Sentences with phrase «as thinktank»

Congress can override the president if the House of Representatives and Senate both pass joint - resolutions — a kind of formal statement — as thinktank the Centre for American Progress and blog Climate Progress point out.

«I don't think we're as long - term as some thinktanks; we haven't tried to be,» he says simply.

Not exact matches

During the twilight years of the Clinton administration, a conservative republican thinktank presented the President with a bold statement of principles conceived to advance America's interests as the dominant global empire.

Akash Paun of the thinktank explains: «In a single party government, no matter how divided they may be, as you approach the next election all the incentives are to unify.

will be as important for what's happening in the corridors as for the launch of the actual project,» Clara O'Donnell of the Centre for European Reform (CER) thinktank told politics.co.uk.

Nevertheless questions continue to be asked as to why donations totalling # 50,000 were channelled through the Progressive Policies Forum - a «thinktank» with no staff or publications to its name.

Jill Kirby, the thinktank's director, echoed Mr Morgan's sentiments, saying: «As public and media anxiety builds in anticipation of the comprehensive spending review, it's important to keep a sense of proportion.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

Astle is, perhaps unexpectedly, finding himself working as a director of a thinktank focusing on a party in government.

The left - of - centre thinktank said Labour was on track to see its number of MPs fall below 200 as a result of its poor polling performance and losses in Scotland.

Taking questions after his speech to the Reform thinktank, Mr Fox said: «Those in politics on the other side of the world can huff and puff but it will not change our resolve politically to retain the independence and the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands nor to come to their defence and to maintain deterrence as best we can.

It hasn't taken long for it to start fraying round the edges as MPs, thinktanks and hacks start to get their heads round all those big numbers.

The original aim of universal credit (UC)-- to encourage people to work more hours by letting them keep more of their low wage top - ups as their income rises — has been watered down so much that it risks failing to achieve its original purpose, according to the Resolution thinktank.

The debate came as the centre - left thinktank the Fabian Society released research which showed that Britain could see a near doubling of the number of black and Asian MPs at the next election, taking the total from 15 to at least 25.

Farron's move in a letter to a constituent released at the weekend came as the IPPR thinktank published new research showing the proposed decarbonisation target need not increase energy prices, and the government's alternative of relying on gas will boost bills by as much as # 15.

The thinktank notes: «The government is likely to argue that further bad news on the public finances will only be temporary and that fiscal policy should support monetary policy as the economy slows this year.

A thinktank has dismissed the government's target for cutting NHS waiting times from referral to treatment as an «impossibility».

McCluskey, dismissing Progress as an organisation whose ideas were locked in the past, said he was relaxed about defeating the thinktank in arguments and that the furore was due to the «amount of money being ploughed in» to the group.

The thinktank had argued that Labour's only feasible route into government was with the support of parties such as the Lib Dems and Scottish National party.

Peer to concentrate on charitable causes as Labour thinktank Progress says it will turn to members to make up its shortfall

Philippa Stroud, who is likely to win the Sutton and Cheam seat on Thursday and is head of the Centre for Social Justice, the thinktank set up by the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, has heavily influenced David Cameron's beliefs on subjects such as the family.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage is warned that his party is facing a decade without credible policies, as crippling internal rows rage, and it is suggested that the party should consider buying off - the - shelf strategy from right - leaning thinktanks.

He apparently has the backing of Shadow Energy Secretary Lisa Nandy as well as other left - wing figures such as political commentator Owen Jones and the chair of thinktank Compass, Neal Lawson.

According to an interim report by thinktank LKMCo, the fear of being labelled as a failure is making children feel physically sick before sitting a test.

In what is being billed as a keynote speech to the CentreForum education thinktank, the Ofsted chief is expected to call for a more «inclusive» approach to education.

But Jonathan Simons, head of the education at the right - leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, said drastic falls in Ofsted grades are usually caused by major events such as a change in pupil cohorts, heads leaving, an exodus of teachers or a financial crisis.

While the idea of verification of results is a good (if unexceptional) one, it should be remembered that part of the political tactic of the anti-science politicians in Washington on other issues (see examples in Chris Mooney's book) has been to introduce as many conflicting studies from industry - funded thinktanks as possible, however faulty those studies are, to bury the debate under noise.

Scientists, too, would mostly see the thinktank reports as very thin on actual science.

Though other prominent scientists, such as Nasa's James Hansen and more recently Texas Tech University's Katharine Hayhoe, have also been targetted by contrarian bloggers and thinktanks demanding their institutions turn over their email record, it's Mann who's been the favourite target.

People like Andrew Bolt are still going on about the 1997 Oregon petition, in which a lot of people (about 1 per cent of whom had any more relevant qualifications than I do) agreed with a misleading statement sent out by a lunatic - fringe thinktank, and were then quoted as «scientists who reject global warming».

CG, yes, as you can see by the failure of various industries through the decades to change unfavorable results to them by funding thinktanks or other devices.

Last year, according to a new report from the climate change thinktank E3G, the Chinese invested two and a half times as much as the EU in clean tech.

The Climate and Health Council supports Nasa scientist James Hansen as he joins the campaign to uncover secret funders bankrolling climate sceptic Nigel Lawson and his lobbying think - tank (Climate experts back unveiling of Lawson thinktank donor, 23 January).

Those of us who discuss man - made climate change are cast as elitists by people who happily embrace the claims of Lord Monckton, Lord Lawson or thinktanks funded by ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers: now the authentic voices of the working class.

I think the language of catastrophism, chaos, doom — whatever you like to call it — has actually sobered up, in the UK at least, having peaked about three or four years ago when newspapers such as The Independent ran dramatic front pages on a regular basis, a new umbrella body for activists called Stop Climate Chaos came into existence, Roland Emmerich had the Atlantic Ocean freezing in an instant in The Day After tomorrow, and a leading thinktank lambasted a portion of the British press for indulging in «climate porn».

Peabody's filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative thinktanks and organisations.

On the plus side, Tillerson turned Exxon round from the Raymond days where they funded denialist thinktanks, and he is now funding the AGU and getting climate change recognized as the real deal while also supporting a carbon tax.

re: PolyisTCOandbanned You are likely familiar with the idea of «money - laundering» whether in the formal sense of washing illegal funds, or in the more general sense of moving money around so you can't tell where it came from, as in some political donations and the whole funding complex of thinktanks and and fronts,.

Susan Crockford writes a lot about polar bears, but does so mostly on her own website and for anti-mitigation thinktanks such as the Heartland Institute and the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF); not in the scientific literature.

Unfortunately, it is also hard to ignore that it could be perceived as timely hype given this conservative thinktank's opposition to the carbon tax, what with Salby making his sweeping political statement against the IPCC right on cue.

As special global counsel at A&O, he has continued to play a key role as head of its Global Law Intelligence Unit, a thinktank launched by the firm in 2010 that has carried out major research projects examining the impact of Brexit and the global financial crisiAs special global counsel at A&O, he has continued to play a key role as head of its Global Law Intelligence Unit, a thinktank launched by the firm in 2010 that has carried out major research projects examining the impact of Brexit and the global financial crisias head of its Global Law Intelligence Unit, a thinktank launched by the firm in 2010 that has carried out major research projects examining the impact of Brexit and the global financial crisis.

Bringing Rights Back Home, with foreword by Lord Hoffmann — Policy Exchange: A report by political scientist Michael Pinto - Duschinsky, commissioned by the thinktank Policy Exchange, offers a strong academic criticism of the European Court of Human Rights» current composition and powers, as well as the affects its judgments are having in Britain.

But the reason we've decided to add Airbnb to this list is because as Nelson Chu, founder and CEO of the thinktank Tritan Collective, said when he nominated the platform for our list: «This could serve as a source of very passive income.»