Sentences with phrase «such as businessman»

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I'd be invited to speak to corporate audiences but would make excuses such as «What can a 26 - year - old possibly teach a successful businessman?»

Although Trump, a wealthy New York businessman, described these plans at least in part as a response to his belief such organizations had treated him unfairly, he argued that less wealthy voters had even greater cause to worry.

However, Trump's decision to appoint somebody with whom he has long maintained a financial relationship — his second such appointment, after having named fellow billionaire real - estate developer and business partner Steven Roth to head his infrastructure program — suggests a continued willingness to blur the lines between his endeavors as a businessman and his duties as president, all while contributing to the perception that the president is willing to reward those who have done business with him in the past.

But as a very successful, self - made businessman, he understood that whereas banking and finance can distribute wealth, wealth can only be created by producers, and their investment decisions reflect not just the cost of capital but also the expected returns on such investment.

Unlike the ill - fated Timothy Wolfe, who had a career as a businessman, creatures of academia such as Salovey and Chodosh know the Kabuki dance of aggrieved protest and multicultural affirmation.

He relentlessly sought and received financial support for all his projects from rich Christian businessmen, such as Cyrus McCormick and John Wanamaker.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistAs a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistas values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

They include big name northern beef producers such as Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) and the UK Pension Protection Fund's investment in North Australia Pastoral Company; the British - Australian businessman Michael Hintze's Premium Farms» holdings in NSW and Queensland; Romani Pastoral Company in southern and North West NSW, and the London investment group Southern Agricultural Resources with property in the NSW Riverina.

Others, such as Denver's own Winter Park (see cover) and Steamboat Springs, built by local businessmen, were created just to give Coloradans and their children a winter playground.

Some of the most high - powered businessmen in America — captains of industry such as Jack Welch (General Electric), Bob Wright (NBC) and Nelson Doubleday (owner of the New York Mets)-- play there.

The first entity to offer any threat was the AFL, a league comprised of wealthy businessmen such as Lamar Hunt who had been shunned from the NFL ownership.

Likewise, we can rest assured that Memphis, run by Kyle Rote Jr. and a group of what he describes as «Christian businessmen,» will continue to eschew such base appeals to the flesh.

The facts (such as they are) I'm afraid, don't fit the theory of a greedy board, businessmen (and women) though they are.

Here's AG Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, making his first public comments — such as they are — on Carl Paladino since the Buffalo businessman's big victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

DO N'T accept bags of cash for performing such chores as helping a businessman obtain a carnival license (as former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. was convicted of doing last year).

Other Chequers guests included England coach Steve McLaren, former distance runner Brendan Foster, journalists David Aaronovitch, Adrian Chiles and Jane Garvey, and businessmen such as James Dyson and Pepsi chief executive Indra Nooyi.

Gwen Graham, both of who could be considered rising stars in the party,» the team does note there are «some wealthy wild cards who could self - fund, such as 2010 Senate candidate Jeff Greene, businessman Chris King, and well - known attorney John Morgan.»

President Buhari is also scheduled to meet with leading UAE businessmen who are interested in Nigeria with a view to encouraging greater investment inflows to critical sectors such as power supply, oil, gas and agriculture.

Mr Afoko, an astute businessman who is known to have funded the party in previous elections was expected to be as generous to the party as he has over the years been, but the embattled former Chairman says he is not going to make such favours anymore.

Two businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, are under investigation for doling out lavish gifts to top cops in exchange for favors such as police escorts, sources have said.

While Vote Leave is the official Brexit campaign group backed by Boris Johnson and other senior Eurosceptic Tories such as Michael Gove and Liam Fox, Leave.EU is endorsed by Ukip and was founded by Banks, a businessman and Ukip donor.

The NYPD investigation is centered on allegations that officers accepted international trips, cash and other gifts from the two businessmen in exchange for favors, such as police escorts to the airport.

Businessmen such as Daniel Wegman, chief executive officer of the grocery stores; Rochester developer Thomas Wilmot; and Rich Kobor, president of Bitzer Scroll Inc., would be advisers, he said.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

But people will less often think sentences containing an extra word, such as «The tax law benefitted from the businessman,» are incorrect, implausible as they may seem.

The Broad Institute, a collaborative biomedical research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $ 650 million donation from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley to study the biological basis of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

It is left to Johnson and Dornan to rescue what they can from such sexual oblivion and whilst Johnson is a revelation as the innocuous student turned sexually curious mistress, Dornan struggles to connect with dual characteristics of Grey, failing to strike a balance between charismatic businessman and sadistic Dominant.

But the pressures of a changing international marketplace are forcing many businessmen to pay closer attention to other issues, such as education, that affect their ability to recruit highly trained employees.

That's often the case with successful businessmen who give up lucrative careers for elected office but not necessarily for someone such as Durant, 63, who founded and runs the Cornerstone Schools, a system of independent nonprofit schools in Detroit.

This slogan was popularized by successful businessmen such as Harry Gordon Selfridge and Marshall Field.

Such is his renown as both an investor and businessman that even presidents seek his advice on economic matters.

No such thing as animal spirits, businessmen r cautious w / debt $ $ RT @EconTalker: Spending is the consequence of prosperity, not its cause.

According to ArtForum, Russian intrigue continues in Ghent: «A panel that was formed to investigate a number of allegedly fake Russian avant - garde works in the exhibition «From Bosch to Tuymans: A Vital Story» at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent in Belgium — including pieces by artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky that were on loan from the Dieleghem Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Brussels - based Russian businessman and art collector Igor Toporovski — was dissolved only hours after meeting, reports Simon Hewitt of the Art Newspaper.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families.

The New Russian billionaires are patronizing the arts with enthusiasm, in the tradition of such prerevolutionary businessmen as Ivan Morozov and Pavel Tretyakov.

Campbell is also noted for his attention to famous historical figures: his work has centered on such individuals as the German economist Hans Tietmere, the American engineer and businessman John DeLorean, as well as the Irish dissident and activist Dernadette Devlin.

Vyacheslav Kantor, one of Russia's richest businessmen with interests in fertilisers and real estate, has spent the past decade building up a collection of 20th - century artists, including works by modernists Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as post-war legends such as Mark Rothko and Ilya Kabakov.

Even prior to passage of the law, it also meant setting in motion the mechanisms that would educate millions of citizens and hundreds of thousands of businessmen about complex subjects such as ecological - economic zoning; payments for ecosystem services (PES); and carbon sequestration measurement, reporting and verification (MRV).

«People living in rural areas [of Ghana] are spending up to $ 6 a month on throw - away batteries, using them predominantly to run wireless radios, torchlights, and other products that require electricity such as charging mobile phones,» the BBC wrote last week in a piece about businessman Whit Alexander, who studied and worked in West Africa before creating the Encarta world atlas for Microsoft and helping launch the popular board game Cranium.

Now Alwaleed has joined the ranks of high - profile businessmen, such as JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who are labeling bitcoin a fraud.

For a businessman who holds corporate chief executives in far higher regard than he does political players such as LaPierre, the business world's reaction to Parkland had to be eye - opening.

Limousine Drivers work for celebrities or high - income clients such as athletes, movie stars, and businessmen.

Spousal social emotional support is not solely influenced by the businessman's strategies of marital relationship, but also associated with demographic factors, such as working period, marital duration, and number of children.

Fabro, a Winnipeg businessman, has devoted his time and financial contributions to projects such as FortWhyte Alive, the Misericordia Health Centre, Villa Rosa, the Manitoba Marathon, the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Games, the 1967 Pan American Games and Pan Am Games Advisory Committee (1999), Winnipeg Enterprises - Winnipeg Stadium Expansion, the Kiwanis Club of Winnipeg, the Knights of Columbus, the Recreation and Parks Board, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the McMahon Carpets (1937 -1987), the Manitoba Club and other health organizations.

The demographic sphere in Montford was comprised of mostly middle class, day - to - day players such as lawyers, doctors, businessmen and architects.

Now, both sites are huge media corporations looking to monetize all of their platforms and leverage customers, particularly the businessmen and businesswomen who use the sites for their own profit - driven goals, such as real estate brokerages and their agents.