| I was up to my ears in work, and literally talking on two phones at once like a tycoon in an old movie. |
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| The 31-year-old supermarket tycoon was held by the South Armagh IRA for six days. |
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| The supermarket tycoon agreed to meet Cylon for exactly one-and-a-half minutes. |
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| The North Yorkshire business tycoon who owns a profitable food chain has once again had a bumper pay year. |
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| Allen, supposedly the fifth richest man in the world, is the tycoon who bankrolled both museums. |
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| Completed in 1914, Kohl Mansion was the home of Charles Frederick Kohl, the son of a shipping tycoon. |
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| He is described as more like a successful media tycoon than the leader of a fascistic politico-religious cult. |
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| It was a gift from a visiting Greek shipping tycoon who had just launched a new ship called Inca. |
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| The move would make the 61-year-old tycoon one of Britain's most generous benefactors. |
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| He knew as well as I did that we are up against not just a business tycoon but a powerful politician. |
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| As he strode across the lobby, I saw an elderly man, thickset and tough, who resembled an oil tycoon. |
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| Three enterprising Killorglin students were treated to the thrill of a lifetime last Wednesday thanks to generous business tycoon Bill Cullen. |
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| The millionaire media tycoon faces the possibility of a snap election following the double resignation. |
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| The former tycoon remains the mould for any young Scots entrepreneur wanting to hoist themselves up by the bootstraps. |
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| The granddaughter and last direct descendant of the late Greek tycoon is also the inadvertent inheritor of a tragic family history. |
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| The tycoon, who was knighted in December 2006, revolutionised the domestic appliances market with the bagless vacuum cleaner. |
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| The speed with which the 76-year-old tycoon has moved has staggered most observers. |
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| Lord Paul, the steel tycoon who is a non-dom, announced he would stop giving donations to labour if the law went through. |
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| He overreached himself, living out the image of a global media tycoon without the substance to sustain it. |
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| A property tycoon today flagged up a series of multi-million pound projects designed to spark a business boom in Monks Cross. |
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| A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country. |
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| The software tycoon urges rich people to live humbly and aid the poor. |
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| The mainstream candidates' reluctance to lock horns with the tycoon may be understandable given his apparent immunity to criticism. |
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| I think a really good dinner party should consist of an archbishop, an authoress, a lady of easy virtue, a tycoon and a Powers model. |
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| Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon. |
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| An exception to the sedateness is the portrait of Roy Neuberger, a Wall Street tycoon and major patron of the arts. |
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| They were owned by bookmaking tycoon Selwyn Demmy, who put the 21 works up for auction to raise money for destitute animals. |
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| His wealth, and a fistful of government contracts, made him the tycoon to see when foreign investors came round. |
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| Religiously speaking, a fortune is a kind of testing for a tycoon, as far as his radical attachment to the goods of this world is concerned. |
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| Mr. Villar, a property tycoon, focused on his rags-to-riches story, but his image was reportedly tarnished by corruption allegations. |
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| His father was a real-estate tycoon who owned several Manhattan skyscrapers, and Coupey's early childhood was one of nannies and private schools. |
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| The managing director of the company Constantin Film is Germany's movie tycoon. |
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| It promotes the emergence of an 'elite', much as the industrial era brought about a new class of business tycoon. |
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| Tyrrell quit law, joined the Survey, and began his fantastic life as an explorer, historical scholar, mining tycoon, and survivor. |
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| The head hunter took him to a real estate tycoon based in Mumbai. |
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| After M comes to his rescue, Bond goes after Zao, the agent who captured him, and tycoon Gustav Graves who, yup, you guessed it, is threatening the safety of the entire world. |
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| He is a genuine tycoon, an authentic media mogul who dominates the newspapers and networks of his native land as completely as he does its political firmament. |
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| Astor put the receiver down and started to think himself into tycoon mode. |
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| But her mood shifts when the suspicious death of newspaper tycoon Luther Read, a patriarch unbeloved by his offspring, sets Lucy on the trail of a possible parricide. |
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| But at the time media tycoon William Randolph Hearst was one of the most powerful men in the world, the man on whom Orson Welles based his classic opus Citizen Kane. |
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| But, in the end, I don't really care to stand here and tell you what a liar this or that politician or clerical hierarch or fat-cat business tycoon is. |
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| George, we learn, is a farm boy turned wealthy insurance tycoon. |
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| If I were a tycoon or a foreign investor, I would probably be dancing on Bay Street right now, but to the rural farm families of Canada the budget has offered them nothing. |
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| Cyril Ramaphosa, the trade union leader who became the ANC's chief constitutional negotiator and is now a prospering tycoon, has described this as the work of all apartheid's crimes against humanity. |
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| And if one of these falls into insolvency, as happened to the German media tycoon Leo Kirch, there is just one less in a highly concentrated market, leaving the market to the remaining elitist magnates. |
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| Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon. |
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| The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon. |
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| Media tycoon Robert Maxwell attempted to buy the club in 1984, but did not meet Edwards' asking price. |
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| The largest shareholder on the Arsenal board is American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke. |
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| Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal tore down a house he bought for pounds 4million to build his pounds 15million hideaway. |
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| Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate and business tycoon in USA, was from Dumfries. |
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| A wealthy tycoon who had a successful career, for example, might start a new business in a field that he or she doesn't know or understand and might meet with failure because he or she assumed their expertise would transfer. |
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| On Morden's death in 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot bought the land and turned it into a country club. |
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| This assiduity has caused the newspaper a libel case by a former business tycoon Achour Abderahmane, who is currently serving a prison sentence for embezzling billions of dinars from the National Bank of Algeria. |
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| As the US tycoon stepped off his personalised Boeing 727 and onto the tarmac on the isle of Lewis, a playful gust undid his artfully contrived hairdo, blowing long wisps of his trademark ducktail skywards. |
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| After seizing the control of the Italian satellite pay-TV market, Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch is eyeing a new digital terrestrial platform in Italy. |
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| At a reception organised in honour of his daughter, Melvyn Bromsby, a rich tycoon, is about to make an important announcement concerning his future business affairs when, all of a sudden, a shot rings out. |
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| Another figure who looks unflustered is Boris Berezovsky, perhaps Russia's biggest tycoon and best-known manipulator, who has been ostentatiously close to Mr Chernomyrdin this week. |
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| I'm not playing the role of the hard-headed tycoon who thinks all philanthropoids are Socialists and all university professors are Communists. |
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| One is headed by Boris Berezovsky, a tycoon with a cavalier attitude to constitutional proprieties and a close relationship with the president's daughter. |
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| Chris Pine is a bundle of manic mood-swings as a rich sociopath, Christoph Waltz hammily sinister as his tycoon father. |
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| The tycoon said the new cuddlier Ryanair approach is part of a bigger plan to grow the company. |
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| Additional documentary work has included pieces on the Second World War, scientist Hubert Reeves, business tycoon Conrad Black, and William Shakespeare. |
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| Arkadeen, Arkadini, Arkapopoulos — those are the sarcastic suggestions offered by a low-rent American post-war grifter as the real name of the mysterious international tycoon whose past he's investigating. |
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| The opposition leader also slammed his country's judiciary and said the recent second verdict against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which put him in prison until 2017, had nothing to do with jurisprudence. |
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| In Serbia, leading tycoon Bogoljub Karic, and influential banker Ljubomir Mihajlovic have several key media under their direct or indirect control. |
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| The tycoon is in talks to offload a stake of up to 25 per cent of Topman and Topshop in a deal which values the two chains at close to PS1billion, say sources. |
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| Indian tycoon Ahsan Ali Syed completed the takeover of Real Racing Club de Santander in January, but Bloomberg has hinted the deal could be in jeopardy. |
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