Sentences with phrase «largesse from»

... if Republicans merely redirect the flow of public largesse from traditional Democrat constituencies to traditional Republican constituencies... then the American people will have been witnesses to a tawdry palace coup rather than a glorious revolution.

Coming soon is this latest bit of largesse from the denizens of Wolfsburg; the 2015 Volkswagen Golf R.

Stringer has sought to make an issue of Bernard Spitzer's largesse from (sorry, can't help it) Day One when the ex-governor entered the race last week.

My point was that the finger always gets pointed at the Tories (as you did) for large donations, when in fact Labour enjoy constant largesse from the unions and the occassional large donor.

Not exact matches

The official Denver report on the Democrats» largesse four years ago includes testimonials from small business entrepreneurs, including a taxi company that reported a 42 % increase in business over comparable weeks, and a shuttle bus company that did 60 % more business than usual.

Fugger took his argument directly to Pope Leo X (a Medici, incidentally), who had personally benefited from his largesse.

Over the weekend I penned an article implying that the last 10 years of investing prowess learned under central banking largesse, has all been flipped on its head, resembling going from ease of buying - the - f» n - dips (BTFD) to now resemble the crypto - space and their mantra known as hold - on - for - dear - life (HODL).

And shareholders will benefit most from Uncle Sam's largesse.

The householder who gives the same payment to all his workers no matter when they were hired has different thoughts from those hired early in the day who now grumble at the master's largesse and call him unfair.

The lack of understanding of venture capital and the importance of tech start - ups among politicians is strange given the number of people from both sides of Parliament who have enjoyed the largesse of the Israeli government and travelled there.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), who drafted DSHEA and disputes the widely held view that it shields the supplement industry from government scrutiny, was the biggest congressional recipient of industry largesse during the 2000 election cycle, with $ 41,750 in contributions, according to the center.

Others benefiting from their former's employer's largesse with the public purse included Ameet Gill, former director of strategy, and Liz Sugg, former head of operations at No 10.

Silver is alleged to have benefited personally from Litwin's spending — and there is no dispute that Cuomo has benefited politically from that same largesse.

Yet because this largesse comes from Blair's -LSB-...]

Wills, like Holmes a protégé and beneficiary of Shirley Huntley and her largesse, faces similar suspicions about a non-profit he himself founded, New Yorkers 4 Life, from which $ 30,000 has gone missing.

That ever - shrinking but always vocal constituency within the Labour party that is impressed by such a show of fundraising largesse would be well advised to stop for a moment, consider what tactics brought a dip in our membership, a loss of intellectual dexterity in power, & loss of trust & support among the wider public, & to not be jellylegged by the implied promises of favour from vested interests that such large donations are supposed to signify.

Current members of the Senate committee who benefited from Glenwood's largesse include Sens. Hugh Farley (R - Schenectady), Terrence Murphy (R - Westchester) and Thomas Croci (R - LI), state records show.

Everyone except those who benefitted from such largesse and their political cronies who hope to make it next time!

But in New York, the Republicans are hardly the only beneficiaries of his largesse: as of 2013, Cuomo had raised «by far» more money from the Koch brothers than any Democrat in the country.

Bloomberg is so far largely keeping his powder dry in state - level races, particularly when it comes to the battle for control of the Senate — a switch from his past largesse to the Senate GOP.

Silver, it should be noted, has never been the beneficiary of real estate's largesse to the same degree as Albany's other leaders (his was the only conference that didn't receive a plurality of its campaign contributions from this sector in the 2012 election cycle).

He spent more than half - a-million dollars on data - driven grassroots outreach that included door - knocking, digital ads, direct mail and social media, much of it aimed at Democrats as well as residents of areas that have benefited from federal largesse.

In particular, Cuomo seemed to equate criticism of economic development spending and his tax - free START - UP NY program with «bashing Buffalo» — a city that's benefitted from the state's largesse in recent years.

Lawmakers also would have been positioned to demand cost restructuring or contract concessions from the plants» vendors and unions — neither of which were sought, thanks to the PSC's largesse.

Along with other powerful state lawmakers, Perkins has benefited from the teachers union's largesse.

«The smart response would be to raise taxes and fees on corporations and the wealthy,» he said, since they «are benefiting the most from the Republican largesse in Washington, D.C.»

Rent restrictions, though, are made in Albany so state politicians mostly benefit from Glenwood's largesse.

Heastie also received a $ 1,000 donation from Renew New York, a 17 - year - old political action committee that in its earlier days benefitted from the largesse of Douglas Durst, Burt Resnick and Tishman Speyer, who each wrote checks for $ 25,000 back in 2002.

And in a year in which the status quo at state Capitol is under assault from virtually every direction, Martland is calling on Breslin to return the insurance largesse, labeling it a fundamental conflict of interest that he accepts such a large portion of his campaign war chest from an industry he's supposed to be regulating.

Republican Senators do tend to benefit more from the largesse of the real estate industry and corporations that use the LLC loophole to subvert the state's donation limits.

The fellowship grant in Spiegelman was considered noncompensatory because it resulted from the «detached and disinterested» largesse of the grantor, requiring no substantial quid pro quo.

The White House offered an exception for the director of The Salesman, but Farhadi has chosen to sit out this year's Academy Awards in protest, and to shine a light on all of those who wouldn't benefit from such largesse.

«It's gratifying to realize that the largesse isn't coming directly from taxpayers for a change.

Other members include the Philadelphia Student Union (which collected $ 20,000 from AFT last fiscal year and whose board includes Anissa Weinraub, a flunky with the union's City of Brotherly Love local), Youth United for Change (another Philadelphia - based outfit which picked up $ 60,000 from the union last year), and ACTION United, the beneficiary of $ 49,120 in AFT largesse for helping the union stall systemic reform of the traditional district there.

My tentative conclusions are these: 1) ebooks are «leveling» the playing field for female authors since, for the first time in publishing history, authors do not have to wait for the largesse or permission from publishers to get our books into the hands of readers, and traditional publishing has always favored males (to date).

If, in this poignant account, the villains are the «Big Vegetables» (Les Grosses Légumes)-- the fat cats who benefited from Mobutu's largesse — the heroes are the ordinary citizens trapped in a parody of a state.

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The real damning evidence on the effects of CMHC's mortgage largesse is the period during 2006 when the amortization increased from 25 years to 40 years and the down payment was dropped to zero.

Subtracting this from the Actual Price of $ 900,000 tells us that CMHC's mortgage largesse has caused a $ 285,000 or 50 % increase in the house prices in North Toronto above what families can afford.

Who among us hasn't dreamed of retiring at 30 thanks to the largesse of a kind anonymous billionaire so as to travel the world and try every single cheese there is before tragically dying of heart failure at 34 and having doctors clamor to see the autopsy report because such sky - high cholesterol levels (from all the cheese, you see) are completely unprecedented in the entire history of modern medicine?

But the Big 3's entreaties for action from the Obama administration have been opposed by smaller U.S. carriers, which say that the legacy carriers have themselves been beneficiaries of government largesse and argue that measures against the Gulf carriers would reduce competition and thereby harm consumers.

As it has been in the past, San Francisco will likely again be a beneficiary of that largesse: On Oct. 4, the acquisitions committee of the Fine Arts Museums voted to recommend that the full board accept a gift from the foundation of two multi-screen video works, «Seven Yorkshire Landscapes, 2011» (which has been on view in the de Young lobby since the show in 2013) and «The Four Seasons, Woldgate Woods (Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Autumn 2010, Winter 2010).»

PAM / NSM was one of the recipients of this largesse, and the works in the show are largely from the museum's collection.

Just as the tobacco industry was required to pay compensation to the public for health damage of smoking, so the fossil fuel industry should be required to pay, in view of the great largesse it has received from the public and the damage it is inflicting on young people and worldwide.

They will, however, also be watching to see how much of this challenge largesse comes from Ecosystem Marketplace and how much from the rest of the organization, and that helps us make a case for more funding to cover stories that are important but don't fit into our existing budget.

It appears that the environmental movement is the one benefiting from the wealthy's largesse, with a report by the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee shedding light on the shady goings - on:

Now, the value minded might forgive the scale and duration of that forced «largesse», if there were a commensurate increase in the output said to be drawn from nature's wonder fuels, sunshine and breezes.

Unfortunately, playing fair means that those of us who've benefited the most from the industrial largesse that's driving climate change may have to live on a wee bit less, at least in the short term.

Harvard Law School has benefitted from Wasserstein's largesse - the large academic wing of the school's new Northwest Corner complex will be named Wasserstein Hall, in recognition of a recent bequest.

And given Coon Rapids» reputation for safety — witness the very active Coon Rapids Firefighters Organization, for instance — you are likely well positioned to benefit from insurers» largesse.