Sentences with phrase «derisive nicknames»

In a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reports.

That was the derisive nickname given to Mario Cuomo after he spent months sending maddeningly mixed signals about his interest in the 1992 presidential race, only to stand down at the last possible second.

That fact has prompted the Collins / Faso amendment to earn the derisive nickname «the Buffalo Bribe,» which Cuomo used in his call with reporters.

It's a Hollywood story, which Coogler gets: He even gives his protagonist — the illegitimate son of ex-heavyweight champion Apollo Creed — the initially derisive nickname «Hollywood.»