Sentences with phrase «wealthiest citizens in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

-LRB-...) In the biggest developed cities, houses are beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest citizens.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 tCitizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens tcitizens the vote.

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.

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.

Here's what I'm getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel immense pressure to raise money from small donors.

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

Just one week ago, in Ningbo city — a modern and wealthy city in China's relatively developed eastern Zhejiang province — there was a massive outpouring of citizen protesters.

In saying this, Aristotle has been a big influence on state - builders ever since, giving them the excuse to trim some personal liberties in order to create laws and institutions that will make their citizens healthier, wealthier and wiseIn saying this, Aristotle has been a big influence on state - builders ever since, giving them the excuse to trim some personal liberties in order to create laws and institutions that will make their citizens healthier, wealthier and wisein order to create laws and institutions that will make their citizens healthier, wealthier and wiser.

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

«Half of the citizens live at or below the poverty line in one of the wealthiest cities in the world,» he said.

«This type of trickle - down development, which OCIDA continues to support time and time again, does not benefit our citizens and instead takes money away from the poorest people in our community to further enrich wealthy developers,» she said in a statement.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

Teachout is a staunch opponent of Citizens United — when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the bill constitutional, Justice Stevens cited one of Teachout's legal articles in his dissent — and one of her tactics in her campaign against Faso has been to call out his wealthy GOP backers.

«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.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

He became a French citizen in 1673 and married the daughter of a French official wealthy enough to offer as part of the dowry a nice castle for a summer home.

It was in the financial interest of Manhattan's most wealthy citizens to see their properties up and running at capacity again.

As their birth rates plummet and citizens live longer, the wealthiest countries are desperately trying to bring in migrants to keep their economies afloat

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.

Arguably the wealthiest woman in Carthage, she is also the nastiest, meanest and most despised citizen.

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.

The Capitol's news broadcasts recapping the day's victories and death toll feature the same music as and similar graphics to the daily reports on the annual Hunger Games, in which poor and oppressed citizens of the outlying districts would fight to death for the entertainment of the wealthy and powerful of the Capitol.

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.

Politicians supporting them are financially backed by wealthy individuals and organizations that are not motivated toward raising our youngsters to be competent citizens in a democracy.

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.

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.

In his earliest days, this breed was almost exclusively owned by Cuba's wealthy upper class citizens.

The wealthy citizens lived in the middle floors, while the poor resided at ground level or on the top floor.

The player must make their way through Rapture in order to locate and aid their only ally: Atlas, a working - class revolutionary who led the downtrodden citizens of the city into civil war with their wealthy masters.

Latin Songbirds depicts «three left - leaning Latin American leaders who are trying to reverse a history of rule by wealthy oligarchies, reject the U.S.'s and IMF's neoliberal economic policies, take control of their own resources, and improve the lives of their citizens, especially in the areas of literacy, health care, and economic well - being,» states artist Christa Maiwald.

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.

It is a painful demonstration of the immaturity and lack of connection to reality that citizens of wealthy nations are spending down our finite petroleum «gift» in pursuit of pleasure and indulgence.

Dismissing an earlier offer by wealthy countries of short - term finance for the developing world, Mr. Di - Aping, in typically strident language, said, «Ten billion dollars will not buy developing countries» citizens enough coffins.»