Sentences with phrase «shadmocks huge fortune»

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

Yes, you have a burning zeal to bump into the investing world and start making huge fortunes later.

These are the same people who control your gasoline prices and make a huge fortune at your expense.

Mines, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, communication, packing, food processing, and finance — all offered opportunities to amass huge fortunes.

While the poor do not have the burden of being responsible for managing huge fortunes, they may become obsessed with material pursuits simply because they have no other choice.

A shrewd manager would be making firm plans to import another of this type from whatever source he can, because were Cazorla now only 25 and fit to play he would be worth a huge fortune in todays market.

Spurred by the extreme inequities of the Gilded Age when industrial barons like the Carnegies and Rockefellers amassed huge fortunes while the majority of the country suffered in impoverished conditions, the Progressive Movement began to address issues such as child labor and fair wages.

The scramble to cash in without putting the right safeguards in place often means that the environment gets trashed, local tensions boil over and small, corrupt elites amass huge fortunes which they stash and spend overseas.

The basic conceit of our show was that in general defense attorneys are unscrupulous dogs, making huge fortunes defending the absolutely guilty with impunity; prosecutors, on the other hand, are stern and humorless guardians of justice, hamstrung by their own ethics and the regulatory impediments of the system.

There is an attack on the criminal justice system and on constitutional principle; these attacks are being made by people with huge fortunes and access to the media and the opportunity to diminish the perception of the Bar, perception of the legal profession.

Cryptocurrencies are here to stay and Wall Street investors are gradually warming up to the idea that there's huge fortune to be made off cryptocurrencies.

Not exact matches

Coogler appears at No. 17 on Fortune «s list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders this year, an acknowledgment of the power of bringing a diverse perspective to Hollywood — and of proving that there's a huge appetite for it.

Fortune asked data analytics firm Affinio to run the numbers on who the next huge name in music would be.

As Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of Missouri.

As Levchin has explained to Fortune previously, there is a huge opportunity to provide credit to younger customers, including millennials, who don't trust or use credit cards provided by large financial institutions.

«It's a huge hire for us,» says Brian Armstrong, CEO and co-founder of Coinbase and honoree on this year's Fortune 40 Under 40 list.

«I think we have all the pieces, and it's just about refining those pieces, putting them in place, and making sure they work across a huge number of environments — and then we're done,» Musk told Fortune last month.

This may sound simple, but it's a huge mistake most hiring managers make — even my friends with 7 + figure businesses, or your favorite Fortune 500 company.

Any fluctuation in Snap's shares has a huge effect on Spiegel, as his fortune is mostly tied to his holdings in the company that he cofounded.

He's been featured in a huge list of publications, including Mashable, Inc, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fortune and more.

(For instance, growth investors usually owe a huge slew of their results to the few outrageous winners that they had the fortune (/ skill?)

«This was just such a huge moment for women,» Cindy Whitehead, Sprout's chief executive, told Fortune magazine at the time.

So it is petty fortunes, not the hugest and most problematic ones, that are being targeted.

A passionate animal rights advocate, he's already given huge portions of his fortune to PETA and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as well as Save the Children and his own vegan food relief organization, the Sam Simon Foundation.

It even attempted to put a check on the selfish accumulations of huge private fortunes by the first income tax law: what would the age of «Teddy» Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have been like without the moral fervor of the social gospel?

We only see their huge piece of real estate, covered with huge buildings that had to cost a fortune.

San Lorenzo's seen a huge turn around in fortunes since the pope was elected in March 2013 winning the Argentine leage and the Copa Libertadores.

It's not huge but that is fine for that means it doesn't cost a fortune in cream cheese, nor chilling time, nor calories.

So I don't care if we get Malcom or finally rid ourselves of some obvious deadwood or beat Bournemouth decisively or sign Mahrez or re-sign Ozil or sign another kid defender with a supposed huge upside etc..., what I truly care about is finally removing all the parasites from our beloved organization before we find ourselves joining the ranks of those teams who once mattered but allowed the poor choices of a few to forever change the fortunes of the many.

The champions - elect have spent a fortune since being taken over by Roman Abramovich 11 years ago but in the last two seasons with the threat of FFP hanging over their heads they have found a way to get round the rules by making a huge profit in their transfer sales.

Maybe the opposite — a huge amount of ambition to reverse their fortunes.

We have a huge amount of these fans, so our fortune could go on the downturn along with our hopes.

The North - London side are now eyeing a potential title charge, having enjoyed a huge upturn in fortunes of late, and they will be hoping their re-emergence in the top four will see them push on to challenge even higher in the table.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave his side the lead thanks to a huge slice of fortune.

Krystian Bielik Jeff Reine - Adelaide Yassin Fortune Ismael Bennacer Vlad Dragomir Donyell Malen Reiss Nelson Chris Willock... Nigerian pair Kelechi Nwakali and Samuel Chukwueze have rejected huge clubs around Europe and agreed terms with Arsenal, they only need work permits to complete their moves to London

They cost a fortune in the first place and it was nothing like when Arsene gets player for peanuts before turning huge profit.

He acknowledged the fact Real have to challenge for the biggest prizes, set some priorities, used his emphatic career to manage some huge egos at the club and if he wins it it will be a minor miracle in terms of shifting fortunes!

That their brand can withstand a downturn of fortune and the huge revenue is, for now, a given.

The Real Madrid star, who according to Forbes is the third highest paid athlete in the world, has already amassed a huge personal fortune.

This barring a freakishly good game coupled with a huge can of fortune is why I see us only being able to manage a draw at the very best.

The Gunners have their usual spot in the top - four under intense pressure currently, with a huge upturn in fortunes needed to leapfrog two of Liverpool, Manchester United or Manchester City.

GOAL, Barcelona 2 - 0 Roma (Umtiti, 56»): Barcelona double their lead but again they need a huge slice of fortune.

David Beckham has been able to amass a huge amount of fortune while playing for Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, PSG, and LA Galaxy.

However the following season the club saw a huge drop in fortune and finished 15th.

It sits in our tidy bins, finds its way to the larger garbage containers that some hardworking person, usually a man, has the good fortune to dump into a huge super-compacting truck where said item journeys to a HUMUNGOUS landfill to sit for anywhere from a few years to, much more commonly, a few centuries2.

Barca's board has been under huge pressure due to the club's fading fortunes on the field and being caught cold by Neymar's decision to leave.

«I had the huge good fortune to meet him in Prague while I was working on the Czech Republic's application to join the EU.

He said the huge investments in infrastructure in various parts of the Region were ample demonstration of Government's determination to transform the fortunes of the people for the better.

Despite the huge cost of living crisis engulfing most families, with people on average nearly # 1,500 worse off a year under this Government, Clegg told the Lib Dems yesterday that they should «feel proud that country's fortunes are turning».

I don't think I can attribute such good fortune with having exceptional taste — the truth is that I have a huge wardrobe that contains items from just about every trend -LSB-...]