Sentences with phrase «for oilman»

Istook, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, took 55 percent of the vote to 31 percent for oilman Bob Sullivan, who spent liberally from his own pocket on this his first political race.

Notley was responding to the picture propped up on the Brooks golf course last Friday for an oilmen's golf tournament.

Not exact matches

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.

As a legendary oilman, investor and corporate raider, Pickens has a knack for two things: knowing when to strike and when to play big.

The oilman turned corporate raider was one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout craze of the 1980s, producing huge gains for his investors while becoming one of the richest people in America with a net worth of $ 1.4 billion.

Rob H. Welder, south Texas cattle baron and oilman, drew up a will that proved to be an unusual document for Texas or, for that matter, any other state.

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.

Oilmen bring pumping stations for offshore oil.

A year ago, Roger Wheeler, a Tulsa oilman and chairman of the Telex Corporation, who has a reputation for honesty, bought World Jai - Alai.

Obama's political guru, David Axelrod, ripped the Koch brothers as «billionaire oilmen secretly underwriting what the public has been told is a grassroots movement for change in Washington.»

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

Day - Lewis, 50, won his second best actor Academy Award for his towering performance as a ruthless, malevolent oilman in There Will Be Blood.

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets» former stomping grounds.

Everyone has their own favourite riff to mimic from Day - Lewis's monstrous oilman Daniel Plainview: for some, it's that strange shuffle from the final scene; for others, the furiously bellowed «I drink your milkshake!

Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.

«On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets» former stomping grounds.»

Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood classic is remembered for its famous diner scene, but there's much more to cherish about this character study, which explores the surprising roots of Jack Nicholson's blue - collar oilman.

She emerges from a rapturous, prayerlike state and admits that she had a motive for killing the oilman.

[26] That same year oilman Edward L. Doheny finished construction of Greystone Mansion, a 55 - room mansion meant as a wedding present for his son Edward L. Doheny, Jr..

The commission for the site's sculpture garden — named the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, for the independent oilman and philanthropist and his wife — was awarded to Isamu Noguchi in the same year.

High - profile Texans taking on major roles with the Giuliani campaign include oilman Boone Pickens, who serves as finance chair for the Southwest, and Texas Rangers baseball team owner Tom Hicks, state finance chair.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.

The «Pickens Plan» to move America from oil to natural gas and wind energy, as well as the oilman's proposed taxpayer subsidies for natural gas, proved far more popular with Democrats than Republicans.

George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

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.