Sentences with phrase «coal face»

At every opportunity, Roberts, a former coal face miner, has claimed there is «no empirical evidence» to show that carbon dioxide from burning the coal that he used to dig up affects the climate.

Coal faces all those problems and more.

«At the coal face we are still seeing increased confidence from bidders and greater receptiveness from targets than in the past few years.»

After two decades at the coal face, Scott Parker has announced his retirement from professional football today.

I was recently invited to provide witness evidence to the public accounts select committee at the House of Commons to discuss the findings of the report on the PBS and provide input as to my personal experience as an immigration lawyer from the «coal face».

Proponents say that today energy utilities find greater benefit in a technology that puts the financial risk up front, in the construction cost, and has little vulnerability to later swings in the price of fuel, as natural gas does, or to changes in emissions regulations, as coal faces.

This is not helped by continued reference to «best practice» by those who are no longer at the coal face day - after - day or who have never actually been there.

And Robertson's views are shared at the coal face.

As a student of the University of Canterbury, studying towards a Masters in Education (eLearning specialisation) she is focused on keeping up to date with the current pedagogical theories, the needs of teachers at the coal face and all the learners in our diverse communities.

So when everyone has finished putting the boot into exam markers, their standards and whether or not the system is working, all I can say is that those of us in the system trying to make it work at the coal face are doing our best in very difficult circumstances.

In the mean time there is a very concerned local community here in Bali willing to donate their time and energy to cleaning at the coal face.

Gilmore is the head of the studio and not at the coal face so to speak but the corollary that he asserts regarding the supposed organic development of cinematic approaches in games is a tad spurious.

And much of the work... artists, though there is an army of women running our contemporary gallery system at the coal face.

«He has been a long - time slogger at the coal face of culture and he deserves to be on the shortlist,» he said.

He said, «It was from a publicity shot so we had touched up a few areas along the coal face (nothing affecting height / width / scale, etc.» I have sent a note on this to our photo editors.]

While specimen sampling and Related activities are ultimately the main purpose of the trip, some of us might like to see some more footage (also including scientists at the «coal face») from a place we may never get to physically see.

Finally there is a cry from the heart — remember these quotes all come from IPCC lead authors, the guys at the coal face if we still dare cut coal — which says, «there are too many committees and working groups and way too much time spent talking!»

These megatrends are inevitably being felt at the coal face, so to speak, of modern business.

He added: «These companies call in outside lawyers, who make a lot of money by doing an investigation and are the first to interview key witnesses at the coal face, then claim privilege — it is absolutely ludicrous.»

According to Davis LJ, he had courteously but firmly insisted that to understand CPR 3.18 on budgeting and management there had to be an understanding of the «realities» and for that purpose it was necessary to be at the «coal face» of costs management decision making.

An Executive Order is a high - level strategy, the coal face execution thereof by the thousands of people empowered to enforce it, is as different every time as the officers trying to interpret it.

If you have lots of images this method is the «bad method» akin to running at the coal face as described by the miner who «never had the Latin for the judging» in Beyond the Fringe.

Those at the coal face of the business know how wrong this is.

Barry Wilkinson of Wilkinson Read & Partners is at the coal face of the BigLaw challenge in the UK and very well placed to comment.

It is the in the process of developing two home - grown tools as CEO Mark Rigotti tells us: «We are tilting towards business - driven solutions that are developed internally at the coal face.»

Then there's running at the coal face with your «ead — one of the worst methods, know as the Bad Method of getting out coal.

The fact that this is a book written by judges working at the coal face of costs shines through on every page.

Imagine a legal business model for the franchisee where there are NO existing solicitors firms already at «the coal face» with potential conflict where uniform brand, values, quality, outdated fee structures and legacy systems, policies and governance would be an issue.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would also help the tabloid press understand that the typical legal aid lawyer is not a fat cat but a dedicated professional, working at the coal face at ever decreasing margins, who does a wonderful job for vulnerable people for little (and often no) reward.

On the other hand, it may have been quite some time since the Baby Boomer and Generation X leaders worked so close to the coal face of the business, making it sometimes more difficult for them to understand a Millennial leader's standpoint or perspective.

It'll hopefully give you a nice idea of where I am geographically, as well as emotionally / mentally, with later blogs giving you an insight into how I'm preparing myself for the return to Blighty, and the impending return to the coal face.

You will join our retail professionals, our Store Managers and their management teams, at the coal face of our business and revenue generation; our Stores.

For example — A LinkedIn profile can be a «resume by stealth», delivering added information at the coal face.

So I suggested we watch his favorite TV program of the moment, Peep Show, then sent him refreshed to coal face.