Sentences with phrase «think tankers»

Mashey makes a compelling case that Congress has been misled in the process - which is an offense against the democracy that think tankers claim to love (in addition to being a felony).

After hearing from the totally independent and unbiased politicians and think tankers, it's about time the fossil fuel industry perspective was offered here today.

And money is an important external motivator — a reason why everyone, including teachers and think tankers, work hard each and every day.)

Even with its standing - room - only supply of policy wonks, foundation staff, think tankers, and corporate chiefs, that's a lot.

If today's patriots are a big - tent group of conservatives and social justice warriors, Millenials and baby boomers, think tankers and classroom teachers, then our tyrants are devotees to hyper - partisanship, a one - size - fits - all philosophy, and a mindset that twists «equity» into opportunity for some, not all.

The rankings were restricted to university - based researchers and excluded think tankers (e.g. Checker Finn or Tom Loveless) whose very job is to impact the public discourse.

Senior think tankers.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

A new book by Minnesota think tanker Mitch Pearlstein addresses the issue head on.

That Tavernise ends her story quoting think tanker Douglas Besharov, saying that «No one has the slightest idea what will work.

So is it enough to be what conservative Washington DC think tanker Mike Petrilli once described as «a geographically based Education Week»?

Not exact matches

He insists the refinery could still compete were there no such bitumen tanker ban in place, but that «we think there should be a ban on tanker traffic because it's the right thing to do.»

It was immediately following Christy Clark's surprise victory in the last provincial election, an election many thought would play a large role in the fight against tanker projects on the West Coast.

From the outraged hyperbole frothing from the lips of pro-Kinder Morgan supporters, you would think Premier John Horgan had flipped the Queen the bird with his campaign pledge to «use all the tools in the toolbox to stop» Kinder Morgan's controversial oil tanker - pipeline proposal.

To think that it would not, and that it would instead be exported, you'd have to imagine a tanker floating in to port laden with heavy oil, unloading its cargo, re-loading with Canadian heavy, and sailing out again.

And I just think there will be fewer than 8 tankers next year.

I think we take out the tankers and the other two games we suffer without our superstar center.

Centre republicanism, as I termed it, has strong affinities with «Orange Book» liberalism, and it is striking that one of the think - tankers I linked to this current, Richard Reeves, has now become Nick Clegg's advisor on political strategy.

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

«Poor strategic thinking militates against clear presentation, which was evident in the aftermath of the budget and in response to the possibility of industrial action by tanker drivers.»

Even more ridiculous is the spectacle of Conservative MPs and Conservative - leaning think - tankers trying to use the riots to back up the case for elected police commissioners — just like they did with the scandal over the Met's links to News International — without realising that the Met is precisely the one police force which is already very close to the elected commissioner model.

One illustration of the present government's lack of joined up thinking on preventing terrorism is the large number of oil tankers that for the last year have been anchoring off the East Anglian coast as a result of a series of government decisions or more recently lack of decisions about them.

Over on the wrecked tanker, Casey Affleck gives the kind of measured, thought - out performance he's so eminently capable of, even if the film isn't complex enough to rise to his level.

(I guess that's true for think - tankers, too.)

The worry is that those not in the know willl think that the think - tankers and social media gurus, in particular, are the equals of those who've earned advanced qualifications in Education and who do in fact possess expertise in their areas.

I envisioned a tanker crewman on his night watch unscrewing a burned - out bulb and, without a thought, tossing it over.

So say the Chicago - school economic think - tankers.

Bush and the neocon think - tankers will prove that competent government is impossible if it is the last thing they do.

That means that slowly emerging problems — think sprawl, think the millions of gas - station drips that add up to 1.5 Exxon Valdez tankers a year, and definitely think global warming — often fail to get the space that they probably deserve.

But just because Lomborg is in the centre between the scientists and the think - tankers, doesn't mean that he is right.

But I think we're on the verge of a dramatic shift,» Ball tells the small invited audience of journalists, scientists, think - tankers, lawyers and DC politicos.

He was a life - long think - tanker and commercial lobbyist for a number of major poisoning and polluting industries, and a promoter of an extreme liberatarian ideology.

``... I remember thinking how ironic it was when Greenpeace started using gasoline - powered boats to block oil tankers, or when people drove to protests against oil drilling...» - Interior Secretary and former petroleum engineer Sally Jewell

The meeting, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, is an assortment of climate scientists, economists and free - market think - tankers — some who have impressive credentials, some of whom are listed in the conference program simply as «Scientist» or «Meteorologist.»