Sentences with phrase «built global empires»
SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor.
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Over the years Marc Jacobs has built a global empire with his business partner Robert Duffy and taken the fashion world by storm.
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While Donovan has built a global children's entertainment empire — boasting offices and studios in Toronto, L.A., Vancouver, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Munich, Amsterdam and London — he admits he doesn't entirely understand the never - ending appeal of characters like the Teletubbies.
Njoku admits that starting on YouTube in 2010 and building a successful global media empire has brought its challenges.
How to build a US$ 100 - million global media empire on a foundation of rock star living and canny business sense.
Phil goes into incredible detail about the physical and mental stress he endured while building what is now a global empire.
First released in 1991, the computer game allows players to build a civilization from a single settler into a global empire.
Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.
28 - year - old Indian beauty Freida Pinto led the lighting ceremony of the Empire State Building in New York as her way of showing her support for Plan USA's «Because I am a Girl» global campaign.
Soichiro Honda built his name (and his global manufacturing empire) on small, clever machines that were innovative, efficient, and entertaining to operate.
The Grand Old Empire may not be the global force it once was, but it still builds some impressive machinery, and among its noteworthy accomplishments is the 2015 Aston Martin Vantage V12 S. Its 6.0 - liter V - 12 cranks out a formidable 565 hp and 457 lb - ft of torque routed through Aston's Sportshift III automated - manual single - clutch transmission built by racing transmission manufacturer Graziano.
Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire - building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin.
A global epicentre of arts, culture, food and fashion and a skyline that boasts iconic sights like the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, New York is a trendsetter for the world.
The empire building game Europa Universalis ® IV gives you control of a nation to guide through the years in order to create a dominant global empire.
Invest in new businesses to earn money, build your customer base, and develop a global business empire.
Tate, now an empire of four museums, and a global brand, was then a single entity: the Tate Gallery, which occupied the building now known as Tate Britain, in Pimlico.
Polls reveal that voters worldwide, bored with wolf - crying scientists, see «global warming» as just another pretext for more tax, regulation and empire - building.
NEW YORK: The iconic Empire State Building in New York City is going green on Friday September 22 to mark Climate Week NYC 2017 and demonstrate support for global action on climate change.
By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33 % to 65.4 million tons per year — the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.
Based on current trends, the study predicts that global e-waste rates will jump by a third in the next four years: an annual volume of 65.4 million tons — the weight equivalent of 200 Empire State Buildings or (if your interest runs more toward ancient history) 11 Great Pyramids of Giza.
As the founder of the Virgin Group, Branson has built a global business empire comprised of over 200.