Sentences with phrase «by oilmen»

The suit's lead plaintiff is a Buffalo leader of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political action group supported by oilmen David and Charles Koch that is linked to the tea party movement.

Established in 1965 by oilman Algur H. Meadows, the Meadows Museum is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in central Dallas.

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I've long thought that an administration chock - full of billionaires, active and retired military officers, and a former oilman would be itching for a war somewhere, and with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump associates getting hotter by the day, the president may well be tempted to wag the dog.

The expedition that found this one significant medal was sponsored by a Fort Worth oilman, F. Kirk Johnson Jr., who, though a novice on the Banner Reef scene, has a certified curiosity — in 1957 he led an expedition into the Himalayas to search for the Abominable Snowman.

Texas oilman and entrepreneur CLINT MURCHISON JR., 63, who founded the Dallas Cowboys in 1960 and owned the team until 1984; of complications caused by pneumonia; in Dallas.

«There Will be Blood,» Paul Thomas Anderson's story of a oilman's rise — based very loosely on a novel by Upton Sinclair — has a beginning but no real end, and a chronologically scattered middle.

J Paul Getty himself had been given short shrift by his own father, an austere mid-western lawyer and oilman who told his son he'd never amount to anything.

In Ridley Scott's fact - based «All the Money in the World,» criminals kidnap a grandson of billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, played by Christopher Plummer.

It finds all of the players in the oil game corrupt and compromised, and even provides a brilliant speech in defense of corruption, by a Texas oilman (Tim Blake Nelson).

Back in the summertime, when a lone liberal Democrat state legislator funded by a local oilman was pushing to bring his tax hike proposal to the ballot, a teachers union member's question was published in the CEA Journal (the union's official «rag»):

Neale's first real piece of automotive art was a painting of a Cadillac Allard, a commission that was arranged by a Kilgore oilman in 1952.

It is rather a novelization of a true - life incident, the kidnapping of oilman Charles Urschel by infamous (hence the title) desperado George «Machine Gun» Kelly.

Next up was Tate chairman Lord Browne, a self - described «oilman,» who trumpeted the fact that the Tanks are just the first phase of an addition that will increase Tate Modern's size by 60 percent.

The quick reaction time by some of the high - cost producers, notably the American shale oil drillers, is why one of the world's foremost oilmen, Sadad Al - Husseini, the former executive vice-president of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil and gas company, is becoming bullish on oil even as Brent prices sink to the low $ 60s.

The epic struggle over clean energy that will define this century has been joined by the unlikeliest of Don Quixotes, ultraconservative oilman T. Boone Pickens.

Iconoclastic oilman George Mitchell, with years of effort that flew in the face of conventional industry wisdom, had earlier succeeded in coaxing gas out of the shale by hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

It's tempting to believe that the Gulf spill, like so many disasters inherited by Obama, was the fault of the Texas oilman who preceded him in office.