Sentences with phrase «group of maverick»

Sadly, the burden invariably falls to that small group of maverick believers in free markets and honest science who don't care about all the brickbats they get for being defenders of «dirty fuel» because they'd rather speak the truth than be popular.

Started over 30 years ago by a group of maverick Nissan engineers, the NISMO name is synonymous with passion, expertise, and the heights of Nissan performance — not to mention decades of racing dominance.

Started by a group of maverick Nissan engineers over 30 years ago, NISMO is synonymous with passion, expertise, and the heights of Nissan performance — not to mention decades of racing dominance.

Started 30 years ago by a group of maverick Nissan engineers, the NISMO name is synonymous with passion, expertise, and the heights of Nissan performance — not to mention decades of racing dominance.

Set in 2093, Nightflyers tells the story of a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who set off on an expedition aboard the spaceship Nightflyer in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system.

A group of maverick computer and espionage experts become involved in a government scheme to steal a piece of advanced code - breaking technology in this lighthearted spy drama.

He and McFadden had joined a small group of mavericks who dared to link biology and quantum physics.

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The week will also feature speakers such as Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine who's now the Aspen Institute's CEO; Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group); General Wesley Clark, and tech entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Mr. Tice and Ms. Hadeka had come close to appearing on the ABC reality show «Shark Tank,» where entrepreneurs pitch their companies to a group of wealthy investors, including Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

He is on the Board of Directors of the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing (US - SIF), he is on advisory boards of Real Impact Tracker and 1 - Earth Institute, on the steering committee of Institutional Investor Educational Foundation, is a member of the UN Green Finance Advisory Group that developed the recently released UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, and was named one of 30 «Eco Rock Stars and Environmental Mavericks» in Origin Magazine.

They had worked out many strategies for dealing with the large number of religious groups who wanted to broadcast their messages, and with the religious mavericks whose fire - and - brim - stone preaching could be dangerously libellous.

The now - defunct Progressive Media USA, a liberal activist group, had done polling on the potential line of attack and concluded that it alone would have little impact against McCain, whose «brand» as a maverick Republican has proved difficult to crack.

Ever since his group decoded the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, a parasitic bacterium that lives in the human urogenital tract, sequencing maverick J. Craig Venter has wanted to remake the bug's genome in the lab.

Men and women between the ages of 45 - 59 were the most risque, or the «Mavericks» of the group, indicating they are the most provocative, adventurous and uninhibited in the bedroom.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

And she draws on recent releases from the Russian archives to challenge the view that the deaths were a unilateral act by a maverick group of the Ekaterinburg Bolsheviks, identifying a chain of command that stretches directly, she believes, to Moscow — and to Lenin himself.

Commenting on the launch, Maverick Shih, president of Acer's BYOC and Tablet Business Group said, «Since the beginning, Acer's mission has been to break down the barriers between people and technology and make the latest technologies accessible to all people.

«As technology has been incorporated more broadly across K - 12 classrooms, schools want to deploy devices that are easy to use, durable, manageable, and budget - friendly, and can be used as the foundation for a lifetime of learning for students,» said Maverick Shih, president of Acer BYOC and Tablet Business Group.

The first two results are a clone of 10 institutional managers selected by Mebane Faber and available with a membership in AlphaClone: Appaloosa Management, Baupost Group, Berkshire Hathaway, Blue Ridge Capital, Eminence Capital, Greenlight Capital, Lone Pine Capital, Maverick Capital, Private Capital Management, and Tiger Global Management.

Furthermore, the show includes collaborative works made with both Melgaard and the artist's mother Randi Koren Bjertnes, as well as a group of painted furniture works by the maverick furniture dealer and artist Robert Loughlin (1949 - 2011.)

Some artists of the period defied categorization, such as Georgia O'Keeffe who, while a modernist abstractionist, was a pure maverick in that she painted highly abstract forms while not joining any specific group of the period.

Frieze March 2008 Makers and Modellers Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA By Katie Sonnenborn While most of Chelsea opted for the de rigueur September solo show, the Gladstone Gallery played the maverick and returned from summer with «Makers and Modellers», a teeming group exhibition of 29 artists working in clay.

Bart V: I have little confidence in any scientist or group of scientists who imagines that they are up against «a well - orchestrated and well - oiled misinformation campaign» when said campaign is actually composed of a hodgepodge of retirees, bloggers, commenters, and maverick scientists, and depends to no small degree on top climate scientists behaving like a combination of Orwell's Ministry of Truth and the Keystone Kops.

During the Philadelphia 76ers vs Dallas Mavericks game's half - time show, the dance group dressed in gold and green, took charge of the court dancing to a Khalibali - Malhar mash - up as they left everyone enthralled.

Matt Bowles is the co-founder of Maverick Investors Group, which helps real estate investors buy performing rental properties in the best real estate markets regardless of where they live.

The Praedium Group, a New York City - based national real estate investment firm, today announced the acquisition of Maverick North Loop Apartments...