Sentences with phrase «tank groups who»

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Meads, who normally buys older tanks from the Ministry of Defence and owns about 130 vehicles, said that he bought the bus from a research group within the department.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

While the new Marlins ownership group hasn't exactly instilled confidence in locals, longtime fans, or their own players, continuing to keep players on the roster who have repeatedly expressed frustration about being part of a team that looks to tank in 2018 and struggle to be successful for a few seasons after that would be escalating an already tense situation.

When we created the Civic Movement it was actually a group of people who were part of a think tank on what to do after the crisis.

The BNI report, however, has been criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

Labor - backed groups who oppose the foundation cried foul, and noted that Schwartz denounced the group as a right - wing think tank when it set New York's ranking at 50th.

The BNI report was criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

The panel consisted of Senators David Carlucci, Jeff Klein and Diane Savino, who consulted members of public interest groups, think tanks and other nonpartisan organizations on the impact of a campaign finance reform package proposed by members of the legislature's Independent Democratic Conference.

Dear President Juncker, The co-signatories of this letter represent a broad group of business associations, civil society, think tanks and other organisations who are working together to bring strong support to the EU's commitment to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement objectives.

The two stranded soldiers who were transporting the deceased, Captain Sturges (Brian Krause) and Sergeant Underwood (Rocky DeMarco), and the desert town's respected Sheriff Beaumont (C. Thomas Howell) assume leadership of the diverse group of diners, transporting them to the safest refuge their truck's dwindling gas tank will allow.

It seems unthinkable that our most prized Oscars punching bag, the man who tanked the ceremony in 2011, would not only return as a nominee, but would be welcomed back with open arms by the same group of critics who once characterized his work as «somewhere halfway between a graduate thesis and a video installation.»

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Starring: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort Directed by: Josh Boone Two teenagers, one who relies on an oxygen tank and the other with a prosthetic leg, meet and fall in love at a cancer support group.

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

She mentions new - media artist Daniel Canogar, who worked as a Montalvo fellow and connected with Palo Alto, California, venture capital group The Hive to become part of the group's think tank.

Young British Artists group exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, who commission The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in a tank of formaldehyde.

Sadly, in recent years we have become accustomed to a ritual in which the publication of each new result on anthropogenic climate change is greeted by a flurry of activity from industry - funded lobby groups, think tanks and PR professionals, who try to discredit the science and confuse the public about global warming.

In this case, for everyone to see, it is the interconnection of think tanks and groups funded by foundations and companies controlled and supported by the Kochs — as anyone who knows how to use Google can plainly see.

The latest look at the issue comes from Energy Post editor Karel Beckman, who draws on a recent report from the Energy Watch Group (EWG), an independent Berlin - based think tank.

Roger Bate was a think - tank staffer with an economics degree who has held a variety of positions in libertarian lobby groups including the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) and European Science & Environment Forum (ESEF) in the UK and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in the United States.

«A group of climate skeptics who weighed in on climate lawsuits in California revealed their recent funding, and court documents show their donors are a mix of fossil fuel companies and conservative think tanks.»

As per the Climate Action Plan — written in 1998 as a blueprint for sceptic industry action — the think tanks gathered together a group of hand - picked «independent» scientists who were «not usually published in the mainstream journals».

August 2, 2002 The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow was one of a group of right - wing think tanks including Americans for Tax Reform, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute who lobbied for President Bush to boycott the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

A study of major U.S. newspapers found that up to 1994, climate scientists who were highly respected by their peers were cited considerably more frequently than the skeptics associated with conservative think tanks, but after 1995, as the conservatives grew more active, newspapers cited the two groups about equally.

According to Kert Davies, the director of research for Greenpeace in the US, the Kochs have spent more than $ 50m since 1998 on «various front groups and think tanks who... oppose the consensus view that climate change is real, urgent and we have to do something about it».

Finally, opposition is bolstered by a variety of stakeholders who just aren't convinced that Yucca Mountain is the answer, among them, citizen, environmental groups, and think tanks.

SCL Elections, according to the document, traces its origin to «a group of renowned academics and a consortium of international investors [who] collaborated to establish the first academic think - tank specialising in the Science of Communication.»