Sentences with phrase «wealthy powerful person»

In fact, for many decades every wealthy powerful person has only been able to try to hide or excuse or attempt to gather popular support for their understood to be unacceptable pursuits of benefit from the activity (and many other unacceptable activities).

Every wealthy powerful person today has very little ability to claim that they were unaware that it was unacceptable to try to get personal benefit from burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

National Press Club president Thomas Burr asked Thiel if what happened to Gawker could happen to other news publications: «Could wealthy, powerful people seek revenge against a news organization because of something they didn't like and use their influence and money to take them out?»

The greed and selfishness of people, the wealthy and powerful, drives the growth in debt.

Wealthy, powerful, influential people who may or may not personally operate within the confines of the doctrinal statement yet somehow tend to be invited to be not only part of the group, but often part of the decision makers.

Little Georgie Dubya was from skull & bones, an organization that hand picks people from wealthy families to be placed in powerful positions to make policy from banks, oil industries, world trade, education, wall street, and yes... politics.

Some people hate those who are wealthier or more powerful than them.

The landowner knew very well that they were in that situation because the powerful in society, the wealthy and the influential, even the educated and the religious, had created this terrible situation where millions of people had no work.

- Pilgrimage to mecca was orginally a pagan religious rite of peace from all the different pagan religions a week of peice and trade (making the person or tradesman who owned mecca the wealthiest man and most powerful man in the region no wonder mohommed wanted it back so much was a money thing).

When our governments pass laws that give favour and advantage to the wealthy and powerful because of their successful lobbies, we, the people, are responsible, and culpable.

These people had become convinced that it was by their own reason and strength, by their own hard work in keeping the law that they were successful and powerful, healthy, wealthy and wise.

I'm sure they wooed many wealthy people and powerful elites at their palaces, and I wonder how and to what extent an understanding of that lifestyle would have filtered down to someone like Jesus.

Not even the wealthiest most powerful people in the world can guarantee themselves against these things.

Every time he hit walls, it made a bumping sound which made the powerful people shiver and the wealthy people tremble.

Campaign finance intermediaries or «bundlers» are typically well - connected, wealthy and powerful people who collect a lot of money for a candidate in order to demonstrate their influence.

«The primaries were all about that and the platform resulted from these primaries and then the discussion of the powerful ideas, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing wages and benefits, things like paid family leave, paid sick leave, things that really would have resonated with so many people hurting in this country,» de Blasio told NY1's Errol Louis in his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» segment.

Obama's promise to «govern for all the people, not just the interests of the wealthy and well - connected» came across more Andrew Jackson («the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes») than Karl Marx.

He counterposed the «powerful interests» and the very wealthy with ordinary «working people» who are confronted with falling living standards and unequal opportunities.

This is why people are reluctant to run against a wealthy and powerful political machine like the Lorigos,» said Schoeneman.

«And I think, in each case, the people of our cities don't like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.»

«You know, it's funny, and I think a lot of people should ask this question in the media: are you ever going to look at all the wealthy and powerful people who spend endless amounts of undisclosed money?»

Virtually all of the most influential, powerful, wealthiest, and happiest people throughout history have either knowingly or not, practiced the «Secret».

So, if you are out to impress friends and also gain luxurious in life, meet powerful people, grow in the process, then you simply need to go after the former variety of wealthy ladies.

I love her as the devoted secretary «Miss Mead,» in the all - star soapy drama about wealthy and powerful people stuck at an airport, «The VIPs.»

In 1918, a supergroup known as The Philosophers was born in the fallout of World War I, assembling the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet together in a way Nick Fury could only dream.

There are plenty of powerful and wealthy people at the state level with ideologically driven, not scientifically proven, ideas about keeping the test - based accountability system (Voodoo education) in place.

But if money was that powerful, generations of wealthy people and philanthropies would have captured the high ground long ago in their respective spheres of work.

This made him one of the wealthiest, most powerful, and most violent criminals of all - time (Fortune magazine named him one of the ten richest people on earth).

The failure of the wealthy and politically powerful people in my not - so - great generation of elders to respond ably to emergent global challenges, ones already visible on the far horizon, will likely be eventually recognized by our children as an example of the grossest dereliction of duty in human history.

Their contrived, consensually validated «necessity» for unbridled economic growth could be eventually seen as fraudent as well as an willful exercise of governmental and corporate malfeasence, all of it based upon the selfish interests of a tiny minority of wealthy and powerful people.

A recent profile in Forbes called Charles Koch «one of the 50 most powerful people in the world, one of the 20 wealthiest — and one of the dozen most vilified.»

And it's weird that he says that about motives, because I was about to mention that Mr Ferrara has a history of writing stuff that just happens to favor the positions of wealthy and powerful people, for money, according to Business Week:

hunter, that's what they say too... Rev 6:15 Then everyone — the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person — all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

With the public release of 11 million plus pages of data, documents, emails and other information from Mossack Fonseca, the Panama based law firm at the heart of the scandal, people are now also aware of public figures, state governors, the wealthy and the powerful usurping the benefits of the Panama law firm's services; namely the establishment and management of offshore entities to protect capital and reduce tax costs.

The effort to create the smartest AI has truly become a race, and the contestants are among the most powerful and wealthy people on the planet.

The term «tycoon,» a very wealthy or powerful business person, is derived from the Japanese term «taikun,» a title used by powerful Shoguns.

Even accomplished people feel as if they're going hat - in - hand to ask for handouts if they have to ask powerful, wealthy or well - connected friends for help.