Sentences with phrase «thinktank which»

Idso is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a thinktank which has been funded by ExxonMobil.

The backlash against a report which called for people to move from poor northern cities to London has triggered a massive backlash from the Conservative party, which has close links with the thinktank which produced it.

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The centre - left thinktank's study, which challenges the orthodoxy of pursuing a stable inflation rate at the expense of everything else, envisages a major improvement in employment among 18 - to 24 - year - olds and those aged between 50 and 64.

We analyse Blair's speech to the centre - left Progress thinktank and conclude that Blair's biggest legacy is a style of political language which has made obfuscation easier and political vision harder.

Osborne is already facing calls from the centre - right thinktank Policy Exchange to include «a strong set of fiscal rules» in the charter, which would look to impose strict spending restrictions on future governments in order to reduce the national debt.

Lord Ashdown, co-chair of the IPPR thinktank's commission on national security which delivered its interim report today, warned the transfer of power from west to east and the growth of lawless spaces presented serious challenges to the changing international system.

«No 10 just hasn't been the engine room of government in the way it was under Blair and Brown,» says Akash Paun of the Institute for Government thinktank, which will be carefully monitoring the development of exactly this problem over the rest of 2013.

Thinktanks like the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Demos are leading the assault against the conferences, which have dominated British politics throughout the early autumn period for decades.

At a packed rally hosted by the Progress thinktank, Ms Blears also renewed her implicit criticism of Gordon Brown originally made to the Independent on Sunday, in which she said the prime minister needed to demonstrate more «emotional intelligence».

The debate came as the centre - left thinktank the Fabian Society released research which showed that Britain could see a near doubling of the number of black and Asian MPs at the next election, taking the total from 15 to at least 25.

The independent review, to be led by the intelligence and military thinktank the Royal United Services Institute, will look at the proportionality of the data gathered for surveillance purposes and the legal framework in which this happens.

The thinktank Progress urges the new Labour leader to set out an agenda which is «post-Blair, not anti-Blair, building on the achievements of the past decade, not running away from them».

«The world of the 21st century is one in which the British are going to have some clout and are going to have some idea of how to give themselves a platform to exercise that clout,» he told a fringe event organised by the ResPublica thinktank.

In particular, he expressed disappointment that the party was handed the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank's two - year Condition of Britain report, then chose to emphasise that it would adopt a policy of reforming benefits for 18 - to 21 - year - olds, which he branded «fairly cynical and punitive».

[20][21] In 2012, he published a pamphlet through the thinktank Demos called Stop the Union Bashing: Why Conservatives Should Embrace the Trade Union Movement, which relayed the history of trade unionism in the Conservative Party, and called for these links to be revived.

Sobków cited research in a report by the Open Europe thinktank, which has called for in - work benefits for migrants to be curbed for two to three years.

The Education Datalab thinktank, which has done research into the progression of students from year 12 to 13, said the St Olave's case was part of a broader pattern of behaviour which «a minority» of sixth forms are engaging in.

People like Andrew Bolt are still going on about the 1997 Oregon petition, in which a lot of people (about 1 per cent of whom had any more relevant qualifications than I do) agreed with a misleading statement sent out by a lunatic - fringe thinktank, and were then quoted as «scientists who reject global warming».

Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science which I plan to review soon, gives chapter and verse and the whole network of thinktanks, politicians and tame scientists who have popularised GW contrarianism, Intelligent Design and so on.

I would be very interested in finding out which current «phoney grass root organisations» and «thinktanks» that Richard Littlemore of DeSmogBlog is thinking of.

The problem is when fossil fuel industries funnel money to the policymakers themselves and the thinktanks that provide them with information, which is for the purpose of favoring those industries when policies are made or blocked, especially if built on the dubious scientific standards of their thinktanks.

Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1 % subject us.

Only slightly off - subject: the Guardian's environment editor John Vidal has just published dire predictions of future temperatures worse than Monbiot's worst wet dreams, issuing from an MIT Global Change (that's what they call themselves) thinktank, which is financed by ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Electricité de France, among others.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe / PA Ministers have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK's climate targets.

Peabody's filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative thinktanks and organisations.

By 2010, the dark money amounted to $ 118m distributed to 102 thinktanks or action groups which have a record of denying the existence of a human factor in climate change, or opposing environmental regulations.

Dustin Benton senior policy adviser at green thinktank Green Alliance, which published a report on CCS rollout last year, tells Carbon Brief:

The Desire 310 is priced at around Rs. 11000 in the Indian market, and for that price point, this is a pretty good smartphone for someone concerned about the brand value more than what is included within the device, because in comparison to this, there are quite a lot of smartphone which have a better camera, although the design of the Desire 310 is quite an attraction, thanks to the HTC's design thinktank.