Sentences with phrase «largesse in»

From «super-sized» fast food meals to luxury cars large enough to fit an entire family of 10, plus their dog, modern trends have seen us embracing largesse in pretty much any venue.

This is reason enough to scale back, if not eliminate, government largesse in this area.

Yes, there's the Centre Pompidou in France and the Bilbao in Spain, but never have great works of art been granted the largesse in which to exhale their languid elixir like those installed at SFMOMA.

On the occasion of his passing, Artforum asked scholars Thomas Crow, Branden W. Joseph, and Barbara Rose; artists Brice Marden, James Rosenquist, and Robert Whitman; and choreographers Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham to celebrate Rauschenberg's largesse in both art and life.

«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.»

Former Gov. George Pataki also enjoyed PRI's largesse in his time in office.

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.

The bureaucratic overlords didn't stop there, however, announcing even greater largesse in 2016, when each family will receive a complimentary hot dog and two medium - sized soft drinks of their choice.

The Swiss vote was part of a general attack on corporate largesse in Europe, where government austerity has fed a desire to limit Wall Street - style excess in corporate boardrooms.

Not exact matches

Why such largesse for an emirate swimming in oil wealth?

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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.

Schauer's largesse for the anti-marijuana movement has been eclipsed only by Sheldon Adelson, founder and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, a gambling empire that includes 10 casinos in the U.S. and Asia.

The largesse bestowed on Amazon in Ohio is incredible.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

To be blessed with spice is to experience life in all its expansiveness, overflowing with abundance and 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.

In retirement, he dispenses largesse for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

«And since the government's largesse — according to The Australian Financial Review on Monday — goes to Darwin port owners, Wilmar Sugar and JBS Swift — all monopolistic foreign corporations with plantation farming, foreign fly - ins, contractors and mill workers — what benefit is this to Australia?»

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.

Most of the faces are the same, including that of cornerback Ahmed Plummer, whom the organization, in a rare instance of largesse, re-signed to a five - year deal with an $ 11 million signing bonus.

Earl Anthony and Mark Roth practically gave Nelson Burton Jr. the $ 10,000 winner's check in the Grand Prix, but Cheryl Robinson needed no such largesse

And for now, it appears their largesse is primarily going to Republican candidates and causes in the state Senate.

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.

Does anyone really believe that the Prince will deliver the change that is needed and rein in the special interest drivers of the state's largesse?

Hello: Re:» Carrión is working in close collaboration with The Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC), a federally designated agency for economic development in the county...» Uh, in reality, BOEDC is a creature of the Borough President's Office, it is a fount of nepotism and political largesse... there is not a 3/4 of a competent, really caring person there.

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.

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.

In order to ensure that the corporate class doesn't lose one penny of their ever - burgeoning largesse, the rest of us will be forced to shoulder the entire Read more»

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).

As a former district leader, Hamilton has forged long - lasting alliances in the community and will enjoy the largesse of the IDC's campaign committee as he fends off a challenger.

Also entangled in the federal inquiry are Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli — a top Cuomo donor and one of the main beneficiaries of the state's largesse — and State University of New York Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros, described as the «centerpiece» of the Buffalo Billion program.

The charges include allegations that Kruger, Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland and previously convicted Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio — who died in prison in January — received bribes and other largesse to help two competing health - care companies buy hospitals, and direct state funds to those firms.

Trump's largesse has benefited both sides in the fierce battles for control of the state Senate.

The firm's largesse to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer became an issue at the height of the Troopergate scandal in 2007.

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

We have spoken to three of them tonight and they are staggered that Mr Osborne has been in receipt of such «largesse» while they have been constantly refused money by CCHQ.

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.

Sens. Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker (NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) rapidly followed in re-gifting their Weinstein largesse to women's charities.

The prosecution also tried to poke holes in defense efforts to portray Silver's official largesse to Taub as motivated only by friendship, revealing how Silver reacted after feds woke Taub to question him in his Upper East Side apartment in August 2014.

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.

And Tom Dadey, chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Party, said it is an example of government largesse when the state and the city of Syracuse are suffering in other areas.

It had worked well in the 1990s, when Labour was last in opposition, forcing the Tories to defend the largesse of the fat cats while generating funds to help tackle youth unemployment.

Rounding out the top five recipients of the PAC's largesse were City Council member Margaret Chin, running for re-election to represent Lower Manhattan, including Soho and Chinatown, with $ 121,108; Alan Maisel, running for a seat in South Brooklyn covering Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie, with $ 120,451; and Paul Vallone, an attorney running in a crowded contest for a seat in northeastern Queens, including Bayside and Whitestone, for whom the PAC has spent $ 113,134.

«Pretty much any local organization that passed our vetting process got funded,» she said, chalking up her largesse to being one of the first 10 Council members to file her allocation requests this year in March.

In other words, where member items were at least part of the regular state budget, New York is now going deeper into debt year after year to pay for this legislative and gubernatorial largesse.

While the chancellor tries to steer a narrow course between largesse and fiscal prudence, he will have one eye on the next general election, due sometime in the next 18 months.

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 companies recognize that if they make no commitment to build a new plant, the Administration [and Congress] would continue to feed them with an ever - increasing sum of taxpayer - supported largesse [in the Energy Policy Act of 2005].