(1) The Tour has not featured women's racing since the last women's Tour de France was run alongside the men's event in 1989, and the inception of La Course by Le Tour is the fruit of some assiduous campaigning led by the group Le Tour Entier, which last July launched a petition calling for the return of the women's Tour de France.
Rentier
Definition:
(n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no longer a sharp dividing line between working and rentiering.
(2) Most rentiers are not as easily identified as the greedy banker or manager.
(3) Graeber discusses the role of a 1% parasitical rentier class presiding over an ever-increasing unequal social order and pinpoints the disappearance of opposing political systems and decline of oppositional movements as crucial factors in that process.
(4) From Wall Street to Silicon Valley , from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere.
(5) If he is worried about banks over-lending to small rentiers, he should let the banks take the risk.
(6) Think back a minute to the definition of a rentier: someone who uses their control over something that already exists in order to increase their own wealth.
(7) But in the modern economy, making rentierism work is a great deal more complicated.
(8) Far from a Keynesian "euthanasia of the rentier" , we are seeing the triumph of a rentier economy: in such conditions, rather than further accumulation by the sons and daughters of the wealthy, we should instead demand an end to inherited wealth entirely.
(9) Many modern rentiers have convinced even themselves that they are bona fide value creators.
(10) That’s the rentier way : by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth.
(11) The irony, however, is that their best innovations only make the rentier economy even bigger.
(12) Not much room for the PM to argue he’s not part of the “rentier” class.
(13) Meet the rightwing power players lurking beneath Silicon Valley's liberal facade Read more One thing is certain: countries where rentiers gain the upper hand gradually fall into decline.
(14) Even paragons of modern progress like Apple, Amazon, Google , Facebook, Uber and Airbnb are woven from the fabric of rentierism.
(15) Meanwhile, those same authorities prostrate themselves before luxury property developers, Chinese business conglomerates and buy-to-let rentiers.
(16) But as Thomas Piketty suggests in his study of inequality in the late capitalist age, there is something decidedly pre-modern about this phase neoliberalism, with its plutocrats, oligarchs and rentiers back in full swing.
(17) When a subsistence minimum is needed at every period of life, the rentier paradoxically is least risk tolerant in youth--the Robert C. Merton paradox that traces to the decline with age of the present discounted value of the subsistence-consumption requirements.
(18) There's no hit on inheritance and capital gains of the very comfortable; little will to ensure corporations pay more taxes; and no blows to the rentier class that exploits our housing shortage.
(19) He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers.
(20) Wiener, like many a leftwinger, argued that this came from the English middle class's love affair with its betters, the usually fulfilled desire of every factory owner to become a country gent, a rentier rather than producer.