Sentences with phrase «local industrialist»

Depicting a hare, fox, raven and lion, the watercolours were owned by local industrialist Laurence Hodson, a philanthropist and collector who decorated his home at Compton Hall with Morris furnishings.

Spending time with Michael convinces Toller that God objects to man's destruction of the world, which puts him in an awkward position with Barq (Michael Gaston, «The Leftovers»), a wealthy local industrialist — and major contributor to both churches — who happens also to be a world - class polluter.

At the time, local industrialists and politicians were keen to help boost the city's collections with works by living artists.

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In 1919 the local MP, industrialist and major local employer Josiah Wedgwood shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party — the Lloyd - George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives — to the Labour Party and the seat has elected the Labour candidate who has stood since that date, a total of 29 elections in succession.

This film is a look at German Industrialist John Rabe who lived and worked in China, and was one of the key players who established a safety zone for the locals during the occupation of China by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army.

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

Playing as Carl Faubert, a former war veteran turned private detective, you are hired by a rich industrialist who has accused the local Cree community of vandalism and theft.