Sentences with phrase «wealthy friends at»

Meanwhile, Schoeneman's opponent, Joe Lorigo, spent his evening hobnobbing with Ralph Lorigo's powerful and wealthy friends at his father's «birthday party» where guests were charged $ 99 to $ 2,500 dollars to pad his son's campaign account while gaining access to the Legislator as well as the Chairman of the Erie County Conservative party.

Not exact matches

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

At least President Obama is spending money to rescue our economy, not to pad the pockets of his wealthy friends.

In his humorous but pointed book Confessions of a Workaholic, Wayne Oates has summarized much of our modern belief in these words: «The workaholic's way of life is considered in America to be at one and the same time (a) a religious virtue, (b) a form of patriotism, (c) the way to win friends and influence people, and (d) the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

I have friends who are political and economic conservatives, wealthy people who send their children to private schools in New England at a cost of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a year.

His plush townhouse at Park Newport in Newport Beach, Calif. is paid for by Gerson Bakar, a wealthy developer and close friend.

«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.

«It didn't take long for President Obama and his liberal friends to throw their support behind David's opponent, Charlie Melancon,» said the incumbent in a fundraising appeal to his own supporters, slamming Melancon for» (flying) up to Martha's Vinyard to collect campaign cash from Obama's wealthiest supporters at cocktail parties in Massachusetts.»

The movie features the artist's relationship with his wealthy, and much younger American friend and author, James Lord (Armie Hammer), who died in 2009 at the age of eighty - seven.

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

As the film opens, she is in a relationship with a suit who clearly doesn't love her, a job she's too honest for, and saddled with wealthy friends who look at her as a poor relation.

Then there are wealthy, handsome Gansey and his three friends, Adam, Ronan, and Noah, all of whom are «Raven Boys,» students at the prestigious Aglionby Academy.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

Sell the property to a trusted friend or wealthy relative and then become a tenant and pay the buyer rent at market rates — a much more attractive amount than Treasury bonds are paying now.