Sentences with phrase «like coal miners»

Its not like the coal miners are struggling for a buck at the moment!

While a large part of the world still considers homosexuality a crime punishable by sentences as severe as death, Great Britain during the 1980s was divided, with macho organizations like coal miners unmistakably in the camp of homophobes.

Not exact matches

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

Amy Schumer put her freshly - forged Hollywood connections to good use last night in a biting sketch that points out just how much of the industry's female talent is wasted on barely - there roles like concerned wife of sniper or concerned wife of trapped coal miner.

One company it likes is South32, the alumina, silver, nickel and coking coal miner that was recently spun out of resources giant BHP Billiton.

In the episode above, after sharing a wise tech prediction, Ashen looks at several «forgotten» British video games from the»80s, such as SCAB, a short but cutting action title from the North Dereham Workers Liberation Party depicting «what life as a coal miner was like in [Margaret] Thatcher's Britain.»

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

Miners, politicians and local business owners spoke of coal like they would an old friend, a Wyoming character both dependable and indispensable.

Other Bitcoin miners have moved to places with cheap hydro power like Iceland or Manitoba, but Australia can't seem to dig or burn enough coal, and is still investing in new mines.

Lindzen stands out like a gilded lightning rod atop a pyramid whose scientific facade is propped up by a rubbly Flintstone fill of politically appointed TV weathermen, geologists, and mining engineers righteously defending the turf (and production prospects) of coal and tar sand miners.