Sentences with phrase «brother of state»

Black Mass tells the true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Director: Scott Cooper Written by: Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk (screenplay), Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill (book) Starring: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon Synopsis: (from IMdB) The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and the brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan), sponsored a tuition assistance bill for Vietnam veterans during his tenure in Albany in the 1980s.

Democrats running for Carrozza's seat include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; Elio Forcina, a Whitestone attorney; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

In September, Forcina will face off against three Democrats in the primary election, including Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

Braunstein will face off against three Democrats in the September primary, including Bayside attorney Steve Behar, who ran for former City Councilman Tony Avella's seat last year; John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. John Duane (D - Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

The race's Democrats include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Bayside attorney Steve Behar, who ran in the race to replace former City Councilman Tony Avella last year; John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

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Then, in 1992, a disgruntled associate who had recently shot Buari in an attempt to take over the corner implicated him in the murder of two brothers and turned state's witness for the Bronx district attorney.

But they have jumped into bitcoin whole - hog: In 2013 the brothers publicly stated that they owned 1 % of all bitcoin in circulation.

For some, the use of this kind of technology conjures visions of Orwell's Big Brother: where our every single movement and action is surveyed by the state.

With his brother, he then founded Eclipse, based in State College, Pa., a developer of natural - gas properties in the Appalachian Basin.

In July, an Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to the Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home - made bomb disguised as a meat mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said.

GC: The Northeast Cartel has control over operations in the state of Coahuila because the Treviño brothers had a very special role in activities there because of the protection they had from security forces.

Sadly, many of the garment factories in the United States and Europe have shut down, and most shirtmakers — Brooks Brothers included — now manufacture most of their stuff overseas.

When a container ship arrives in the United States with a half - million Tweety Bird shirts for Warner Brothers that look like cheap knockoffs because they are the wrong shade of yellow, it is the sourcing company, not the factory, that will get the unhappy call, he said.

Discussing the current state of the markets with Oliver Pursche, Bruderman Brothers; Steve Grasso, Stuart Frankel; and Jack Bouroudjian, UCX.

A conservative political lobby that is part of the Koch brothers political network recently argued against states offering tax incentives to Amazon.

David Beckworth, who teaches economics at Texas State and writes on Fed policy at his Macro and Other Market Musings blog, points to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that took place Sept. 16, 2008 — the day after the failure of Lehman Brothers and the day the Fed was preparing to make an $ 85 billion loan to AIG (AIG).

Zavala's sister Lisbia, who lives in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, told me she's not sure when her brother's troubles began.

Previous disclosures by the United States Office of Government Ethics showed that Mr. Kushner had divested his interests in several entities, mostly partnerships connected to a venture capital firm run by his brother, Joshua, called Thrive Capital, that invests in technology firms like Instagram.

He has served on task forces of state securities regulators to negotiate multistate settlements in cases involving Lloyd's of London, Salomon Brothers, and Drexel Burnham Lambert Group.

Since 2010 we have been investigating and reporting on activities of the billionaire Koch brothers» political funding network to subvert democracy in the United States.

In 2008, Fir Tree joined the hedge funds that are part of the Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico to support the investment bank in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, an entity that took refuge in Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law, the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States and a symbol of the global financial crisis.

Lapidus has arranged joint venture transactions with some of the most respected names in the industry including Prudential Real Estate Investors, The Florida State Board of Administration, Carlyle Realty Partners, General Electric Pension Trust, Principal Real Estate Advisors, JP Morgan Asset Management, Beacon Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Zurich Insurance, Investcorp, RREEF, Blackrock, GreenOak, Tokyu Land Corporation and Columbia Property Trust.

He told the interrogators that he and his brother had been motivated to strike against the United States partly because of its military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what the two saw as a broader conspiracy against Muslims.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group launched an investment spree in 2014, injecting huge amounts of capital in film and TV program production companies, including ChinaVision Media Group (renamed Alibaba Pictures Group), Huayi Brothers, state - backed digital content provider Wasu Digital TV Media, Beijing Enlight Media, and more.

Gemini Trust Company, a bitcoin exchange founded by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, revealed today that it received launch authorization from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS).

Even without that, this eight - page, detail - packed proposal, thrust on Florida and other states not by public demand but by the billionaire brother of a California murder victim, ought to be shelved.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «Living with Islam») certain voices in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..

[130] While not personally an eye - witness of Jesus» ministry, Paul states that he was acquainted with people who had known Jesus: the apostle Peter (also known as Cephas), the apostle John, and James, the brother of Jesus.

I don't know exactly about what they think, but I know Christians believe the Bible and it clearly states that Satan is one of the sons of God in several places including, Ezekiel 28:12 - 18, so I suppose you could argue he was Christ's brother, technically.

But, before he described what righteousness is, James clearly states what it is not: «My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.»

So I can state that what is most lacking in this regard among my brother Christians is neither good will nor charity, neither concern for justice nor dedication, neither enthusiasm nor willingness to make sacrifices — none of these; what is lacking is realism.

The very basic Christian tenant states that we are «our brother's keeper» and so to insist that a pregnancy be continued until its completion without also insisting that the woman and resulting child receive all the health care they will need is a distorted view of both Christianity and «pro-life.»

One clue came from a study promoted in 1933 by the much - needed National Conference of Jews and Christians (as the National Conference of Christians and Jews was then called): Claris Edwin Silcox and Galen M. Fisher's Catholics, Jews and Protestants: A Study of Relationships in the United States and Canada (Institute of Social and Religious Research and Harper & Brothers, 1934).

Brother, why do you give more allegiance to a theology of men, never stated in words of scripture, (i.e..

Joseph a much esteemed man of God was sold into slavery by his brothers and became the highest ranking state head in Egypt next to the Pharaoh.

I am intrigued that when Jesus stated ``... but not so among you, rather, you are to call no man your father... teacher... mentor... for you are all brothers», I think the model of «teaching» changed deeply into a model of equal disclosure and honesty, using perhaps the written Bible as a launching point for that disclosure and honesty.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

In 1954 United Fruit Company managed to enlist the collaboration of then Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles, then chief of the CIA, to mastermind a plot to overthrow President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

The millions Bush had killed was that religion he even said crusade during his speech the State of the union address so the terrorist kill 20 thousand after a 100 thousand of their brothers and sisters were slaughtered first,,, think about it!!!

I believe we are our brothers and sisters keepers and one could make the argument that it falls under the category of rational self interest; however, the minute people think they can enforce that philosophy at the end of a barrel of a gun (gov «t) the whole thing falls apart and religion becomes secular humanism where the state replaces God.

In one of the tragedies of Sophocles, the woman Antigone seeks to give her dead brother a proper burial, but is forbidden by the king because her brother was an enemy of the state.

Mr Obama is like chameleon his change depend who is his guest, with the rainbow party he is the first to understand the situation of the gay and lesbian, with the n.a.a, c.p. he is the brother who know how is become a black, with the mexican legal or illegal he know too because his father was illegal too, and the last the white people because his mother was a white, the question are how he can be with so many people who broke the law of the LORD and the law of united states of america.

«We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African - American brothers and sisters,» states Resolution 7, passed today by an overwhelming majority of messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

Its catechism states that «one can not charge with the sin of separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers.»

The immediate occasion for the publication of their articles was Japan's invasion of Manchuria, and the concrete issue that the brothers addressed was the proper response of the United States to that invasion.

Muslims living in the United States fail to repudiate the actions of their brothers in trying to destroy the United States, the same country that allows them to prosper in relative freedom as compared to their homeland.

On the other hand, he has poignantly elegized Jewish martyrdom while condemning Nazism, declared at the synagogue of Rome that the Jews are the legitimate and honored older brothers of Catholics, stated on the 20th anniversary of Nostra Aetate that «anti-Semitism, in its ugly and sometimes violent manifestations, must be completely eradicated» and, after months of equivocation, indicated that he would like the Carmelite nuns to withdraw from their Auschwitz convent.