Sentences with phrase «many wealthy businessmen»

Ramaphosa, currently the country's deputy president, is a veteran of the struggle against Apartheid who went on to become an extremely wealthy businessman before returning to politics.

O'Leary put some of his own cash into the funds, too, giving Canadians the chance to invest alongside the wealthy businessman they saw on television.

«They treat us like children,» complains a wealthy businessman.

Many wealthy businessmen argue that the rich pay too much in taxes.

And Putin's reputation for imprisoning wealthy businessmen wasn't exactly working in their favor either.

Sen. Bill Nelson has never faced an opponent quite like Florida Gov. Rick Scott, an independently wealthy businessman with sky - high name recognition among voters and a formidable campaign machine bolstered by incumbency.

When it comes to redistributive taxation of wealthy businessmen, corporations, and Wall Street banks, the elites at Harvard and Yale seem more than pleased.

Yes, of course, some wealthy businessmen and heirs to large fortunes lived far better than the average American.

Osama's father, who had become a wealthy businessman, discouraged his children from engaging in political and religious debate.

In the 1970s Jaime Jaramillo, a wealthy businessman, was walking along the streets of Bogota in Colombia when he saw a young girl climbing down through a manhole into the sewers below.

Johan Huibers, a wealthy businessman, used the ancient measurement of the cubit - the length of a man's arm from elbow to fingertips - to build the vessel to the dimensions specified in the book of Genesis.

Al - waleed is a wealthy businessman with large holdings in several U.S. corporations, including Apple, Citigroup, and News Corp..

Todd Stiefel, a wealthy businessman, is responsible for bank rolling many atheism activism projects.

Spafford was a wealthy businessman who had invested much of his money in real estate in Chicago.

Lyn Brazil, the wealthy businessman and philanthropist, who has a major stake in troubled listed property developer Devine, has decided to sell his giant cattle station Vermelha in the Northern Territory.

The murky world of football agents is filled with unsavoury characters and wealthy businessmen, but no two are quite as unsavoury or wealthy as global super-agents Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola.

The third - round broadcast on CBS consisted primarily of interviews with and choppy shots from celebrities, many of them B or C - listers, athletes and random wealthy businessmen with the kind of connections that get you a spot in this pro-am field.

The first entity to offer any threat was the AFL, a league comprised of wealthy businessmen such as Lamar Hunt who had been shunned from the NFL ownership.

Cuomo brought up the hypothetical of a wealthy businessman who decides to self - fund a campaign for governor (Businessman Carl Paladino did just that in 2010, vowing to spend his own money against the very well - funded Cuomo campaign and lost in a landslide).

Palikot is a wealthy businessman and eloquent media performer.

Peters, who served as de Blasio's campaign treasurer before being named investigations commissioner, has been under fire for not refusing to step aside from the sweeping federal probe that is centered on two wealthy businessmen who were large donors to de Blasio, and who ware embroiled in a gifts - for - favors corruption scandal that has already toppled a handful of top ranking NYPD officials.

The FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office and the Manhattan District Attorney were looking into whether NYPD brass received gifts and expensive trips in exchange for favors from wealthy businessmen with ties to the mayor.

Altschuler, a wealthy businessman who is largely self - funding his first - ever campaign, remains unknown to 23 percent of voters polled, but his unfavorables outweigh his favorables, 44 - 33.

Haber, a wealthy businessman, has run for the seat before, and lost.

It is easy for a wealthy businessman, in the throngs of male menopause, to take a mistress; to exaggerrate macho tendancies; to strike out against homosexuality; to rent building space to gay bar owners.; to use baseball violent metaphores; to deny other men their masulinity, by labeling them rodents.

But wealthy businessman Shri Thanedar, one of her three Democratic opponents, said Whitmer is vulnerable on the issue in the current climate, adding: «She should do a favor to the Democratic Party by withdrawing from the governor's race because the Democrats can not afford to lose the governorship in 2018.»

Lamont, a wealthy businessman from Greenwich who rose to prominence with his insurgent U.S. Senate campaign against Joe Lieberman in 2006, says he is uniquely positioned to advocate for liberal ideals.

When he ran for the Senate in 2004, he was not the party's pick — well - connected state Comptroller Dan Hynes and wealthy businessman Blair Hull split that distinction — but managed to win when Hull imploded.

He wishes that many more wealthy businessmen would do the same.

Lord Levy has been named as the person who told a wealthy businessman that his # 250,000 loan to the Labour party need not be declared when applying for a peerage.

Some political observers have even named Harry Wilson, the party's 2010 candidate for comptroller and an independently wealthy businessman, as potentially interested in running.

The 13 - count indictment charges Mangano with selling out his position to a wealthy businessman in exchange for free vacations, meals and other gifts.

In addition, a progressive Democrat and wealthy businessman who's been a harsh critic of Cuomo is threatening to try to get on the ballot for lieutenant governor.

McDonnell was convicted in 2014 of accepting more than $ 165,000 in gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement by hosting a product launch and attending other events.

The list was made up of wealthy businessmen and included a large number of TPA supporters, as recorded on the BBC Politics Show website.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

It was the second time the peer had been arrested by police investigating allegations that political parties offered wealthy businessmen peerages in return for secret loans.

The 13 - count indictment charges Mangano with selling out his position to a wealthy businessman in exchange for free vacations, meals and other gifts, and his wife with having a $ 450,000 little - to - no - show job at the businessman's restaurant.

Though Babinec's numbers have dropped, the independently wealthy businessman still draws 22 percent of support from independent voters and 18 percent from enrolled Republicans.

A wealthy businessman who donated almost # 100,000 to unsuccessful campaigns for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership has turned his attention to the highly - rated Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis.

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman for the government's case against former state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Wednesday that the disgraced politician was well aware he...

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman in the bribery case of state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Monday that he believes co-defendant and former City Councilman Dan...

A new poll conducted for wealthy businessman Mike Whalen's (R) campaign sheds some light on the state of play in eastern Iowa's 1st U.S. House district — one of the most competitive open seats in the country.

Those familiar with Reynolds» campaign say his own internal polling has him ahead of wealthy businessman Jack Davis (D), but acknowledge the contest is close.

Ayotte still has to survive a September primary challenge from wealthy businessman Bill Binnie but she appears to be stronger than commonly thought in Washington.

Trump was a wealthy businessman turned politician.

But wealthy businessman Bill Binnie has already put more than $ 1 million of his own money into the race and is making the case that it's time to let a successful businessman try his hand at the Senate.

In the 2004 cycle, Henry managed the unsuccessful primary candidacy of wealthy businessman Blair Hull (D) in Illinois; in 2002, he was the campaign manager for then state Del..

In addition, a progressive Democrat and wealthy businessman who's been a harsh critic of Cuomo is threatening to try to get on the ballot for Lieutenant Governor.

John Raese is a wealthy businessman who has run, and lost, three statewide races here.