Capitalists Sentence Examples

Moreover, the Persian government, finding that the previous estimate of the money required for paying its debts was about 50%, below the mark, now asked for double the amount offered by the London capitalists, without, however, proportionately increasing the guarantee.

It is proportional, and is collected by deduction from salaries and pensions paid to servants of the state, where it is assessed on three-eighths of the income, and from interest on consolidated stock, where it is assessed on the whole amount; and by register in the cases of private individuals, who pay on three-fourths of their income, professional men, capitalists or manufacturers, who pay on one-half or nine-twentieths of their income.

To obtain the support of the capitalists, Gaius Gracchus conceived the plan of creating friction between them and the senate, which he carried out by handing over to them the control (a) of the jury-courts, and (b) of the revenues of Asia.

The capitalists gradually assumed the lead in the various societies, the richer members engrossed the power and the companies tended to become hereditary and exclusive.

Persons might be members who had nothing to do with the craft, and the rise of great capitalists and the development of competition in trade made the regulation of industry by means of companies no longer possible.

The same causes made him unpopular with the Roman capitalists, whose sole object was the accumulation of enormous fortunes by farming the revenue of the provinces.

These great wheat farms were established upon new lands sold directly to capitalists by the railroads.

The lands became the property of the railroads largely through government grants, and they attracted capitalists, who bought them in large bodies and at low prices.

That the labourers had been badly housed was evident, and there was little chance of improvement by private capitalists, for cottage property is not remunerative.

If this chapter angers the Right and Left, the Greens and Browns, the capitalists and socialists, the nutritionists and farmers, I apologize to all in advance.

Where rational cultivation has been introduced, it has almost always been by non-Sardinian capitalists.

A considerable amount of cheese is manufactured, but largely by Italian capitalists.

By this arrangement .the provincials were ignored, and everything was left in the hands of the capitalists.

In the sierras they have the same general occupations, but there are no social bars to their advancement, and they become lawyers, physicians, priests, merchants, officials and capitalists.

Cerro de Pasco mines having been purchased by American capitalists.

The same circumstances detertnine the variation of profits, but in an opposite direction; the increase of stock, which raises wages, tending to lower profit through the mutual competition of capitalists.

This was a stock speculation based on the remarkable output ($ 3 00,000,000 in 20 years) of the silver " bonanzas " of the Comstock lode at Virginia City, Nevada, which were opened and financed by San Francisco capitalists.

Visit to Sir Henry returned to Persia soon afterwards, and in 1889 March of the following year the Persian government granted another important concession, that of a tobacco monopoly, to British capitalists.

Brentano (On Gilds) holds that it is wrong to represent such regulations as monopolistic, inasmuch as there was no question whatever of a monopoly in that time nor until the degeneration of the craftgilds into limited corporations of capitalists.

At the beginning of the 10th century the mines at work numbered more than two hundred, and proved very attractive to foreign as well as native capitalists.

The first settlement was made on the west bank of the river in 1815 and was called Saginaw City; the settlement on the east side of the river made in 1849 was called East Saginaw and was financed by Eastern capitalists.

A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are so affronted by this phenomenon.

A truly all-out indefinite general strike, therefore, immediately demands the effective de facto expropriation of the capitalists.

More important, trade buyers are happy to compete directly with venture capitalists.

In its face, Alan Greenspan, long regarded by leading capitalists as possessing positively magical powers, confessed bewilderment.

Or is it that they will learn to be greedy capitalists and want to keep every penny of their inflated incomes.

The creaking world economy was started up again by a coalition of industrial capitalists and government, with the trade unions as junior partner.

Lenin attacked them for capitulating to the liberal capitalists.

This was rubbish, but the last thing the bureaucrats wanted was revolution or upheaval in another country upsetting their relations with foreign capitalists.

Their only thought was to pump out of the Russian people the interest due on old loans advanced by French capitalists to Czarism.

Even in the 19th century, the railroad age, British capitalists did not make vast fortunes out of them.

For example, how do you talk to venture capitalists?

The wealthiest of the merchant capitalists did side with the Royalists.

These interests are a source of profits for the international finance capitalists.

But last Easter he talked her into giving it a try and a month later venture capitalists dropped $ 1m into their laps.

The decisive section of the bureaucratic elite are transforming themselves into private capitalists.

As corporate profits come under increasing pressure from the developing crisis, US capitalists are likely to hit back hard.

The bandits of international capital, the Polish junkers and capitalists, are now raising a great lamentation that Poland is in great danger.

The Russians are now capitalists trying to make a rouble, any way they can.

Germanys vinegar, and each country German capitalists glad to core plan recipe watcher weight mcdonalds at the be thrown band.

Attention must also be paid to the artificial restrictions of political geography, to the legislative restrictions bearing on labour and trade as imposed in different countries, and, above all, to the incessant fluctuations of the economic conditions of supply and demandand the combinations of capitalists or workers which affect the market.4 The term " applied geography " has been employed to designate commercial geography, the fact being that every aspect of scientific geography may be applied to practical purposes, including the purposes of trade.

For example, investment capitalists are reluctant to invest in a venture that has a slow turnover.

The Liberal Party is one of the masks which the British capitalists wear in order to swindle the workers.

Do you have some young capitalists eager to delve into the world of real estate?

While there may not be a "small business angel" category in the phone book index, venture capitalists are listed.

You can try your local libraries for state phone books or go online at Superpages for a listing of venture capitalists of which "angels" are a sub-category.

If you're looking for financing for an existing or soon to be launched business, you will need a business plan outline or summary to present to prospective investors, venture capitalists, or lender.

The first of this group are known as venture capitalists, individuals who will foot a large portion of your startup costs in return for a percentage of the money you make over time.

This summary will persuade bank executives and venture capitalists to review your business plan.

Another difficulty is that Italian and foreign capitalists, have produced a great rise in prices which has not been compensated by a rise in wages.

But he appears to have acted under the impression that the Socialists were much stronger than they really were, and therefore gave them a free hand with the object of avoiding bloodshed, and also perhaps with that of proving to the workmen that they could not run industry without the capitalists and the technical experts.

The struggle of the working man helping himself with his empty pockets against the capitalists he compared to a battle with teeth and nails against modern artillery.

The want of railways in Asia Minor was urgently felt, but no capitalists were willing to risk their money in Turkish railways without a substantial guarantee, and a guarantee of the Turkish government alone was not considered substantial enough.

The first granted was for the extension of the Constantinople-Ismid railway to Angora to a group of German and British capitalists in 1888.

In 1884 a concession to a number of Hollander and German capitalists of all rights to make railways led to the formation of the Netherlands Railway Company.

The foreign population includes many capitalists and industrial managers who are doing much to develop the country, the American colony being concentrated in a fine modern residential district on the south-western side of the city.

Pompey was satisfied by the ratification of his acts in Asia, and by the assignment of the Campanian state domains to his veterans, the capitalists (with whose interests Crassus was identified) had their bargain for the farming of the Asiatic revenues cancelled, Ptolemy Auletes received the confirmation of his title to the throne of Egypt (for a consideration amounting to i,50o,000), and a fresh act was passed for preventing extortion by provincial governors.

He returned to Rome in 60 B.C. to find that the senate had sacrificed the support of the capitalists (which Cicero had worked so hard to secure), and had finally alienated Pompey by refusing to ratify his acts and grant lands to his soldiers.

They have been opened up by American capitalists and the coal is used on the railways passing through that region.

The cheapness of labour attracted capitalists, who started extensive factories in that quarter of the town known even now as the Liberties.

It was built (1881-1888) by Chicago capitalists in exchange for a land grant of 3,000,000 acres.

After the cholera epidemic of 1853, which carried off more than 4000 of the inhabitants, the medical association built several ranges of workmen's houses, and their example was followed by various private capitalists, among whom may be mentioned the Classen trustees, whose buildings occupy an open site on the western outskirts of the city.

Bismarck did not wish to lay heavier burdens on the capitalists, and it was not till a later period that they were carried out.

They had identified themselves with the interests of thi capitalists, and were not even faithful to their own principles.

The decision between the two races turned on the vote of the feudal proprietors, and in order to win this a society was formed among the German capitalists of Vienna (to which the name of Chabrus was popularly given) to acquire by real or fictitious purchase portions of those estates to which a vote was attached.

The German parties had originally been the party of the capitalists, and comprised a large number of Jews; this new German party committed itself to violent attacks upon the Jews, and for this reason alone any real harmony between the different branches would have been impossible.

In 84 B.C. the war tax imposed by Sulla on the province of Asia was at first advanced by Roman capitalists, and rose within fourteen years to six times its original amount.

The capital now invested in this enterprise, and largely subscribed for by Russian capitalists, amounts to 320,000.

The general opinion is that if Russian capitalists had not been interested in the enterprise the company would have liquidated long ago.

Seeking for commercial profit, not in the exchange of commodities, but solely in the acquisition of actual gold and silver, and realizing that the home market could not absorb a tithe of the merchandise imported, the Lisbon capitalists sent their ships to discharge in Antwerp (where a Portuguese staple was established in 1503), or in some other port near the central markets of Europe.

A law of 1898 authorizes the government to grant concessions on very favourable terms to foreign capitalists willing to promote mining and manufactures in Servia; but in 1910 the number of large industrial establish ' One yutro is the area which two oxen can plough in a day.

In 1867 he was elected a member of the North German Reichstag, but in opposition to Lassalle's followers he refused all compromise with the "capitalists," and avowedly used his position merely for purposes of agitation whilst taking every opportunity for making the parliament ridiculous.

The American war had finally exhausted the exchequer, and, in order to replenish it, he would have needed to inspire confidence in the minds of capitalists; but the resumption in 2778 of the plan of provincial assemblies charged with remodelling the various imposts, and his corn pterendu in which he exhibited the monarchy paying its pensioners for their inactivity as it had never paid its agents for their zeal, aroused a fresh outburst of anger.

It is, however, noteworthy that Spanish capitalists are, as a class, though exclusive of the Catalans, unduly conservative Hence the capital for the establishment of electrical industries was almost exclusively subscribed in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the United States, just as, in the 19th century, the railways and mining industries had been mainly financed by British investors, and the Valencian silk industry by French.

The Spanish subjects were allowed to collect themselves the taxes and tribute due to Rome, and, though the mineral wealth doubtless fell into the hands of Roman capitalists, the natives were free from the tithes and tithe system which caused such misery and revolt in the Roman province of Sicily.

This act, though in Sir Matthew White Ridley's charge as home secretary, was universally and rightly associated with Mr Chamberlain; and its passage, in the face of much interested opposition from highly-placed, old-fashioned conservatives and capitalists on both sides, was principally due to his determined advocacy.

Cruisers were fitted out by capitalists and commanded by the reises.