The surge in monied donors comes amid a significant drop in contributions among the broader electorate, despite the burst of political energy surrounding the tea party movement. From Wordnik.com. [Despite tea party energy, outside groups funded by Swift Boaters, other old hands] Reference
You see, I represent what he would call the monied aristocracy of. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Wise Man] Reference
As such capitals are commonly lent out and paid back in money, they constitute what is called the monied interest. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Book II. Of Stock Lent at Interest] Reference
How can it be so, when, in all old states, the monied is the prevailing interest which sways the determinations of government?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
But patronizing them (as so many of the "monied" gringos here do) runs up your cost-of-living here appreciably. From Wordnik.com. [Cost of Living in Mexico] Reference
Huntington and other monied men are to this country. From Wordnik.com. [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference
None of them coming across with a patrician air of monied wealth. From Wordnik.com. [CT-SEN: Lieberman Ahead In New Poll] Reference
His choice would look like a cave in to HRC's monied backers to all. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Top Fundraising Official Says There's "Risk" Of Obama Loss If She Isn't Invited To Be Veep] Reference
Bank Shares used to be in great favour with monied men when I was in. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
None but the monied aristocracy would be likely to decline such offers. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
It brings into question a wealth of issues surrounding monied interests. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Campaign Raised $4 Million Online Since Super Tuesday Polls Closed] Reference
Everyone knows their place here, in our city's most monied neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
And yet he was waist deep in monied political schemes with Brown and Root. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Ted Kennedy Endorsing Obama] Reference
In Barbados we notice the same forwardness in founding monied institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The only people who want her are the monied-corruptors of the democratic party. From Wordnik.com. [Kerry Donor: Let's Give The Man Some Credit] Reference
INGRAHAM: Well I think -- we used to think of elites as kind of the monied class. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2003] Reference
None but the monied aristocracy among them, would be likely to decline such offers. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
He was also there with his two attorneys, high powered big monied attorneys out of Denver. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2003] Reference
The doings of these monied men are chronicled as carefully now as the movements of Royalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Four Fingers] Reference
If he could but procure one or two monied men as partners in the house, the thing was settled. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Lamont failed to build on the momentum of the primary by acting like the monied candidate he was. From Wordnik.com. [New Hampshire Dem Senate Candidate Who Backed Lieberman Indy Bid Falsely Claims Obama Did, Too] Reference
He is completely beholden to the monied interests, particularly Wall Street and the war industries. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Hilton Responds To McCain's Ad] Reference
These are the people who most represent those big monied interest that are trying to influence policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007] Reference
Trade never was lower, monied distress never more severe, markets of all sorts never were more rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
That's what happened in 2008 when the monied interests led us up the garden path to the great collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Crocodile Tears on Wall Street] Reference
Their influence with the monied natives was great, and their command of ready cash was proportionably large. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
As a voting bloc in certain States their issues matter, rather than gravitating to the most monied candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue State Florida Makes Jan. 29 Primary Official!] Reference
The monied Anglo-Irish gentry -- the Irish equivalent of Baltimore's blue bloods -- did their banking elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Is Wide] Reference
I went to the Three Arts Club which was a very inexpensive little thing, really run by the monied ladies of New York. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Josephine Wilkins, 1972. Interview G-0063. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Additionally, this system has set-aside facts and efficient solutions in favor of pay-backs for those monied interests. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Has Raised Over $4 Million -- Since Polls Closed Yesterday!] Reference
Everyone coming forward now is saying that grass roots money and support is more important than traditional monied influence. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Endorsing Obama] Reference
'Financial Kings and Exploiters have come together to safeguard the interests of the monied classes at the expense of the worker.'. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 20] Reference
I could go on, but, fact is, these are, for the most part, evil people in the pockets of this country's monied corporate interests. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Blasts Back On Terror, Blames GOP For Bin Laden's Escape] Reference
Mrs. Archie felt that the Hollister name alone should procure for Ethel a monied husband, and she held it constantly before the girl. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl] Reference
However, gender apartheid is often "winked" at, minimized and certainly accepted at the most powerful and monied levels of our society. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger's Potential Bully Pulpit] Reference
I think Washington is an especially virulent aspect of what happens when people in power are only talking to other monied power interests. From Wordnik.com. [‘Hungry for Change’] Reference
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