against each other.
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Catanzaro was rarely the public face of the Trump administration's policies, but he was a leading figure in the administration for carrying out Trump's aggressive deregulatory and pro-fossil fuel agenda.
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On Thursday Italy's Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli, a leading figure in 5-Star, said hydrogen was a key part of the government's drive to boost renewable energy and circular economy technologies.
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As the leading figure for years of an activity run with dollars and financed by foreign visitors, Mr. Marrero represents actually the part of the economy hardly reached by black people.
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Burgess is also a leading figure of the project; he launched an international open call for artworks six years ago, although the project has since evolved greatly from that initial stage.
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Soran Singh was a leading figure in Pakistan's tiny Sikh community and an adviser to a provincial chief minister, representing cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party.
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He was the leading figure in a programme to enforce peace terms on Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator, in 1991, forcing him to renounce nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and long-range rockets.
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It's a win-win for Marine Le Pen: She's poised to either take the presidency or become the leading figure of the opposition, capitalizing on resentment against neoliberalism and the political establishment.
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Essebsi, a leading figure in the country's fortunes since the popular uprising eight years ago, was hospitalized late last month for a week after suffering what authorities called a severe health crisis.
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Since Cameron left politics, Osborne has become the leading figure from the former cabinet still serving as a member of parliament (MP) on the "back bench" of Conservatives excluded from May's government.
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Murphy has emerged as a leading figure in the push for gun control legislation after the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his home state of Connecticut in 2012.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Saturday executed a leading figure in an Islamist party after he was convicted of committing atrocities during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said.
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AMMAN, Jordan — A leading figure in Al Qaeda who became a prominent member of its Syrian offshoot, the Nusra Front, was killed in a drone attack on Monday, according to the group.
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The two became a couple, and Mr. Bourdain became her champion as she emerged as a leading figure in the battle against sexual assault and harassment, speaking at conferences and at Harvard.
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Ms. Carlson, who had become a leading figure in the #MeToo movement after her sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox, seemed like a perfect replacement — one who would help reform the pageant's image.
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Though two cabinet ministers, including the Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, resigned over Mrs May's deal, the rest, notably Michael Gove, environment secretary and leading figure in the Leave campaign, have swallowed their concerns.
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"I became a leading figure in a very old, very oppressive system so I could hardly blame anyone for looking at me as somebody who's not going to be particularly sympathetic," he said.
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Without Kennedy, the court's leading figure on gay rights for two decades, the newly retrenched conservative justices could give conservatives Christians a legal path to bypass anti-discrimination laws that cover sexual orientation.
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"We reject all that was stated in (Transitional Military Council Head Abdel Fattah) al-Burhan's statement," said Madani Abbas Madani, a leading figure in the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces opposition alliance.
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Emily Lau, a former chairwoman of the Democratic Party and still a leading figure in the territory's democracy movement, said that she was not aware of Carrie Lam's having apologized for anything before.
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For example, Mr. Trump took a car ride with Mike Pence along with Billy Graham's son Franklin and Tony Perkins, a leading figure on the Christian right, during the Louisiana floods of 2016.
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But the president of Tunisia has also become the leading figure of reformism in the Arab world by advocating equal inheritance rights for Muslim women and their right to marry non-Muslim foreigners.
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Voters appear convinced that the economy is strong, but a majority of voters either do not associate it with Trump, the Republican Party's leading figure, or disapprove of the president for other reasons.
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The 67-year-old Islamist, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, was deposed by the army and jailed in 2013 after barely a year in power following mass protests against his rule.
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According to Reuters, he is a leading figure in a legal effort to get rid of the EPA's flagship Clean Power Plan, which has become the cornerstone of President Obama's strategy on climate change.
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He also influenced the music of Shlomo Carlebach, regarded by many as the foremost songwriter of Jewish religious music and a leading figure in the movement to bring secular Jews back to religious observance.
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Mutko long served as a leading figure in Russian sports as the Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy (from 2008 to 2012) and the Russian Minister of Sport (from 2012 until October 2016).
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In fact, the strange thing about Hitler is not that he imagined himself as the leading figure in a historic drama — many people have such grandiose fantasies — but that life ended up vindicating him.
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San Francisco — Renaud Laplanche, a leading figure in Silicon Valley's effort to challenge the financial industry, reached a settlement with federal regulators on Friday over accusations that he had fraudulently inflated his company's returns.
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The latest disclosure about Mr. Torshin, who is a leading figure in Mr. Putin's party, United Russia, shows the direct involvement of a high-ranking Russian official in the Kremlin's outreach to the campaign.
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"It stripped away all credibility of anything the industry might say," said Matthew L. Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and a leading figure in the litigation against tobacco companies.
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"Salvini has created fear and chaos and should apologize before the Italian people," said Laura Boldrini, speaker of the lower house of parliament and a leading figure in the left-wing Free and Equal party.
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The house was designed by Dom Hans van der Laan, a Benedictine monk and architect who was a leading figure in the Bossche School, a movement in Dutch architecture based on numerical relationships to space.
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" In a message to Cuban President Raul Castro, he said that: "I learned with deep sadness of the death of Fidel Castro Ruz, a leading figure in his country's history and life of the world.
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Albrecht became a leading figure in Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party was informed that his family was in danger from the Red Army Faction, a terrorist group also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang.
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He is also a leading figure in a legal effort by several states to throw out the EPA's Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of Obama's climate change strategy that requires states to curb carbon output.
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"Charles has been a leading figure in the conceptual art movement on the West Coast for more than 40 years," Ann Philbin, the director of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
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In the mid-21990s Mr. Dias emerged as the leading figure of Nova Figuração (New Figuration), a movement in Brazilian painting that used bold, graphic imagery to contest Brazil's junta, which took power in 23.
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A leading figure in the history of Chinese art, Professor Fong taught for 219 years at Princeton University, where in the 220s he established the nation's first doctoral degree program in Chinese art and archaeology.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A statue of a priest who was leading figure in the movement that toppled Communism in Poland was removed by protesters, who accused the Catholic Church of neglecting accusations that he sexually abused minors.
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"I can only interpret your silence as an expression of support ... for the bill," she said, announcing she was suspending appointment discussions with the justice minister, a leading figure in the religious-nationalist Jewish Home party.
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Mr. Dudley, a close adviser to the Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen, is a leading figure among the new generation of Fed leaders who have made reducing unemployment the central bank's priority in the post-crisis period.
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MEXICO CITY — Luis H. Álvarez, a leading figure in the conservative National Action Party in Mexico who dedicated his life to the fight for democracy there, died on May 18 at his home in León, Mexico.
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He survived a hard start as a young hustler on the streets of East Harlem to rise to become a leading figure of boogaloo, the fusion of Latin rhythm and soul music that he helped pioneer.
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"We can't simply stand aside and observe; we cannot simply have business as usual," said Manfred Weber, a German lawmaker and a leading figure in the largest political group at the Parliament, the European People's Party.
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As a leading figure in the food and drink industry pointed out to Business Insider last week, this would take place during the Christmas period, when demand for food and other goods is at its highest.
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Another leading figure in the Abu Walaa network was Boban Simeonovic, a 36-year-old German-Serbian from Dortmund who acted as a guru to Amri and had a reputation for fanaticism even in these radical circles.
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"I've spoken to political leaders on the West Coast about what the tech industry has done to places like San Francisco," said New York State Senator Michael Gianaris, a leading figure in opposition to the Amazon deal.
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In the Beijing case, Sui had been defending activist Ding Jiaxi, a leading figure in the "New Citizen's Movement" that called for Chinese officials to disclose their assets as a part of gradual political change in China.
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Elizabeth Loftus, a cognitive psychologist now at the University of California, Irvine, was a leading figure in this work, and published many studies on how a suggestion could lodge itself in someone's mind and become a memory.
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Thanks to a canonical Elle write-up of a press conference Waters held where she dropkicked a mic, then set a whole room of reporters on fire, Waters has emerged as the leading figure of the Resistance.
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If a later video released by an ISIS-affiliated news agency is to be believed, Zahran was the leading figure in a band of suicide bombers who tore apart hotels and churches across the country that morning.
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The Buffalo-born son of Dominican immigrants has become a leading figure within the party and made Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Though he was well into his political career in 22010, the then-276-year-old Jair Bolsonaro was not exactly a leading figure in Brazilian politics that year, better known for his incendiary comments than electoral success.
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Christopher B. Field, the head of an environmental center at Stanford University and a leading figure in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change review, said that 142,631 comments were received on the drafts of that document.
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If the leading figure in the provisional government, Aleksandr Kerensky, had seized on an opportunity presented by a now-forgotten vote in the German Reichstag, World War I might have been over before American troops reached Europe.
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Similarly, an attempt in 2013 by US Special Operations Forces to kill or capture a leading figure in Al-Shabaab in Somalia had to be called off after an intense firefight in which civilians were in the crosshairs.
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Jang Song Thaek was married to Kim Jong Il's only sister and rose to become a leading figure in his administration, and is thought to have been made a four-star general after Kim Jong Un assumed power.
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Antwerp's right-wing mayor, a leading figure in Belgian national politics, has rejected criticism of his decision to call a news conference immediately after the incident, where he said city authorities looked to have foiled a terrorist attack.
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But use of his image was curbed by the military junta starting in 1988 for fear of bolstering his daughter, who had returned to Myanmar from England and emerged as the leading figure in the country's democracy movement.
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Tiravanija, a leading figure in the new, socially based form of conceptual art called relational aesthetics—he was known for turning art galleries into kitchens, and serving Thai food to the visitors—told him to forget about Düsseldorf.
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It made him a leading, if not the leading, figure in the rise of glam rock as a genre, using sci-fi tropes and pageantry to undermine the macho rock star culture of artists who came before Bowie.
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As a leading figure in the Apache Stronghold movement, his murals, photographs, and paintings have been used to promote the movement and educate people in the area about the situation at Oak Flat for the past three years.
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A career prosecutor, Mr. Holder has quickly emerged as a leading figure in Democratic efforts to fight Mr. Trump; he has been retained by the Democratic-led California Legislature to help in any battles with the Trump administration.
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James Atlas, a leading figure in New York literary circles as an editor and publisher and as a writer whose books included well-regarded biographies of Saul Bellow and the poet Delmore Schwartz, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Here are the seven "managers," who act as prosecutors in the Senate's impeachment trial: ADAM SCHIFF, lead manager The House Intelligence Committee chairman, 59, has been a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry that preceded the House vote.
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READ: Brexit is helping revive republican violence in Northern Ireland May resigned and was replaced by Boris Johnson, a leading figure in the 20193 Leave campaign, who promised as PM that he'd get Brexit done before the Oct.
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Under the guidance of Malaquias Montoya, a leading figure of the Chicano Art Movement, the workshop class was the largest of its kind in a period that witnessed a proliferation of similar groups, especially on Bay Area campuses.
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Johnson was the leading figure in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union ahead of a June 23 referendum that resulted in a vote for Brexit and plunged the 28-member bloc into crisis and soul-searching.
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He has been a leading figure in a campaign by Republican attorneys general to sue government agencies over some of President Barack Obama's landmark achievements, including the Affordable Care Act and regulations to reduce the impacts of climate change.
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As House speaker, Pelosi will set the legislative agenda for the House, is a leading figure in Democratic Party politics and is second in line for the presidency after Vice President Mike Pence if Trump were to become incapacitated.
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The justice secretary in Prime Minister David Cameron's government, Gove was a leading figure in the official Vote Leave campaign ahead of the June 23 referendum that saw Britain vote to quit the European Union, prompting Cameron to resign.
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" Hozan Alan Senauke, vice abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center: "For Bernie it was a challenge because when Maezumi passed away, it was assumed that Bernie would become the leading figure for Soto Zen Buddhism in the United States.
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Farage's brand of populism and anti-EU rhetoric helped force the government of David Cameron to hold the 2016 EU referendum and then was a leading figure in the successful campaign to secure a vote in favor of Brexit.
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According to America's FBI, Siful Haque Sujan, a Bangladeshi-born British citizen believed to have been killed in Syria in 2015, was a leading figure in IS who used eBay to send money to operatives in Britain and America.
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A leading figure among them is Francis M. Naumann, who has presented all sorts of Dada delights for two decades in his Midtown Manhattan gallery, and who is this city's most fervent guardian of the flame of Marcel Duchamp.
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FROM WEST POINT TO HIGH-SPEED TRADING Viola was a leading figure in the emergence of high-frequency trading, in which rapid-fire machines place thousands of very short-term bets, making markets and profiting on tiny price imbalances.
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Tanaka, a leading figure of Gutai, harnessed that movement's disruptive energy to paint messy circuits of hot colors, while Ms. Nasaka, also a Gutai veteran, created mellower reliefs whose concentric circles recall the raked forms of Zen stone gardens.
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She fills in the basics, introduces foundational artists and sketches in some of the medium's industrial history, though largely as a departure point for her discussions of independent artists like Robert Crumb, a leading figure in underground comics, a.k.a.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Student activist Greta Thunberg's school strike movement marked its first anniversary on Tuesday after a year that has seen the schoolgirl rise from a solitary protester to a leading figure in the fight against climate change.
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When Avital Ronell, a New York University professor, and Asia Argento, an actress and leading figure in the #MeToo movement, were both accused of sexual misconduct in close succession earlier this year, many feminists seemed unsure of how to respond.
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Graham Bishop, a pro-EU consultant and leading figure in a forum of financiers seeking to advise the British government in Brexit talks, said the country's reliance on EU regulation would prove a major problem when it decides to leave.
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The former Harvard Law School professor is running this fall for her second term as the senior senator from Massachusetts and, as vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, is a leading figure in the progressive wing of the party.
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In a televised confession on Monday, Ms. Wang, a leading figure in the movement, delivered a scathing rebuke of her profession, accusing colleagues of pursuing wealth and fame and suggesting that foreign activists were conspiring to smear the Chinese government.
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LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - British Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a leading figure in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, will run for the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party, the BBC reported on Thursday citing unnamed sources.
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Mutko oversaw the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and was the leading figure for Russia's winning bid for the FIFA World Cup in 2018—that's in addition to presiding over the Russian World Anti-Doping Agency controversies which emerged in 2015.
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In fact, Michael Gove, a leading figure in the Leave campaign and a potential candidate for the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, not only said that "Britain has had enough of experts" but likened those same experts to Nazis.
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It cited cases including that of Nabeel Rajab, a leading figure in pro-democracy protests, who was sentenced to five years in prison in February for criticizing Saudi Arabia's air strikes in Yemen and accusing Bahrain's prison authorities of torture.
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For a brief time in 2002, it was even in vogue for pundits to tout the idea that McCain should switch parties and run for president as the leading figure of the then-ascendant hawkish wing of the Democratic Party.
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Johnson, a leading figure in the 2016 referendum campaign to leave the European Union, had raised some doubts about his commitment to leave by the latest deadline when he described it as only "eminently feasible" in a televised debate this week.
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An account of the Paneros, a Spanish literary family whose patriarch became a leading figure of letters during Franco's rule, this documentary from the mid-29400s was intended as the Iberian Peninsula's answer to "Grey Gardens," according to Film Forum.
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Peter Mayer, a leading figure in the book publishing world who was known for publishing Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses" and for his fondness for republishing out-of-print works, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.
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Langston Hughes Residence Langston Hughes, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote several books while living in this Harlem rowhouse from 1947 to 1967, including "Montage of a Dream Deferred" and "I Wonder as I Wander," his second autobiography.
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Aymenn al-Tamimi, a researcher at Swansea University focusing on Islamic State, said the name was unknown but could refer to a leading figure in Islamic State called Hajj Abdullah, whom the U.S. State Department had identified as a possible successor.
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The Obama administration has accused Russian interests of meddling in the presidential campaign by spreading fake news and hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the emails of John Podesta, a leading figure in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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As he moved toward a run for president, O'Rourke was also grappling with the realities of his sudden rise to political stardom: He was now a leading figure in a Democratic Party with which he had never really built strong connections.
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The two officials, Vice President Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to the president who has been a leading figure in the anti-abortion movement for two decades, told the marchers of the White House's dedication to their cause.
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According to Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a leading figure in the revolution, it was the young people — the same ones who had been protesting on university campuses for years — who led the revolution.
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Surveying the same early-20th-century economic landscape, Rudolf Hilferding, a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party during the Weimar Republic, described in his Financial Capital, published in 1919, a symbiosis at the top between large industrial complexes and banks.
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It's not an accident that when Mr. Carvin (a leading figure behind the two failed challenges to the Affordable Care Act) and the right-wing foundations supporting his lawsuit set out to recruit plaintiffs, they looked for teachers and not prison guards.
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Nigel Farage, former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, who was a leading figure in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, called the decision a betrayal and tweeted that he was beginning to question the independence of the U.K. judiciary.
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Since he first took the Olympic plunge at the 2000 Sydney Games he has had an ambition to take swimming into the mainstream and there is no doubt the sport has enjoyed a much higher profile during his tenure as its leading figure.
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The sentence of two months in jail plus another two under house arrest against a once-leading figure in American higher education marks a low point in the largely distinguished career of Graham Spanier, who was Penn State's president from 22012 to 21998.
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But it is also likely that his penchant for extreme partisanship — he was the leading figure on the committee that kept alive the right's Benghazi conspiracy theories — will lead him to commit similar mistakes of political passion on behalf of the new president.
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The secessionists held huge rallies in the southern port city of Aden for a second consecutive day on Monday — to ensure that the delegates in Kuwait understood they would not yield, said Nasser al-Yazidi, a leading figure in the Southern Movement.
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Gentiloni is a leading figure in the center-left Democratic Party which had ruled Italy since 2013 but was roundly beaten in March, as voters punished it for the sluggish economic recovery, growing poverty and a surge in migrant numbers from Africa.
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He is probably the closest heir we have to Geri Allen — the first postmodern piano master in jazz, who died last year at 60 — and a homier counterpart to the pianist Jason Moran, a MacArthur fellow and leading figure in improvised music.
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MADRID — Anna Gabriel, a leading figure of the separatist movement in Catalonia who is due in court in Madrid this week to face possible charges of sedition and rebellion, has traveled to Switzerland, raising doubts that she will appear before the judge.
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Salazar has vowed to appeal the ban and just last week, Mark Parker, Nike's chief executive, announced that the company was standing behind Salazar, a marathon champion in his 20s and the leading figure in American distance running in the modern era.
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Biden has long worked to address issues of domestic violence and sexual assault, writing the Violence Against Women Act and acting as a leading figure in the Obama administration's It's On Us initiative, which aims to end sexual assault on college campuses.
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Johnson, a leading figure of the successful campaign for Britain to leave the EU, is one of a trio of Eurosceptics at the heart of May's government who will have a key role in shaping the country's new approach to global trade and diplomacy.
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Why it matters: Voters seem certain the U.S. economy is strong, but as the midterm elections approach, "a majority of voters either do not associate [the economy] with Trump, the Republican Party's leading figure, or disapprove of the president for other reasons," per CNBC.
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Quite soon after a big report I had written came out, I got an email from a prominent male scholar of masculinities, saying that I really ought to be citing him more in my work as he was the leading figure in the field.
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Mr. Kaplan will preside over that meeting on Wednesday with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and nearly a dozen conservatives, including Glenn Beck of TheBlaze television network and Jim DeMint, a former South Carolina senator and a leading figure in the Tea Party movement.
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But on Sunday, days after the shocking killing of the lawmaker Jo Cox, the poster was condemned by a leading figure in another group opposing European Union membership — reflecting concerns among some who want Britain to leave that hard-line, anti-immigration messages could backfire.
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Madrid's violent response to the Catalan referendum is a sign of how it will treat any effort to increase Basque autonomy, said Arnaldo Otegi, a leading figure within P.N.V.'s main nationalist rival, a far-left coalition known as Basque Country Unite, or E.H. Bildu.
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Mr. Sondland, a wealthy hotelier who donated $1 million to Mr. Trump's inaugural committee, was a leading figure in what witnesses have called the "second channel" of foreign policy that was carrying out the objectives of Mr. Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Julian Stanczak, a Polish-born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.
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To Mira Bernstein, a BEAM instructor and a leading figure in the extracurricular math ecosystem that incubates many of the nation's scientists and engineers, the scene was unremarkable, except for one striking feature: None of the children were wealthy, and few were white or Asian.
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His decision to retire signals the end of an era in which Mr. McGuinness, a former leading figure in the Irish Republican Army, became one of the architects of Northern Ireland's peace process, ultimately sharing power with some of his most bitter former adversaries.
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"Native Son," a buzzy adaptation of Richard Wright's blistering novel, will open the next Sundance Film Festival, which will also feature Zac Efron playing Ted Bundy, Viola Davis starring in a comedy and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a leading figure in a rollicking political documentary.
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Warren's area of academic specialty was bankruptcy law (a later Warren book carried the scintillating title Secured Credit: A Systems Approach), and in that field, she was a leading figure in one side of a long-running dispute between two main points of view.
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A chartered accountant and commentator who has long had the ear of leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gurumurthy is a leading figure in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organization of the Hindu nationalist BJP where Prime minister Narendra Modi began his public career.
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Said was a leading figure in early postcolonial research, and in his 1978 book Orientalism, he outlined literary and narrative tropes that US and European writers used (and still use) to portray Asia and the Middle East as bizarre, regressive, and innately opaque and impossible to understand.
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"While I have been resistant to the idea of voting at a distance, we are all forced to consider new ways of doing our work that seemed unthinkable even a week ago," said Schiff, a leading figure in the House's examination of Russian election interference in 2016.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson, who was a leading figure in the campaign to take Britain out of the EU, said Brexit was becoming "soft to the point of disintegration" after Prime Minister Theresa May asked to work with the opposition Labour party to secure an exit deal.
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M.B.Z., 58, has been the U.A.E.'s leading figure for over a decade (his older brother Khalifa, who suffered a stroke in 2014, remains the titular president) and has been shaping its policies — in education, finance and culture as well as foreign policy — for even longer.
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"There can be no more serious offense than the betrayal for personal gain of a parliamentary mandate and the sacred trust of the people," said the judge, Sergio Moro, a leading figure in the investigation who has become something of a hero to graft-weary Brazilians.
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This should be clear to all people of good faith, given that Trump was a leading figure in the birther movement, defended white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, and claimed he couldn't get a fair hearing from a judge of Mexican heritage, to mention just a few examples.
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This is saying: be bold, act, dont wait and think you need to mobilise a million people 5,000 is enough, said Farhana Yamin, a leading figure in Extinction Rebellion, a new movement that sparked a national debate on climate change after occupying four sites in central London last month.
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Yun Hyong-keun (1928–203) was a leading figure in Tansaekhwa (also known as Dansaekhwa), the Korean Monochrome movement, which coalesced in the mid-1970s, a few years after Park Chung Hee, the third President of South Korea, declared martial law in 1972, virtually ensuring his lifelong dictatorship.
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Trump suggested in a tweet Monday that Farage, the interim leader of the nationalist and anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party and the leading figure behind the country's withdrawal from the E.U., be the next ambassador to the U.S. "He would do a great job!" the president-elect promised.
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"This is saying: be bold, act, don't wait and think you need to mobilize a million people — 5,000 is enough," said Farhana Yamin, a leading figure in Extinction Rebellion, a new movement that sparked a national debate on climate change after occupying four sites in central London last month.
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A staffer to a member of the Congressional Black Caucus told CNN that "there is a feeling among some of our members that we need to protect his legacy," noting that Conyers is a founding member of the group and was a leading figure in the civil rights movement.
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Piers J. Sellers, a climate scientist who flew to the International Space Station three times in NASA's shuttle program, became a leading figure in the agency's scientific research initiatives and continued while terminally ill to devote himself to the challenges posed by global warming, died on Friday in Houston.
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Related: In Photos: A Call For Justice On the Streets of Mexico City for 'More Than' 43 Missing As a leading figure in the movement Ramírez has travelled across the country and beyond, seeking to keep the pressure up on the government to find out what really happened.
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When: January 26–May 20 Where: Morgan Library & Museum (225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan) This exhibition offers the rare opportunity to see 2003 photographs by Peter Hujar, spanning from the 1950s to the '80s, when he had established himself as a leading figure in the East Village art scene.
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"The reason it has to be by the end of May is because once June starts the Democrat air war begins and a lot of conversation is going to begin to be drowned out," said Erickson, who is a leading figure in the conservative movement to draft a third party candidate.
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Instead of ushering in a new progressive golden age in one of America's most liberal cities, de Blasio's administration is mired in controversy and incompetence—and yet the mayor continues in his hopeless, self-defeating quest to graduate from a bit player to a leading figure on the national stage.
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Asia Argento, the Italian actress and director who has positioned herself as a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, pushed back Tuesday against a New York Times report that she had arranged to pay the actor Jimmy Bennett after he accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was 22.7.
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" When the news of the ban broke on Monday in The Times of London, Elie Dangoor, a leading figure in the Association of British Scrabble Players, said in a statement that Mr. Simmons had been "a huge part of the game's development," adding, "There's no one person bigger than the game.
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Among the RNLA's past members are the Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, the former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn, and Hans von Spakovsky, a former Republican appointee to the Federal Election Commission who is now a leading figure in the right-wing push to create barriers to voting.
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But the deal, which cost Mr. Johnson his company and much of his career and reputation, left him with few regrets in his retirement in Florida and even some satisfaction at having been the leading figure in an epic American business story, one that is still taught in business schools.
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Indeed, Mr. Cummings, who died last week at age 68, "pushed back against the abuse of power," she said, appearing to allude to the last great fight of Mr. Cummings's life as chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, where, in recent months, he became a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry.
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The United States, which has a major naval base in the country, has expressed concern about the case of Nabeel Rajab, a leading figure in pro-democracy protests that swept Bahrain in 2011, who was already serving a two-year sentence over a news interview in which he said Bahrain tortured political prisoners.
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Last year, when Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who planted bombs in New Jersey and in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, was finally taken into custody, the police also found his bloodstained journal, containing references to Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the Islamic State spokesman and the leading figure calling for attacks on the West.
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A Bronx native with Puerto Rican roots, Ocasio-Cortez is a democratic socialist and -- as of less than two months ago -- a leading figure on the progressive left, which has notched a handful of high-profile Democratic primary wins in 2018 while advocating for programs like "Medicare-for-all" and tuition-free college.
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The congressman has been a leading figure in Washington calling out Beijing's coercive actions throughout the Asia-Pacific, offering wise counsel on how to push back and ensue that the international order in Asia — which has led to decades of peaceful growth and stability — is not cast aside thanks to aggressive Chinese actions.
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A leading figure in the network of international experts who assess the twin threats posed by climate change and species loss, Watson uses the symbols to remind audiences that there is no special reason why human beings should not share the fate of the flightless bird, declared extinct at the end of the 17th century.
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Khelaifi, a leading figure in Qatar's multibillion-dollar push into global sports, is the chairman of the Paris St.-Germain soccer team and the chief executive of the beIN Media Group, a Doha-based television network that the Swiss accuse of bribing Valcke, who is currently serving a 22018-year ban from world soccer.
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World Briefing Mikhail M. Kasyanov, a leading figure in the political opposition whose image the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, menacingly posted online in the cross hairs of a sniper rifle this month, was attacked late Tuesday in Moscow by a dozen or so men who placed a cake on his head at a restaurant.
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The constitution put in place under the junta government is likely to prevent any political party from gaining a majority and whatever coalition emerges is likely to have a prime minister imposed from outside, said Chaturon Chaisaeng, a former deputy prime minister and leading figure in the Thaksin-allied Pheu Thai party that was ousted in a 2014 coup.
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Four decades ago, Dr. Scott Halstead, a leading figure in dengue research, first proposed that antibodies from an initial exposure to one of four types of the disease could increase the risk of a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue when a person was infected a second time, a process know as antibody-dependent enhancement or ADE.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) is perhaps the leading figure on the left after he gave Clinton a run for her money in the 2016 primary.
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If he wins the GOP nomination, he will face incumbent Democrat Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinSunday shows - Recession fears dominate Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Trump vows to 'always uphold the Second Amendment' amid ongoing talks on gun laws MORE, who was governor at the time of the disaster and a leading figure in denouncing Blankenship.
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If he wins the GOP nomination, he will face incumbent Democrat Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinSunday shows - Recession fears dominate Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Trump vows to 'always uphold the Second Amendment' amid ongoing talks on gun laws MORE, who was governor at the time of the disaster and a leading figure in denouncing Blankenship.
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Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanDemocratic Women's Caucus calls for investigation into Epstein plea deal DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews CNN slams GOP for not appearing on network after mass shootings, conservatives fire back MORE (R-Ohio), a leading figure in the House Freedom Caucus and one of his fiercest critics on Capitol Hill.
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The efforts by Mr. Soros and a small band of wealthy donors to defeat Mr. Bush in 2004, while unsuccessful, later led to the creation of a network of major liberal donors that reshaped the American political left, marked Mr. Soros as a leading figure in Democratic politics and reinforced his status as a perennial election-time foil for the right.
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Rabbi Jacobs, a leading figure in the denomination colloquially known as Jews for Jesus, quickly came under criticism on Monday for appearing to represent Jews at the rally and for leading the only prayer by a religious figure at the event for the 11 people and six others injured in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday.
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