Sentences with phrase «by rich men»

At the center of it all is Michelle Williams, giving a masterful performance as a woman who refuses to be manipulated by rich men, smug men, media men, policemen, and even the one man who supposed to be on her side, Fletcher Chase, an ex-CIA agent Getty assigns to get his grandson back... as cheaply as possible.

Check out cultural places that are likely to be frequented by rich men, like museums, opera houses, or art galleries.

They are proud of the «work» they do and they love being doted upon by rich men.

«Cricket was started by rich men playing on their estates - there was huge gambling,» Haselhurst points out.

The reward for his «heroism» is that he is befriended by the rich man (when the latter is drunk) and thrice rejected by him (when the man is sober).

In an episode in City Lights Charlie drives a Rolls Royce convertible owned by the rich man who momentarily has befriended him.

So there was a basis for the use of a valuable cloth for the burial of a leader respected by that rich man.

All unbelieving Israelites, represented by the rich man, will miss out on the rich Abrahamic blessing of entering the Millennial Kingdom of God with Christ, because they are temporarily cut off from their rich Holy Olive Tree of Israel.

This tip will enable you to get admired by a rich man.

I felt pretty stupid when I learned that the new stuff was built in 1564 by the richest man in town, the Grand Duke Cosimo I de» Medici, in just five months by architect Giorgio Vasari.

Not exact matches

The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's oil and metals industry.

By the late 1980s, Arison was reportedly one of the world's richest men, with a personal fortune estimated to be between $ 6 and $ 10 billion.

The Kennecott Mining Corporation was founded in 1903, when rich supplies of copper were found by two men exploring Kennecott Glacier.

By 1995, when Gates first became the richest man, he was worth $ 12.9 billion.

With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

Like the late Sam Walton, the founder of Wal - Mart and for a time the richest man in America, who drove around Bentonville, Arkansas, in his old pickup, demonstrating he didn't need a Bentley — but of course, he did have his own private fleet of jets standing by.

The Israeli - based company just nabbed $ 60 million in a round led by América Móvil, the Latin America telecom run by one of the richest men on the planet, Carlos Slim.

Ellison is one of the world's richest men who got that way by founding and running Oracle, a company that makes a database that stores massive amount of information.

He wore his pants hiked up high and had a high pitched voice and was skinny, according to the 1993 biography «Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America» by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews.

Controlled by Wang, who is one of China's richest men, Dalian Wanda is reportedly one of several large overseas assets buyers that China's banking regulatory is probing.

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

H.J. Heinz announced Thursday a $ 23.3 billion deal to be purchased by Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, which was co-founded by Jorge Lemann, one of Brazil's richest men.

Kraft Heinz is owned by 3G Capital, which is a private equity firm headed by Brazil's richest man, Jorge Paulo Lemann.

Ferrero — the richest man in Italy — made his estimated $ 23.4 billion fortune by creating and selling some of the world's most loved chocolate treats.

Ranked as one of the world's richest men by Forbes, Adelson has contributed a combined $ 5 million this election cycle to efforts to stop legal weed in Nevada, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Florida.

Li had been Asia's richest man since 2012, but was surpassed by China's Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma in December, Bloomberg News reported.

The son of pharmaceutical tycoon Leslie Dan — once one of Canada's richest men — the younger Dan was stuffing envelopes for Novopharm, the family's generic drug empire, by the time he was five.

Yesterday Forbes declared Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim the world's richest man, beating out Bill Gates by a nose.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

In the novel, Wildfire, by Richard Ford, Warren Miller, the richest man in Great Falls, Montana, notes that, «You get rich by other people's mistakes.»

When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self - sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

By then, however, Manafort and Gates were rich men off work they had done for Ukraine's pro-Russia Party of Regions.

Income: According to a recent analysis by Forbes magazine, Iron Man is the world's richest superhero with a $ 9.3 billion fortune.

An upstart telecom operator led by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has hammered the industry.

And the Chinese development bank said it had changed its mind about lending to the CP Group, controlled by Dhanin Chearavanont, reportedly Thailand's richest man.

By 1990, Buffett entered into the billionaires club, and by 2008, he was deemed the richest man in the world, with $ 62 billion in assetBy 1990, Buffett entered into the billionaires club, and by 2008, he was deemed the richest man in the world, with $ 62 billion in assetby 2008, he was deemed the richest man in the world, with $ 62 billion in assets.

The funding is the largest the live streaming service has raised since it was founded two years ago by Wang Sicong, the only son of China's second - richest man Wang Jianlin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

As one of Canada's richest men, with a personal fortune estimated by Forbes at $ 5.8 billion, he owns both a 150 - foot yacht and Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs estate.

In «Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce revenue over the long run by more than the province can expect to collect from the tax hike.

Luke 16:20 — talks about Lazarus who died and was in Abraham's bosom in Sheol, and also the rich man that died and was also in Sheol but he was separated from them by a chasm / gulf.

fail to understand the rich vocabulary of symbolism provided by etiquette, which enables people to recognize essential attributes or intentions of others, such as that a man wearing a tie is treating the occasion seriously.

But this polemic against the misuse of wealth is balanced by praise of the just rich man.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are being sued by a man named Jonathan Lee Riches because of all their ties to al - Qaeda.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

Rich, he did the right thing by holding women to a different standard than men?

When a traveler came by and a local rich man wanted to display his conspicuous consumption but was too stingy to take something from his own store, he seized the ewe from the poor man and offered it to the traveler.

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

22 «Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.