Sentences with phrase «even oligarchs»

The art on sale will range from the generally affordable to works even oligarchs might find steep.

This is one tax even oligarchs and billionaires will not be able to avoid.

Not exact matches

Lately, strutting about draped in Italian designer logos and Swiss watches is more likely to read «oligarch» or «thug» than «successful entrepreneur,» even if the valet still parks your car in the front row.

Based on fictitiously trouble - free projections of the ability to pay, the loan supported Ukraine's hernia currency long enough to enable the oligarchs» banks to move their money quickly into Western hard - currency accounts before the hernia plunged further and was worth even fewer euros and dollars.

Not even the Premier League, of Russian oligarchs and oil barons, have seen this presumed desecration of footballing integrity.

Even though we certainly (the board and Kroenke) don't have the spending power of these (oil oligarchs in their respective countries)

My point is after this long winded history lesson is that while we blame the manager, the players and even each other, the real culprits are the moneyed toffee - nosed shadowy men up in the wood panelled board room who sacked Dave Dein, simply because he wanted to bring in an Oligarch.

And what of Chelsea, whose oligarch owner would clearly like the team to play like Barcelona, and even tried to appoint Pep Guardiola as the new manager.

This will impose the pressure on the Russian government from oligarchs who have settled in the West, whose property is in the West, whose children study in Western universities, and sometimes even barely speak Russian because for all their life they have lived in the West.

But openDemocracy has now discovered that Cambridge Analytica's establishment links run even deeper, leading to one of the most senior figures in Northern Irish unionism — a PR man who has represented everyone from British Airways to Russian oligarchs — and raising questions once more about who gave the DUP a secretive # 435,000 donation for its Brexit campaign.

It would be about the slow convergence of many forces at work in our education system, including the shadowy world of deep pocketed oligarchs who leverage astonishing sums of money into even more astonishing influence regardless of the people's will.

This amazing master retreat has been home to oligarchs, princesses and even a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Even if they knew about the connection between Columbus Nova and Viktor Vekselberg in 2015, they might not have been aware of the oligarch's ties to parties that influenced American elections or Columbus Nova's other interests, like web domains for white nationalist organizations registered in the company's name.

But the grandeur of the Palace of the Louvre can't be achieved anymore, even if what is posited on Howard Street is that new tech oligarchs sign up to be San Francisco's future princes bestowing contemporary art pedigree on the city on the Bay.

But, even if these oligarchs all do fine, and their ranks swell by one or two, the country and the world will have to ask if they have too much power — and, if so, how to curb it without killing progress.