In an interview, he said he was dipping into his personal fortune to pay for a high-caliber team, even as he told of collecting a staggering $300,000 from well-heeled friends at a single fund-raiser.
Khodorkovsky angered the Kremlin leadership because he was dipping his toe into forbidden waters: he was making potential pipeline deals, potential oil deals with foreign investors, to say nothing of funding opposition political parties.
On April 1, realizing that he was dipping into his savings to keep the agency afloat and seeing no hope of an improved business climate in the future, Mr. Pacheco, who is 67 years old, closed his doors.
"At that early stage of his life he was dipping his toes into different types of groups.
One minute he was dipping his feet in the water, the next the waves were sweeping him deeper and further out to sea.
The ladies swooned as he grabbed his microphone stand like he was dipping a lover during a slow dance, a singer growing ever more secure on stage through dancing, seducing and letting loose with a pitch-perfect wail.
His wife, Pattie Boyd, and their friend Chris O'Dell would joke that it was hard to tell whether he was dipping into his ever-present Japa Yoga prayer bag or "the coke bag".
Tyson Fury rarely has a need to get underneath his opponents' punches, and yet against Wilder he was dipping at the knees or bending at the waist to get underneath Wilder's wide rights.
Miguel grabbed his microphone stand like he was dipping a lover during a slow dance for "Do You Like Drugs?" Then Miguel and band drifted into Bob Marley's "Stir It Up," pushing the crowd in a new direction for a few measures before returning to his own song.
