Sentences with phrase «big financial backers»

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.

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

(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).

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.

«Mr Simpson and Mr Woodley are due to retire, and will be replaced by one general secretary, who will have a major influence on the Labour Party, of which Unite is the biggest financial backer.

REBNY - associated developers and landlords are among the governor's biggest financial backers, as TRD and others have reported.

A charity set up by Arron Banks, the biggest financial backer of Brexit, is being investigated by the Charity Commission, according to documents seen by our friends over at The Ferret.

Brown's biggest financial backers during the recent six - month period come from the local business community and include the Buffalo Niagara Partnership as well as the 43 x 79 political action committee formed by some of the city's top business leaders.

But Schneiderman's crusades could sour Cuomo's relationship with real estate players, who are by far his biggest financial backers.

Labour MP Eric Joyce's conviction for assault left a vacancy from 2015 in his Falkirk constituency that the Unite trade union - Labour's biggest financial backer - was determined to fill with their own man or woman.

That brought outside fundraising for Tuck nearly even with outside fundraising by the California Teachers Association, the biggest financial backer of Supt. Tom Torlakson.

Not exact matches

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.

Qudian's founder CEO Min Luo will forgo his salary until the $ 5 bln firm tops a $ 100 bln valuation, bigger than backer Ant Financial.

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.

Now the Alaska Wilderness League has sifted the financial backers for Mr. Gingrich's campaign and released a list of donors that it says shows Mr. Gingrich's push for drilling is «funded by Big Oil, for Big Oil.»

The only ones with enough money to do this type of thing are governments and our «Big Oil» financial backers.

The last time I heard from my «Big Oil» financial backer was when they gave me a # 15 Argos voucher for my loyalty card.

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

I do not have any big shot financial backers or supporters.

• Experienced with various simulation software packages, including SPMLab • Able to manage multiple jobs in a given time frame • Skilled communicator with experience explaining complex scientific concepts to financial backers • Big - picture thinker with the ability to refine models both broadly and specifically • Technically skilled with different machine and lab tools