Sentences with phrase «robber barons»

Here is a short list of changes that the modern - day robber barons of Big Business have helped bring about:

Forget Mexico: The community in peril is now an American frontier town called Rose Creek, threatened not by bandits but Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who introduces himself by declaring, «This country has long equated democracy with capitalism, capitalism with God,» before an audience of (presumably confused) townspeople.

Large industrial - based cities have been gutted by modern day Robber Barons who have moved the bulk of America's industrial base to cheap - labor eastern hemisphere domains.

Markets were growing, too, as robber barons entered them — and paved the way for small museums like the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Frick.

Amazon's a bit like the late nineteenth - century robber barons of steel, rail and oil.

68 % of Home Buyers Prefer Local Banks Over the Majors At a time when large banks are viewed as unscrupulous robber barons, the following survey might not be much of a surprise.

Tilzer ties Governor Andrew Cuomo, Glenwood Management and other big real estate developers to the explosive Silver and Skelos corruption scandals: The City's Real Estate Robber Barons Stole the People's Democracy..

In short, McMahon is just a toady for New York's real and wannabe robber barons i.e., the business class.

In due course, a certain robber baron founded the Morgan Library.

Yet Branson is the villain here, the modern - day robber baron putting lives at risk in the blind pursuit if his profit, critics say.

«We used to live in an open market system that was protected by regulations to prohibit robber barons from defrauding the nation... these regulations were killed by Congress,» Celente says.

It's been undercovered by the US media, but the era of the data robber barons will be massively disrupted on May 25, when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation Act, enshrining data protection as a fundamental human right, goes into effect.

The old guy was a befuddled robber baron who only knew enough to screw it all up.

Now, with the so - called Avengers, the latest mutation of militants, they are being raped by home - grown robber barons, who kill, rob and plunder — but blame outsiders for their crime.

I think the reality is much simpler: Fascism posed a geopolitical risk to the hegemony of western robber baron and corporate capitalism.

Then again, when your very existence is threatened by a psychotic robber baron, you may not care who is protecting you, as long as they get the job done.

It'd be easy to reduce the game to They Live with liberal social commentary with its demonic robber baron villains.

The lead «seven» have great chemistry, and Peter Sarsgaard is effective as the greedy robber baron looking to plunder a small town of its wealth.

BOFCA is passionate yet very small group and even the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), of which I also count myself as a member, isn't touting robber baron levels of clout.

Long time Fuqua leading man Denzel Washington takes the reins as Sam Chisholm, a bounty hunter drafted into service by a desperate mining town beset upon by a morally bankrupt robber baron (Peter Sarsgaard).

Perhaps the corporate robber barons of the reform movement need to be asked to leave the room and let the education professionals do their jobs.

I honestly believe it's time for the US AG to come down hard on the Google Play Store (and probably iTunes too) for all these sneaky, lying, trickster app robber baron wannabes that online tech sites cheerlead in order to reap their own click rewards.

If you don't read this footnote, adequately absorb its message, and send me email to the effect of «the iPhone sux because Apple and AT&T are monopolistic robber barons», I reserve the right to punch you in the face while yelling I WAS N'T JUST TALKING ABOUT THE IPHONE YOU JACKASS.

Particularly evocative scenes include K breaking bread with cantankerous unionists and sharing cocktails with postwar robber barons.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Octopus are two novels that were written in 1900 and 1901 respectively about the infamous robber barons and the railroad monopoly, and in this time we saw political and social activism sprout up around these books.

So I delved into this world of powerful robber barons, Fifth Avenue socialites and Newport mansions, and quickly discovered Edith Wharton.

Just as obviously, it has a history and style in common with the abode of that other robber baron, Henry Clay Frick.

Whore of Babylon & Robber Barons depicts the Book of Revelations beast composed of notorious 19th Century American merchants atop a sea of 1960s political conventioneers.

It's very early to speculate and surmise, as the fair opened to VIPs just this morning and a good chunk of the sales will happen at tonight's ultra glitzy preview gala, but there's an air of excitement here in Dallas, land of society ladies with hair piled and pampered and pompadoured to the sky, land of the Aston Martins of robber barons valet parked in sprawling lots, land of giant bloody steaks and the cattle killed to cook them.

Our «free» communication is not free; for example the New York Times holds on to its independence but is hardly free of its major financiers, who are the ever - growing wealth / fossil fuel antiregulation robber baron freedom sector dominated by ever fewer people.

Read a bit of history, and you'll find that's precisely what the late nineteenth century robber barons in oil, steel and rail did.

What's the outcome of the whole decade impacted by robber barons?»

At a time when large banks are increasingly viewed as unscrupulous robber barons, the following survey may come as no surprise.

In the bad old days of robber baron capitalism, most workers depended on a big well - capitalized employer to provide the so - called «means of production.»

(The City's Real Estate Robber Barons) Photo Illustration Credit: Gary Tilzer @unitednyblogs Using a clever photo illustration borrowing from an anti-Tammany cartoon by Thomas Nast Brooklyn - based blogger Gary Tilzer asks, «Who stole the people's -LSB-...]

«I think of them as robber barons,» says Barry Korengold, president of the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association.

Supporting the motion, Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, said private equity partners had become «modern day robber barons», squeezing employees to demand as much as a 40 per cent return on investments.

I envisioned games and gambling among friends, or an after - hours parlor filled with the power players and robber barons of a bygone era.