Sentences with phrase «many clan»

Then they're creating opposing clans.

The other series are episodic shorts, like The Birch, about a young man who befriends a tree - like monster after he's bullied, and Sunny Family Cult, which follows a young woman whose family is part of a murderous clan.

For decades, the Matlack clan grew wheat, corn, barley, and oats, as well as alfalfa to feed the livestock.

This side of the McCain clan has the largest share in the family firm, McCain Foods.

Three of the five members of the executive team at Leon's bear the family name — a sign that the sprawling clan still retains tight control over the business.

That's precisely when the clan sent out an S.O.S. to Marcus with this casting video.

Instead the region is mostly controlled by local tribes and clans.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

Those with an abundant supply of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, a common microbe in the Ruminococcaceae clan, fared much better than those with a limited supply, the study found.

Disney offered a $ 2.5 billion fee, so the Murdoch clan went with Disney instead.

Developers such as Vancouver's Bentall clan and Ellis - Don, the London, Ont. - based construction giant founded by Don Smith, underwent wrenching fights as control either passed from one generation to the next.

The clan also developed eligibility criteria for family members who want to join the company.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

Indeed there might be, but those people shouldn't be confused with members of the Claymon clan, whose inner - city roots extend back to 1942.

The Pritzker clan, whose patriarchs built Berkshire's Marmon Group subsidiary, features a dozen family members with net worth exceeding $ 1 billion, ranking high on the Forbes 400 list.

Fortune spoke with Jeetendr Sehdev, a celebrity branding authority and author of the new book The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why Shameless Sells (and How to Do It Right), about what the Kardashian clan can teach business about reaching millennial consumers (without having them laugh your ad off the air).

By next year, the hordes of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans players will even be outspending gamers on Xbox, PlayStation, and other consoles, according to a new report.

While some of the Ding clan built business empires here — manufacturing athletic shoes, for instance — Ding Zhize made a name for himself 600 kilometers (373 miles) down the coast in Macau's casinos.

Nearly two dozen games such as Angry Birds and Clash of Clans will donate all proceeds from in - app purchases.

A very clan cut Yancey can't wait to call his wife and kids to give them the good news.

While their namesake company — over which they exert considerable control, thanks to a two - tiered share structure — remains the foundation of the family fortune, the Rogers clan have also moved into real estate.

So in other words, No, don't build yourself an Internet hotspot tie, even if it seems like the only way to get your kids to put down Clash of Clans for ten damn minutes.

The Jolie - Pitt clan famously donated the money they received from the sale of their twins» first photos and wedding pictures to the Jolie - Pitt Foundation.

Companies led by a family member were particularly good bets, producing better returns than both widely held firms and those that were family controlled but managed by someone outside the clan.

Rupert, the 86 - year - old patriarch of the clan, was initially said to be unwilling to get rid of O'Reilly, despite a growing advertiser boycott fueled by news of multiple sexual harassment claims against the Fox host.

The Zekelman family runs the largest independent steel tube manufacturer in North America, and they want everyone to know it: Last year the clan changed the name of the company from JMC Steel Group to Zekelman Industries, Inc..

While the family has definitely amassed a huge following after appearing on A&E, the attraction to the clan started long before television.

And whatever its similarities to other well - known Canadian dynasties, the Phelan clan's tale is unlike any other — a saga marked by it own jealousies and ambitions, and by a family commitment to morality in business that has at times led Cara to leave millions on the table.

Can the Phelans put history behind them and bring peace to their clan?

The extended Bombardier - Beaudoin clan — descendants all of the late snowmobile inventor Joseph - Armand Bombardier — added nearly $ 1 billion to their public net worth in 2013, an astounding 12 - month jump.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

That's what Bay Street wants to know now that a deal with Canwest's disgruntled broadcasting partner, Goldman Sachs, has allowed Calgary's Shaw family to separate Winnipeg's Asper clan from Canwest's distressed television assets.

And Gary's success has spawned entrepreneurial dreams in other members of the clan.

To ease U.K. regulators» minds over the Murdoch clan having too much influence, Fox has proposed splitting Sky News off from Sky, and Disney has even said it might step in to buy Sky News, whether or not its wider Fox takeover goes ahead.

In June, Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest gaming group, agreed to buy a majority stake in Clash of Clans mobile game maker Supercell from SoftBank Group Corp in an $ 8.6 billion deal.

Study after study shows that we tend to be happier when we feel connected to our nearest and dearest, when we feel like we are a part of a group or a clan.

«We think that this deal is an attempt by the Murdoch clan to eventually put themselves in position to run Disney,» he wrote.

He can't have domestic policy because he's an oligarch at the head of an oligarchical clan, and he's running a country which can't have the rule of law.

These kinds of criticisms became more common when the paper was in worse financial shape, and had to get a loan from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, but was still paying out huge amounts of dividends to members of the Sulzberger clan.

What about Abu Dhabi, the newest addition in the INSEAD clan?

Bourassa is more of a stern, tough - love clan that has high expectations and demands deep loyalty.

In a market update this week Kalia said the exploration and land access agreement was signed with the Toremana Resources Owners Association, which represents the seven major clans in the northern part of Bougainville where Kalia holds two key exploration licences.

But for all his deeds and bluster, Escobar was just one member of a clan of traffickers who helped create the Medellin cartel.

ROME (AP)-- Convicted Cosa Nostra «boss of bosses» Bernardo Provenzano, who reputedly led the Mafia's powerful Corleone clan, died on Wednesday, a decade after his capture in Sicily following decades of hiding in the countryside, a lawyer said.

In 2009, he began uploading footage of himself playing and commentating to YouTube, under the username KSIOlajidebt: a combination of a «Halo» franchise clan, his first name, and British Telecom.

The point is that Zuckerberg is no different from media baron Rupert Murdoch, who uses the Wall Street Journal and his tabloid papers to berate liberals, or the Sulzberger clan who control the New York Times (NYT) and staunchly support Democrats.

The famine, and Shabaab's harsh restrictions on areas under its control, caused several of Somalia's major clans to turn on the group, and created the opportunity for the African Union coalition to reclaim territory.

For many budding entrepreneurs, managing that anonymous clan of slack - jawed troglodytes is the hardest part about running a business.

And in this era of ebbing small business lending by banks, if you don't have an interested investor, why not turn to mom, pop, and the rest of your clan?

So was the manner in which Senator Paul implied that the announcement was some sort of joining of the Paul and Romney clans.