Sentence examples for magnate from inspiring English sources

One of the company's leading lines, Casillero del Diablo, takes its name from the tale, although it seems unlikely that a 19th-century mining magnate and prominent politician would really have spent his evenings lurking in dank corners wearing fancy dress.

Narula is the son of billionaire Indian construction magnate Harpinder Singh Narula, and his startup employs 50 people recruited from Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and games studios Lionhead and Ubisoft.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting sold its stake in the project in 2011.

The NUJ believes Desmond is wilfully running his newspapers into the ground and its attack on the press magnate comes three months after it called him "Britain's greediest billionaire".

The media magnate – who has been ordered to work at the centre for disabled and elderly people one day a week for at least four hours – will help out with a morning programme including motor activities, reading, writing and games, Pigni said.

Slipper said of a meeting he had with mining magnate Clive Palmer earlier this year: I do recall that Mr (Clive Palmerr mentioned to me at that time that about Easter last year, Mr Brough, accompanied by the Member for North Sydney, came to see Mr Palmer to ask him to fund James Ashby's legal fees with respect to the litigation which people listening would be aware of.

Major individual donors to Labour in the new report include the computer tycoon Sir Alan Sugar (£200,000), the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (£125,000), Granada Group chairman Gerry Robinson (£20,000) and property mil lionaire Sir Sigmund Sternberg (£100,000).

Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate and key Republican party donor, spent four combative days in a Las Vegas court this week defending his gambling empire from accusations of bribery and ties to organised crime.

After all, this is an era when a 23-word tweet from a media magnate can change the game completely.

In 2012, photos emerged of Donald Jr and Eric Trump, the doofus sons of the Shredded Wheat-haired magnate, posing next to "trophy" carcasses of animals they'd shot on a big game hunt in Zimbabwe.

The mining magnate accused the government of exaggerating the nation's debt levels to manufacture a crisis and justify moving to "a total capitalist economy" in which money, not people, was all that mattered.