Sentences with phrase «day robber barons»

Certainly, these modern - day robber barons had a role in all of this.

Here is a short list of changes that the modern - day robber barons of Big Business have helped bring about:

Yet Branson is the villain here, the modern - day robber baron putting lives at risk in the blind pursuit if his profit, critics say.

Not exact matches

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

Phantom Thread comes a decade after the fruitful collaboration of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day - Lewis in the robber - baron epic There Will Be Blood, adapted from Oil!

In the bad old days of robber baron capitalism, most workers depended on a big well - capitalized employer to provide the so - called «means of production.»

Some Chinese may look to the U.S. as a beacon of car - endowed freedom, but to compare China's enthusiasm for development to that of the United States during the heady days of robber - baron capitalism (as we often do) doesn't fully do justice to the speed — and the consequent growing pains — of economic, industrial, and ecological change here.