Sentences with word «bigwig»

Olusola emerged from the list of strong contenders for the governorship ticket as the «most preferred candidate» at a meeting held on Wednesday by party bigwigs in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital.

The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has lashed out at party bigwigs who recommended Afrifra Yamoah Ponkoh to President Mahama to be appointed as Ejisu Juabeng MCE.

It was only three years later that Ochoa got the attention of bigwigs at Dennys, Inc., who offered him $ 11.3 million for his U.S. operations.

Is it compiling a list of bigwigs at Quantic Dream's publisher, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and putting together a call - in and letter writing campaign to force them to take action?

Feeling rejected by the industry bigwigs who don't seem to «get him», he sets out to make a movie of his own.

Entering a contest is a clever way to meet investors and industry bigwigs with whom you couldn't otherwise rub elbows.

«Yes, he's unpredictable,» says another Canadian corporate bigwig in Palm Beach, who worries about a Trumpian America retreating from the world, and abandoning trade pacts.

Win or lose, entering a contest is a clever way to meet investors and industry bigwigs with whom you couldn't otherwise rub elbows.

Among the other bigwigs in the business that have joined the tablet segment is HP's recently launched Slate 7, priced affordably at just $ 179.

Speaking of fundraisers, the governor, who has pointedly remained close to home since taking office, is reportedly headed across the country for the first time for a Dec. 2 fundraiser in LA hosted by Hollywood bigwigs like Rob Reiner, Candy Spelling and J.J. Abrams.

They organized a rally at Duli Zugu, where the NPP's Parliamentary Candidate for the Kumbungu Constituency, Iddrisu Muqtar Dems and other party bigwigs from the Northern Region, officially welcomed them into the elephant fraternity.

It includes interviews with Hollywood bigwigs like Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson and fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese and also with Spielberg's friends and family.

Former AIG chairman Maurice R. Greenberg held a breakfast at his office Wednesday for bigwigs including John Catsimatidis, John Tsunis and members of billionaire hedge funder John Paulson's foundation to create the not - for - profit «The Pandas are Coming, Pandas 4 NYC.»

There's one huge reason locating posh digs for bigwigs in the actual corners of your office is a terrible idea (beyond the fact that having them holed up in there isn't awesome for communication): «It's less democratic to locate private offices at the perimeter, taking all the natural light and views,» Toronto architect Heather Dubbeldam tells Undercover Recruiter.

As a handful of real estate bigwigs arrived on the 64th floor of One World Trade Center to hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo give his State of the State address ---LSB-...]... [more]

I find it hard to believe that he did not know that he was acting as a powerful, respected advertiser for the PCs when he spoke with the other corporate bigwigs as noted here:

CoinDesk Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has jumped on the bandwagon of financial bigwigs saying bitcoin is in a bubble.

Other reports said, the NDC bigwig who is abroad for a business transaction was escorted from the plane and questioned when his flight arrived Sunday morning over a tip - off that he was carrying too much money.

As an aside, just how much of all this money is sticking to the fingers of campaign advisors, lobbyists, image consultants, bundlers, spokesmen and party bigwigs on both sides?

Many bigwigs of the NDC such as former Trade Minister Ekow Spio - Garbrah, former CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Sylvester Mensah, former Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, Goosie Tanoh, Majority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, former Vice Chancellor of UPSA Prof Joshua Alabi, and Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin have emerged or shown interest in contesting to become the flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 polls.

Esteemed Hollywood bigwigs such as Martin Scorsese entered the fray, with the Academy Award - winning director penning a scathing piece for The Hollywood Reporter on the shortcomings of review aggregators.

Hon Agyapong's revelation was in response to a publication by The aL - hAJJ that the bribery scandal was engineered by NPP bigwigs who were lobbying for their favourite to be appointed Minister of Energy but had their hopes dashed following the nomination of Mr Agyarko.

In a recent interview with Fortune, Nintendo bigwig Shigeru Miyamoto gave his opinion on why he believed the Wii U failed: «I feel like people never really understood the concept behind the Wii U and what we were trying to do.

Bigwigs within the umbrella family such as George Spio - Gabrah, Prof. Joshua Alabi, Nii Amasah Namoale and a host of others have all declared their intention to contest the position.

«Andrew Cuomo has shown a disturbing pattern of letting Democratic bigwigs like McCall and Rattner off the hook,» Paladino said.

There's going to be a big problem though when the Tories remind the electorate of just how many times the word «unelectable» was used against Jeremy and how many Labour bigwigs used it.

Many publishing bigwigs believe that book discoverability is a big problem in publishing right now.

A group of prominent New York - based tech bigwigs want Amazon to bring its second headquarters — dubbed by Amazon as «HQ2 ″ — to the city.

According to him, some NPP bigwigs want the MD of BOST sacked, simply because he's refused to satisfy their demands.

Snapchat's CEO tech bro Evan Spiegel attended (without his wife, it seems, although it would have made for quite the honeymoon), alongside music business bigwig David Geffen, Prince Harry and Emma Watson (unclear if her entrepreneurial boyfriend, Princeton grad William Mack Knight, joined in).

Be sure to check out the popular beach bar, Dune Preserve Beach Bar, which is the «only beach bar in the world where you are likely to run into a former president, a former pirate, and a former Wall Street bigwig all in the same day,» according to the Dune's business manager, Olaide Banx.

After the unexpected success of Pitch Black (both critical and commercial), various bigwigs decided that a sequel was necessary.

And sometimes the primaries are also primarily between a couple of well known bigwigs (compare 2012 Republican to 2008 Democrat ones)

for a voice - over narration insisted upon by studio bigwigs afraid that audiences won't get it.

For example, recently when Ikea was opening their first location in Russia, they were approached by local bigwigs requesting a kickback to turn their utilities on just before the store's grand opening.

Though so many adverts seem to be little more than the malevolent machinations of corporate bigwigs trying to squeeze every last uninspired penny out of unwitting consumers, there are some real gems of genius and creativity out there that cut head and shoulders above the rest.

The non-profit is also being backed by other Silicon Valley bigwigs, including PayPal founder Peter Thiel, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Stripe's Greg Brockman, and incubator Y - Combinator founders Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston.

The Wine Industry May Not Be at the Conventions, but It's Watching: Presidential candidates used to be able to win their party's nomination by courting bigwigs over drinks at the bar outside the convention hall...

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One day while MTV executives were looking at the videotapes of the 15 finalists they were considering for the host of a new sports show, a network bigwig asked Cortese which finalist he liked.

The PDP bigwigs who dumped the party and picked...

«Andrew Cuomo has shown a disturbing pattern of letting Democrat bigwigs like McCall and Rattner off the hook.

A bevy of prominent community leaders, including union bigwigs and clergy members, were on hand to mark Liu's 46th birthday.

Microsoft bigwig Aaron Greenberg has questioned whether PlayStation Home isn't a bit outdated nowadays.

Brian Cox and Chris Cooper play the CIA bigwigs with a panache that only these two could successfully pull off without making the seriousness seem overbearing.

He later hired two bigwig lawyers to help him clear his name, William R. (Billy) Martin and Stanley M. Brand.

The Regency's been home to the power meal since the 1970s, when bigwigs including Bob and Larry Tisch began the tradition.

It is Christie who for months was unable to persuade GOP bigwigs that he didn't want to run for president this year, and then who spent the rest of the year barnstorming the country to try to get Mitt Romney elected, a task that won him a keynote - speaker slot at the Republican National Convention.