Sentences with phrase «local businessmen who»

It was attended by some local businessmen who told me: «We will hire anybody coming out of that school.

Upon learning of a successful local businessman who was awarded a state loan, the Hoods investigated their options.

«I don't like the switching parties,» said Bryan St. George, a local businessman who attended the breakfast.

McDonnell had been convicted on corruption charges for secretly accepting more than $ 175,000 in gifts and loans from a local businessman who was trying to garner political favors.

Clarkstown Supervisor and former Assemblyman Alexander Gromack was paid about $ 10,000 to refer customers to Richard Brega Jr. — a local businessman who runs the county's bus system — but failed to report the work on his Rockland County ethics forms.

«The idea is to try to get the least cleanup possible,» said Lloyd Withers, a local businessman who lobbied county legislators in 2011 to give Murphy's Island to the Onondaga Nation.

Not exact matches

At the behest of the late Bruce Jacobs, a Seattle - area businessman and «paleocon» who didn't want to underwrite a local community foundation, Ball and a conservative strategist named Kimberly Dennis created Donors Trust.

Robinson had began the»36 season as an unknown sprinter at Pasadena Junior College who needed $ 150 from a few local businessmen to attend the U.S. trials in New York City.

Businessman, GOP district leader and ’08 Assembly contender Tony Nunziato is poised to announce a challenge to Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo, and he has gained the support of several key local leaders who have been at odds in the past, several Queens sources confirm.

Paladino claims to have negotiated for the local chief of police to take the place of then - SU Chanceller John Corbally, whom the Buffalo businessman says was taken hostage by angry students who were protesting the May 1970 Kent State University shootings.

Flynn, a businessman from Hunter, is being backed by the Transport Workers Union, a national labor organization, whose international president, John Samuelsen, (also FORMER president of TWU Local 100 here in New York), said in a statement to be released by Flynn's campaign that the candidate is «a leader who understands that the economic security of families must be the highest priority of Congress, and that unions are a necessary partner in that mission.»

Republicans say it's too early to predict who might succeed Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr., but they expect Trump will look to three local Republicans for advice: Rep. Chris Collins of Clarence, Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nicholas A. Langworthy and Buffalo businessman Carl P. Paladino.

Funded by a generous benefactor and local businessman, along with his wife, Jerry and Joanna Higgins, this scholarship is awarded to worthy students who will be attending college or training beyond high school.

The company is owned by local businessman Dr. Anthony Bacchi, as well as Edward Farbenblum and Martin Farbenblum, who are experienced nursing home operators.

Ferguson is a local businessman and architect who set up his own «Bristol First» party in order to, he says, get access to electoral information and have his logo on the ballot paper.

Other local members of that commission are Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and J. Patrick Barrett, a Manlius businessman who once served as chairman of the New York Republican Party.

Large donations also came from unions — Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union sent $ 84,400 — as well as New York City real estate interests and wealthy New Yorkers: among them, the philanthropist Jane Forbes Clark and the businessman Andrew Saul, who sent $ 25,000 each.

The other candidates included Gigi Li, the chairwoman of the local community board, who earned 10 percent of the vote; Jenifer Rajkumar, a district leader, with 19 percent of the vote; Don Lee, a businessman, with 11 percent; and Paul Newell, a community activist, with 16 percent.

In a 2009 article on MPs» expenses, we said «senior Labour sources» had predicted that Shahid Malik MP, who had stepped down as justice minister pending an investigation into his renting a flat in his Dewsbury constituency from a local businessman, would not return to government and that the prime minister, Gordon Brown, had «lost confidence in Malik».

Edward Mangano, who is not seeking re-election next month, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of taking bribes and kickbacks from a local businessman in return for favors, including a county contract.

Besides Newell and Gigi Li, candidates in September will likely include: Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party line in the April special election; Jenifer Rajkumar, a district leader and attorney; local businessman Don Lee; Lower East Side resident Christopher Marte.; and John Bal, a contender who dropped out of the special election citing a rigged process to select Silver's successor.

The naming adds to the list of buildings named after the 93 - year - old businessman and his wife, who are fixtures on the Philadelphia philanthropy scene and have already given away tens of millions of dollars to various local charities.

Even those who are seeking relationships are not dating Established in 1921 by local Atlantic City businessmen as a way to extend the summer season, The Miss America Organization has since grown to become one of

Needless to say, the area's wealth scarcely trickles down to the miners themselves, who risk their lives daily in return for modest fixed salaries from local businessmen.

Armed with an absurd product pitch and short on the charisma or quick thinking needed to convince local businessmen of his sincerity, Jimmy soon finds himself out of funds, leaving him at the mercy of those who promise to help him stay in the place he's gambled away his entire livelihood to be.

Meinhard (the excellent Meinhard Neumann) is a gaunt, weather - beaten, soulful fellow, who tames a horse and rides it into the local village, where he befriends a powerful local businessman called Adrian (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov).

Gringo is a dark comedy about a businessman who finds himself at the mercy of colleagues and local drug lords in Mexico.

Lorrin A. Thurston (Barry Pepper) and Sanford B. Dole (Will Patton) are two local politicians (Although as portrayed here, they seem as outsider as they come) and businessmen, who attempt to lead a failed coup the same night.

This little comedy by tentpole extraordinaire Michael Bay about the dumbest bodybuilders you've ever witnessed (Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson) who attempt to kidnap a local businessman and steal his life.

It tells the story of two high school students hoping to clean up their hometown who run up against the corporate mindset of a local businessman.

Her task is complicated by a local businessman and his folksinger girlfriend, who don't think that the non-native species should be eliminated.

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.

«Celebrity bankruptcy» might even extend to local couples who, in this case, are a politician and her businessman husband.

The shelter was the brainchild of Willis Weatherford, a local resident and retired businessman, who in 2010, helped by a few dedicated volunteers, began construction of a secure structure to house Abaco's homeless dogs.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families.

Two 19th - century Persian pleasure tents, which were used for outdoor gatherings, also help capture the aesthetics of Mr. Ballard, a local businessman and world traveler who donated rugs to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Last week the Eugene - based bike trailer brand Burley, who we noted back here, was financially rescued by a local businessman.

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.

Local news agency The Irrrawaddy cites «informed sources» who claim that Schmidt «will soon visit» the country in a trip that will see him meet with senior government officials, opposition leader (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Aung San Suu Kyi and a number of leading businessmen.

These «made in China» goods are then shipped to businessmen in Mexico and South America who reimburse the TCOs in local currency.

There's the conservative businessman who's traveled across the country week after week to lead an organization with two national offices, 54 state and territorial associations, and 1,800 local associations.