Sentences with phrase «magnate who»

The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists» claims about global warming.

The center was founded by Bernardo Paz, a Brazilian collector and mining magnate who began collecting art in the early 1990s.

There was much speculation about the buyer; many art experts believed him to be François Pinault, the luxury goods magnate who owns Christie's.

I particularly liked At The House of Mr X, in which the words of an unseen guide, arriving on the screen in motion script, take us round the pristine former home of the make - up magnate who gave us Outdoor Girl gloss and Miners Smokey Eyes.

As François Pinault, the luxury - goods magnate who owns Christie's, slipped through the crowd at the end of the sale, he muttered two words: serious and solid.

Commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., the Pittsburgh department store magnate who had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright about a decade earlier to build Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the house was designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 as a desert retreat in Palm Springs, California.

Jacob and Evie will also build up a gang called the Rooks in order to combat Crawford Starrick, the (fictional) Victorian magnate who controls London's industry with an iron fist.

The career mode is based around a presumably wealthy (and very easily impressed) racing magnate who wants to set up a global racing scene featuring the best drivers from around the world.

Eli Broad, the California - based housing and insurance magnate who is now leading an attempt to send half of Los Angeles's public school students to charter schools, and Wal - Mart heirs Alice and Jim Walton collectively poured a total of $ 650,000 into a PAC that supported the reformers.

His mother's (Laura Dern) hairdressing business is not bringing in enough cash to keep them ahead on their mortgage, and soon the worst that can happen comes in the form of Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), an unscrupulous real estate magnate who specializes in foreclosed homes and evictions.

And Jack Black cameos late on playing a tender - hearted porn magnate who gives the couple a robust lecture on ethics.

The new trade envoy tasked with improving them is a Philippine real estate magnate who's already working with Donald Trump on a major building project.

In Paradise Hills, Roberts plays Uma, the daughter of a magnate who commits suicide -LSB-...]

The principal one is Texas governor W. Lee «Pappy» O'Daniel, a flour magnate who came to prominence by hosting a radio show backed by his old - timey band, the Light Crust Doughboys.

Synopsis: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe reunite after «Jerry Maguire» for «Vanilla Sky,» the story of a young New York City publishing magnate who finds himse... [MORE]

This study is part of an ongoing series of studies into the costs and benefits of natural gas funded by the George Mitchell Foundation; Mitchell (now deceased) was the petroleum engineer and gas magnate who first popularized hydraulically fracturing shale to release natural gas but also donated some of his fortune to sustainability research.

Claiming that giving the position to Black — a publishing magnate who has no experience of public education — is illegal, dozens gathered on the steps of the Tweed Courthouse.

Giving an insight to his person, Ezeemo said he is a freight forwarder, a business mogul, a farmer, publisher and oil magnate who has lived in the United Kingdom for over 30 years.

If he ran for mayor again, Catsimatidis, who lost in the Republican primary in 2013, would square off against Paul Massey, the former commercial brokerage magnate who posted $ 1.6 million in campaign fundraising last month.

Mulrow has had a multi-year business relationship with Richard Fields, a gaming magnate who expressed interest in bidding on state - owned horse - racing facilities when the Cuomo administration floated a plan to privatize the tracks.

Most of Connecticut's delegates are staying in the same hotel as Herman Cain, the famed pizza magnate who was a brief, onetime frontrunner in the Republican race for president in 2012 before eventually...

However, the «sneaky» business magnate who also was a major financier of Akufo - Addo's three presidential campaigns had his jubilation short - lived following fresh revelations of impropriety in the whole transaction.

The attack ads against Ms. Quinn, for instance, were paid for in part by Steve Nislick, a wealthy parking garage magnate who founded an anti-horse-carriage group that has clashed with the Council speaker.

Councilmember Corey Johnson took Transition and Inauguration contributions from a hotel magnate who pled guilty yesterday to violations of federal campaign finance law.

Peter Anthony Prince was a lumber and hydroelectricity magnate who, as the story goes, obtained an exclusive contract to provide Calgary with electricity after taking a fall on an unlit sidewalk...

Mr Usmanov, a metals magnate who owns 30 per cent of Arsenal, conveyed the offer in a letter to Stan Kroenke, the US sports mogul, who controls a 67 per cent stake.

If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

At stake is a roughly 20 percent interest in the Thunder held by Aubrey McClendon, the indebted Oklahoma energy magnate who died in a car crash on March 2.

Global sales were projected to top $ 24 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow another 3.2 % this year, making the magnates who run the sector's largest companies even wealthier.

Husband - and - wife construction magnates who went from eating out of their parents» pantries to making ice cream runs by private plane; a former street racer whose high - performance parts make cars fast... and money even faster; and a house painter whose all - cash business has him seeing green.

They did not appreciate that there were big money magnates who had taken over the likes of Chelsea and Man City and could afford to spend colossal sums of money in the transfer market.

Those business magnates who are ready to spend a few bucks just to try their luck at sugar dating should definitely try it out!

The definition and application of «Wise» or «Knowing» human seems ill - fitting for the Japanese ministers and fishing business magnates who propagate this type of slaughter.

They know they're still fooling — or at least giving mutual cover for — enough of their Neanderthal supporters that they can keep giving money and cover to the fossil fuel magnates who own them.

Not exact matches

Before continuing, let's get this out of the way: A number of industry sources believe the lead buyer is Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and Republican Party mega-donor who will be hosting Tuesday's GOP presidential debate at his Venetian Las Vegas property.

The new towns were strongly supported by Berlusconi himself, who made his first fortune as a construction magnate.

It was written about newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, who fought to keep it from being released and forbade its mention in his newspapers.

As fans mourned the loss of the 91 - year - old cultural icon while others were critical of his exploits, speculation began almost immediately over who would inherit the magnate's remaining fortune, with several publications estimating Hefner's net worth at upwards of $ 45 million.

Diller, a media magnate in his own right who currently runs IAC / InterActiveCorp and created Fox Broadcasting among other properties, sees Trump's rise as the triumph of image over substance.

The bitter, sometimes petulant negotiations between the City of Edmonton and Oilers owner and pharmacy magnate Daryl Katz over who will pay for a proposed new 18,500 - plus - seat downtown arena have come to a close, but the resolution is less than complete.

With a strong pro-business message, Johnson could eventually could emerge as the third — party candidate who grabs votes from either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or real — estate magnate Donald Trump, the respective presumptive Democratic and Republican candidates, political analysts say.

Thomas Persson, 30, is the grandson of Swedish fashion magnate Erling Persson, who founded Hennes & Mauritz, globally known as cheap chic retailer H&M.

In The Man Who Walked Around the World, Glaswegian character actor Robert Carlyle strides down a rugged mountain path, telling the story of young John Walker's rise from farm boy to shopkeeper to whisky magnate in a single, uninterrupted and utterly captivating 6 1/2 minute take.

He's a man who almost needs no introduction — business magnate, real estate developer, reality TV mogul and now politician Donald Trump has set the U.S. presidential race on fire.

The casino magnate, who owns 13 private jets, is a staunch supporter of the Republican Party, famously donating tens of millions of dollars to past candidates like Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

IT magnates appears intended, at least in part, to warn American tech businesses off supporting any action that the Obama administration has planned to retaliate for China's hacking and industrial espionage,» William McCahill, a veteran China watcher who left a U.S. diplomatic career in 2000 to focus on business in the country, wrote last week for Mirabaud Securities.

We're also witnessing some questionable and unsubstantiated statements coming from the Bitcoin mining farm community such as this quote from Chinese mining farm magnate Chandler Guo who states

Kalanick, a natural salesman who sold knives door - to - door as a high school student one summer, helped bring in investment from Michael Ovitz, cofounder of the talent agency CAA, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate.

Often, in these cases, the only people who make any money are the ones selling these would - be business magnates the tools they need to get started -LSB-...]

Justin Trudeau giving a speech with the Vancouver skyline visible in the background Message from Conservative Party of Canada: — «Canadian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowski recently said: «You do not build a prosperous nation by excessively taxing those who create prosperity and jobs.»