Sentences with phrase «whose fortunes»

Edens & Avant shies away from reducing rent for tenants whose fortunes are tied to the housing market, such as mortgage brokerages, says CEO Terry Brown.

Thanks to the prevalence of long - term leases for office and industrial buildings, forecasting income and expenses is simpler than it is for hotels, whose occupants are more transient and whose fortunes are closely tied to the economy.

Nor were the Vikings the only people in Greenland whose fortunes rose and fell with the average temperature, the study suggests.

Shonibare researched notable figures among the leisure class whose fortunes were made as a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

A hotel of special interest is the 5 star Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel whose fortunes are inextricably linked to the legend of the Erawan Shrine.

Cyclical firms whose fortunes soar and dive disappear from the pool, as well as many utilities and telecomm firms whose «excess» returns get regulated away.

@MoneySmarts: I can't think of a foreign economy whose fortunes are very closely linked to ours.

That's because the shares of cyclical companies - whose fortunes are tied most closely to economic growth - climbed 80 percent (trough - to - peak) from last March through the end of the year, according to an index tracked by Morgan Stanley.

There's still little agreement on what caused the May 6 market meltdown, but the experience has a few lessons for small investors, whose fortunes were batted around along with the investments of major Wall Street players.

This implies, for some, that a recession in Britain would do little harm to Canada, whose fortunes are far more tied to U.S., an economy that is set to surpass the U.K. as the G7's new growth champion.

The best option is to invest in companies who are cozying up to Bitcoin, but whose fortunes are not so closely tied to the cryptocurrency that they will fail if it fails.

, it follows two families whose fortunes and fates are changed by World War II — and by one fateful night.

Essentially, top - down management was virtually ensured by the fact that the person at the top was the one whose fortunes would rise or fall based on what happened in classrooms all over the city.

Ana Maria in Novela Land (Unrated) Escapist fantasy about a slacker having a really bad day (Edy Ganem) whose fortunes suddenly change when she magically switches places with the star of her favorite TV soap opera after a lightning strike.

Oscar Issac gave a terrific performance as Llewyn, an angry and devious Greenwich Village folk singer whose fortunes fade just as a young man called Bob Dylan arrives in town.

In Thomas Vinterberg's update, Carey Mulligan plays Bathsheba, a young, orphaned beauty whose fortunes are transformed when she inherits her late uncle's farm.

Nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category, the film focuses primarily on the coach and on three youngsters whose fortunes he took a particular interest in: Chavis, Money and O.C..

Being 17 (Unrated) Homoerotic adventure, set in France, about a teased gay teenager (Kacey Mottet Klein) whose fortunes change dramatically when his mother (Sandrine Kiberlain) invites his bully (Corentin Fila) to move in with them.

The acclaimed Herring Era Museum in Siglufjörður chronicles the heyday of this former «Herring Capital of the World,» whose fortunes declined with the collapse of the Atlantic herring stock in the late 1960s.

That total is up sharply from 46 per cent, and suggests that Party members have been impressed by a better run of news from the Government and a worse from Labour - whose fortunes we look at in a special series on LeftWatch this week, which opens with Christian Guy's excellent piece today.

In 2011, Dr Sekou Nrkumah told Citi FM in an interview that even though some leaders of the party were grooming her for the presidential race, her sister becoming the flagbearer would not be the winning factor for a party whose fortunes have dwindled for nearly two decades.

What is also missing in Nana Akufo - Addo third - time bid is that the «third time lucky» flag bearers in their various attempts to secure the highest office of their respective lands saw their popularity soaring unlike Ghana's Akufo - Addo whose fortunes since 2008 continue to dwindle.

Like Mr. Capalino, Mr. Ickes is a lobbyist whose fortunes have risen with Mr. de Blasio's ascendance to the mayoralty.

How fitting to see them yoked at the most critical juncture of USC's quest for a third straight national title, these future first - rounders whose fortunes have been intertwined for three seasons.

While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that is better for humans, animals and the planet.»

Christianity has a long history in the land of Israel, a history of indigenous communities whose fortunes have been linked to the many conquerors — Muslims, Crusaders, Turks and Jews — and the many national communities — Armenian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Syrian, Russian and French — that have made their way to Palestine.

The next day it could be energy and financial companies, whose fortunes would be diminished if the economy slows.

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

In 2008 she began taking on clients in a variety of industries, but steered clear of those whose fortunes were closely tied to the economy.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.5 percent to hit a three - month intraday low of 9,021.20 as traders pulled away from big exporters whose fortunes are partly linked to demand from Europe.

During the 1930s, the company began to include less expensive clothing lines in its inventory in hopes of keeping customers whose fortunes had taken a turn for the worse.

He had personally recruited many of the top executives and stacked the board with investors like Mr. Gurley, a Benchmark venture capitalist whose fortunes were intertwined with Mr. Kalanick's success.

The companies that extract oil and control access to reserves are the ones whose fortunes most closely track the price of oil.

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

Long before we meet the characters of Downton Abbey, Robert takes a wife, Cora, a wealthy American whose fortune he needs to keep the crumbling estate afloat.

An Exxon lifer and University of Texas - trained engineer, Tillerson would add to a Cabinet increasingly full of millionaires and billionaires, including Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross, whose fortune is estimated at about $ 2.9 billion.

Catsimatidis, whose fortune Forbes pegged at $ 1.7 billion in 2010, said he would spend «whatever we have to spend» on his campaign «if it's going our direction.»

Democratic NY - 19 candidate Sean Eldridge lashed out at Burger King for supposedly dodging taxes, but his husband, whose fortune is financing the congressional run, stands to benefit from the move.

Something about Jason, alas, tells us that he is no Donald Trump, the real - life property magnate whose fortune was based at the time on these very changes.

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Broad, whose fortune is variously estimated at between $ 4 billion and $ 6 billion, is in his 70s, and he too plans on giving away most of that amount during his lifetime.

A Sudden Light By Garth Stein Simon & Schuster • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9781439187043 The author of the 2008 mega-hit The Art of Racing in the Rain spins an atmospheric story about a spooky mansion on Puget Sound and the troubled family whose fortune is tied to the property.

Another Turner Prize winner, Antony Gormley is a British sculptor whose fortune is now estimated at $ 50 million.

The Toledo Museum's chief benefactor was Edward Drummond Libbey (1854 — 1925), an industrialist whose fortune was made in glassware.

Conceived over a period of eight years, the museum is the inspiration of Eugenio Lopez, a major Mexico City and Los Angeles - based collector whose fortune comes from his family's Jumex juice company.

Then Broad, who started out as an accountant and whose fortune is estimated by Forbesat $ 5.2 billion, added: «Generally, I have discipline.»

The man working the crowd at the «Soviet Sport» opening was Alexei Ananyev, whose fortune is estimated at $ 2 billion.

He also helped introduce a corporate coalition, the United States Climate Action Partnership, whose Fortune 500 members — Alcoa, General Electric, DuPont and dozens more — have called for strict limits on global warming pollution.

[t] here must be an intent, on the part of the person who is telling the fortune, to delude and defraud, but this, as I understand it, is not to be limited to cases where the accused is a cheat with no belief in his powers, but extends to every case where the accused intends that the person whose fortune is told shall believe that the fortune - teller is really possessed of the power; the intent to deceive or delude or defraud depending neither upon the honesty or dishonesty of the fortune - teller on the one hand, nor upon the fact that the other person is or is not deceived or deluded or defrauded on the other, but upon the existence of an intent on the part of the fortune - teller that the other person shall believe that the fortune - teller possesses the power.