Sentences with phrase «from powerful politicians»

The gameplay revolves around chatting up your male guests — which range from powerful politicians to famous singers to anime characters — so that they'll purchase overpriced food and drink items from the club's menu.

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What appear to be the most powerful congestion - battling weapons?road tolls?face stiff opposition from drivers and politicians.

The hectoring of three global giants in the world's largest manufacturing industry by the most powerful politician sent shudders through head offices from Japan to Detroit to Ontario.

From commercials predicated on creating desires rather than on meeting utilitarian needs, to the therapeutic rhetoric of politicians of Left and Right, the gravitational pull toward a psychological understanding of the self is powerful and omnipresent.

The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

Prosecutors say the 74 - year - old Silver earned $ 4 million illegally in fees for his work on behalf of a cancer researcher and real estate developers who stood to benefit from his clout as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state government.

Brady is the most powerful politician on the list, as his role as chair of the 1922 Committee makes him the keeper of any letters of no confidence in the prime minister from Conservative MPs.

Minutes after pleading not guilty to sweeping corruption charges, the once - powerful politician barely dodged another embarrassing fall from grace when he slipped on a mound of ice and barely avoided landing on his butt.

Among the external players, the most powerful are the counties of Queens and the Bronx, who collectively control a large block of votes in the Council — 14 members are from Queens, another eight are from the Bronx — and have strong organizations with the ability to help move forward, or hinder, a local politician's career.

Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State's most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday in a federal corruption trial.

Many powerful and well - known politicians and organizations received money from Mosey for Surrogate.

Sheldon Silver, who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of the state's most powerful and feared politicians as speaker of the New York Assembly, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a case that came to symbolize Albany's culture of graft.

In broad stroke, David Dinkins and Christine Quinn have some meaningful similarities: adept career politicians, successful one step below the mayor's office, from Manhattan and powerful symbols of the political progress of their respective communities.

Politicians give lip service to tax reform because we talk about it, but they will not produce any substantial reform because it works for them, it is doing just what they want it to do - redistributing wealth from the silent mass in the middle to the publicly noisy poor and the privately powerful rich.

Eight months from now, the Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP PC, the Labour candidate for London Mayor, could be the party's most powerful politician in Britain.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, considered one of the most powerful men in Albany, and the politician who in 1994 torpedoed Staten Island's attempt to secede from New York City, was arrested Thursday on corruption charges.

Silver, 70, is from Manhattan and has been one of the state's most powerful politicians since he was first elected speaker in 1994.

The allegations against Kellner and continued fallout prompted the loss of powerful endorsements, including some from other prominent politicians and one of the city's largest labor unions.

The court papers added a new and unexpected dimension to Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who became one of the most feared and powerful politicians in New York State.

But they emerged from a five - hour, closed - door meeting saying there was no consensus on who would succeed Silver, one of the most powerful politicians in New York for the past two decades.

Preet Bharara had a seemingly apolitical tenure, noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians from both parties.

Though Niagara County's most powerful politician said he no longer harbors «passion» for the job and wants to spend more time with his family, his departure exactly coincides with a widening probe that sources say stems from the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan.

More than 100 years later, attorneys for another powerful Manhattan politician, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that his client's reaping millions of dollars in legal fees from entities with matters before state government was simply business as usual in Albany.

«Since sugar daddies are often powerful and wealthy men, many politicians end up being sugar daddies,» says Mr. Wade who holds a BS degree and an MBA degree from MIT.

I am glad you asked... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] The enthralling documentary «Manda Bala» starts connecting the dots with Jadar Barbalho, a powerful and corrupt politician, who embezzled millions from SUDAM, a government program designed to help the most poverty stricken areas of Brazil.

From these subtle yet powerful opening scenes (it's the poor and the disenfranchised who fight for the wealthy and powerful), The Manchurian Candidate explores a multitude of political «issues» to a lesser or greater extent: the ill that is committed under the guise of defending a nation; the behind - the - scenes machinations of any country's political process; the unpalatable relationship between entertainment, money and politics, and most specifically, the enormous influence big business has on politics and politicians.

Moody subplots about anti-witch factions and powerful muggle politicians feel so disjointed from the thrust of Scamander's story that they're nearly forgotten before they jut back into the finale.

When it's «The Adjustment Bureau,» an adaptation of the hard - to - describe Philip K. Dick short story about a politician (Damon) whose love for a ballet dancer (Emily Blunt) faces stiff opposition from a mysterious and powerful group known as — you guessed it — the Adjustment Bureau.

Transporter 3 (PG - 13 for violence, intense action, sexuality and drug use) High - octane adventure with Jason Statham returning as the gruff, two - fisted chauffeur for a mission where he falls in love with the kidnapped daughter (Natalya Rudakova) of a powerful Ukrainian politician (Jeroen Krabbe) while driving her from Marseilles to Odessa through a gauntlet of mob goons.

Ross noted that powerful special interests are lobbying for increasing education privatization and pro-voucher mega-donors from across the country have larded Republican politicians with campaign contributions.

He's a noted Los Angeles architect whose commissions take him from the developing Las Vegas strip to the top - secret atomic - test sites in the surrounding desert, jobs that have him mixing with gangsters, politicians, Brat - Pack hangers - on, and other powerful players.

With great reviews from the media and powerful endorsements from well - known celebrities, authors, politicians and others, you will stand a much better chance of selling your book to an agent or publisher.

Blending the charm of a real life politician of a powerful country, his league of extraordinary and benevolent citizens, his flawed self reassurance and the joy of a classic JRPG model, comes Citizens of Earth, a personal favourite of mine from this year.

Featuring portraits of subjects ranging from civil rights icon Malcolm X to staunch segregationist George Wallace, as well as powerful politicians, ordinary citizens, young idealists and elderly pacifists, the photographs question how Americans understand race relations, their own identities and the identities and civil rights of others.

But three powerful forces prevent Republican politicians from doing the right thing.

The governing elite of psychopathic bankers, corrupt politicians, and powerful mega-corporations create crises, then save us from the crises they created, while accumulating more control, wealth and power.

On this Halloween eve, it is truly frightening to grasp the extent to which America's politicians, policies, laws, regulations, energy, economy, jobs, and future are controlled by a cabal of stealthy billionaires — who receive billions from state and federal government agencies, and use those riches to become even wealthier, more powerful, and more in control of our lives, livelihoods, living standards, and liberties.

Any politicians who tried to protect the weak from the powerful or the natural world from industrial destruction were punished by the corporate media or the markets.

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What if powerful politicians and their friends — people like John Howard, Tony Abbott, Gina Rinehart, George Pell, Adam Giles, Andrew Bolt, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey, or Christopher Pyne had to move far, far away from their family and support networks in order to access dialysis?

Tackling the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people requires some significant behaviour changes from powerful interests, including politicians and policy makers, according to Michael Moore, CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia.

Tackling the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people requires some significant behaviour changes from powerful interests, including politicians and policy makers,... Read more