Sentences with phrase «barons did»
Maybe he'd have to finance his own campaign this time if the downstate real estate barons don't pony up with Preet watching.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
The U.S. Supreme Court emasculated the controversial legal concept of «honest services» on Jun. 24th and in so doing, handed a moral victory to jailed former press baron Conrad Black.
The baron was impressed with what he was doing in Napa and suggested the idea of a joint venture.
Handelsblatt writes that «The former real - estate baron has done billions of dollars» worth of business with Deutsche Bank over the past two decades, and First Lady Melania, daughter Ivanka and son - in - law Jared Kushner are also clients.»»
The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life by Andrew Kimbrell HarperCollins, 348 pages, $ 22 What Ralph Nader did to the auto barons, what Rachel Carson did to the pesticide pirates, Andrew Kimbrell has now done to biotechnology.
But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?
Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold - crazed forty - niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza.
This was the intent, but many barons took the oath and did not keep it.
Most importantly, the Whiskey Barons remind us why we do what we do, by simply coming together to relax, have some fun and revel in a love of fine bourbon.
This was AWs plan to cultivate youth so he wouldn't have to buy during the baron fiscal years but if you ask me it didn't work so well.
It would be typical for the sides to reverse their respective forms, with Bolton not turning up and Fulham ending their baron away run of eleven away games without a win, but we don't see that happening and Bolton are the bet to be on we feel.
I do realize that things can and do happen in the US with formula manufacturing that are not good, but comparing it to China, which is basically the equivalent of robber baron capitalism like we had here a hundred years ago is a bit of a stretch.
The Chartists certainly did not valorise the barons who forced John to seal Magna Carta.
The simple answer is that he wants to be considered as standing up against vested interest groups as he did with the newspapers, unlike David Cameron who has stood up for the press barons for party political gain.
I certainly don't remember the press barons making a huge noise about the lack of transparency on display there.
He further stressed the influence drug barons can have on the President Akufo Addo government if he doesn't set the right example with this cocaine vanishing incident.
This demonstrates that most workers in the public sector do not want to lose a day's pay by striking but are being forced to do so by a minority in their union who have been wound up by the militant and ideologically - driven desires of union barons.
The union barons claim that the reforms will wreck the lives of their hard - working and low - earning members, but these claims do not stand up to even the slightest scrutiny - more on this later, and they have very effectively sought to link this issue with the issue of deficit reduction.
The allegations of wrong - doing are groundless, but certain shadow ministers were happy to brief the right wing press to create a crescendo of opprobrium against «union barons» etc..
It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.
Do those who champion the unknown, and likely botched, reform package really believe we won't hear any more about union barons and block votes?
The Conservatives say Ed Miliband is «too weak» to take on the unions and the proposed changes will make no difference, adding: «All he has done is give the union barons even more power to buy Labour's policies and pick Labour's leader.»
Still, he's rather an admirable villain in one sense: A wholly self - made property baron who has clawed his way up from working - class roots by gaming the government at every available opportunity, Carver reasons that the American Dream does not come to those who wait.
Paul's divorced mother, Abigail Harris Getty (Michelle Williams), is frantic when she receives the call from her son's kidnappers but doesn't have that kind of money, so she hopes that her wealthy father - in - law, painting - collecting oil baron J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), would without question pay the kidnappers to have his grandson set free.
It was also important to me that the baron should be played by someone who did not have to put on a Scandinavian accent.
But when they use the raid on a cartel safe house as a cover to rob the drug barons, things don't quite go to plan.
The villainous oil baron is as throwback a character as they come («There Will Be Blood» excepted), and the soundtrack doesn't contain a single song released after 1985.
sacha baron cohen is the funniest guy ever, he should defenetly do another movie no matter what charecter, I am shour the gout herder idei will be great.
Macer doesn't have the best of opening scenes either, which involves her discovering a whole army of corpses hidden in a suburban Arizona home by a drug baron, before a booby trap goes off, injuring her and maiming one of her team.
Which was, of course, a major treat for Mark Bridges, who's done the wardrobes for all of director Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, among them the disco porn business epic «Boogie Nights,» turn - of - the - last - century psycho oil baron drama «There Will Be Blood» and psychedelic era mystery «Inherent Vice.»
In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?
Yeah, get off my lawn, but trucks didn't used to be outrageously expensive luxury rides that made everyone driving one look like an oil baron.
If you don't read this footnote, adequately absorb its message, and send me email to the effect of «the iPhone sux because Apple and AT&T are monopolistic robber barons», I reserve the right to punch you in the face while yelling I WAS N'T JUST TALKING ABOUT THE IPHONE YOU JACKASS.
The heroes are robber barons who pool their various resources to outmaneuver the competition by any means necessary, but money doesn't buy acceptance.
Read a bit of history, and you'll find that's precisely what the late nineteenth century robber barons in oil, steel and rail did.
Illegal Contact The Barons, Book # 1 By Santino Hassell Author's Website: http://www.santinohassell.com/ Brought to you by OBS reviewer Omar Summary The rules of the game don't apply off the field in this first Barons novel.
T. Roosevelt confronted business head on for the dirty deeds the «Robber Barons» were pulling, and he did so be cause he was concerned there would be a revolution in America.
I knew seven toilets didn't place me among the great Potty Barons of our age.
The detective rating doesn't affect the story, or even implement new scenes; it feels like a baron and irrelevant system.
Overall: Beautiful graphics, enjoyable storyline, shorter game but interesting throughout with entertaining HOG and Mini games.More HOG than Mini games for a change.Visuals are exceptional especially for anyone who might have difficulty seeing small objects.Only a few characters to keep track of and locations and scenes are well developed.Could have done without the baron villain theme, but it worked and wasn't overdone.Mechanical pet is quiet and not used that often.Build a few components to create needed items and as the pet forecasts a mechanical theme, but nothing too difficult.Rather simple and relaxing game and moves forward without lots of back and forth.Rather abrupt ending but that is the norm in some of these games and at least there was closure.
Quail hunting happens to be a popular Texas pastime for well - to - do cowboys and oil barons; that's why quail eggs are fairly common to any Whole Foods or high - end restaurant here.
Curiosities of the Hanbury Collection @ Pertwee, Anderson & Gold The follow up to the museum of curiosity is a humorous exhibition where it's unclear whether any of the eccentric items are real — did drug baron Pablo Escobar really gold plate a hippo skull?
Here's one word he certainly did know: pollution Here's another: conservation And our modern Robber Barons are more concerned with maintaining their profits than with the survival of our civilization, and perhaps our species.
A smug, former tobacco baron, who by his own admission didn't leave tobacco cultivation until he could afford to, and then went on to another form of rabid public exploitation by dealing in carbon credits.
(The exception: petro baron Vladimir Putin, whose official remarks concluded, «Don't worry, be happy.»)
And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.
How much did the oil baron kings of the UAE really care about clean energy?
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.
@Jim Rose Oh for goodness sake Jim Rose — you do have your charicature of the left nicely boxed in your mind do nt you with the following comment... «The left talks of class war, robber barons, history is the history of the class war, the bosses and the workers, class loyalty, class traitors, class consciousness, imperialism, capitalist running dogs, deviationists but to name but a few.
Politics helps [businessmen] harm competitors; in new democracies, robber barons are often the only ones rich enough to finance election campaigns; and business people do not trust politicians to keep campaign promises because there is no real party discipline, so they go into politics themselves.