Sentences with phrase «of wealthy citizen»

Mercer is the type of wealthy citizen most emboldened by the Citizens United decision, unlikely to engage in the greasy work of bundling others» contributions but happy to directly sponsor his preferred causes.

The murder of a wealthy citizen with an irreproachable reputation raises a lot of riddles.

Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him f...

Free societies have an excellent system to compensate for a lack of charity on the part of their wealthy citizens — it is called TAXATION.

It's official: Asia Pacific's ever - growing network of economies has topped North America and Europe as the region with the largest number of wealthy citizens in the world.

Ancient Pompeii's political elite vied for advertising space on the «private walls» of wealthy citizens

He was one of the wealthiest citizens of the city and left a tremendous estate at his death.

What I would like is the opinion of several of you if you could hypothetically get some of our wealthiest citizens to agree to some initiatives, what would they be?

The High Court has dismissed a case brought by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher on behalf of the Republic of Djibouti against one of its wealthiest citizens citing a «campaign of persecution» against him.

Not exact matches

An argument sometimes used to defend the strength of the housing market is that foreign investors, predominantly wealthy Chinese citizens, are buying property here because Canada is a safe haven in a turbulent global economy.

The report points to rising Islamism sentiment in Indonesia and Malaysia, resentment of wealthy ethnic Chinese citizens in Indonesia, and the persecution of Myanmar's minority Rohingya people.

By Martin's definition of success, we're still way behind — but it seems to me that having wealthier citizens is more meaningful.

His pursuit of the Times certainly is, of course, but the larger idea that at some point in the not - too - distant future an absurdly wealthy Chinese citizen will become the proprietor of a U.S. - based media property, digital or otherwise, is a very real possibility.

-LRB-...) In the biggest developed cities, houses are beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest citizens.

Wealthy Chinese citizens are buying beachfront condos in Cyprus, paying big U.S. tuition bills for their children and stocking up on luxury goods in Singapore, frequently moving cash secretly through a flourishing network of money - transfer agents.

So while citizens of other countries who arrive here looking to build a life in this province will get stuck paying extra, the savvy and wealthy investors who are driving this out - of - control market will easily find a way around it.

I know that your personal faith acts as ones own personal moral and spiritual compass, however the president should through out his personal beliefs in exchange for the betterment of all americans citizens not the 2 % of the wealthy class or the corporations, but all americans

They gave tax breaks to the wealthy while stripping federal help from the poorest of our citizens.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME... the wealthiest country in the world spends billions for B2 jets, threw $ 1trillion at a bogus war in Iraq but lets its citizens die for lack of care.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Let me ask you this then: Which GOP hopeful do you think will do the best job representing the wealthy citizens of our country?

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens tCitizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens tcitizens the vote.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

If you support a traitor like Rump and you turn your back on the citizens of your state to provide tax cuts for the wealthy that virtually assure that after November the Pubs will be going after Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as being too expensive you should be concerned about a negative response form voters.

John P. McCormick: Well, I merely offered a sketch for how a modern institution that excluded wealthy citizens might wield some of the powers held by the Roman tribunes within modern electoral democracies.

Here's what I'm getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel immense pressure to raise money from small donors.

Just one week ago, in Ningbo city — a modern and wealthy city in China's relatively developed eastern Zhejiang province — there was a massive outpouring of citizen protesters.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said the new law would reduce the impact of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, which helped wealthy donors dramatically increase campaign spending through the use of thinly veiled «independent expenditure» groups to tout or criticize a candidate.

Together with Citizens United, this decision guts our campaign finance system and opens the door to corruption by handing a small minority of wealthy individuals the power to exercise undue influence over our government.»

The Citizens United decision was expected to further shift the balance of power to the Republicans, but lo and behold, there are some really wealthy liberals out there.

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

«Half of the citizens live at or below the poverty line in one of the wealthiest cities in the world,» he said.

«This type of trickle - down development, which OCIDA continues to support time and time again, does not benefit our citizens and instead takes money away from the poorest people in our community to further enrich wealthy developers,» she said in a statement.

Wealthy contributors helping their favored candidates win elections would not systemically skew politics or policy outcomes if these well - heeled donors were like the rest of us, if on average they had the same life experiences, opinions about issues, and political views as average - earning citizens.

His reign has seen the end of civil war and an investment boom, but has also been criticised as secretive and corrupt with Angola's citizens suffering dire poverty as his family became hugely wealthy.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's wealthiest citizens.

We vowed not to allow our most vulnerable citizens, like the seniors who rely on senior centers throughout Lower Manhattan, to suffer because of an unnecessary tax cut for the wealthiest among us.

Teachout is a staunch opponent of Citizens United — when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the bill constitutional, Justice Stevens cited one of Teachout's legal articles in his dissent — and one of her tactics in her campaign against Faso has been to call out his wealthy GOP backers.

Access to imports is the most important part of trade, the part that will make citizens wealthier - people to export to is a second order effect.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

He became a French citizen in 1673 and married the daughter of a French official wealthy enough to offer as part of the dowry a nice castle for a summer home.

It was in the financial interest of Manhattan's most wealthy citizens to see their properties up and running at capacity again.

The United States pays three times as much per citizen as the average of other wealthy nations — far more than even the second - highest spender, Switzerland, adding up to $ 3 trillion a year.

I admit my hope wanes as I watch my own country's leaders take away services for our senior citizens, the middle class, and poor and give to the wealthiest 1 percent, a group who already have 40 percent of the wealth.