Sentences with phrase «money groups whose»

«What was happening all around the country was these dark - money groups whose donors are hidden started to spend money on state legislative races,» Bloss said.

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Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

But beginning in the 1990s, Exxon reportedly began giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science,» the New York Times reports.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

«Stan Miroshnik, an L.A. - based banker whose outfit, Element Group, is exclusively focused on the digital token capital markets, said that simply figuring out how to appraise a venture - backed company that has also raised money through an ICO is proving a minefield.»

Not all groups are like that, but what's the point of giving money to an organization that uses most of the money to keep the organization alive and whose main purpose is fundraising?

Then, after administrative costs and overhead are deducted out of the money that comes in, a team of people goes out to perform the ministry to the massive group whose «need» is trying to be met.

And after an initial bout of setting as much money as possible on fire to prove he's serious, City owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose City Football Group bought the club in 2008, has gotten serious about the club's long - term prospects.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

Nation's largest food makers» trade group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, is donating big money to oppose I - 522, but on whose behalf?

«I think sometimes in Albany the people here forget whose money it is,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

VFGG was able to pay some of Foley's early political expenses after receiving money from Citizens for Democracy, a 527 group whose chairman is Larry J. Lawrence of Greenwich, the treasurer of Foley's 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial campaigns.

The rest of the money comes from unions, gun control organizations, and gun rights groups looking to boost the chances of the candidate whose political ideology best supports their own policy aims.

Samuels, an outspoken and sometimes eccentric Democratic activist whose group played a role in ousting former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. last year, declined to tell me how much money he plans to spend or reveal the names of the lawmakers in his crosshairs.

Wisneski, whose group supports public campaign financing, said with Democrats in charge of the Senate, it's more likely that they will respond to what she said is increasing voter demands to get big money out of politics.

Sham charities are a way of political life in southeast Queens, where a number of elected officials are under investigation for steering money to groups they founded — and which were often staffed by cronies — and whose mission and spending is dubious.

Her Clinton flip - flop follows other hypocritical positions such as taking contributions from a known «dark money» group — whose donors are anonymous — and soliciting money from Super PAC mega-donors such as billionaire George Soros.

McCluskey, dismissing Progress as an organisation whose ideas were locked in the past, said he was relaxed about defeating the thinktank in arguments and that the furore was due to the «amount of money being ploughed in» to the group.

Why would Congress listen to the electorate when the obscene amount of money they need to get elected comes mainly from groups whose narrow interests conflict with what is best for the Country.

Wisneski, whose group supports public campaign financing, says with Democrats in charge of the Senate, it's more likely that they will respond to what she says is increasing voter demands to get big money out of politics.

So now there is a premium on authorship and because it costs big money, leaders of research groups have to be more choosy about whose names go on the papers.

Kingsman, we learn, is a private intelligence firm, started by a group of wealthy elites whose heirs were killed during World War I and who found themselves with extra inheritance money on their hands.

When Mark suggests that marchers in the pride parade raise money for the striking miners, it's the launch of the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), an organization whose members will include Joe (George MacKay), a suburban college student tentatively taking his first steps out of the closet; defiantly flamboyant actor Jonathan (Dominic West) and his partner Gethin (Andrew Scott), whose encounters with the miners will bring him home to Wales for the first time in decades; and Steph (Faye Marsay), who loudly and proudly reminds everyone that she's the «L» in the group.

Then there is AFT president Randi Weingarten, who as a member of George Soros» left - wing Democracy Alliance (whose president is NEA executive director John Stocks), was criticized for her participation in the dark money group.

Education Week is the recipient of grant money from the Walton Family Foundation, which funds school - privatization groups and whose resources come from Walmart, a corporation with a long anti-union track record.

The report found the formula shifts money from the poorest pupils and schools to the «just about managing» group — that is, pupils whose families are just above the threshold for free school meals.

And what could be worse for a group whose main lot in life is to keep acquiring buckets of money and enormous power being exposed as pushing a model that never should have been applied to the teaching profession in the first place?

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Yakuza 4 was a joy to play — a tale of four individuals whose paths intertwined in the city of Kamurocho, as police and Yakuza groups tussled over money and power.

David Shapiro, whose show Money Is No Object was on view at the Sue Scott Gallery this spring, has created a group of vellum scrolls on which he has placed the bills and receipts and ticket stubs he's collected over the course of a year.

A group of visionary curators and gallerists helped them along, including Walter Hopps — then of the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum)-- one of the first to organize a Pop Art show (the historic «New Painting of Common Objects») including Goode's work; and Nicholas Wilder, whose gallery was artist - centric — when he sold a work, he'd divide the money amongst all the artists he represented.

Schack and members of the group would go on to raise money in order to assist an ailing Eilshemius, whose brother Henry had died in 1940, thus leaving him alone and impoverished.

When the Heartland Institute held its gathering in New York City last year celebrating climate skepticism, Exxon Mobil made a point of saying it had stopped contributing money to that group, explaining that it did not want to support groups «whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

The main group whose personal economic well - beeing is affected by grant funding are the soft - money researchers, and for those it's mostly a matter of survival and paying the mortgage, not getting rich.

They support groups whose only purpose in life is to launder their identity and the identity of other donors off of money so you can't follow the money behind these front groups, and they have spent a lot of money infiltrating universities so that they can create a veneer of university legitimacy around some of the things that they do.

Actually, it's not money spent on debating AGW but merely the combined budget of several institutions whose activities are — needless to say — as varied as your pick of 91 think tanks and industry groups.

A recent article published by the Arizona Republic, detailed that Lincoln Strategy group presented the controversial campaign plan in 2009 to APS» CEO, calling for the funding of two non-profit groups, whose mission would be to show that the ACC's «decisions cost ratepayers money and hurt families.»

But much of Sea Change's funding comes through Bermuda - based Klein, Ltd., whose sole purpose is to channel money covertly to Sea Change and thence to environmental advocacy and «educational» groups.

Another theory on why they are caving so early comes from The Nation's Johann Hari, whose explosive piece «The Wrong Kind of Green» hypothesized that the influence of corporate money has damaged the credibility of many of the US's biggest green groups.

Even with FSA being in control, a group of customers whose accounts were compromised moved to court seeking compensation for their lost digital money.

Raising Children Whose Parents Are In Prison Today's THV - Little Rock, Arkansas, USA The new grant money will be used to start support groups for both the grandparents and their grandchildren.

«The money is almost secondary,» says Sherwood, whose group of 10 typically receives $ 120 for a nursing - home gig versus its customary $ 2,500.

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