ActionAid's global advocacy coordinator, Sameer Dossani, said G20 countries were more concerned with raising their own tax revenue than ending "the ongoing plunder of developing countries".
Those I work with are less tigerish about achievement than Amy Chua and more concerned with raising caring and respectful members of their society — teaching their children to share their championship cup with their team and to thank the farmer who grew the food at their school lunch.
On Thursday, relatives of Sobibor victims, who were recognized as co-complainants for the trial, said they were more concerned with raising awareness of what happened at Sobibor than exacting revenge on Mr. Demjanjuk, whose two years in pretrial detention will count toward his sentence, leaving him about three years left to serve if his appeals fail.
If you have a strong Syndicator with plenty of backer capital to start, and you're more concerned with raising capital quickly than exactly who is on board, you could syndicate the whole thing.
"I would say that I am a very minor example in the greater picture, because there are people who are much more involved with raising funds," Tymtchenko tells me by Skype.
He implied that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is more concerned with raising money for her own career advancement than for helping the party, something that is a concern even in Democratic circles.
It has more in common with "Raising the Bar," a recently canceled series about young lawyers on TNT.
Conservancy officials credit Ms. Hilson with raising more than $400,000 this year for its Tree Trust.
The Obama campaign eventually credited Mr. Nemazee with raising more than $500,000 on its behalf.
David Caméo, director of the Sèvres porcelain factory near Paris, credits him, more than any other, with raising ceramics from the status of craftwork to art.
