Sentences with phrase «of oil baron»

Based on true events and scripted by Rob McEveety, the film tells the story of an oil baron who gets into a destructive standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Christopher Plummer, who recently portrayed Scrooge in «The Man Who Invented Christmas», takes - on the role of the oil baron — and modern - day miser.

Sophie Marceau is Elektra, the beautiful daughter of an oil baron, and Denise Richards is the sexy Christmas Jones -LRB-!)

Chelsea are also accused of having «plastic fans» that magically appeared in the early noughties, weirdly coinciding with the arrival of Oil baron extraordinaire, Roman Abramovich.

I doubt many climate skeptics are in the pay of oil barons.

The populist notion that all climate sceptics are either in the pay of oil barons or are right - wing ideologues, as is suggested for example by studies such as Oreskes and Conway (2011), can not be sustained.

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One other development Canadian oil barons are enthusiastic about is the appointment of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold - crazed forty - niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza.

Among those culpable industrialists, if Thomas's theory is true, is the family of the man who now signs his paychecks — Chiefs founder and owner Lamar Hunt, son of Texas oil baron H.L. Hunt.

Not even the Premier League, of Russian oligarchs and oil barons, have seen this presumed desecration of footballing integrity.

Now these people aren't ordinary people, they are the higher echelon of campaign staff — the kind of people who can put together a successful ground operation, but for one reason or another these folks were left hanging in a lurch by the billionaire oil baron.

Ahead of its season premiere on FX next month, a second trailer has arrived online for Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy's upcoming anthology series Trust which is based on the story of the real life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson) and stars Donald Sutherland as oil baron J. Paul Getty alongside Hilary Swank, Brendan -LSB-...]

Paul's divorced mother, Abigail Harris Getty (Michelle Williams), is frantic when she receives the call from her son's kidnappers but doesn't have that kind of money, so she hopes that her wealthy father - in - law, painting - collecting oil baron J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), would without question pay the kidnappers to have his grandson set free.

Phantom Thread comes a decade after the fruitful collaboration of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day - Lewis in the robber - baron epic There Will Be Blood, adapted from Oil!

Ahead of its season premiere on FX next month, a second trailer has arrived online for Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy's upcoming anthology series Trust which is based on the story of the real life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson) and stars Donald Sutherland as oil baron J. Paul Getty alongside Hilary Swank, Brendan Fraser, and Michael Esper; watch it here...

Walter is walking through the old office of Kermit the Frog when he overhears a conversation between oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) and his Muppet goons, where Tex reveals his plans to take over the property and tap into the oil reserve underneath.

Which was, of course, a major treat for Mark Bridges, who's done the wardrobes for all of director Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, among them the disco porn business epic «Boogie Nights,» turn - of - the - last - century psycho oil baron drama «There Will Be Blood» and psychedelic era mystery «Inherent Vice.»

, this epic tale of money, power and family cast an Oscar - winning Daniel Day - Lewis as prospector - turned - oil - baron Daniel Plainview, with explosive results.

Sure, it has cutscenes that set up each episode, but they never extend beyond «Trembles has become an oil baron and wants to kill Naughty, punish him for this» or «Sunbeam accidentally called down a horde of aliens, teach him what's what».

When he discovers an evil oil baron's plan to destroy the studio in order to drill for oil, he works with Kermit and the rest of The Muppets to put on a show to save their property.

He's unlikely to find much in common with the frumpy stoner detective of «Inherent Vice,» the quasi-Scientologists of «The Master,» the oil barons in «There Will Be Blood» or the porn stars of «Boogie Nights.»

There Will Be Blood charted the strange obsession between a monomaniacal oil baron and a Christian pastor which climaxed in an act of phallic battery with a bowling pin.

When the oil baron Henry Huttleston Rogers built an elegant brick and stone high school in 1906 as a gift to his hometown of Fairhaven, Mass., he probably never expected it to become the focus of an emotional community debate nine decades later.

Amazon's a bit like the late nineteenth - century robber barons of steel, rail and oil.

He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds.

But there was a California surfer dude accent (apparently this narrator's version of how teenagers sound - even from small - town Maine), southern oil barons (this is what evil guys sounded like - again, even if born and raised in Maine)- and the WORST was the idea that apparently all children under teenage had stuffed noses - always.

As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds — of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists — that have also been forgotten.

Read a bit of history, and you'll find that's precisely what the late nineteenth century robber barons in oil, steel and rail did.

I'm not sure the mass market wants to pay $ 700 a month to avoid paying the oil barons of the world.

Whether you choose the Leon Russell Room, Tulsa Art Deco Room, Route 66 Suite, Oil Barons Suite, or any of our other elegant rooms, you will find opportunities to experience a piece of history during your stay.

From its origins as a residence for well - heeled oil barons in the late 20's to its current standing as the city's best address, the Ambassador Hotel Tulsa has always offered the best of both worlds: convenience to, and an escape from, the energy and exuberance of downtown Tulsa, OK.

This includes a voodoo priestess, a kung - fu master carved out of jade and appropriately named The Beardmaster, a balloon - busted brothel madam, a literally pot - bellied oil baron, and the barely justified Wavy Tube Man.

Our largest oil and gas barons, the Koch brothers — two of the richest men on earth, and among the largest leaseholders on Canada's tar sands — have promised to deploy three - quarters of a billion dollars in this year's contest.

The setting was the verdant grounds of an arts - and - science foundation started half a century ago by Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the political aisle, those oil barons the Koch brothers and that fossil fuel front group the US chamber of commerce are pushing for early approval.

Then again, oil baron Harold Hamm, a key Trump energy adviser and rumored contender for energy secretary, recently said of solar and wind, «None of it should be subsidized, none of it.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

As our former Minister of Agriculture from the Green Party, Renate Künast, once said: «Farmers will be the oil barons of the future!»

I'm going to COP23 as part of the People's Delegation to show that the American people are still in, that we're ready to fight back against Trump and his regressive policies, and that we refuse to let wealthy CEOs and oil barons lead us down the path of destruction.»

A short animation detailing the effort of billionaires oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation that threatens their profits.

How much did the oil baron kings of the UAE really care about clean energy?

Those of us who have had to refer to Ballem's masterpiece, The oil and gas lease in Canada (now in its third edition) and his pioneering work on fiduciary duties in the 1963 Alberta Law Review, will likely not realize that he was also the author of fourteen novels (The Devil's Lighter, The Dirty Scenario, The Judas Conspiracy (reissued as Alberta Alone), The Moon Pool, Sacrifice Play, The Marigot Run, Oilpatch Empire, Death Spiral, The Barons, Manchineel,... [more]

Flying cars can be very expensive to produce, and so far many of the projects in the works seem geared more toward oil barons than gas station attendants.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...

At the time B.C. was the only jurisdiction in Canada with that rule and the industry feared that wily Alberta Realtors, unfettered by notions of singular professionalism, would cross-border poach while relying on their other jobs as cattle ranchers and oil barons to supplement their income.