Sentences with phrase «on oligarch»

Ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus to name four members of the shadow cabinet and I doubt they will be able to get past Cameron, (because he is leader of the party), Hague, (because he was leader of the party and has gravitas) and Osborn, because of an unfortunate incident on an oligarch's yacht.

«So it is no surprise Peter Mandelson has found time in his busy schedule of spending time on oligarch's yachts to attempt to undermine him.»

I'm reading on oligarchs, and came across this on Wikipedia (from the fourth paragraph): The study [conceded] «Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular...

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LONDON, May 2 - A semblance of normality has returned to the aluminum market after three weeks of turmoil caused by the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal empire.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- A semblance of normality has returned to the aluminum market after three weeks of turmoil caused by the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal empire.

In return for this effort, the dossier says, Putin wanted information from Trump on Russian oligarchs living in the US, Source E said.

Treasury's so - called «oligarchs list,» but also on financial institutions to closely consider those...

LONDON, May 2 - A semblance of normality has returned to the aluminium market after three weeks of turmoil caused by the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal empire.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- A semblance of normality has returned to the aluminium market after three weeks of turmoil caused by the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal empire.

ZURICH, April 17 - U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarchs have hit another Swiss company, with steelmaker Schmolz & Bickenbach's chairman forced to sever ties with Viktor Vekselberg to help clear the way for a bond placement, a spokesman for the Russian billionaire said on Tuesday.

ZURICH, April 12 - Switzerland's Sulzer has used a share buyback to free itself from U.S. sanctions, highlighting a potential escape route for other companies controlled by Russian oligarchs targeted in Washington's crackdown on President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

«The fact that the U.S. Treasury rolled out secondary sanctions and also hit some big name oligarchs (are) the real game changing events, which I think risks re-pricing Russia risk on a more permanent basis,» Ash said.

The U.S. Treasury handed down the penalties on seven Russian oligarchs, 12 businesses and 17 Russian government officials, in response to what it described as their involvement in Russia's «malign» activities, ranging from military involvement in Ukraine and Syria to cyber crimes and alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, exiled former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in London.

Rothschild sought damages from the British paper after it accused him of acting as a «puppet master» for his role in bringing the former EU trade commissioner with him on a Siberian trip to visit a Russian oligarch.

As much income as possible is to be left proximately in the hands of its oligarchs, through whose hands it is to pass on to foreign buyers of their companies.

Lawsuits are still being filed in connection with the dossier: Three Russian oligarchs on Friday brought a new suit against Steele in Washington, D.C. And the Democratic National Committee on April 20 filed suit against Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, alleging there was a conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections.

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The US Treasury Department extended on Tuesday a deadline for investors to relinquish their interests in three Russian firms, a move that gives them time to reduce ties with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and ultimately avoid sanctions.

The son - in - law of a Russian oligarch, he worked with Manafort and Gates on behalf of Ukraine's government in 2012, to write a report defending the government's prosecution of a former prime minister.

Based on fictitiously trouble - free projections of the ability to pay, the loan supported Ukraine's hernia currency long enough to enable the oligarchs» banks to move their money quickly into Western hard - currency accounts before the hernia plunged further and was worth even fewer euros and dollars.

A U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks calls Deripaska «among the 2 - 3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.»

If you accept that the plan of building the Emirates, allowing high - wage veterans to move on to stay solvent, and developing youth, and bringing in good - value signings has allowed the club to be competitive and at the top of the table while similar clubs, like Newcastle and Liverpool, have not been able to maintain their status as elite teams once the oligarchs arrived.

Oligarchs typically do not attain their position without some shady business going on, but whether that constitutes a crime is debatable.

Then there is the other camp that says he has been competing on an uneven paying field with the arrival of the Oligarch and the Sheikhs as well as the self imposed financial constraints brought about by the new stadium and he is a genius for keeping us in the top four.

The fuzzy Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003, and his club went on to win three Premier League titles in the 2000s.

We also aren't, so far, at the mercy of the whim of a single oligarch or dictator, and that means that we're existing and prospering on the basis of our own strength.

These political challenges were not countered within the political process (ie, by defeating the challengers in elections, and so on) but by circumventing the rule of law to prosecute the oligarchs for fabricated crimes.

This will impose the pressure on the Russian government from oligarchs who have settled in the West, whose property is in the West, whose children study in Western universities, and sometimes even barely speak Russian because for all their life they have lived in the West.

The OSCE observers together with EU representatives and other foreign observers, have criticized among other things the use of government resources on behalf of the Party of the Regions, the inability of opposition candidates to get television air time, the deployment of oligarchs» money to influence the campaign and the absolute lack of transparency, in particular non-transparent vote counting.

Although Labour's manifesto only hinted at reforming British capitalism — with timid measures on property taxation and house - building, a rise in the minimum wage and attempts to tax super-wealthy London - based oligarchs — it did address some of the fundamental imbalances of the British economy.

If there's an issue here about anything on Russian influence within our society, it's about Russian oligarchs funding the Tory party.

George Osborne has never forgiven Mandelson for turning on him during the 2008 «Yachtgate» saga after they both boarded a Russian oligarch's gin palace in Corfu.

It is entirely possible for the majority to confer the rule of the community on a king and his heirs, or a group of oligarchs or on a democratic assembly.

Pleased to see that Congress passed a piece of significant legislation — forcing the Rump to impose further sanctions on the Russian oligarchs that oversaw his election.

Trump's comment comes after conservative pundit George Will suggested Monday on Fox News that Trump's tax returns might show business links to Russian oligarchs.

The weakening of the public system was predicated on the strategic reduction and subversion of the institutional means by which the state exerted control, and reduced the plural autarchies that have now increasingly assumed the power of the state: the oligarchs who now own everything that once belonged to the state and the commonwealth through «privatization.»

9.30 pm Flicking through the auction brochure, Mr Steerpike is amused to find a «political donations guide» reminding the oligarchs present that they're not allowed to use tonight to bribe their way on to a tennis court with Boris Johnson.

Because the constraints on corruption were so toothless, vast state wealth — especially oil, gas and mineral wealth — was transferred in the mid-1990s into private hands, creating the so - called oligarchs of the new Russia.

If your current budget is more babushka on a budget than exiled Oligarch living it large, then this affordable version should do.

«Cannibal couple made human meat PIES and supplied them to local restaurants after luring female victims on Russian dating sites» «Cannibal family» from The oligarch's press secretary denies rumors of acquiring the restaurant for $ million.

2018-04-08 17:19 «Cannibal couple made human meat PIES and supplied them to local restaurants after luring female victims on Russian dating sites» «Cannibal family» from The oligarch's press secretary denies rumors of acquiring the restaurant for $ million.

So her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) sends her on a little mission for the Kremlin to test her persuasive skills — by seducing an oligarch — and see if she might be a good fit for his work.

The action centers on an English couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) vacationing in Spain who become caught up in the machinations of a Russian oligarch (Stellan Skarsgard) planning to defect.

A Russian oligarch's little princess paying call centres in China to buy her songs on iTunes?

Jim Crow was a localized form of state - sponsored oppression that was, at the time illegal based on federal law but allowed to continue by apathetic and politically expedient federal authorities under the guise of furthering a doctrine of «states rights»; the same euphemism for slavery the southern plantation owning oligarchs used to rationalize secession and trick the poor white southerners to fight a war and die in the millions.

Sicily embodies that old - school Italian experience minus the oligarchs and pretense, meaning that you can do it on your own terms.

On April 24, the same day Daybreak announced H1Z1 was coming to PlayStation 4, news broke of sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on a number of Russian businesses and oligarchs, freezing their assets in response to what officials categorized as «destabilizing activities.&raquOn April 24, the same day Daybreak announced H1Z1 was coming to PlayStation 4, news broke of sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on a number of Russian businesses and oligarchs, freezing their assets in response to what officials categorized as «destabilizing activities.&raquon a number of Russian businesses and oligarchs, freezing their assets in response to what officials categorized as «destabilizing activities.»

Scott Anderson, «Oligarchs at an Olive Garden,» 2016, oil and oil crayon on canvas, 60 inches by 66 inches.

But the grandeur of the Palace of the Louvre can't be achieved anymore, even if what is posited on Howard Street is that new tech oligarchs sign up to be San Francisco's future princes bestowing contemporary art pedigree on the city on the Bay.

The art on sale will range from the generally affordable to works even oligarchs might find steep.