Add that to the relative dearth of venture capital available to Brazilian entrepreneurs, and the Kafkaesque tax bureaucracy that makes it particularly difficult to start a startup — and you can start to get a sense of what a big deal it is for Dress & Go and Love Mondays, both run by a Brazilian woman with a finance background, to secure their first institutional financing.
President Roosevelt, in April 1908, convinced Mint Director Frank Leach that it would be a better idea to strike a design similar to that of the eagle, but below the background, to secure a high-relief effect.
Mr Li's background helped to secure this rare privilege for the Queensland Ballet: he worked with MacMillan when he was a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet.
Gordon Brown will focus on social mobility when he announces that the government will endorse most of the proposals in a recent report by the former health secretary Alan Milburn, including giving students from lower income backgrounds greater opportunities to secure internships in the professions.
Such state coercion is compatible with the maximal freedom demanded in the principle of right because it does not reduce freedom but instead provides the necessary background conditions needed to secure freedom.
General practitioners are gatekeepers for access to several parts of the psychiatric system and knowledge of their patients' refugee background is crucial to secure adequate care.
The number of lead characters played by women in major Hollywood films has leapt 10% in a single year, yet actors from ethnic minority backgrounds are still struggling to secure roles, according to a new study.
Despite his then-immigrant status (he is now a U.S. citizen) and community college background, he was able to secure relevant internships and establish a solid network of mentors and peers.
When most jobs are secured through networks, its clear that young people from poorer backgrounds will find it difficult to secure good jobs.
Pope Calixtus III, of Spanish background himself, could do little to secure Ferdinand, so he turned to Skanderbeg for aid.
