Sentences with phrase «big backers of»

Other supporters include New Jersey hedge funder manager David Tepper, and Alan Fournier (reportedly big backers of Romney).

However, they — and their Democratic member, Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder — are big backers of the education tax credit.

The Senate Republicans are big backers of the tax credit, but do not support the DREAM Act.

There are plenty of teachers who are big backers of AQE, which, of course, is the foundation of Nixon's early support, though she has been branching out with other progressive groups of late.

The Koch brothers are known to be big backers of conservative causes.

While white evangelicals overall are among the biggest backers of Trump's efforts to restrict and better screen refugees, prominent evangelical leaders and institutions have consistently championed compassion toward refugees.

One of the biggest backers of the Committee is the Real Estate Board of New York (Larry Silverstein has said «Our membership list and the Forbes 400 wealthiest individuals in the United States have an enormous commonality»).

Banks was the biggest backer of the Brexit campaign, donating more than # 8m.

Public Advocate Letitia James - one of the biggest backers of Rep. Charlie Rangel's re-election - has endorsed Rangel's rival Adriano Espaillat in his own quest to hold on to his seat in the state Senate.

Wall Street is one of the biggest backers of charter schools these days, because they're investing in — they make — there's something called the new markets tax credit, where they get — and Juan González wrote about this — they're able to make a tremendous return on their investment in charters, because of write - offs on federal taxes by investing in charters.

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

Bill Hill, one of the movers and shakers behind Microsoft's ClearType and a big backer of e-reading, was let go from Microsoft in 2009.

As president of what he called «Mummy's museum», Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called «free enterprise painting»).

The Kochs have been among the biggest backers of ALEC and the member organizations, think tanks, and advocacy groups that aid ALEC for decades.

One of the earliest and biggest backers of AGW financial games.

As this charger and Samsung's many compatible phones suggest, the company is one of the biggest backers of the Qi wireless standard.

Ensign, a former congressman, has been one of the biggest backers of an expanded low - income housing tax credit program, which NAR supports.

Not exact matches

Hillhouse, one of China's biggest investors, is led by chairman Zhang Lei, an early backer of Chinese Internet giant Tencent.

The duo's broader, pragmatic vision attracted big investors — including Goldman Sachs, Chinese Internet giant Baidu, and venture capitalist Jim Breyer, one of the earliest backers of Facebook.

The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which Susie Buffett chairs, is the biggest private backer of reproductive health work worldwide.

The Financial Times reported (paywall) that the round includes $ 60 million from some of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms, including Google backer Kleiner Perkins and Uber investor Benchmark.

Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.

The company's biggest backer was Torstar, which invested $ 6 - million and pledged another $ 12.4 - million worth of promotional support, giving it more than 20 - per - cent ownership.

Kickstarter backers, due to the nature of the platform, would not have been expecting a big payday anyway.

Finding backers and keeping the campaigns going are two of the initial challenges; however, the biggest hurdle is how to manage the fulfillment of the promises your fledging startup made when the campaign began.

A major figure in the Addyi saga is William A. Ackman, the hedge fund manager and one of Valeant's biggest backers.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

CDI co-founders Phil McFarlane, Brendon McKeegan and Gavin Evans, along with their backers, initially had big plans to build a dairy empire on the border of Victoria and South Australia.

Add former no. 1 prospect in the country to a huge position of need, an established Big Ten backer in Tre Watson, Marcus Lewis, and Ray Lewis» son along with one of the best defensive teachers in Chuck Heater.

I love Diaby, he is such a talent and I have been one of his biggest backers, I have always wanted us to give him chance after chance to get his fitness back as I think he is very very good when fit.

Linebacker Carlton Bailey, like Taylor a University of North Carolina product, spent $ 200 («He's the «backer with the biggest contract, so he has to buy the most,» said Taylor), and another former Tar Heel linebacker, Tommy Thigpen, purchased cashews even though he doesn't like them.

A lot of Democrats admire his work, but many of his biggest financial backers are Republican investment bankers.

If Paul Singer and the other big bank roll «Republican» (sic) backers of same - gender «marriage» (sic) want to take over McDonald's district, let them move up there.

This immediate touched off a round of furious speculation as to the intentions of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who is Levy's biggest backer.

If we compare it to the average majority of all Labour MPs, we can see that Corbyn's backers in that contest do, just as John asserted, enjoy, on average, larger majorities, although whether the difference will automatically be big enough to save all of them is anyone's guess.

Lucy Waletzky, a Sleepy Hollow psychiatrist and big - bucks backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the bankers who administered the trust left by her grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. — son of the Standard Oil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeing.

COR Development, meanwhile, is one of Cuomo's big backers.

In an effort to crack down on the «vaping» craze, the Legislature is set to follow in the Big Apple's footsteps and ban e-cigs in public places, backers of the bill said Monday.

Ben Bradshaw raises concerns over «foreign interference» and says there are questions over wealth of leave campaign's biggest backer

Collins, one of President Donald Trump's biggest backers on Capitol Hill, has advocated for the GOP tax plan.

Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello is a big Lazio backer — he was a very early supporter, coming out in January when Lazio was still battling the specter of Erie County Executive Chris Collins.

(The powerful health care workers union was a big financial backer of the campaign, too, and it has long been a close ally of the governor).

The union was one of de Blasio's big backers and Mark - Viverito was once an organizer for the group which represents healthcare workers.

Can a party whose rationale for existing is to grow progressive economic movements throughout the country «where politicians are held accountable to working people, instead of big - money backers» really work for, endorse, and host on its line one of the greatest threats to its agenda within the Democratic Party?

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Those same forces, big financial backers of Cuomo, are also huge players in the fight for control of the Senate and they are spending enormous sums of money to maintain or even strengthen Republican control of the chamber.

Unite is Labour's biggest backer, having donated # 11m since 2007, about a quarter of the party's income.

A Labour constituency party has been placed in special measures after allegations that one of the party's biggest backers, the Unite trade union, tried to rig candidate selection for the seat.

NYC is Not for Sale was largely financed of handful of contributors who were also big de Blasio backers.