But beyond that, every think tank is a bit different in mission, emphasis, and operation.
"Never before," she writes of the Gates Foundation, was there an entity "that gave grants to almost every major think tank and advocacy group in the field of education, leaving no one willing to criticize its vast power and unchecked influence".
Will Ferrell observes, "It's almost a think-tank approach, and it gives you about thirty per cent more options.
Almost all the conservative think tanks in Washington are on the right.
Nearly every important conservative opinion-maker and think tank has rallied around his policies.
The guitarist's absence also meant that Think Tank was almost entirely written by Albarn.
The pace of "Red-Haired Thomas," a one-act presented by the Soho Think Tank, lags every now and then.
Every quarter a venerable independent think tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), publishes a much pored-over quarterly review of the economy.
Working on a team with researchers from the Urban Institute, an independent think tank, I found that almost two-thirds of the mothers we interviewed were able to rely upon partners or family members for help.
The HS2 high-speed rail project could cost more than £80bn - almost double the current estimated cost of £42.6bn, a free-market think tank has said.
