Sentences with phrase «joseon dynasty»

The group of politicians who were allegedly paid by Manafort were known as the Hapsburg Group, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dynasty.

He is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (Bloomsbury Press, 2009); it was released in paperback as Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years.

The last thing you want is a disaster on your way to building your dynasty.

Duck Dynasty's Willie and Korie Roberston were the hottest reality star appearances at the dinner this year:

The fourth generation of Canada's discount retail dynasty has had a remarkable first year at the helm of Dollarama.

The conventional view in the U.S. is that the Kim dynasty uses negotiations to win concessions.

The Kim dynasty has been one of the most durable dictatorships in the world, and its key aim is survival.

Since being ousted from McCain Foods, the family's frozen food dynasty, and taking over Maple Leaf in 1995, the McCains — the late Wallace, and sons Michael and Scott — modernized an old meat - packing business into one of the country's top packaged - food companies.

Yet, I'd never even seen the Warriors play in person; I was not a founding member of this basketball dynasty.

The whole field has changed in the last 10 years with the proliferation of social media and reality TV, Kim Kardashian, Duck Dynasty, Honey - Boo - Boo.

Israel had been born into fabulous wealth — the scion of a dynasty of commodity traders who hobnobbed with heads of state and captains of industry — but this fund was the chance to strike out on his own, without family baggage, and take his place among the titans of Wall Street.

The same year the EPA released its study, a subsidiary of Northern Dynasty filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«I was 100 percent convinced Duck Dynasty would never work.

The north is too often misunderstood as an unpredictable rogue state led by a dynasty of mad dictators.

Junior gold miners Dynasty Resources and Orinoco Gold have announced plans to raise a combined $ 2.6 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects.

Would you rather by the Chinese Ming Dynasty (or even modern China, let's be honest) and the Turkish Ottoman Empire with its seemingly easy ability to make decisions and control outcomes or the messy, imperfect, self - correcting United States?

He's reluctant to name names, but contends that some of Canada's richest dynasties have simply not ponied up in a significant way.

And whatever its similarities to other well - known Canadian dynasties, the Phelan clan's tale is unlike any other — a saga marked by it own jealousies and ambitions, and by a family commitment to morality in business that has at times led Cara to leave millions on the table.

Duck Dynasty is now a full - blown empire, and the family is leveraging every ounce of their celebrity fame.

Branding expert Liz Goodgold agrees much of Duck Dynasty's success is due to its principles, along with its Southern charm and authentic characters.

Additionally, North Korea has long stated one of its goals as reuniting the Korean Peninsula under the Kim dynasty, and if the US ceded to Pyongyang, it just may feel emboldened to do so.

Rather than hoarding their money or creating family dynasties as many of their predecessors did, a growing number of wealthy Americans are pledging their fortunes to benefit society.

India's historical ally, the Soviet Union, had been aligned with the Nehru - Gandhi dynasty and their Congress party.

The Kim dynasty has invested decades of effort in their pursuit of nuclear weapons; it is unlikely that they will negotiate them away.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

At the press conference, the questions bore a remarkably aggressive tone — many of the reporters were from media outlets skeptical of the Chinese government, including the Falun Gong - linked New Tang Dynasty Television and the Epoch Times.

On the other, he's part of an illustrious business dynasty as the cousin of Elon Musk, who was himself dismissed in the early days of Tesla as a hype artist, and who made doubters eat their words.

Despite the greatness of the New England Patriots dynasty, the Pats like to make things interesting in their Super Bowl wins.

The saying apparently dates back to the Han Dynasty, but Chen attributed it to the person who popularized it in the 20th century: Mao Zedong.

More than a quarter of the list is made up of families like the Aquilinis, and while it may be hard to feel sympathy for the pecadilloes of the rich, it's worth pointing out that being a member of a dynasty comes with its own set of burdens.

Edouard de Rothschild, who owns a stake in Libération and is a member of the wealthy Rothschild dynasty, praised the paper's approach and later told French television that he would pay taxes in France «wholeheartedly,» taking yet another dig at Arnault.

Qin, also called Qin Shihuangdi, united China in 221 B.C. and ruled as the first emperor of the Qin dynasty.

«Duck Dynasty» was shot in West Monroe, Louisiana.

Driving Dynasty: Tan's great - grandfather worked as a taxi driver, and his grandfather built a Malaysian automotive empire by importing Japanese cars.

Talk of a dynasty swept the baseball world recently when the San Francisco Giants won their second World Series in three years.

Guests at this hotel can stay inside a 1,000 - year - old Chinese temple that dates back to the Qing dynasty.

How can any team be a dynasty when it isn't even the same team from year to year?

But unlike so many East Coast dynasties, Los Angeles's elite has proven more transient, its legacies less lasting.

Big Idea: Oldest son of Rupert Murdoch has returned to his father's empire as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp. and 20th Century Fox after quitting his executive positions in the pre-split News Corp. in 2005 — and relinquishing his status as heir presumptive — to build his own radio and TV group, Nova, with James Packer, scion of another Australian media dynasty.

Free from any real responsibility, with more money than they know what to do with, the recent generations of Johnsons represent the idea of the wealthy family dynasty in its purest state: rich, bored and dangerously aimless.

On the other hand, many of us mistrust dynasties in general, and the mismanagement and indeed malfeasance that nepotism can bring.

Wave of the Future: Banking consolidation; think local, act global multinationals; emerging economies, family dynasties

As HSBC managing director Ewan Rambourg explains in «The Bling Dynasty: Why the Reign of Chinese Luxury Shoppers Has Only Just Begun,» Louis Vuitton has been a big deal in China since around 2003, when sales peaked in Japan.

«We're not trying to set out to create a new dynasty,» she says, «We're just setting out to create a party that can kick these guys out.»

During the dynasties in China, yellow or gold was forbidden in China for commoners, for anyone beyond the royalty, the emperors.

That was where the dynasty people would go to spend the summer, to live up in the mountains where it was cooler.

Two dynasties, in business together for more than 70 years, will exchange congratulations on their latest triumph.

You can go to Google for that grist or, better yet, read The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, by Julia Flynn Siler.

Launching a new product can require so much effort, that getting it shipped is a major accomplishment, but in reality, it's just the first step towards creating your dynasty.

The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.