Sentences with phrase «black money as»

Its allure is amplified by the attraction of being safe conduits (avenues) to stash away black money as well as avoid taxes.

Not exact matches

These fans have already backed up the money truck to Activision's front door (the CoD franchise has sold 56 million console units in the U.S. alone, with the November 2010 - released Call of Duty: Black Ops, topping $ 1 billion in sales in just 42 days) and see Elite as more money grab than value - added proposition.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

Sears Holdings (shld) said on Thursday it had reached a deal to sell its popular Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker (swk), its latest move in the last week or so to shore up its finances with urgently needed money as sales continue to collapse.

As Nassim Taleb argues in The Black Swan, banks have a tendency of losing as much money as they make in the long run due to shady business practices and high - risk ventureAs Nassim Taleb argues in The Black Swan, banks have a tendency of losing as much money as they make in the long run due to shady business practices and high - risk ventureas much money as they make in the long run due to shady business practices and high - risk ventureas they make in the long run due to shady business practices and high - risk ventures.

I believe Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheme to combat black money and public corruption, while admirable, has only reinforced Indians» faith in the yellow metal as a store of value.

Its association with crime — namely money laundering and narcotics through the online black market Silk Road — as well as an alarming amount of price volatility has left regulators and financial - market participants wary of its potential implications, and therefore reluctant to embrace it wholesale thus far.

CBOE SKEW Index values, which are calculated from weighted strips of out - of - the - money S&P 500 options, rise to higher levels as investors become more fearful of a «black swan» event — an unexpected event of large magnitude and consequence.

They call all Jews money stealing rats, Blacks are monkeys and apes, Whites are devils, Hispanics lazy... the hateful list, as you know, goes on and on.

Black Panther was not a guaranteed success, but as reception came back positive and box - office estimates speculated nine - digit figures, people began to assume it would make a lot of money.

He is credited with appearances in such diverse titles as 5 Guy Cream Pie 25, All that Ass, Black Snake Boned, Jelly 15, Kick Ass Chicks 51: Big Black Butts, Pump that Rump, Throat Gaggers 7, Tear Me a New One 1, Mouth Meat 7, Bomb Ass White Booty 5, and White Trash Whore, numbers 35, 36, 37, 38, and 40, each title another punch, pounding away at who he was, just a body at the end of a camera lens, a money shot.

It's not as black and white as you'd think, money and well being wise.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

If you are out of money, you are classified as a threat and they will actually black list you for fun.

And I'm not really sure where the money goes, into a black hole never to be seen again for the most part so I'm happy to keep as much as possible.

But campaigns shouldn't treat even the best consultants as «black boxes» into which to pour money in exchange for results.

Higher Heights» Glynda Carr said black women in New York face the same challenges as black women in other states: navigating the political infrastructure and gatekeepers, being prepared to raise the necessary amount of money — particularly in a «major media outlet» like New York — to be a viable candidate and navigating where the entry points will be.

Seeing the London mayoralty as an opportunity to shortcut the system and create an Obama moment, they look to get someone with a bit of spark and an existing public profile, surround him with political insiders, run him as an independent, throw big money at the campaign and hey presto - a black Mayor of London.

Strong black voter support for Spitzer — who resigned as governor amid a federal probe of money laundering and prostitution and who once used the State Police to smear a political foe — has mystified many New York Democrats, although Wright said he wasn't surprised.

Answers: money will go into the black hole known as the NYS budget, heck no they wont lower taxes, they've got expenses to pay for, like more affordable housing that pushes up the costs for everyone else.

The government of Ghana has settled part of the monies owed the Black Queens as winning bonuses and allowances.l

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for South Wales West, Peter Black has joined the controversy over the decision by Bridgend County Borough Council to freeze the pay of their staff as a money - saving measure.

The remainder of the Speaker's List money went to initiatives sponsored either by council members or by caucuses — such as LGBT, Black, Latino and Asian, or borough - based delegations.

He spend a lot of money and did lot of backdoor dealings to gain endorsement from Black and latinos reps such as Larry Seabrook, Charles Rangel and Al Sharpton.

As the short movie faded to black, the phrase «Money isn't everything» appeared on the screen, a clear shot at McAuliffe and an indication of how Moran plans to define the primary race.

Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

In a hopeful sign for humankind, the U.S. National Science Foundation put up the money and two black holes provided the collision in 2015, as reported in February 2016 in Physical Review Letters and widely celebrated by bloggers.

I use to wear black all the time in high school as it is easy to mix and match, we did not have much money so I could wear the same items quite a bit with out anyone noticing.

I did not want to spend a lot of money as I just don't spend enough time in winter clothes, but at the same time wanted something fun, warm, comfortable and NOT black.

Because my birthday is before Thanksgiving, I like to use Black Friday / Cyber Monday as a bit of an excuse to use my birthday money and shop!

Even when we launched Black Planet, we earmarked million dollars for marketing but 2 to 3 weeks after the launch we realised we shouldn't spend it on marketing as we needed the money for hardware and software to support the natural growth.

There are some black swindles that take this advantage as a media to bungle the money of other.

As it said above, you will spend a lot of time, energy and money to find these black bbws in these places.

Perhaps this shouldn't seem out of place for a sexually explicit adult dating website that describes itself as a platform with «black chicks online looking for sex,» which I discovered courtesy of a Google search, but it would seem that this site uses these — presumably — fake profiles to make money by luring members into signing up (for free) and then having them pay for the VIP service (which costs money) to interact with these good - looking people.

From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki follows the existential - minded director through the entire process of making a movie as Toback opens up to the camera to discuss a variety of deeply personal matters and explore just how they have manifested themselves in such films as Love and Money, The Big Bang, and Black and White.

And with such a vast slate of small - screen comedic options — ranging from low - brow to high, broad to eccentrically specific, and including network standouts like Black - ish and cable / streaming gems such as Veep, Insecure, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and many more — it's hard to argue that anyone should spend time or money on this.

Caveat emptor: Even with so much to chew on, Black Panther is still a Marvel tentpole movie, one that will make oodles of money and likely spawn sequels so long as the margins allow.

Django is masquerading as a mandingo expert — a «one - eyed Charlie» — and Schultz as his money man when both are in fact only there to retrieve Broomhilda; Django uses his illusory status to verbally abuse white and black men alike; Candie is playing a worldly host who is in fact several fathoms out of his depth; and Stephen, as it turns out, is wearing a grotesquely comfortable second skin as well.

And also budgetarily, it was very, very expensive, because his powers are to move organic material around — the entire orphanage, and the trees, everything was flying around, and the hailstorms of wood — it was really cool, but it was also really, really expensive, and we just thought, we prefer to throw that money to the CG of Juggernaut as opposed to Black Tom.

Trevor Howard, most famous for much more civilized turns in films like «Brief Encounter» and «The Third Man,» delivers one of his most dynamic performances as an ex-serviceman who, bored with civilian life, joins a gang of black marketeers for excitement and money.

Intentional or not, Wiseau is walking, talking freedom in leather vests and L'Oreal # 1BB Velvet Black hair dye, the most honest assessment of the American Dream we've seen in decades: someone with enough fuck - you money to be able to wear as many belts as he goddamn wants.

Executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Nick Sandow («Orange Is The New Black») weave a fascinating tale of a man obsessed with mob movies (Vincent Piazza) and his wife (recent Oscar winner Patricia Arquette) as they chase drugs and money in efforts to recreate the lifestyle.

Free Fire follows a black market arms deal gone wrong in 1970s Boston as an IRA buyer (Cillian Murphy) and a South African gun runner (Sharlto Copley) end up in a gun fight in the middle of an abandoned warehouse, with both their sides exchanging shots, trying to get the money and attempting to make it out alive.

As the story begins, one of Gillespie's officers arrests Tibbs for the crime, assuming a well - dressed black man with money in his wallet must be up to no good.

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

Black, who marveled that the scripts bought for the most money were the ones that looked the least like those scripts when the movies finally came out, later described the film as «a frustrating proposition, so much potential, then a lot of «big action» which evolved over time and bloated a much less grandiose blueprint.

Black Adder [4/1] Rowan Atkinson may be best known in the States as Mr. Bean (or other dumb - playing roles like Johnny English), but for my money, his absolute best series is Black Adder, where he plays a series of British noblemen (each season is set in a different century) with dry wit and an unfortunate lot of idiotic hangers - on.

Spielberg's «The BFG,» with recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance starring in the Roald Dahl adaptation, will screen out of competition, as will Jodie Foster «s «Money Monster,» Shane Black «s «The Nice Guys» and Woody Allen «s previously announced opening - night film, «Café Society.»