Sentences with phrase «barons of»

I envisioned games and gambling among friends, or an after - hours parlor filled with the power players and robber barons of a bygone era.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...

Thanks WUWT and all of the above for the wonderful alternatives to the the media - embargoed truth that the hateful and hostile robber barons of the climat - modelling world are selling.

As our former Minister of Agriculture from the Green Party, Renate Künast, once said: «Farmers will be the oil barons of the future!»

Balling was a trendsetter among climate - change deniers for hire, working as early as the late 1990s for the coal barons of the Western Fuels Association on its Greening Earth Society project.

Knoedler would become a leading supplier of Old Master paintings to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, counting among its clients Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick.

The image is self - explanatory and seems like a 1930s book cover by C.S. Lewis or some other writer spilling ink on the robber barons of early America.

The plot of the game based on various people and events in the real world, such as the Miami Cuban, Haitian gangs, and motorcycle, the cr@ck epidemic of 1980, the barons of Miami mobster drugs and glam metal sovereignty.

Winner: Doom While the Imps, Cacodemons, and Barons of Hell that populate Doom aren't technically aliens, their invasion of the UAC Facility is just as terrifying as anything cooked up by John Carpenter or Ridley Scott over the years.

The map itself is pretty simple, but it ends with the first appearance of the Barons of Hell, one of Doom's most terrifying demons.

Built by one of the great lumber barons of the 19th century, the William Carson Mansion is a sight to behold in Old Town Eureka.

I knew seven toilets didn't place me among the great Potty Barons of our age.

It became known as the dog of the aristocratic class of sugar barons of Cuba.

I'm not sure the mass market wants to pay $ 700 a month to avoid paying the oil barons of the world.

Amazon's a bit like the late nineteenth - century robber barons of steel, rail and oil.

- Charles Crocker, Esquire, Mister Charley, biggest of the Big Four barons of the Central Pacific Railroad, resting on the plump brocaded upholstery, massive as a Buddha, snoring in time to the panting, puffing engine hauling them uphill.

The ghosts that haunt barons of industry and commerce — breeding obsession, greed, arrogance, vanity, and cruelty of the most malicious sort — are the same as those that envelope, corrupt, and exhaust the titans of the screen and those most talented of artists, a fact that has never more evident than in Citizen Kane.

That brings the matter to the grand «restructuring» and «true federalism» barons of the South West.

That in 2015, we still commemorate an agreement between the king and the barons of England reached 800 years ago, probably on the 15th June 1215, is a cause for wonder.

Historic homes from the German beer barons of the 1890s are still occupied on Hoyne and Pierce, just southwest of North and Damen.

Ibn Abd al - Wahhab converted to his views certain Arab leaders, the Saudi barons of Dar «uya, who dedicated themselves to the realization of his doctrines, Toward the end of the twelfth and for the first two decades of the thirteenth century (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD.)

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.

It is for saying this that the barons of righteous social thought on racial matters, black and white, have condemned writers such as Steele [and, of course, Glenn Loury].

Redstone is one of the last great media barons of the cable age, having grown a number of significant TV networks from a relatively modest chain of movie theaters.

Here is a short list of changes that the modern - day robber barons of Big Business have helped bring about:

Andy Williams, co-star of MSNBC's «The Pot Barons of Colorado,» and his brother Pete built a marijuana empire — and it all started with a plan.

John Bragg is the undisputed blueberry baron of Canada.

Franz Nopcsa was a turn - of - the - century baron of Szacsal in Transylvania who discovered some of the first dinosaurs from central Europe.

Already a flop in the US, this soggy shoot»em up suggests Arnie's tenure of baron of brawn may be at an end.

The baron of the butterflies fluttered forward.

He thunders on about them like a robber baron of yore.

A note he has written to himself explains how he is being hunted by a shadow and must murder the baron of the castle, Alexander.

It's not the meeting in and of itself that's the robber baron of the person's precious time and energy.

Not exact matches

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

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.

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.

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 Fight Network, run by former media baron Leonard Asper, shows a host of second -, third - and nth - tier fighting cards from promotions including Battlefield Fight League and Extreme Fighting Championship Africa.

It comes just as media baron Rupert Murdoch is seeking U.K. government clearance for a euro12 billion ($ 19 billion) bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting, a prize far more valuable than his British stable of newspapers.

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

Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous «robber barons» of 19th - century American capitalism.

He is the author of «The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos» (PublicAffairs, 2018).

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.

The Kentucky Bourbon Tales collection is a searchable archive of oral history interviews with Master Distillers and Bourbon Barons.

Enter real estate crowdfunding — offering the promise of exciting new ways for Canadians to become mini land barons.

NOT ONE, outside of the little clown circus of greed barons being scammed by it.

One other development Canadian oil barons are enthusiastic about is the appointment of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

It reminds of me of the English land barons.

With a deadpan delivery and a defiant attitude that has become his trademark, the former coal baron focused his onslaught on the family of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, which owns an international shipping business.