Sentences with phrase «barons in»

From its origins as a residence for well - heeled oil barons in the late 20's to its current standing as the city's best address, the Ambassador Hotel Tulsa has always offered the best of both worlds: convenience to, and an escape from, the energy and exuberance of downtown Tulsa, OK.

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.

He's unlikely to find much in common with the frumpy stoner detective of «Inherent Vice,» the quasi-Scientologists of «The Master,» the oil barons in «There Will Be Blood» or the porn stars of «Boogie Nights.»

The first boom for the then territory's cattle barons in the late 1800s turned what had been luxuriant grasslands into desert scrub.

Gold barons in Brazil stand to profit from a plan to stop them discharging massive amounts of mercury into the River Amazon and its tributaries.

We have enough of hard and ruthless people in business life, of domineering professionals, of robber barons in politics.

the oil barons in Alaska??

These people are the real prostitutes who lie, steal and abuse those who they have been authority over to help them, to be good stewards, yet like the Barons in the olden days, they are abusing the authority that has been given to them.

Day - Lewis, an Oscar winner for «My Left Foot,» grabbed another best - actor nomination as a flamboyant oil baron in «There Will Be Blood,» for which he could emerge as the favorite.

Directed and written by Florian Gallenberger, «John Rabe» is lavishly mounted, with a strong portrayal of Rabe by Ulrich Tukur, the feudal baron in Michael Haneke ’s

Not exact matches

In my network, there are princesses, barons, countesses, CEOs, models and millionaires and billionaires.

Yet Branson is the villain here, the modern - day robber baron putting lives at risk in the blind pursuit if his profit, critics say.

The symbolism of turning Michigan into a right - to - work state is strong because it is the home of the U.S. auto industry and the place where autoworkers first began to demand better wages and working conditions in the assembly line automotive plants built by industrial barons such as Henry Ford in the 1920s.

Arts entrepreneurs won't save the day for every city, but in some spots, they're the new oil (paint) barons.

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.

For drug barons (the legal kind), what happens in the law courts can be as important as events in the lab.

Oilfield baron David Werklund aimed his sights lower on the age spectrum, making the largest ever donation to a Canadian education faculty in late 2013.

ALTHOUGH the Boao Forum for Asia Conference staged in Perth last month offered a range of star - studded business and other speakers, the address by local billionaire media baron Kerry Stokes was the most disturbing.

As to Ms. Pierce, she'll join the ranks of self - loathing regulators who will speechify about some Ayn Rand fantasyland of benign barons,» Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate for Public Citizen, wrote me in an email.

The baron was impressed with what he was doing in Napa and suggested the idea of a joint venture.

In Central Florida's Polk County, for example, entities controlled by Ornstein - Schuler bought the County Line Ranch, a 3,475 - acre tract once owned by a citrus baron.

«We used to live in an open market system that was protected by regulations to prohibit robber barons from defrauding the nation... these regulations were killed by Congress,» Celente says.

How the relationship between James Packer and one of his closest advisers soured, culminating in the casino baron accusing the banker of profiting off him.

(CNN)-- President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. urged West Virginia Republicans on Thursday to reject Don Blankenship in next week's primary, comparing the coal baron to failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. urged West Virginia Republicans on Thursday to reject Don Blankenship in next week's primary, comparing the coal baron to failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

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.»»

Ending a loophole on investment profit for buyout barons would bring in more.

If this is seen simply as a struggle between a somewhat venal monarch and aggrieved barons, the Church's role in promoting basic liberties is completely obscured, as is the significance of Magna Carta for religious freedom in this country.

That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.

Then when we shall see this we shall consider them and their religion; and so I shall be baptized, and when I shall be baptized, all my barons and great men will be baptized, and then their subjects will receive baptism, and there will be more Christians here than there are in your parts.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

Imprisoned in a robber baron's stone temple, she surveys the carpeted marble aisles, the women in mink and sable, the men accumulating dignity — everybody «occupying their slots.»

In the year 1215, at a place called Runnymede, the barons of England, having paused from their usual pastime of bickering with one another, allied themselves with another brotherhood, the bishops of the Church, to checkmate their own king.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

What is SO REMARKABLE is that How Many Warnings HE has given us — Texas is on FIRE — The SOUTH is in a Forever Drought — The Mississippi Floods — Tornadoes wipe out Cities and STILL we Listen to MORONS that Listen to the HYPNOTISTS paid by the Coal and Oil Barons that try to convince you Global Warming isn't Destroying our Grandchildren's World.

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.

They should be held in contempt with the likes of Halliburton, Goldman Sacs and all the other corporate rapists that plunder and destroy all that is good for the gratification and greed of a small select group of Robber Barons.

Henry F. May has called the period from 1861 to 1876 «The Summit of Complacency,» and has shown how the majority of leading Protestant clergymen in the North supported the optimism of the «gilded age» while overlooking the easy morality or amorality of the «robber barons.»

Emperors, kings, barons, counts, and even bishops and popes seemed to be in perpetual strife with one another.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

In successive political revolutions man has won civil freedom, throwing off the yoke of barons, kings, the gentry and now the wealthy.

There's an old story about how late - 19th - century railroad barons made the fatal mistake of operating as if they were in the railroad business, as opposed to the transportation business.

In terms of online wine sales on JD.com, the company says the five most sought - after wine brands from last year were Les Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR) wines, COFCO's Great Wall, Changyu, Penfolds and Yellow Tail.

The CEO of Clean Seas has ambitious plans in kingfish with tuna barons and mums and dads along for a wild ride.

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.

With many entries competing for the category, the judges decided to give a special commendation to Elite Wines Vietnam for organising a glamorous and beautifully choreographed «Rothschild Grand Cru Wine & Champagne Dinner» featuring a worldwide preview of the 2008 vintage of the Barons de Rothschild champagne, as well as a range of fine wines in this nascent fine wine market.

In 1905, cattle baron Walter Vail began buying vast acreage surrounding the town of Temecula.

The Oklahoma City Barons and Grand Rapids Griffins were scheduled to play Game 4 of the AHL Western Conference Final on Friday night, when another set of Tornados touched down in Oklahoma City.

Founded in a Waffle House in 1847, the city of Atlanta bears the proud mark of being the only city formed and shaped by the «Free and Rowdy Party,» a group of brothel owners and booze barons labeled «The party of militant disorder.»