think-tanker

This is the difference between an executive branch official and a senator, academic, think-tanker, reporter, whatever.

A leading think-tanker is widely quoted saying that Spain is good for flamenco, red wine and nothing else.

Her main task in the early months of the campaign will be to explain her abrupt journey from conservative think-tanker to liberal activist.

Phillip Blond, a think-tanker who helped coin the concept, says the Treasury regards it with “amused indifference”.

CIC was born as a product of infighting within the government,' a think-tanker, who declined to be named, said.

Fidler, now in his late 60s and a journalism think-tanker at the University of Missouri, became an overnight blogosphere sensation.

More such promises will follow: an influential Tory think-tanker, Neil O’Brien, has been recruited to design them.

The story of how an obscure think-tanker manage to unite the Washington and business elite around the cause of "balanced" deficit reduction through the power of dinner parties.

“The Palestinians and Rice and types like me hyped it big time,” says a left-leaning Washington think-tanker, “because we are so desperate to see movement.”

He looks the part of some Ivy League think-tanker, only here he has the explosive potential of cordite, sitting as he does in a sea of reporters.

(All ages) Conservative think-tanker, humanities czar, homoerotic romance novelist, mother, grandmother and second lady, Lynne Cheney is an amazing American woman in her own right.

Unless you’re a health-care lobbyist, a health-care think-tanker, a health-care correspondent, or some other fellow who’s paid directly or indirectly to plough through this stuff, why bother?

Downing Street’s policy unit is run by James O’Shaughnessy, who came up with much of what is now the new schools policy in his previous life as a think-tanker.

About 25 of Bombay's influential were in the apartment - businessmen, a member of a great industrial empire, advertising executives, pollsters, a think-tanker, an architect, journalists, a movie producer.

He is the "neoconservative" journalist, historian, and think-tanker who takes towards the ayatollah's regime the stance closest to that which Cato the Elder took towards the Carthaginians.

Jonathan Holslag, a Brussels-based think-tanker, argues that, since China’s swift and bloody humiliation of India in 1962, the neighbours have “tottered at least five times on the verge of war”.

Marc Thiessen, a think-tanker at the American Enterprise Institute, said that an over-cautious Mr Obama had failed to show the Egyptian street that America was on its side.

The idea is that every time a think-tanker, op-ed writer or retired senator calls for a new Marshall Plan or a moonshot-type initiative to solve a social problem, they would have to pay a tax of $50.

In his third book, “How to Run the World”, Mr Khanna, a pundit and think-tanker at the New America Foundation, sets out to diagnose the failings of today’s diplomacy and treat them with his own formula for global governance.

First there was Giulia Ricci, a promising young artist who I was to meet for coffee later in the day; then I typed in Matthew Taylor, the former think-tanker and director of the RSA, because I wanted to read his blog.

QUESTION: At a congressional hearing this morning about Iran, one of the witnesses, who's a think-tanker, said she was being held in Evin prison, which is where a number of the other Iranian Americans who were detained in 2007 were held.