Sentences with phrase «as robber barons»

Markets were growing, too, as robber barons entered them — and paved the way for small museums like the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Frick.

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The «robber barons,» as the great lawless industrialists and financiers were later called, moved toward even greater control over large segments of American economic life.

It's a reach at best shown as we are the anarchy that reigned then and for decades to come with Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall running the city as a fiefdom for the robber barons at the top of New York society.

The lead «seven» have great chemistry, and Peter Sarsgaard is effective as the greedy robber baron looking to plunder a small town of its wealth.

You might think the only thing missing from this culturally diverse group is a woman, but Haley Bennett (and her distractingly terrible hair dye) plays a key role as a recently widowed town person intent on revenge against the heartless robber - baron Bogue, played by a sneering Peter Sarsgaard.

Also in the recent tradition of Disney animation, the picture appears to have no clue as to why it is that its once robber - baron grip on the field has slipped to the point that the Magic Kingdom is no better than mechanized schlock - houses like DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios.

It would help Rolls - Royce lose its perceived status as the vehicle of choice for the world's robber barons and, instead, to be appreciated as a work of art that's handcrafted, designed, and built by people like you and me.

A larger - than - life heiress to a robber baron's fortune, once known as much for her cruel wit as for her tremendous generosity, CeCe is now in opulent decline.

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

68 % of Home Buyers Prefer Local Banks Over the Majors At a time when large banks are viewed as unscrupulous robber barons, the following survey might not be much of a surprise.

Just as obviously, it has a history and style in common with the abode of that other robber baron, Henry Clay Frick.

In one particularly staggering section, «Visions and Myths of a Nation,» a gallery devoted to the 19th century features an elaborate gilded mantelpiece by the Herter Brothers, the robber barons» interior decorators of choice, on the same wall as an 1801 silver peace medal by John Matthias Reich bearing the word «friendship.»

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

Some Chinese may look to the U.S. as a beacon of car - endowed freedom, but to compare China's enthusiasm for development to that of the United States during the heady days of robber - baron capitalism (as we often do) doesn't fully do justice to the speed — and the consequent growing pains — of economic, industrial, and ecological change here.

At a time when large banks are increasingly viewed as unscrupulous robber barons, the following survey may come as no surprise.