Sentence examples for fund colony from inspiring English sources

In September, Freixenet, the Spanish sparkling wine group, paid $21 million for Yvon Mau, a leading producer and exporter of Bordeaux; more recently, the Los Angeles pension fund Colony Capital paid $65 million to acquire Château Lascombe.

On 31 May PSG, which was making losses under previous owners, private equity real estate fund Colony Capital, was 70% bought by Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), the arm of Qatar's sovereign wealth funds which is also paying €166m (£140m) over five years for Barcelona to wear the name Qatar Foundation on their previously pristine team shirts.

When the news broke that Raffles was not only being sold but being sold to an American fund, Colony deflected ill will by asking Chua to remain as chairman of the Singapore Raffles and voice of the deal.

When the news finally hit that Raffles was not only being sold, but also sold to an American fund, Colony defused some of the potential flak by asking Chua to remain as chairman of the Singapore Raffles and voice of the deal.

The Colony funds that were raised from 1998 to 2003 posted annual returns of more than 20 percent, according to one investor.

The Han Dynasty is said to have financed part of the Great Wall construction by selling lottery tickets, and in England, King James's lottery helped fund the first British colony in America.

They also want the government to survey areas believed to hold new colonies and fund research efforts.

Unless he can drum up private funding to support a colony of chimpanzees for conservation studies, Walsh says, "We are screwed.

The National Science Foundation provided emergency funds to keep the colony going, but later rejected a research application from the station's director, Stephen Glickman.

At this stage, the study was interrupted because the junior authors (A.C., E.T., D.V). had to relocate for lack of funding and the fish colony was moved from SNS Pisa to FLI in Jena.

"That's all we are," said Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers, "an extractive colony for political fund raising".