Sentences with phrase «like oligarchs»

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The U.S. Treasury Department would like you to know who the Russian «oligarchs» are, and has published a list to that effect.

That they're willing to welcome Hamilton back suggests nothing like that was really happening, and he was available because of a public temper tantrum of an oligarch who is used to getting his way.

If you accept that the plan of building the Emirates, allowing high - wage veterans to move on to stay solvent, and developing youth, and bringing in good - value signings has allowed the club to be competitive and at the top of the table while similar clubs, like Newcastle and Liverpool, have not been able to maintain their status as elite teams once the oligarchs arrived.

The last 10 years have shown that once you get to the top you are not safe, like say in the US, but are simply a large asset to be purged as the Russian economy shrinks and Putin is able to pay off less and less of the oligarchs to keep him in power.

with a... Stable business model that means we can spend with the most affluent oligarch run clubs for every season ahead without fear of FFP... whilst they will have to figure out how to build stadia, buy players and balance the books... Only unbeaten team in the premier leagues history A squad that has improved in the past two seasons with the addition of two world class players Consistency like no one else finishing FIRST (3 times), SECOND (5 times), THIRD (3 times) and FOURTH (6 times)... never worse in 17 seasons......

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.

Other organised protesters who've received the BBC blessing of warm approval recently, accompanied by woolly reporting about who they are, are the Russian protesters who apparently would like to be governed by oligarchs and the Socialist Workers Party activist who confronted Andrew Landsley for the cameras.

«I'm sure some Russian oligarch will like it for his collection.»

«Winter's War» is hammily entertaining, but at points feels like a Russian oligarch has thrown a «Game of Thrones» party and bunged his favourite Hollywood actors a few million quid each to come in fancy dress.

The NSX can go satisfy those with deep pockets like your regular - type Russian oligarch - ah, screw»em and let them buy the next, hot, ZiL.

When you're used to unraveling the cluttered mess that is the compact crossover utility vehicle market today, a segment like «oligarch - level luxury car» is blissfully simple.

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.

Among those at the invitation - only opening on Tuesday were New York financiers like Donald B. Marron and Leon Black, the Miami collectors Donald and Mera Rubell and the Russian oligarch Roman A. Abramovich.

And those who benefit range from oligarchs like Khodokorvsky to the Chinese to the neocon establishment and the Saudi Royal radical faction (the ones who finance jihad).

It would be fascinating to see Spufford tackle the post-Soviet transition and particularly the way in which liberal reformers like Chubais and Berezovsky transformed themselves into oligarchs, with the aid of Western academic economists like Andrei Shleifer.

The claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self - styled «holy man» from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English.