Sentences with phrase «power brokers»

Traditionally, these people were high - dollar donors and local power brokers who could provide the financial resources to fund a political operation and / or the social capital to build influence.

A lot of the usual power brokers from either major party were absent, replaced by many new faces.

This is closest to the reality in most law firms: the people who «control» the firm's relationships with its biggest or most important clients are the real power brokers.

Remember how the subject of how curators had become the art world's new power brokers dominated all art conversation five years ago.

Because of not just our influence on the markets but also clearly other power brokers in sports betting are using the same metrics we are.

Of course that's when they work well but we need to recognise too that there are exceptions as when local news organisations are too cosy with local power brokers.

But now, the 71 - year - old power broker is threatened by scandal.

Both of these solutions seem to imply that the majority of the harassment comes from venture capitalists, rather than any other group of industry power brokers.

It's a story we're being told every day in the news with their focus on high - level power brokers.

There was one important difference between this and any equivalent meeting in election campaigns gone by: it was attended, indeed run, by a new generation of Labour power brokers.

In this reflective mode due consideration should be given to the new factor of enabling endorsement of the southern politicians and power brokers necessary for the successful election of the next northern nominee.

We all fully understand that agents are the controllers and power brokers in today's modern game.

Mannion is not related to John F.X. Mannion, a longtime Democratic power broker in Upstate New York and husband of former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner.

A major political power broker in Monroe County is staying away from Rochester's contentious mayoral race which includes a three - way contest for the Democratic line.

But it also matters in that Astorino, while giving news conferences on, say, mandate relief and the need for infrastructure investment, will be keeping himself both in the news and keyed in with Albany power brokers, media and the like.

The world is once again experiencing the rise of power brokers who want to control every aspect of life under the guise of «Big Brother knows best».

While many Elder Boards are filled with godly leaders, there are some that are filled with power brokers who like to control the church by constantly holding the threat of termination over the head of any pastor who tries to — against the will of the board.

Grimm, who spent seven months behind bars for tax fraud, has been circulating his political plans to a small number of Republican power brokers on Staten Island, according to NY1.

The GOP REQUIRES stupid candidates, as only the stupid can be so easily led by the real power brokers behind the scenes.

The race in the county legislature's 13th District pitted Bush, a longtime Elbridge town supervisor who was largely self - funded, against three - term incumbent Legislator Shepard, who was backed by GOP power brokers like Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon and the Republican Legislators Campaign Committee.

«The lesson of the last election is that voters are hungry for politicians who stand for something, not for opportunists who say one thing and do another, or for power brokers who wheel and deal in back rooms,» says Thomas Gokey of True Blue NY - 53.

With power brokers like Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and former Chairman Len Lenihan in his corner, Zellner fended off the challenge and was re-elected.

Donovan, a Staten Island district attorney, remains behind in recent polls and has been trailing in fundraising returns, despite his endorsements by power brokers and money - raisers like Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch.

(Arbiters of quality may become power brokers themselves, or cliques of writers may spring up, patting each other on the back internally while denigrating everyone else.

A longtime power broker in the Southern Tier, Libous was forced from office in 2015 after he was found guilty of lying to federal investigators in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm in Westchester County.

Gjonaj, a major power broker within the Albanian community, currently represents District 80 in the Assembly, covering Allerton and Morris Park in the Bronx, and he is running to represent District 13 in the City Council, which covers neighborhoods like Pelham Bay and Throgs Neck.

Grimm, who spent seven months behind bars for tax fraud, has been circulating his political plans to a small number of Republican power brokers on Staten Island.

Mansions are abundant in California, with film stars and tech power brokers building palaces and adding wings, pools and yoga pavilions with...

It's what power brokers do.

The name of the RISMedia Power Brokers panel may have been a little misleading: «Understanding and Capturing Emerging - Market Business.»

Earlier this year, KWCP was recognized as one the most productive residential brokerage firms in the nation by REAL Trends magazine, and as one of the Top Power Brokers as named by RIS Media.

The dazzling cast includes Denzel Washington as a detective brought in to negotiate a hostage standoff during a bank robbery, Clive Owen as the main perp and Jodie Foster as a New York power broker hired by the bank's owner to handle a personal concern of his.

Mansions are abundant in California, with film stars and tech power brokers building palaces and adding wings, pools and yoga pavilions with abandon.

Effia soaks in relative affluence and her immediate family members become key power brokers in the Gold Coast slave trade, even as later relatives want to have little to do with this stain of history.

Leading CNNPolitics: First on CNN: O'Malley to mingle with 2016 players at D.C. fundraiser Martin O'Malley will mingle with a handful of early primary state power brokers next week at a closed - door Washington fundraiser for a top South Carolina Democrat.

The fallen Bronx power broker said the deal was concocted after he reached out to Halloran in January 2013 for help ensuring that the City Council didn't replace one of Savino's hand - picked commissioners on the city's Board of Elections.

Six months after Long Island political power broker Gary Melius was shot by a masked gunman in a bungled assassination attempt on the grounds of his estate, Oheka Castle, police still have no leads.

There are times where directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk's film becomes something more akin to hagiographic fawning than it does a journalistic exercise in putting politicians and corporate power brokers on notice.

The NBJ Summit attracts over 400 of the nutrition industry's brightest minds and most influential power brokers for unparalleled education, strategic thinking and discussion on the progress, opportunities and challenges facing the industry.

It was here that it occurred to me that all four of these former Hollywood power brokers stand a better chance of sharing a reality TV - themed dwelling with Corey Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis than making an impact on pop culture in the near future.

Once a major power broker in Albany, Mr. Lopez was stripped of his committee chairmanship and pressured to resign his seat after several female staffers came forward to charge that the Brooklyn pol forcefully groped, kissed and threatened them.

Now serving his seventh term in the Senate, Martin Dilan was a close ally of former Kings County power broker Vito Lopez.

Should Election Day show no clear majority in the Senate, the IDC could play power broker later in the year.

Defense attorneys argue that the onetime Albany power broker did nothing illegal.

Although state legislation authorizing mayoral control of the Buffalo Public Schools still lacks a Republican sponsor in the GOP - dominated Senate, that hasn't stopped city power brokers from quietly plotting what a takeover of the troubled district would look like.

Perhaps the most controversial episode of Silver's career before his indictment was his handling of rape accusations against top aide J. Michael Boxley and, later, sexual - harassment allegations against the recently deceased Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic power broker Vito Lopez.