Sentences with phrase «wonks in»

It is the end of March so please send the Economics wonks in your life a care package.

See why environmentalists, electric utilities and all those national security wonks in Washington, D.C. are so excited about the plug - in hybrid concept?

Climate policy wonks in the UK spent most of 2017 waiting for the government's Clean Growth Strategy.

What doomed I - 732 was a fissure within the climate movement, with centrist economists and other policy wonks in favor of the initiative and progressive greens opposed.

Wonks in Brussels hail all this as a huge step forward... in reality, it's a pathetic failure.

So the policy wonks in education should not expect their work to get much coverage in the mainstream media.

But a high school in bayou country proved too small for Hess, who's become one of the biggest wonks in the onetime (and sometimes still) swamp that is Washington, D.C.

It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are... Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those films that thoroughly vindicates something film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»

Plans were bound to have been made by pointy headed wonks in backrooms somewhere.

This pits the policy wonks in any organisation, who are experts in their fields and trying to keep doors open with politicians and political processes, against the online advocacy folks who are looking to build a wide public advocacy force.

«What these right - wing policy wonks in their nostalgia for the divisive years of Mrs Thatcher don't understand is that unions do not just benefit their members, but employers and wider society too.

This is not persuasion, even if the «auxiliary precautions» are designed to keep the policy wonks in their place.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

The more reserved John Faso, her opponent, comes across as studied and experienced, but something of a wonk in the ways of policy and government.

As for the feminine side of the equation, Rachael Stirling, as a Ministry wonk in charge of making sure the film does not go off the rails, gives off Eve Arden vibes in natty Marlene Dietrich - style menswear — and on several occasions gives nudge - nudge hints of being proudly lesbian.

He looked like every other white, middle - aged wonk in the room.

Not exact matches

There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.

When I first came across IPwe and Spangenberg's own initial, broad brushstroke blog post about the «misfit trolls, geeks and wonks» getting into the blockchain, I assumed he was amassing patents in the space to repeat his software strategy — and so did some patent experts whom I consulted.

Some wonks — and more than a few members of Congress — are seizing on language in the 14th Amendment they claim would let the White House order the Treasury to borrow.

The only thing that surprised me, perhaps because I still think of him as the young Wonk - in - Chief of 20 years ago, is his appearance.

Kevin Bai and Xuan «Joe» Zhou at Kettering University work in labs and in battery industry research, but they talk like car shoppers than laboratory wonks.

The wonks on Twitter who would engage in a real - time debate over financial markets and the economy.

TAMPA — Standing in front of an audience of several thousand scientists, data wonks, geospatial intelligence analysts and other big thinkers, Army Gen. Tony Thomas drew some laughs when he talked about the time he felt the urge to toss Google CEO Eri...

A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).

A term coined by Michele Wucker, an American policy wonk, it refers to a «highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan.»

Wonk, with respect... prostate or colon cancer is not something you can get by the choices in your life in the same way as choosing to go to bed with a guy.

Both of these capacious minds, I suspect, would have felt rather out of place in today's technocratic world of wonks and white papers, with its distinction between «politics» and «policy» — but more on that later.

Floyd and Trubisky complaints were generally draft value wonks who don't like trading up in exchange for capital.

When I see salary cap wonks talk about the kinds of players that would need to be included in a basketball trade to make it work, it makes me roll my eyes and thank the stars that I'm a baseball fan.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

My father, citing an argument raised by wonk - in - arms, the Rockefeller Institute's Bob Ward, said the real question is whether extender bills are true budget bills, which the Legislature clearly does NOT have the power to amend, or something else entirely.

In private, Lib Dem policy wonks would look a bit bemused and sort of accept that, yes, perhaps, maybe the party's policy of abolishing the CTF wasn't right, but the party had to stick with it to «make the figures add up» and that, «after the election», there would be a rethink.

«He is a policy wonk, a great debater and he has his heart in the right place.»

In a city full of policy wonks and experts, we need to respect how Kony 2012 humanized the issue's problem, with a simple target: a person who is clearly bad.

In any event, for us nuclear wonks, timing is less important.

You always pay more attention when Brown uses the biblical rhetoric, because everything else he says is couched in policy wonk / managerial code.

To be fair, wonks think the plan is well - designed when it comes to cutting congestion in Manhattan.

In an interview with the writer Ron Suskindthis year, Obama even described his policy - wonk predilections as a «disease,» identifying with Democratic former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Sadik - Khan seems to have beaten out the other serious contender, Michael Horodniceanu, who did a traffic - czar stint under Dinkins, in a face - off policy wonks were watching closely because the two candidates seemed to embody two opposite approaches.

That may make sense to health wonks, and it aligns with the state's overall public health goals, but it causes deep angst in communities that fear losing their hospital and equate hospitals with health care.

For those wonks who sifted through his speeches before he led his Lib Dem party into the coalition in 2010, there was ample evidence that Clegg would prove an amenable ally to a slash - and - burn Conservative government.

In an event anticipated among local wonks, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (a liberal Democrat) teamed with Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci (a Conservative Republican) to argue against the metropolitan government plan proposed by the community group Consensus.

Tim Wu is a policy wonk, a professor at Columbia University and a serious player in Silicon Valley.

His passionate delivery proves he is not constantly stuck in wonk mode.

John Prescott has defended Ed Miliband's right to dismiss the work of the IPPR think - tank, declaring in a Sunday newspaper: «These wonks can be pretty precious.»

Influential among GOP policy wonks, though that's a shrinking group in the party.

Far from being a tea party - style anti-federal government type, Gibson relishes the details and ins - and - outs of legislation and how its crafted to an extent that would make any wonk proud, if not envious.

In his place, at the darkest of hours, there appeared unto Labour a new kind of leader: the Southern lay preacher, his soul transmogrified into the body of a wonk.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

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