(1) His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital.(2) The rainmaker was paid $100 a day to create rain.(3) Desperate and near-starvation, the village elders grasp their final straw: they gather up the little wealth left in the village and, sight-unseen, hire a rainmaker .(4) Other investment banks are also rearranging themselves so that a new breed of rainmaker can emerge in the City.(5) As a senior partner and co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, he was a campaign finance rainmaker , and that gave him entrée.(6) One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi.(7) I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race.(8) There's not all that much to love about rainy days unless you're a droughty farmer or rainmaker , but we're neither, yet we love rainy days and get lots of them.(9) Gray was happy to play rainmaker among his fellow Internet entrepreneurs; some of them were his customers, and city officials referred others.(10) The region was in the grip of a fearful drought and since news of my recent success as a rainmaker had reached them, they wanted me to go there and perform my magical rain dance.(11) That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares.(12) In the context of private practice, many of the potential objective measures, like rainmaking or trial experience, would work against women, due in part to other forms of discrimination and stereotyping.(13) The power of its practices could also be used for purposes other than religious advancement, such as healing, rainmaking , acquisition of wealth, national protection, and so on.(14) Most of them don't seem to be in it - at least in any immediate sense - for the purposes of future rainmaking .(15) Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds.(16) Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking .
