The High Court has dismissed a case brought by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher on behalf of the Republic of Djibouti against one of
its wealthiest citizens citing a «campaign of persecution» against him.
The judge said a «campaign of persecution» had been mounted against one of Djibouti's
wealthiest citizens Abdourahman Boreh
What I would like is the opinion of several of you if you could hypothetically get some of
our wealthiest citizens to agree to some initiatives, what would they be?
If he is as evil as people here say, then Penn State will turf him rathe than risk losing endowments from Americas
wealthiest citizens.
«Are US senators pompous gits before they are elected, or do they become pompous gits afterwards» I can tell you that they normally enter he Senate as poor public servants and then join the ranks of the 1 %
wealthiest citizens soon after.
Two decades in, the father of three sons, operator of six studios, boss of (he says) 160 employees, one of Britain's
wealthiest citizens, Hirst is back and blatant as ever.
He was one of
the wealthiest citizens of the city and left a tremendous estate at his death.
For
the wealthiest citizens who fall into the 39.6 % income tax bracket, the capital gains rate is still only 20 %.
But LibraryCity.org «s David H. Rothman has issued a request for the establishment of a library endowment to fill in the gaps, calling on the US's
wealthiest citizens to answer the fiscal call to save libraries.
Hired by some of the country's
wealthiest citizens in America's Gilded Age, members of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency infiltrated unions, protected strikebreakers, and worked to keep union supporters out of plants and mines.
As we have noted above, these deductions largely benefit
the wealthiest citizens of the state.
«We're literally going to take from the poor and the sick in this country and this state and we're going to give it to
our wealthiest citizens,» Helgerson said.
Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's
wealthiest citizens.
The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable
its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.
-LRB-...) In the biggest developed cities, houses are beyond the reach of all but
the wealthiest citizens.
By Martin's definition of success, we're still way behind — but it seems to me that having
wealthier citizens is more meaningful.
In the meantime,
wealthy citizens in Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Brazil are purchasing bitcoin as a way to get money securely away from the «failing regimes,» Cramer said.
Let me ask you this then: Which GOP hopeful do you think will do the best job representing
the wealthy citizens of our country?
Free societies have an excellent system to compensate for a lack of charity on the part of
their wealthy citizens — it is called TAXATION.
It's official: Asia Pacific's ever - growing network of economies has topped North America and Europe as the region with the largest number of
wealthy citizens in the world.
The town's
wealthier citizens drove their Cadillacs and Lincolns through the automobile entrance in rightfield and parked in a special area along the foul line.
John P. McCormick: Well, I merely offered a sketch for how a modern institution that excluded
wealthy citizens might wield some of the powers held by the Roman tribunes within modern electoral democracies.
If New York loses
these wealthy citizens to other states, it will have a bigger direct impact on the state revenues than if middle class or low - income citizens left the state.
Ancient Pompeii's political elite vied for advertising space on the «private walls» of
wealthy citizens
It was in the financial interest of Manhattan's most
wealthy citizens to see their properties up and running at capacity again.
The Look of Love (Unrated) Rags - to - riches biopic about Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the reclusive British businessman who became the United Kingdom's
wealthiest citizen before his death in 2008.
This time Blomkamp has Matt Damon playing the unlikely hero in a future where
the wealthy citizens of Earth reside on an orbiting space station that can cure any disease.
Objectives: to learn about the three main villas in Pompeii, to analyse the floor plans of villas, to discover
some wealthy citizens who owned these villas, to learn about life in Pompeii, to learn about the different areas of an average villa.
Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of
a wealthy citizen and hold him f...
As previously noted, in Connecticut, the poor pay about 12 % of their income in state and local taxes, the Middle Class about 10 % and the state's
wealthiest citizen's only pay about 5.5 % of their income in state and local taxes.
Wealthier citizens can afford to pay the new tax and those who object to the tax can pay off and cancel some of their credit cards.
The wealthy citizens lived in the middle floors, while the poor resided at ground level or on the top floor.
The town became very prosperous following the Hundred Years War, leading
its wealthy citizens to construct beautiful buildings that you can still see today as you stroll through the ancient streets.
It's a strange complaint, but I would have liked it had it felt like I needed to pay more attention to the economy to become
a wealthy citizen of Venice.
The murder of
a wealthy citizen with an irreproachable reputation raises a lot of riddles.
Mercer is the type of
wealthy citizen most emboldened by the Citizens United decision, unlikely to engage in the greasy work of bundling others» contributions but happy to directly sponsor his preferred causes.
Not exact matches
An argument sometimes used to defend the strength of the housing market is that foreign investors, predominantly
wealthy Chinese
citizens, are buying property here because Canada is a safe haven in a turbulent global economy.
The Thai government has started offering «elite» residency visas for
wealthy foreign
citizens, allowing them to live in the country for around $ 3,000 (# 2,403) a year.
The report points to rising Islamism sentiment in Indonesia and Malaysia, resentment of
wealthy ethnic Chinese
citizens in Indonesia, and the persecution of Myanmar's minority Rohingya people.
His pursuit of the Times certainly is, of course, but the larger idea that at some point in the not - too - distant future an absurdly
wealthy Chinese
citizen will become the proprietor of a U.S. - based media property, digital or otherwise, is a very real possibility.
The average
citizen in many Latin American countries has turned to Bitcoin in order to survive, and now many
wealthy families are becoming a believer in the cryptocurrency and are buying as much as they can.
Wealthy Chinese
citizens are buying beachfront condos in Cyprus, paying big U.S. tuition bills for their children and stocking up on luxury goods in Singapore, frequently moving cash secretly through a flourishing network of money - transfer agents.
So while
citizens of other countries who arrive here looking to build a life in this province will get stuck paying extra, the savvy and
wealthy investors who are driving this out - of - control market will easily find a way around it.
But while almost everyone else is suffering Jesus would insist that the extremely
wealthy must keep making 500 times or more than the average
citizen.
I know that your personal faith acts as ones own personal moral and spiritual compass, however the president should through out his personal beliefs in exchange for the betterment of all americans
citizens not the 2 % of the
wealthy class or the corporations, but all americans
They gave tax breaks to the
wealthy while stripping federal help from the poorest of our
citizens.
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME... the
wealthiest country in the world spends billions for B2 jets, threw $ 1trillion at a bogus war in Iraq but lets its
citizens die for lack of care.
The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by
wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged
citizens.
India benefits directly from the economic ties with
wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth
Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens t
Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth
citizens t
citizens the vote.
People in countries that provide
citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as
wealthy countries grow more
wealthier.