Sentences with phrase «people over the coals»

We're talking out of both sides of our mouth when we rake people over the coals for not being consistent relative to belief & behavior and yet are unwilling to applaud this kid.

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The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

So, it's not so much about the act of walking over burning hot coals, but about having people face and overcome something in spite of fear.

Very few people every attempt to cook over the delicious coals produced by a wood fire.

I was raked over the coals, with people analyzing my scarf, my jewelry, my tears.

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

It's been my experience — I've worked all over rural America on coal and climate change — that when people meet me and hear I what I work on, people have a lot of questions.

According to the World Health Organization, around 3 billion people around the world cook and heat their home with solid fuels (wood and coal) or cook over open flames.

At least Holly, myself, Lara, and Hannah have the ovaries to continually put our work out there into the world, at the risk of getting raked over the coals by people like you.

The Type of Author Who Will Have the Most Successful Campaigns Is: • Willing to be involved and engaged • Active on social media • A team player • Realistic about their expectations • Friendly with fellow authors in the industry • Has an appreciation for booksellers • Willing to walk over hot coals to meet one fan, versus only doing something with an audience of 1,000 people • Patient, understanding that publicity is a marathon, not a sprint.

Authors who are willing to walk over hot coals to meet one fan, versus only doing something with an audience of 1,000 people, is a useful quality for book publicity campaigns.

Set in a Steampunk version of the 1800s with everything having gone to an iced - over hell due to a sudden ice age which somehow snuck up on humanity people have decided to leave the cities in order to found new homes using large generators, massive machines that burn coal to provide some warmth amidst conditions reaching -70 c.

I mean, between the retail release and the free PS + version, they should have anticipated MILLIONS of people raking their servers over the coals... and yet, they couldn't even accommodate their paying customers?

But every Dowd review I've read typically includes a thread of people raking him over the coals for making cromulent but unpopular assertions.

122 Jon Kirwan: Coal fired power plants are killing over a million people each year.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

Now, many people opposing greenhouse - gas restrictions are on the warpath over your reference to death trains and crematoria in your argument for freezing coal - plant construction to avoid dangerous human - driven warming.

There are many people online who have zero financial interest in promoting the use of coal or drilling in ANWR or any other energy or environmental position one could name, yet they blog about it endlessly, leave comments all over the «net, etc..

«The pollution from burning coal and from the coal that is extracted here affects people all over the world.»

Progressively over that span, the panel's reports have raised the likelihood that people, mainly by burning billions of tons of coal and oil, have been the main force responsible for global warming since 1950 and that a lot more warming, coastal retreats and shifting weather are in the offing under business as usual.

Frankly, I think one could write the perfect story on global warming, or create the perfect documentary, and repeat it over and over, and still not see much movement if the goal is to rapidly shift society out of its coal - fired comfort zone as the world heads toward 9 billion people.

The coal industry continues to fight for profits over people, even though coal ash is extremely toxic.

At the National People's Congress a few days ago, the Washington Post reported Chinese officials «said they would cut coal consumption by 160 million tons over the next five years.»

Over the next two decades, when science says aggressive steps must be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, several hundred million people in the world will be getting electricity for the first time — and a lot of it will be fueled by coal.

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's licoal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's liCoal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

«Some people propose sequestering the CO2 from coal deep into the earth, but, I mean, do you want to live over land with high - pressure CO2 underneath it?

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

And for those of you who aren't in Tennessee but who live reasonably close to a coal plant or know people who do, Environmental Health News has a list of over 100 news stories from around the country, a significant number of which are regional papers reporting on the risk of similar collapses in their communities.

«The Power Past Coal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to dirty coal and oil export projeCoal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to dirty coal and oil export projecoal and oil export projects.

To reduce ozone levels, people can exert tighter control over many activities that release methane into the air, from cattle farming to waste - water treatment to coal mining.

The enemies of progress seize upon these to distract people, just as they get people all worked up about incredibly marginal issues of windmill - death and windmill - noise and windmill - bird - slaughter, as if windmills had any disadvantages over coal besides visibility.

Murray Energy Corporation is the largest privately owned coal company in the United States, producing approximately seventy - six million tons of high quality bituminous coal each year, and employing over 6,000 people in six states.

The new power link will supply enough capacity to meet the annual power consumption needs of over 10 million people, and will significantly help reduce coal consumption in the region, thus mitigating intense carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions.

Murray Energy Corporation is the largest privately owned coal company in the United States, producing approximately 76 million tons of high quality bituminous coal each year, and employing over 6,000 people in six states.

People all over the world are taking action to demand Japan stop financing fossil fuels and halt the Batang coal project.

(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

While the war on coal in the United States has taken its toll, with the closure of over 250 coal - fired power plants, and a resulting increase in what people pay for their electricity, the price of natural gas will likely rise to where coal will be competitive.

As a summary, I would remark what Stefan says by the end: it's not morally acceptable to tell poor people all over the world that they can't have access to a cheap source of energy like coal or gas.

Reports from the ground indicate Baruva village is under consideration as a possible site, despite the fact it is located near Sompeta — the village that «launched» the anti-coal movement in India when over 3,000 people rose up to stop a coal plant.

Then they can focus on supporting our most powerful energy sources — coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro - power — in order to end the scourge of energy poverty that afflicts over one billion people across the world.»

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that would no doubt alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal - ash spill in 2008.

There, over 115,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple to stop using coal to power its cloud.

Nearly three billion people cook over open fires fueled by wood, dung, coal, or charcoal.

Toxins such as heavy metals, asbestos (when inhaled), toxic gasses and chemicals; silicate dust, hay dust or smoke when inhaled in large quantities or over a long period (smoke and dust from coal burning kills millions of people each year);

Medical device companies love people that have walked over the hot coals of a difficult product (not service) sales job that involves high cold calling, and an economic sales component to «the sales pitch» and survived the high rejection rate that accompanies this type of sale.

How many times have there been people in blackface in the media being hauled over the coals of late?