Years ago, those companies owned a rag-bag of industrial businesses, rather as Anglo does now.
There, she embraced Dutch society and freedoms and quickly flourished in a true rag-to-riches immigrant tale.
The main hall is now being used by local groups for exhibitions from clog-dancing to rag-rug making.
ECONOMIST: National Trust for Scotland: Demolish and preserve | The
Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.
My kids loved this rag-tag bunch because they were engaging and funny, and just the right kind of funny-looking.
FORBES: SNL, The Muppets, And Sesame Street Know Purpose Is At The Heart Of Great Brands
As expected, St-Pierre used his wrestling to control the chirpy challenger, rag-dolling him at times and bullying him on the ground.
Marconi still has some of the rag-bag of smaller industrial interests from its past, such as medical electronics systems, petrol pumps and retail automation.
The rag-tag coalition of parties that ousted her soon fell apart.
The multi-party case was left to a rag-tag lot who quarrelled over finance and disintegrated a few weeks ago, perhaps confirming Mr Museveni's views on party politicians.
He preferred large stand-and-fight battles, which had greater chance for resolution and glory, but came to accept his subordinates' counsel that such grandstanding could destroy his rag-tag army.
At several points he describes it as a home-grown religion, a bit of a rag-bag where different followers, none of them learned, believed different things and saw different visions.
Still, one motive for this week's announcement by Dai-Ichi and Yasuda (both affiliated to Mizuho banks) might be to show their intention to lead consolidation among Mizuho's other rag-bag of insurers.
You learned very soon how to read a clear line before the put-in, then how to swerve and carve the whitewater, avoiding holes, trying not to be rag-dolled by the flow.
ECONOMIST: Hendrik Coetzee, explorer, died on December 7th, aged 35
Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages to make us fall head over heels for the rag-tag bunch of Antioch College-educated misfits better known as the Gits.
Lord Henley, for the Tories, said the bill was a "rag-bag" of provisions and said that, because of late changes, almost a third of its clauses had not been debated in the Commons.
He flipped on the television, to catch up on some news, when he first saw them: a group of rag-tag teenage rebels who had abandoned the city for the country, living out of double-decker buses.
FORBES: The New Gypsies: Iain McKell's Photos Of A Nomadic British Subculture
Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.
Shaking like a rag in her hand-me-downs and in the shoes that were four sizes too big!
Mr Draper runs the LabourList blog and was proposing to set up Red Rag, a gossip-led site.
Money was invested, offices opened at home and abroad, award-winning journalists hired and sections added until the former light-weight rag had grown so hefty that doorsteps trembled at its descent.
Goldman Sachs has a long history in lower Manhattan, from Marcus Goldman providing short-term financing to the nineteenth-century rag trade on the Lower East Side to signs carried around the present occupation of a park at Broadway and Cedar Street.
FORBES: Don't Blame Goldman Sachs For Hedging Its Bets And Staying In Business
Such a gesture would be in keeping with the traditions of the quirky 220-year-old pub, which has built up a reputation for hosting activities including the Annual World Pea-Throwing Championship and Dwyle Flunking, a traditional game involving two teams, a broom stick, a chamber pot and a beer-soaked rag.
The one-millimeter projection was hardly visible, Mr. Betts said, but it was enough to "catch a rag if someone was hand-washing" the car.
She didn't stop performing until she was 72 and choreographed one of her rare light-hearted works, Maple Leaf Rag, just a year before her death.
Margaret and I were sprawled out on the grassy bank of the Mississippi River, taking a break from the French Quarter Festival, when I noticed, a few feet away, a familiar, homeless-looking guy with an eight-inch red beard and a piratical soldier rag tied around his head.
Yet Ms. Krall's latest album, "Glad Rag Doll, " shows that such definitions are now themselves out-dated.
The Conservatives have urged Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to clarify who knew about the proposal to set up a Labour website, called Red Rag, where it was suggested the smears sent in Mr McBride's e-mails be published.
After an uncertain start to the concert - one band member recalled the assembled aristocrats inspected them through eyeglasses "as though there were bugs on us" - the king roared his approval, loudly applauding their rendition of Tiger Rag.
Yes, his story is one from the rag trade to the rich list but it is unconventional in that his fortune was made outside of the fast-growing emerging markets.
应用推荐