Sentences with phrase «controlled by big money»

Branda Phelps, a Texas native, said it was «important to come out and vote,» but she added that it was «unfortunate so many votes are controlled by big money.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York Times on Tuesday declined to endorse Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, claiming he «resisted and even shut down opportunities to fix» a state government controlled by big money.

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What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked «systemically important institutions» and «too big to fail» has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.

Before we start thanking the Lord that we are not like other men, we should ask ourselves whether our own alternative ecumenism, so often controlled by a few unaccountable powerbrokers and by big money, really possesses more integrity.

We should design the biggest protesting plan that the world of football has ever seen, we should show the world that even in the era that money and billionaires are trying to corrupt football, fans still can take control, when we don't buy tickets or any merchandises the board wont profit, Emirates Stadium should be filled with very few people all holding banners with «Kroenke out» written on it, we should use ArsenalFanTV to destroy Kroenke, we have the tools, we should just use them in the right way and then we will defeat Kroenke, from last season i stopped buying anything Arsenal related and just watched Arsenal getting trashed by teams and it just made me extremely sad!!!

Schools are supposed to have all of their students meeting learning standards by 2014, or else lose control over big chunks of federal money.

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

According to McQueen, both policies were «written in secret» with no public involvement, «put into place by coercing states with the promise of federal money,» and represent «a centrally controlled delivery system, shaped by Big Government and steeped in the Progressive worldview of uniformity.»

By using personal or business credit cards to finance startups, entrepreneurs can avoid predatory big - money lenders who might take a controlling share of a company's equity.

Then, Sundberg derided developers who sell out to major publishers too quickly, before they've given their properties time to mature: «American developers tend to sell their companies way too early, and then they whine about not getting enough money when their projects become successful after a couple of years of being owned by a big publisher and not really being in control.»

Indeed, the relationship between the big law departments and big firms is often bedeviled by prickly issues relating to power, money, culture, and, ultimately, the foundational question of who controls the corporation's legal matters.

• want to protect everything — children, relationships, money, time and privacy • tend to be intelligent and educated, and have a higher than average emotional IQ • want a divorce that is «tailor - made» for their circumstances, not an «off - the - rack,» ill - fitting form used by everyone (and fitting no one very well) • want results more than revenge • want to be participants — not victims — in the dissolution of the marriage • want to assure themselves that nothing happens unless they agree to it • want control over the scheduling of events of divorce • want to retain some dignity through the process of divorce • want to end the relationship as positively as possible • see the big picture