Sentences with phrase «oil fortune»
"Oil fortune" refers to a significant amount of money or wealth that has been acquired through involvement in the oil industry. Full definition
2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.
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More or less the true story of the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of oil fortune heir John Paul Getty III (played by Charlie Plummer, no relation to Chris, in the movie), «All the Money» was put in commercial jeopardy when Kevin Spacey — who had portrayed the victim's billionaire grandfather J. Paul Getty under heavy old age makeup for Scott — was swept up in Hollywood's explosion of sexual misconduct allegations at the end of October.
2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.
Rainwater first made his reputation by greatly multiplying the Texas oil fortune of the Bass brothers of Fort Worth, with big bets on everything from the resurrection of Disney to the boom in cell phones.
Haslam, who is an heir to the Pilot Oil fortune, would be a favorite against any of the Democratic candidates mentioned.
Indeed, Sugar Kane falls hard for Joe, but only as he takes on the guise of Junior, the preposterously wealthy heir to the Shell Oil fortune, in a bid to get the voluptuous singer in the sack.
A big, big oil fortune,» says Norwegian tour boat Capt. Knut Jansen.
Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.
They also receive $ 250,000 per year from the Scaife oil fortune, and we see almost half of the Institute is funded by oil money.
John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune, is kidnapped in Rome.
They're like Clark, who inherited an oil fortune.
Unlike Allen, he was the billionaire heir to an oil fortune.
Sarah's father, heir to an oil fortune, sired four daughters before he got the son he wanted.
A source told TechCrunch that Bumble has already raised millions of dollars from a number of different sources, including social dating service Badoo and a multi-millionaire heir to an oil fortune.
We've also heard about a number of different sources for the funding, including social dating service Badoo and Michael Herd, the multi-millionaire heir to an oil fortune.
The above trailer for All The Money In The World, Ridley Scott's upcoming thriller about the 1973 kidnapping of a teenage heir to the Getty oil fortune, is already obsolete.
Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson), an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
They include universities, faith and medical institutions, cities such as Seattle, Melbourne and Berlin, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune, as well as big financial players such as Norway's sovereign wealth fund.
Pressure was even coming from heirs to the oil fortune, descendants of the company's original founders.
When places like the Heartland Institute are funded by heirs to oil fortunes?
He also cited the decision of the heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune to sell all the fossil fuel holdings in their $ 862m portfolio.
Fairfax, VA (Law Firm Newswire) January 23, 2015 — Multi-billionaire Harold Hamm is making the case that passive factors led to the acquisition of wealth during his former marriage — and that his ex-wife is therefore entitled to less of the oil fortune than originally determined.
Let's say Billy is an heir to an oil fortune and fresh law school graduate with an axe to grind against leadership at his undergraduate alma mater, a public institution.