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  • People are assuming that regulations are being created or implemented which are favorable to particular mine-owner visions of what they ought be, versus, say, more worker - or public-oriented visions.

    Matthew Yglesias » Corporate Friends 2009

  • Daylight, the wealthy mine-owner, was loyal to his class affiliations.

    Chapter XII 2010

  • The development project with mine-owner Wings Enterprises Inc. comes as concerns heighten about China's tight grip on production of metals such as yttrium required in hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, flat panel televisions, defense missiles and satellites.

    Glencore Backs Rare Earths Mining Project Robert Guy Matthews 2010

  • The most controversial was the South African mine-owner Sir Joseph Robinson, who had paid £30,000 for his peerage.

    Blair and Lloyd George 2006

  • At the old St. Nicholas Hotel, which stood on the west of Broadway between Spring and Broome streets, there were stopping at this time Jervis Langdon, a wealty coal-dealer and mine-owner of Elmira, his son Charles and his daughter Olivia, whose pictured face Samuel Clemens had first seen in the Bay of Smyrna one September day.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • As chance had it, they chose a pair which had just taken to their berths: a young Californian and his sister, returning from a visit to their father, an extensive mine-owner in Peru.

    THE PLAGUE SHIP 1993

  • His object was 'to put the iron heel on the neck of both mine-owner and Native'.

    Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13 Ray Esther 1969

  • In a new enterprise, even when the expense of an experiment is undertaken by the inventor, the loss to the mine-owner in case of failure must be very great, both in time and general running expenses.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • Never was a man more proud of his son than was Mortimer Arbuckle of Dick, or more grateful than was the mine-owner to Pawnee Brown for his courageous and marvelous work in clearing up the mystery.

    The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Ralph Bonehill

  • From now on I'm a business woman, a mine-owner, and all other adventures are out.

    The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure Lizette M. Edholm

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