People who advise weak King to thrash second King

Usage examples of think-tank.

A rapid glance before stashing them left me with an afterimage of an organization called the Human Rights Federation, with a stack of letterhead sponsors, each with a string of impressive-looking letters after his or her name: businesspeople, a few token trade-unionists, academics, engineers -- your standard-issue New Money think-tank front.

As brilliant as she was beautiful, she had been a key researcher in the Maw installation-the Imperial think-tank that had created the Death Stars, the World Devastators that had ravaged Mort Calamari and the starfighter-sized, invincible Sun Crusher that Kyp Durron had just sunk into the depths of Yavin for safe-keeping.

Few people outside of that ivory tower think-tank crowd up in Northville have even heard of meta-zen-syn.

He was an active member of a dozen boards, with interest in old-age homes, symphony orchestras, museums, hospitals, a foreign policy think-tank, the Sierra Club, problems of Appalachia, American Indian reservations, the inner cities, and surely, too, of Israel.