Sentences with phrase «oil baron in»

Day - Lewis, an Oscar winner for «My Left Foot,» grabbed another best - actor nomination as a flamboyant oil baron in «There Will Be Blood,» for which he could emerge as the favorite.

the oil barons in Alaska??

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

Arts entrepreneurs won't save the day for every city, but in some spots, they're the new oil (paint) barons.

What is SO REMARKABLE is that How Many Warnings HE has given us — Texas is on FIRE — The SOUTH is in a Forever Drought — The Mississippi Floods — Tornadoes wipe out Cities and STILL we Listen to MORONS that Listen to the HYPNOTISTS paid by the Coal and Oil Barons that try to convince you Global Warming isn't Destroying our Grandchildren's World.

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.

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.

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.

Russian oil baron and tycoon ex-wife in courtroom battle over their # London riverside home Alexei Golubovich and Olga Mirimskaya divorced in Let's talk about sex after divorce.

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!

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The film centers on an unhinged oil baron who gets in a bruising standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm was poisoned by her company.

He's more rigid and less self - aware than Daniel Plainview, the wily oil baron Day - Lewis played in There Will Be Blood, his previous PTA joint.

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.

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

No lily - white coin - flip to Plainview, he's also fascinatingly flawed, a false prophet who becomes an increasingly sore thorn in the oil baron's side.

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.

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.

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.

Geffen, in turn, sold the Johns to Kenneth Griffin in 2006 for $ 80m and completing an exceptional provenance that ran from taxi baron Robert Scull to oil - services heir Francois de Menil, through Newhouse and Geffen to Griffin.

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.

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.

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.

But wait, there's more; in accordance with the President's executive order «promoting energy independence and economic growth,» they have started leasing land around National Parks (they are not allowed to in the parks) to today's Robber Barons for oil and gas development.

Unfortunately, so are the oil barons and their allies in Washington.

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.

She also has sponsored the Canadian Slow Pitch Championship that was held in Fort McMurray, the Fort McMurray Oil Barons Hockey Team, and other minor hockey teams and adult slow pitch recreational league teams.