Sentences with phrase «small empire of»

The man has amassed a small empire of real estate.

The only visible sign of prosperity is the 2014 Porsche Cayenne parked in front of real estate developer Steven L. Aaron's small empire of business interests.

From a 100 - plus - acre ranch he shares with his wife, son and German shorthair puppy in rural Jasper, Missouri, he runs a small empire of automatic weapons.

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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.

The Empire State is home to five African American - led small businesses, with a combined revenue of $ 172.2 million — almost triple that of Michigan's.

Synopsis: Kane raised himself up by his bootstraps, beginning his entrepreneurial career by taking control of a small - town newspaper and building a media empire.

The founder of Adafruit Industries offers insights into how she managed to build a small empire from castaway Altoid tins and other common household items — and secure the title of Entrepreneur of 20...

Their empire started in 1973, when Andrew opened the Panda Inn with $ 60,000 of savings, a small business loan, and free labor from family members.

The billionaire businessman's empire of phone, construction and banking companies often expands by buying stakes in small companies.

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.

To fuel your small business dreams and grow it into the empire you dream of, you need capital — sometimes just a little but others, well, others need a lot more.

The small increase in the Empire portfolio is the result of $ 50 worth of purchases in my Loyal3 account and reinvesting all of my August dividends.

Trump Parc East, Trump Plaza and Trump International Hotel and Tower make up smaller chunks of his empire.

In the last two months the overwhelming weight of the evidence supports this view, as the following indicators have either come in below expectations or suffered an actual downturn: core durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed National Activities Index, new home sales, existing home sales, payroll employment, the NFIB Small Business Index, construction spending, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, the Kansas City Fed Index, the Philadelphia Fed Survey, industrial production, the Empire State Manufacturing Index, the NAHB Housing Index, the ADP payrolls, auto sales, real disposable income and the GDP.

But there was no possibility of real independence for the small nations, as Palestine became once more the cockpit of rival empires, and Josiah died leaving his kingdom a dependency of the Egyptian Crown.

Those in that wing emphasize numbers, the SCBF charges, above faithfulness, are obsessed with bigness, use celebrities to draw a crowd, employ worldly music, destroy small fundamentalist programs for the sake of their «Super-church» and electronic empires, share platforms with nonfundamentalists, say «Whatever will get a crowd I will do it,» and then call the «biblical fundamentalist» a «nit - picker.»

A small group (the fighters never numbered over a thousand) denied the legitimacy of British rule over the Land of Israel and took up arms against the empire.

Ours is a post-cold-war world of small - scale ethnic and religious conflict amid the ruins of collapsed empires.

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

So several of these leaders developed an approved set of doctrines and teachings which should be taught to all the new «converts» in all the churches, and quickly developed a system to train and send out a small army of teachers and priests to distribute these empire - approved church doctrines.

Therefore his cosmopolitan detractors in the Roman Empire were able to sneer that he had put in his appearance «in some small corner of the earth somewhere,» and not (to borrow a modern phrase that seems appropriate) out here in the real world.

In 615, some of Muhammad's followers emigrated to the Ethiopian Aksumite Empire and founded a small colony there under the protection of the Christian Ethiopian emperor Aṣḥama ibn Abjar.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

Christianity «had partaken of the fruits of slavery in the Roman Empire for centuries, and later did nothing to prevent the slave trade of Christians».32 It required of the small farmer to transfer the title to his land and his independence to its growing power.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

The nature of the despotic and imperial powers is described throughout the books of the Bible in the stories of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman empires and small kingdoms in the ancient Middle East.

One small group, the Doshikai, even refused to believe that the empire had collapsed in the summer of 1945.

The Israelites were a small tribe in the desert, surrounded by the mighty empires of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon.

I posted recently about the network of small states that existed between the Roman and Persian empires, the two superpowers of Late Antiquity.

From the age of the «barbarian» invasions Western Europe had been a congeries of hundreds of units, large and small, some of tribal origin, bearing the pattern of feudalism, loosely held together in regional kingdoms, and for the most part recognizing a theoretical association through the Holy Roman Empire.

From our mention of the Roman Empire we must immediately go on to note that the Roman domains included only a fraction of civilized mankind and an even smaller proportion of the human race outside the «higher» cultures.

«It's humbling to see pictures of the original stores, knowing that my dad came here as an immigrant, had a vision and worked extraordinarily hard to build what is now a small grocery empire.

Added peeled, diced butternut squash (small one), 1 peeled chopped Empire apple, and 2 cans of vegetable stock.

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

When it comes to Boulud's attention to the details of his empire, there appears to be no hierarchy of importance: The invite list to the upcoming soft opening in Vegas; the amount of cream in the pâté grand - mère used in a banh mi at the Épicerie; a visit to actor Bryan Cranston lunching at Bar Boulud; a call to a high - profile pediatrician on behalf of two married employees with a constipated infant; what to do with a shipment of fresh herring; the placement of speakers in a corner of the dining room at DBGB; the lighting of a photo shoot for a cookbook he's contributed to — all things big and small are apparently in Boulud's portfolio, and everything receives an equal share of energy and time.

Tucked next to a Golden Tee video game, Hanson and Nasr, who've spent the last 16 years being responsible for a small empire, could be forgiven for feeling slight pangs of envy at this statement.

There's Andrew Tarlow, of course, the current owner and co-founder, who's turned two small restaurants into an empire across Brooklyn.

Rodriguez has relied on senior captains Rishod Abraham and Keanu Williams to lead a small, but talented group to a Monticello Empire League championship, and dream of the program's first section crown.

Shirts with a seam or ribbon that sits higher than your natural waistline, just below the bust, i.e. an empire waist, are good for creating the illusion of a smaller waistline.

While New York has been a leader in protecting homeowners against foreclosures and defaults, the state should promote available mandated low - cost checking accounts to help poorer residents take advantage of the security of the banking system and avoid having their savings swallowed by various small bank fees, said attorney Kirsten Keefe of the Empire Justice Center.

Timothy argues in the pamphlet that Chamberlain was actually fairly consistent in supporting a «small but active state», in the protection of property rights and above all in an appeal to the working class masses to settle their grievances and engage them into supporting the «national interest», the Union, and Empire.

Last month, Empire State Development CEO Howard Zemsky defended the program at a legislative hearing, saying, «It's a very small piece of the puzzle of economic development, which is going extraordinarily well.»

As part of National Small Business Week, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney visited Utica's Empire Recycling Corporation.

• Countywide Animal Control program • Cooperative purchasing of paper and other items through the Empire State Purchasing Group • Bulk purchase of LED Lighting • Shared printing through BOCES • Shared police dispatching • Formalizing agreements among Highway Departments • Joint bids for landscaping and custodial services • Dissolution of small village courts

Martins asked E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative think tank, the Empire Center, how the transition to a higher wage could adversely affect smaller employers, versus the large chain stores like a Walmart or Home Depot.

HCR partnered with Empire State Development to secure a $ 125,000 Better Buffalo Fund grant for this project, and we are pleased to see the amazing results as one of the oldest and most prized small businesses in the city is brought back to life for residents and visitors to enjoy.»

Also at 8 a.m., small business owners and business leaders will assemble for their annual lobby day, and 9 a.m., they'll hear from a variety of speakers, including Sen. George Amedore, an NFIB member and owner of Amedore Homes, Meeting Room 1, The Empire State Plaza, Albany.

The governor's proposal would 1) prohibit state sales tax abatements unless a project is in a specific industry eligible for Excelsior tax credits (think «bureaucracy» and «hurts small business» here...), 2) require additional approvals by the relevant Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) and Empire State Development (think «unnecessary oversight and delays» here...), and 3) shift the abatement of state sales tax to a refund that might be issued sometime down the road (think «uncertainty» and «cashflow» here...).

With about 300 employees, Empire State is one of the smaller state agencies.

The SEED program is a partnership between SEFCU, the Small Business Development Center, University at Albany School of Business, University at Albany School of Social Welfare and NYS Empire State Development.