Sentences with phrase «wealthy citizens»

While wealthy citizens accumulate more wealth and political power, the middle class is being crushed and squeezed for every penny.

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.

It was built in 1796 when wealthy citizens who could afford it began to escape from the overcrowded tenements of the Old Town to settle in the fashionable New Town.

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

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.

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.

JOHN LEGEND is calling for U.S. authorities to tax wealthy citizens instead of cutting funding for the arts - insisting he has no need for tax breaks...

It's a shame we're giving breaks to Exxon - Mobil so they can build their own war chest that we have no control over, while at the same time we're giving money to Dubai to do what we could be doing, and indirectly to the radical schools funded by wealthy citizens of the oil kingdoms.

The judge said a «campaign of persecution» had been mounted against one of Djibouti's wealthiest citizens Abdourahman Boreh

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.

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.

By Martin's definition of success, we're still way behind — but it seems to me that having wealthier citizens is more meaningful.

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

Ecuador is an oil - producing country, and most of its wealthiest citizens are connected with the international oil community — people who use gold credit cards, live in high - security mansions and drive Mercedes - Benzes.

Rubens, wealthy citizen of Antwerp in the Southern Netherlands, painter to kings and queens across Europe, was revered by Rembrandt's generation as the epitome of success among artists north of the Alps.

This is just another step to convert this nation into the oligarchy of wealthy citizens it is already becoming.

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 all began back in 1902, when Edgar J. Helms, a young Methodist minister, took a burlap bag and called on Boston's wealthy citizens to donate whatever clothing they could spare.

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.

A plutocracy is a form of oligarchy, where society is governed by the small minority of the wealthiest citizens.

Gov. Paterson and legislative leaders smartly swore off doing another millionaires» tax this year lest they drive wealthy citizens - and their tax receipts - to more welcoming climes.

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.

«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.

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

Here, the year is 2159, and society's wealthiest citizens have moved to a pristine space station called Elysium, leaving the rest of humanity to fight for survival on a nearly ruined Earth.

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.

As we have noted above, these deductions largely benefit the wealthiest citizens of the state.

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...

Over the years, in many communities, wealthier citizens and government policies have managed to consign low - income students to something akin to a lower caste.

For the wealthiest citizens who fall into the 39.6 % income tax bracket, the capital gains rate is still only 20 %.

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.

He was one of the wealthiest citizens of the city and left a tremendous estate at his death.

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 simultaneously peopled by some of the world's wealthiest citizens, and some of the world's poorest workers already most at risk from heat exposure.