Sentences with phrase «by wealthy businessmen»

Progressive opponents of Common Core worry the standards are part of a movement to privatize education, underwritten by wealthy businessmen like Bill Gates.

He's convicted, and with six months left before he begins to serve his prison sentence, Mikael is hired by a wealthy businessman named Henrik Vanger (Taube, The Eagle Has Landed) to solve a 40 - year - old unexplained murder surrounding his niece, Harriet, whom he suspects was murdered by a member of the Vanger family.

Even though Micha stands Norman up at a dinner party hosted by a wealthy businessman (Josh Charles), getting him embarrassingly ejected from the private gathering, three years later Micha is elected Israel's Prime Minister and Norman has a connection that gives him great influence.

His latest offering, The Ninth Gate, tells the tale of Corso (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dead Man), an unscrupulous rare book dealer who is hired by a wealthy businessman to complete his collection of satanic books by finding out if the crown jewel of his collection, «The Nine Gates and the Kingdom of Shadows», is authentic.

Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi's most powerful men.

A transfer of property of a stately residence in the late 1800s, first by a wealthy businessman who was facing bankruptcy to the Governor of Vermont, and then the Governor transferred it to the University of Vermont, who still owns it today.

Not exact matches

The companies, founded by two of the world's wealthiest and most outspoken businessmen, have become unlikely rivals since Amazon jumped into the computing services market and Oracle later started migrating to the cloud.

Sen. Bill Nelson has never faced an opponent quite like Florida Gov. Rick Scott, an independently wealthy businessman with sky - high name recognition among voters and a formidable campaign machine bolstered by incumbency.

The 26 - year - old is keen to seal a permanent move away now as he looks unlikely to break into Walter Mazzarri's starting lineup, particularly with the Italian giants now backed by wealthy Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir, who plans to make some big - name purchases in the January transfer window.

Well fellow Gooners, if you're feeling frustrated like me at seeing the club owned by a very wealthy foreign businessman who sees Arsenal FC as a business opportunity, who rules the club, takes out as much from the profits as he can, while fans are charged the highest ticket prices in the world and ignored... it turns out that it does not have to be like this.

The club should be controlled by its supporters, for its supporters, with its central mission of being a successful football team, rather than making wealthy foreign businessmen even richer.

It is easy for a wealthy businessman, in the throngs of male menopause, to take a mistress; to exaggerrate macho tendancies; to strike out against homosexuality; to rent building space to gay bar owners.; to use baseball violent metaphores; to deny other men their masulinity, by labeling them rodents.

But wealthy businessman Shri Thanedar, one of her three Democratic opponents, said Whitmer is vulnerable on the issue in the current climate, adding: «She should do a favor to the Democratic Party by withdrawing from the governor's race because the Democrats can not afford to lose the governorship in 2018.»

McDonnell was convicted in 2014 of accepting more than $ 165,000 in gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement by hosting a product launch and attending other events.

It was the second time the peer had been arrested by police investigating allegations that political parties offered wealthy businessmen peerages in return for secret loans.

Altschuler, a wealthy, self - funding businessman, trailed Bishop by 263 votes late Tuesday, after a Suffolk County judge sorted through 1,000 challenged ballots.

Butler rebuttalWe knocked on the door of the largest and grandest house in the whole constituency, lived in at the time by a rather wealthy businessman.

Mr. Cuomo is planning an aggressive fundraising schedule through the end of the year as potential gubernatorial candidates — including a wealthy Republican businessman and a Democratic former Sex and the City star — weigh challenging him in 2018, according to an advisory his campaign sent supporters that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

That allegation eventually led to an ongoing investigation over whether there was a pattern of fundraising and possible pay - for - favors schemes involving NYPD officials being wined, dined and flown to various cities by two wealthy businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg.

Hanaway was joined in the race this summer by Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, wealthy St. Louis businessman John Brunner and ex-Navy SEAL Eric Greitens.

«As the unexpectedly contested Florida Republican gubernatorial primary enters its final month, a winner has started to emerge after the millions in negative TV ads plastered across the state by state Attorney General Bill McCollum and wealthy businessman Rick Scott — and that lucky candidate is Democratic candidate Alex Sink.

In addition to Malliotakis, the other Republican in the race is Rocky de la Fuente, a wealthy businessman from California who ran for president last year and pumped more than $ 600,000 into his race for mayor, which has been hampered by residency challenges and other problems.

The hospital and the university were incorporated and endowed by Johns Hopkins, a wealthy Quaker businessman known as Baltimore's greatest philanthropist.

Viscount Blakenham, who has died aged 79, was chairman of Pearson, the industrial and publishing conglomerate created by his mother's forebears, and of A wealthy Scottish businessman who head butted his business partner at a Michelin star restaurant after a deal left him # 120,000 out of pocket has been

Synopsis: In a Mexico City wracked by a recent wave of kidnappings, ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly accepts a job as a bodyguard for 9 - year - old Lupita (Dakota Fanning), the daughter of wealthy businessman Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony).

This time both halves of his identity will be challenged: the wealthy Stark by a rival businessman (Sam Rockwell) and Iron Man against super-powered Whiplash (Mickey Rourke).

The film focuses on Beatriz (Salma Hayek), a masseuse and healer who is unapologetically vocal about the moral wrongs of a privileged businessman, whose ignorance is insulated by the comfort of his double-gated, wealthy hilltop mansion.

Chris is affable and polite, but there's a certain suspicious element behind his icy blue eyes as he courts the sweet sister (Emily Mortimer) of one of his clients, a wealthy businessman named Tom (played by Matthew Goode).

Now a wealthy high - tech businessman, the POW camp guard was saved by Logan's immortal being during the moment the atomic bomb was dropped on the city.

Rites of Spring (Unrated) Payback horror flick about a gang of kidnappers whose plan to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman goes horribly wrong when they have the tables turned on them by a relentless killing machine.

Ben, a young man who works as a hunting guide, gets a job of a lifetime when he is hired by Madec, a wealthy businessman from Los Angeles, to hunt a bighorn sheep.

Director: John Woo Cast: Jean - Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo Plot: Dangerous criminal (Henriksen) makes his money by allowing wealthy businessmen to unwind by hunting and murdering homeless people for sport.

The details: Richard Gere, who generally plays wealthy businessmen and other professionals, takes on the role of a homeless man in the third feature directed by Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger).

A Hologram for the King stars Tom Hanks as a failed American businessman who flies to Saudi Arabia to try and sell his idea to a wealthy monarch, based on the book by Dave Eggers.

Arriving on DVD with its cult status in the bag, Hard Candy was inspired by a Japanese crimewave that found underage girls posing as prostitutes to bait wealthy businessmen they subsequently drugged, robbed, and in some cases tortured.

Unsure if he can cope with her infidelity, Lola scrambles to convince him to stay, claiming she was raped by one of her mother's (Rosanna Arquette) exes, a wealthy Swedish businessman, Alan (Michael Nyqvist), living in Paris.

The ASD model is controversial, has seen mixed results, and is a model being considered behind closed doors by North Carolina's own lawmakers right now thanks to lobbying efforts by a wealthy Oregonian businessman.

Shining Rock is a member of a growing U.S. network of charters pushed by the Challenge Foundation, a group funded by a wealthy, Oregon businessman who's been a national advocate for school choice and other right - wing causes.

Now it's a posh elephant that can be driven by the most inept yet wealthy businessman.

Maisie is engaged by a wealthy and highly respected self - made businessman and philanthropist, Joseph Waite, to find his daughter Charlotte, who has, once again, run away from home.

Some of the United Kingdom's most high - profile travel and tourism brands could be purchased by wealthy Middle Eastern businessman, predicts the WTM Global Trends Report.

Situated on the picturesque Greek island of Crete, Antica Dimora Suites is a memorial building that was built in the 19th century by a wealthy Turkish businessman but has since been owned by Iosif Chobitis.

Caye Chapel Golf Course & Marina — this is the name currently being used, though it may not be the final name — is being developed by Larry Addington, a wealthy businessman from Kentucky who has owned the island for many years.

The report also predicted that some of the United Kingdom's most high - profile travel and tourism brands could be purchased by wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen.

Contemporary Art in the USSR and Russia.1950 - 2000» to the Pompidou Centre by Vladimir Potanin one of the wealthiest Russian businessman backed by 20 other collectors and 19 artists amply fulfils its aim to deepen knowledge of Russian art by the French and international audience but it should be the first step towards more ambitious goals.