Sentences with phrase «giant corporations with»

The railroads were often giant corporations with lots of money to buy political favoritism, and not surprisingly they tended to bring corruption in their wake.

Moreover, mono - culture will create «new slaves» in agriculture and give price control to giant corporations with monopoly hold.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted — over and over.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted - over and over.

Not exact matches

Jay Van Andel, cofounder of the giant Amway Corporation, impressed me many years ago with a speech titled «Delegate or Stagnate.»

It's always been challenging for small businesses to compete with big - box chains and giant corporations.

It wasn't until after Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 for $ 2 billion that Nguyen and his team could re-engineer Home with the resources of a giant corporation that has expertise in cutting - edge software development and data processing.

Japanese technology giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google with the latest cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, Vusirikala said.

Starting with video conferencing pioneer, PictureTel Corporation and audio conferencing giant, Polycom, Hinman was a leader in the DSL industry as a founder of 2Wire.

After U.S. oil giants Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) chimed in contrasting third - quarter results, with the former reporting year - over-year declines in earnings while the latter swung to a net profit, it was déjà vu in Europe.

Of particular note was Orbital Sciences Corporation, the aerospace giant which merged with Alliant Techsystems in early 2015 to form today's Orbital ATK.

It envisions a barbell structure for most industries, with a few giant corporations on one end, a relatively small number of mid-sized firms in the middle, and a large group of small businesses balancing the other end.

The giant corporations or professional organizations to which individuals give allegiance and with which they identify their lives supply a temporary pattern of meaning.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

US: Ball settles contract dispute with Miller Packaging giant Ball Corporation has announced that its subsidiary Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. (BMBCC) has settled its dispute with Miller Brewin... read more

US: Ball settles contract dispute with Miller Packaging giant Ball Corporation has announced that its subsidiary Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. (BMBCC) has settled its dispute with Miller Brewin

With Albany's transactional politics now the subject of a federal probe, the context of that April 2013 book deal is particularly significant: An International Business Times review of New York state documents reveals that News Corporation gave Cuomo a book contract after Cuomo's administration backed a series of state initiatives that benefited the media giant.

Khashoggi wealth was built after years of forging deals across the globe with giants of the defence industry, including the Lockheed Corporation.

Our legal giants confused citizens rights to free speech with a corporations right to make unlimited donations as «free speech.»

«This half - baked compromise will still double the tax on millions of Americans and is a hollow sham that would hammer huge numbers of middle - class families from Elmira to Syracuse with a tax hike in order to pay for a tax cut to already - profitable giant corporations and the super-rich,» Schumer said.

Toward that end, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four more later.

But that is only part of what attracts partnerships with giant corporations like Google.

They face huge opposition — big corporations with lots of money and bad manners — and stand like a small but brave army of science soldiers fighting against a giant army of greed and more bad manners to promote the truth: without healthy oceans, our planet could not sustain life.

Jia's films often deal with politics in China, specifically the country's newfound materialism after the Cultural Revolution, as well as the threat that government and giant corporations pose to the lifestyles of regular, working - class people.

He works with the product development team of a giant corporation's subsidiary, looking for vulnerabilities in military - grade private security devices.

Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomi Harris), who developed the pathogen for the Energyne corporation before its sibling owners Claire (Malin Akerman) and Brett Wyden (Jake Lacy) stole the formula and had her terminated, volunteers to help Davis with George, but they soon discover that they have bigger problems — in particular, a giant wolf that's combing the Wyoming countryside.

Okja, the latest experimental offering from lauded director Bong Joon Ho, started off with a controversial bang, but ended up winning over critics thanks to its big - hearted plot about a little girl whose giant pet pig is kidnapped by a meat corporation.

BEST DESIGN Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Nier: Automata (PlatinumGames / Square Enix) Honorable Mentions: Cuphead (StudioMDHR), Gorogoa (Jason Roberts / Buried Signal / Annapurna Interactive), What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive), Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Studios), Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy), Prey (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)

Mr. Klein said he made a final decision to join News Corporation in the last week, a hire that puts a respected official with Democratic credentials — he was a top antitrust lawyer in President Bill Clinton's Justice Department — in the executive suite at Rupert Murdoch's conservative - leaning news media giant.

While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

Instead of continuing to offer tax giveaways to millionaires and giant corporations, I urge legislators to work with me to invest in our schools and make North Carolina a top - ten educated state.»

The goal is to remake the United States into the image of a giant corporation, with owners, managers, workers and security personnel.

He did what he does with every book that comes out of this giant publishing corporation (unless of course your name is Stephen King, Bill Clinton or Snooki from Jersey Shore).

When we went into our meeting with our publicity team, we were full of grand and fantastic ideas about how to promote and market our book, and were wildly enthusiastic about having a giant corporation that specializes in successfully publishing books behind us.

These are the types of challenges met by tech giants and globe - spanning corporations, with budgets and teams of experts and professionals to help meet the demand.

At a stroke, it democratised publishing and allowed any writer, anywhere in the world, to compete on equal terms with the corporate media giants like the Big Five: that's the Hachette Book Group (a subsidiary of Time Warner), HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp), Macmillan Publishers (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Pearson and Bertelsmann), and Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS Corporation).

As you may remember, the US giant had been trying to gain control of the Amazon.com.br domain for years, and recently managed to do so by settling its long legal battle with the domain's previous owner, a Brazilian company called Amazon Corporation.

While American Express is the giant in the corporate rewards program space, MasterCard has increased its business offering in recent years, with corporate credit cards for executives at major corporations as well as small business credit cards for entrepreneurs.

Nintendo controls the rights to its IP, and that can spill over into areas that stretch the limits, but too many people think all the power and rights automatically lie with the giant corporation, and it's just not that simple or black & white a lot of the time.

Resident Evil: Code: Veronica X HD (XBLA, PSN)-- Regarded as one of the finest of the original Resident Evil games (AKA pre-Resident Evil 4), Code: Veronica follows Claire and Chris Redfield as they continue to unravel the secrets of the Umbrella Corporation, all while dealing with pesky zombies and giant spiders.

With our forward - thinking, charismatic president Demetrio Watts delivering cheaper energy to cities throughout the world, the Prometheus Corporation continues to balance sophisticated research with environmental conservation to light a brighter future for humanki — What a giant load of horse @ # With our forward - thinking, charismatic president Demetrio Watts delivering cheaper energy to cities throughout the world, the Prometheus Corporation continues to balance sophisticated research with environmental conservation to light a brighter future for humanki — What a giant load of horse @ # with environmental conservation to light a brighter future for humanki — What a giant load of horse @ # % *.

BEST DESIGN Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Nier: Automata (PlatinumGames / Square Enix) Honorable Mentions: Cuphead (StudioMDHR), Gorogoa (Jason Roberts / Buried Signal / Annapurna Interactive), What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive), Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Studios), Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy), Prey (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)

[45] In 2009, Kusama designed a handbag - shaped cell phone entitled Handbag for Space Travel, My Doggie Ring - Ring, a pink dotted phone in accompanying dog - shaped holder, and a red and white dotted phone inside a mirrored, dotted box dubbed Dots Obsession, Full Happiness With Dots, for Japanese mobile communication giant KDDI Corporation's «iida» brand.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

A somewhat controversial post about effective communication with mainstream America and giant corporations.

This sixth installment of our series covers events occurring throughout 2012 that point to disparities between what was known and knowable by leadership at the Exxon Mobil Corporation, and what the oil giant was communicating to its shareholders regarding the risks to its operations associated with climate change and its impacts.

Well, in the last day or so the World Bank has withdrawn a loan to one of Brazil's cattle giants; and Brazil's three - largest supermarket chains (one of which is Wal - Mart) have announced that they will suspend contracts with cattle companies associated with deforestation: Up to $ 90 Million in Funding Pulled The action by the World Bank comes via its private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, and pulls the last $ 30 million of $ 90 million loan from Brazilian cattle firm Bertin.

In Scottie's backyard, the French mining giant, Areva — partnering with JCU Exploration of Canada and the DAEWOO Corporation of Korea — is actively exploring a major uranium lode at Kiggavik, the site of the former planned German mine, 50 miles west of Baker Lake.

India's insurance giant, The LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), is another obstacle as there would be a high possibility of speedy tie - ups with it.

Software giant IBM has made trade finance and supply chain management major planks of its blockchain strategy, leading it to ink cooperative deals with major shipping corporations like Maersk and global retailers like Walmart.