Sentences with phrase «bankrolled by the billionaire»

Hogan's lawsuit was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook (fb) and a co-founder of PayPal (pypl).

But I think we forget too easily just what a great job Le Prof has done to keep the club in the top echelon of the Premier League and managed to qualify for and progress from the group stages of the Champions League while having no money to spend, at the same time as our rivals were bankrolled by billionaires.

Chelsea and Man City are bankrolled by billionaire owners so clearly, their case doesn't count.

Blue Origin, the aerospace company privately owned and bankrolled by billionaire and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, -LSB-...]

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

West Virginia is the latest front in a national battle to undermine worker rights bankrolled by the billionaire Koch brothers.

In the United States, sustainability initiatives are bankrolled by billionaires such as Tom Steyer, not by Main Street.

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No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

The big - budget epic was bankrolled by late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian a businessman of Armenian descent who once owned Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer.

However, Monaco are not forced to sell — after all, it's not as if the club bankrolled by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev are in desperate need of cash.

A month ago I interviewed Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU's director of communications, and as a result of what he revealed to me, the Electoral Commission is now investigating whether Leave.EU should have declared the donation of services by a company largely owned by Robert Mercer, the billionaire who bankrolled Trump, and who works closely with Steve Bannon.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

Generally Labour are the first to accuse the Conservatives of being bankrolled by a few rich millionaires and billionaires, while the Conservatives respond by claiming that Labour are heavily in debt to the trade union movement.

By comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireBy comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby one of new Russia's most visible billionaires.

She has been shortlisted for the Turner prize; she has a beautiful room of her paintings (all imaginary portraits of black subjects) included in the central Venice Biennale exhibition; and this week, also in Venice, she was awarded the Future Generation Art Prize, bankrolled by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk.

The San Francisco - based billionaire first gained notice in politics by bankrolling a series of California ballot initiative campaigns that boosted state energy efficiency actions, promoted land conservation, and defended the state's cap - and - trade law against industry rollback.

So it created an American subsidiary called Cambridge Analytica that was bankrolled by Robert Mercer, a hedge - fund billionaire.