Sentences with phrase «oil barons for»

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

Polite Canadians are easy prey for U.S. oil barons I've learned a lot about compromise over the last few decades.

I believe that but for these sheikhs, and oil barons, we would have had a similar dominance period, or at least shared it with manu.

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.

Peter Riegert plays an American lawyer dispatched by his oil - baron boss to Scotland to secure the site for their next refinery.

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-...]

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...

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.

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.»

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.

Or, for that matter, the ritzy rear seating that looks to be fit for a king, oil baron, or sheikh.

For instance, at a time when oil was shipped by rail, the oil baron John Rockefeller used his influence over the Pennsylvania rail board to get a covert, dual pricing system.

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.

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.

Quail hunting happens to be a popular Texas pastime for well - to - do cowboys and oil barons; that's why quail eggs are fairly common to any Whole Foods or high - end restaurant here.

Much as with the tobacco companies, the oil barons are well aware that misinformation is great for business.

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.

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.

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.

This is a phone for the super rich, for oil barons and oligarchs and literal royalty.

Derek takes a look at a $ 6000 Android handset from luxury phone maker Vertu — a phone for movie stars, oil barons and royalty.

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...