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...“We always say that we are builders, not holders,” Sawiris said. “We build assets....
...Gustaf Mannerheim, the Finnish member of this club, possesses similar qualities — a nation-builder in times of extraordinary peril, a courageous man who towered over his contemporaries, but no saint....
...Such was my graceless grumble when I saw that Ridley Scott had likened the writer of the Civil Code, the great decimaliser and school-builder, to Hitler and Stalin....
...Arévalo, known as a consensus-builder who speaks English, French and some Hebrew, must govern a country where many citizens have lost confidence in the state and journalists and human rights defenders live...
...The “not in my backyard” (Nimby) brigade may regard that as a victory for local democracy. But England’s planning drought will merely store up problems....
...For the UK, it’s a lot of booze and builders — never to be mixed....
...“Local democracy is really important and public decisions should be transparent,” she adds....
...Chart du jour: Shaky foundations Despite Germany’s lack of suitable homes, builders in the country are facing a “perfect storm” of expensive raw materials and increased borrowing costs, leading to many...
...Builders seeing a new unity locally will review their own delivery programmes too. The lesson is this....
...US president Joe Biden, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and other world leaders are scheduled to arrive on Friday for the two-day meeting of leading economies at a time when discord between democracies and...
...Builder Taylor Wimpey said buyers were taking on longer-term mortgages....
...Western democracy has a personnel problem. It has been in the works all century....
...But sitting there, positioned between the US billionaires and representatives of Chinese power, Li looked like the bridge builder he’d been spoken of as 20 years earlier....
...Alongside them, populists in the mould of Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Narendra Modi have been challenging liberal democracy from within....
...Analysts said that the ANC fears losing its biggest electoral asset and a consensus-builder in a party riven by schism....
...It published a correction when she pointed out that her father is a retired builder and her mother is a teacher. “I went to a state school in Swansea,” she told me, affronted....
...Sue Gray the bridge builder also sounds to me a really interesting proposition. [MUSIC PLAYING] And that’s it for this episode of the FT’s Political Fix....
...Early internet builders like Zuckerman found that web pages made by users themselves, user-generated content, told you things about their creators....
...Established ministers, builders of businesses — these hopefuls aren’t clowns and that is what is so ominous....
...In the UK the figures for self-builders are almost negligible and the government has been relying on scale housebuilders to solve the housing problem for decades....
...Just as with the gigayacht builders, skippers and managers come from a short list of stable, liberal, boat-y democracies, friendly to the US and the EU....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the most famous “Builder Back Better”, but Herbert Hoover had his public works projects....
...Speaking to the Financial Times by phone, Aliyev’s son, Talant, said his father was a peaceful activist who had participated in pro-democracy demonstrations in the past, leading to a charge of extremism....
...The fact of having built, whether in marble or steel, is a victory for the builder. “The people that developed that ended up with the last laugh,” Mike says....
...“She doesn’t scare people so much,” says Nicolas Koutseff, a 42-year-old builder from the southern port of Toulon....
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