Sentences with phrase «of wealthy friends»

That reality can be an intimidating factor for a would - be candidate who does not have a large bankroll or a lot of wealthy friends.

At least President Obama is spending money to rescue our economy, not to pad the pockets of his wealthy friends.

Xolani (Nakhane Toure), a lonely factory worker, has returned to his tribal homeland to take on the initiation of a wealthy friend's son, Kwanda, who comes from the city and a most reluctant inductee.

Not exact matches

The state didn't vote for him in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.

So in 1999, again on the advice of the board and with the help of wealthy New York friends, Hollender bought back his struggling company for $ 1.30 a share.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

While I'm not in the position of my good friend Rand, who's gone on the record saying that his life savings is $ 25,000, I was not previously wealthy.

William Browder, a wealthy American financier and close friend of Ms. Freeland, said the new foreign minister brings a wealth of talent to the job that should help her in dealing with the Trump administration.

The business splits and tokenizes ownership of such luxury assets so that less - wealthy investors can drive that Porsche a few days a year, invite friends for dinner under that iconic work of art, wear that super expensive Swiss watch to the ex's wedding.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

My message is that the most wealthy people will never associate or be friends with poor people, unless they can get something out of them for their own personal gain.

Oh and when we raised money for my child to attend something that only the wealthy could afford, most of our richest so called friends didn't contribute, because they think that we shouldn't even allow our child to participate if we «can't afford it».

In his humorous but pointed book Confessions of a Workaholic, Wayne Oates has summarized much of our modern belief in these words: «The workaholic's way of life is considered in America to be at one and the same time (a) a religious virtue, (b) a form of patriotism, (c) the way to win friends and influence people, and (d) the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

I have friends who are political and economic conservatives, wealthy people who send their children to private schools in New England at a cost of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a year.

Eight years of a bumbling religious fundamentalist, driven by a naïve ideology in foreign affairs and an outmoded attachment to markets (and to wealthy friends) in domestic affairs, were enough.

1000s of my friends and family have grown 30 - 99 plants for 20 years, thanks for keeping prices high and NORCAL wealthy... # 1 crop in cali = $ 15 Billion Untaxed...

Your wealthy friends with their tax cuts shipped all the jobs ti China leaving us with no jobs and no healthcare.No - ones looking for a handout except your rich greedy friends in innsurance, oil, and pharmaceutical companies and let us not forget Wall Street and the banks.Do I have to repeat this to you deceitful defenders of the rich.Not everyone is looking for a handout.

I had a friend when I was growing up who was part of a wealthy family.

Saget is standing on a makeshift platform inside the high - end steakhouse alongside millionaire restaurateur and Hunt & Fish Club co-founder Eytan Sugarman, former Yankees star Jorge Posada and his wife Laura, and other wealthy friends who helped make this event — a fundraiser co-hosted by the Posadas in support of The Foundation for Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria Relief Fund — happen on short notice.

Friends -LCB- ironically -RCB- call me the Banksy of the craft world, albeit a feathered, far less wealthy, cool or famous, avian version!

And his support of the so - called tax «reform» deal last December (along with the entire Senate GOP, it's worth noting) that ended up cutting middle class taxes, but also raising taxes on the state's wealthiest residents — albeit less than a straight reinstatement of the millionaire's tax would have — didn't win him many friends on the right, either.

He's sharp, credible and wealthy, has friends in high places, and he made a strong run for state comptroller last year,» said one of the state's GOP leaders.

Republican Harry Wilson, a wealthy investor and friend of Mayor Bloomberg who ran a strong, but losing, campaign for state comptroller last year, said yesterday he's giving «serious consideration» to challenging the once - moderate but now ultra-liberal Gillibrand in the 2012 balloting.

«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.

This is also about the mega wealthy friends of a Mayor who has squandered hundreds of millions on a fraudulent time keeping system meant to monitor city employees while using less city employees.

Meanwhile, Schoeneman's opponent, Joe Lorigo, spent his evening hobnobbing with Ralph Lorigo's powerful and wealthy friends at his father's «birthday party» where guests were charged $ 99 to $ 2,500 dollars to pad his son's campaign account while gaining access to the Legislator as well as the Chairman of the Erie County Conservative party.

Overseas scientists relocating to Japan will need patience, and some Japanese friends and colleagues to help them out in their transition, but shouldn't worry too much about relocating to one of the world's safest, healthiest, best educated, and wealthiest nations,» he says.

The foster parents were wealthy friends of someone I knew, and we had not gone through a traditional route for finding the home.

It is an opportunity for us to reflect on the language and... In real - world New York City, hopeless romantic Mindy and curmudgeonly divorcee Danny would... to lure in his hapless single friend, or when Sugar Mama Dating Sites Outrage — The Paris mayor's office has sought to ban a new dating website for wealthy... than the intended users of the site, whispering suggestively into the ear of a woman.

So, if you are out to impress friends and also gain luxurious in life, meet powerful people, grow in the process, then you simply need to go after the former variety of wealthy ladies.

If you want to date a wealthy sugar mom, then you need to learn many things, not only your art of being a good friend but also your physical body.

On the opposite end very confident white men who are often accomplished & wealthy with charisma & friends of different races are also more likely to date outsite of their race.

Although there are some real millionaires may stick to their childhood friends, the majority of the rich and wealthy guys will make friends with people of equivalent status.

Here, you will be able to find wealthy single people who look for someone to be friend with or to love, from doctors, lawyers to CEOs of companies.

Rich men online dating websites are popular because they helped a large number of women looking wealthy men found their perfect friend.

A photo journalist begins to suspect her best friend Danny's new love interest could be linked to the murders of wealthy men.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

The unlucky chap she chooses to romance next turns out to be Robert Windemere (Mark Umbers), a wealthy American visiting with friends and getting ready to celebrate the 21st birthday of his wife of one year, the shy and gorgeous Meg (Scarlett Johansson).

As Hitler's army invades Austria, Victor Kaufmann — the ostentatious son of a wealthy Jewish Viennese art dealer — is betrayed by lifelong friend Rudi Smekal, now a Third Reich stooge.

Danny and his friends are working for a crime boss named Mr. Ryan (Eugene Robert Glazer), who has arranged the kidnapping of Williams (Rob Freeman), a wealthy but reclusive man.

It's an audience - approved template that Wiig (who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo) has little problem personalizing, sincerely and ridiculously confronting issues of beauty, wealth, loyalty, monogamy, marriage, and sex through the tale of a character whose life spirals downward after her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), gets engaged and she's forced to battle for sole possession of BFF status with Lillian's glamorous and wealthy new sidekick, Helen (Rose Byrne).

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

Annie's anxieties deepen as Lillian grows close to Helen (Rose Byrne), a wealthy and beautiful new friend who quickly assumes control of planning all the pre-wedding festivities.

The movie features the artist's relationship with his wealthy, and much younger American friend and author, James Lord (Armie Hammer), who died in 2009 at the age of eighty - seven.

This seemingly highlights and underscores every perceived failing or emptiness in Annie's life, and the passive - aggressive competitiveness of Helen (Rose Byrne), Lillian's wealthy and newer friend, does little to bring about the best in Annie, even as a local cop, Nathan (Chris O'Dowd), tries his best to get to know her.

Preppy Lily (Anya Taylor - Joy) and pariah Amanda (Olivia Cooke) are teens from wealthy families who become friends through lack of social alternatives.

Richard Gere's «Franny» tells of a wealthy eccentric who meddles in the affairs of a recently deceased friend's daughter (Dakota Fanning) and her husband (Theo James).

He's extremely wealthy, lives the kind of life people only dream of, and has a «friend» («We occasionally sleep together.»)

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

There's the CREEPY friend of her brother, Leon Tallis (played by Patrick Kennedy), a wealthy owner of a Chocolate factory, Paul Marshall (Benedict Cumberbatch) who turns out to be a pedophile.