Sentences with phrase «rich men at»

Suicides, loved ones torn apart, and the rich men at the top who are the hammers told to hit the nails.

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Since there are many rich men at these dating websites, you get a chance to choose the one you love.

Seeking for rich men at online dating services is common in the last few years.

China has gazillions of dollars in the bank, and just as in poker, betting against the richest man at the -LSB-...]

He's going to NYU but struggling a bit to find himself, which is amplified when one of the richest men at the club, Getty (Paul Reiser), takes an interest in him.

Not exact matches

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Bezos may not only be the richest man in the world today — he might become the richest man ever, at least measured in pure dollars.

At its peak in April 2015, the company was valued at over $ 45 billion, making Li China's richest maAt its peak in April 2015, the company was valued at over $ 45 billion, making Li China's richest maat over $ 45 billion, making Li China's richest man.

One of Volaris's investors at its launch in 2006 was Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, who sold his 25 % stake in 2010.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Marking his exit from his business empire, Norway's richest man, Olav Thon, gifted a charity a 71.9 % stake of his company, valued at $ 1.3 billion.

Rossy is now one of Canada's richest men with a personal fortune estimated at $ 933 million.

Indeed, two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, co-founded The Giving Pledge, an organization that encourages the exceptionally well - off to donate at least half of their wealth.

At the peak of his wealth in 2008 — before he started giving it away — he was the richest man in the world, with a fortune of $ 62 billion.

Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, is at the top of that group.

Warren Buffet, the man who sits at the top of the list of all the world's richest people follows this strategy (largely).

With figures from last year's time of writing, Ferguson reports, «Six of the eight richest men in the world are Bill Gates (with personal wealth estimated at $ 76bn), Carlos Slim ($ 50bn), Jeff Bezos ($ 45bn), Mark Zuckerberg ($ 45bn), Larry Ellison ($ 44bn) and Michael Bloomberg ($ 40bn).

As one of Canada's richest men, with a personal fortune estimated by Forbes at $ 5.8 billion, he owns both a 150 - foot yacht and Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs estate.

In «Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce revenue over the long run by more than the province can expect to collect from the tax hike.

Outraged at such moral callousness, David declared that the rich man deserved to die.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

Lazarus, in an earlier time, was also part of the social landscape for this rich man, and below the notice of one who had the wherewithal to inhabit a home where the poor could be «gated» outside and kept at a distance.

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

the destitute at a rich man's door, (Luke 16:19 - 31.)

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

The story of the Rich Young Man tells us that we must be prepared at any moment to share what we have, even to the last penny, with others who are in need.

It seemed that every time she opened a Bible, whether at a friend's house or in the public library, it was to the words of Christ to the rich young man: Arise, go, sell what you possess, give it to the poor and follow Me (Mk 10:21).

20 «And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

I often get jealous of the people who «strike it rich» with book deals and conference invitations, who get the parties and the fame because they were bad but now they found Jesus, but then I look back over my life, at how far Jesus and I have walked together, what we have been through together, and how we have suffered, and grieved, and rejoiced, and laughed together, and I realize that no book deal, bank account, or applause from men could ever substitute for what I have with Jesus.

The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their routine: men and women were at the market, the rich in their luxurious baths, slaves at toil.

David, outraged at the rich man's arrogance and abusiveness, responds that the man who has done this wickedness deserves to die.

At this point Nathan, the trusted prophet, appears on the scene and tells David a story about two men, one a poor man who loves a special ewe — it ate with the man's children and was «unto him as a daughter» — and the other a rich man with many flocks and herds.

The victim of the bandits on the Jerusalem - Jericho road, the widow mistreated by an unjust judge, the unfortunates on whom publicans like Zacchaeus practised extortion, the destitute at a rich man's door, prisoners unvisited and hungry folk unfed — always it was wronged individuals who called out from Jesus a social message.3

(Luke 2:41:51; 4:16 - 30; Acts 7:54 - 60; 27:9 - 44) A glance at some of the parables found only in Luke shows how deeply we are indebted to him for words of Jesus that go to the heart of human relations — the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Rich Man and Lazarus.

20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table.

God, transcendent and immanent, above all yet in all; God, forthgoing in the sublime and challenging character of Christ; God, no abstract essence only, but the Spirit who can strengthen us with might in the inner man, so that, as Paul dared say, we «may be filled with all the fullness of God» — if one is going to believe in God at all, what richer, more comprehensive, and sustaining idea and experience of him can one imagine than that?

At times, he is «a different man altogether,... rich in all the Kierkegaardian categories — the aesthetic, the moral, the religious, the dramatic.»

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

And, even though the rich man by human ingenuity should at last succeed in being able to trick the sun into shining more invitingly upon his palace than over the poor man's hut, man will never be able to trick the Good and eternity in this fashion.

Honestly I think at the end of the day a lot of it has to do with these rich old white men so stuck in the past that the thought of a n!gger in the «White» House really, really upsets them.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

There is only the continuing relationship of man with the eternal Reality of God, opening richer vistas here and there, descending to horrible depths at this point and at that, yet moving forward spirally, as it were, until in Christ — so the Christian believes — the relationship is established on a new level of depth and profundity, as well as of height and penetration.

If we take this story of the Rich Young Man as our paradigm, it yields this: We must be prepared at any moment to share what we have, even to the last penny, with others who are in need.

We are all, at least some of the time, in the situation of the rich young man; we have more than we need, certainly more than others who are destitute and desperate.

(30) Conversion helps to change the «way of looking at things»; it causes other Christians and Churches to be seen in a new light and leads to the discovery of their riches of sanctity, holy men and women, and Christian commitment.

Just remember this, the next time you visit a holy temple, don't forget to observe those who are outside - nothing changes when you come out, no prayer makes the beggar filthy hungry man become rich in a minute, but You can feed him, at least once, and that to me is real....

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

He lay at the gate of the rich man's house and begged for the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.

Yea, rich too now as Very Man, he hath ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; yet he is still poor here, is a-hungered and athirst and naked.29