Sentence examples for finance set up from inspiring English sources

Then there was Abanda Finance, set up as a tax dodge wholly or partly owned by the Pinochet family and also domiciled in the BVI.

When Robert Morris, who in the 1780s had served as America's first treasury secretary (then called superintendent of finance), set up a company that got into trouble selling bad mortgage-backed securities, he was sent to debtors' prison.

Julie Chen, then an Emory College council sophomore legislator and now assistant vice president of finance, set up a petition and shared it on her personal Facebook page.

Brian Norton, chief executive of Future Finance, set up last May to lend to students studying in the UK, says making lending decisions based on estimated future earnings is "common sense".

Some of their real solutions include forcing national governments to implement their fair share of pollution cuts and climate finance, setting up global renewable energy programmes, and reinvesting divested dollars in new local energy and food cooperatives controlled by communities.

A committee of experts on sustainable development financing, set up last year, presented their recommendations last month.

Eight days of every year of your life are wasted dealing with home finances, setting up bills, talking to providers, chasing people you live with for money".

This plan defined 12 main tasks of the Wenzhou comprehensive financial reform, one of which was "normalizing development of private financing, setting regulations for the management of the private financing, setting up a registration and record system for private lending, and establishing a sound monitoring system for private lending".

The lead counsel on the case has been James Bopp, who has made it his career goal to undo the campaign finance system set up in the post-Watergate 1970s and has challenged dozens of campaign finance statutes over the past three-plus decades.

In Paris, he took comfortable jobs in finance and set up as a conventional paterfamilias.

In the policy world, he wants to "restrict the role of finance" and set up a more managed global economy.