Sentences with phrase «cities spend millions»

Cities spend millions on animal - sheltering services and not only do many shelter animals come from pet stores, when it comes time to find an adoptive home for stray or abandoned pets, shelters and rescues compete for consumer attention with pet stores and, ultimately, puppy mills.

City spent millions & are getting results on the pitch & that's what matters.

Under the current system, the city spends millions to send kids to far - away facilities, many of which are located upstate and which critics say are half - empty and poorly run.

That is, the city spent millions of dollars enhancing pension benefits but gained very little.

Not exact matches

This spring, he spent $ 225 million for a 50 % stake in Centro Canalejas Madrid — a multipurpose complex that will replace historic buildings near the heart of the country's capital city.

In just the past few months, the company has set out on an ambitious spending spree, purchasing networking site Meetup.com for $ 200 million, a mobile communications app, a coding camp in New York City, as well as sleek new headquarters in downtown New York.

However, Prime's free same - day shipping on over a million items in 8,000 cities when you spend over $ 35 can save you money, time, and convenience.

Icahn says that he spent $ 100 million trying to revive the Trump Taj Mahal, but was he was stymied, in part, by the longest strike in Atlantic City history, which started on July 1.

The city of Rantoul was devastated when the base closed, having lost more than half its population and $ 100 million in commercial spending.

Before starting $ 19 - million Oil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Fla..

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Private Providers Spent Nearly $ 1 Million to Fight Municipal Broadband in One Small Colorado City

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

In January, HotJobs.com, an on - line jobs registry in New York City, spent $ 2 million — half its 1998 revenues — for one 30 - second Super Bowl ad.

Congress had initially set aside more than $ 49 million for the organizing committee, but — like many other host cities throughout Olympics history — Lake Placid ran way over, spending upwards of $ 100 million on the Games.

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis expected the game to bring «well over» $ 2 million in direct spending to his city.

Airbnb spent more than $ 8 million fighting the measure, called Proposition F, and the company came under intense criticism for its series of anti-Prop F billboards and ads in the city.

Spending millions to revitalize a struggling portion of the city might seem like a good bet, but the current effort led by a billionaire CEO is facing major challenges.

GeekWire.com reported that the city is planning to spend up to $ 30 million on its tech economy to fix that bug.

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

Chance was there to oppose the city spending $ 95 million on a new police academy, and said that the city should instead be investing in public schools.

The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.

To date, the Occupy protests have cost the nation's major cities about $ 13 million, the majority of which is spent on law enforcement overtime hours...

But when you're spending $ 26 million and building Windy City's largest craft brewery with one project manager, an engineer and a local construction crew, you're allowed a few digressions.

City have already planned 120 millions to spend in 3 players (1 DM and 2 CB's) to go to the next level next season and we are in March.

Man City are spending cash like a man with no arms and both Manchester United and Chelsea look like spending well in excess of # 100 million on new players.

Sanchez has the demand and he wants to be with a team who can win the CL — he knows Pep well and he knows Man city have a strong team and they will not shy away from spending millions to get the CL.

Costa, Remy, Falcao vs Giroud, Welbeck, Akpom lol United spending # 200 million City spending # 100 million or more

There is no guarantee for ANY club in PL to win the title (ask Man City and Utd who spent hundreds of millions last year and could not buy the Title!)

Arsenal have spent more than 300 millions for their squad and have much more untouched in the bank, yet their football level is still several levels below Manchester City ’s

Or that the Kansas City Royals would collapse after spending $ 19 million on free agents in the off - season?

and WE» THE FANS» let down year by year plus hurting our pride too.forget about how much money City, Chelsea or UTD have spent (500 or 700 millions in transfers and failed)..

Moving on from it all for this season i fear for worst to come next season (just had a deja vu i say the same thing every season around this time) City already are talking spending 600 Million in the next two to three years on new players and you can bet Man - U will follow to try and close the gap, Liverpool can sell one player and buy an entire squad, Chelsea owner Abromovich has started to make noise's about next season so they will be spending, spuds will try to keep their existing players with one or two additions to strengthen and some salary rises to keep the elite, and Arsenal will go head to head with the likes of Burnley Everton Leicester for average players signature, and the board will make sure even if they replace AW they will replace him with AW No2 who will do what the board decides on who and how much to spend

This past summer, Manchester City spent around # 120 million on three players: Raheem Sterling, Nicolas Otamendi and Kevin De Bruyne.

No, Mr Wenger allowed Sagna to move to Manchester City on a free transfer then went and spend 12 million on transfer fee on Debuchy who is almost the same age as Sagna and plays an overall standard of football below Sagna.

They seemed especially true of the big clubs looking to win the EPL title this season, with Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City all spending well over # 100 million on players.

We've spent 14 days of the transfer window trying to negotiate peanuts for a player that MAY but equally MAY NOT be the next midfield beast we need meanwhile Man City have brought in Bony who is a player that we could have done with and probably could have got before he upped his value with Swansea, I hear people on here talking about Wanyama and we could have got him prior to his move to Southampton, there's talk of Dybala who will undoubtedly go to either Man united or cheski in the summer, we are missing a trick with virtually every player that is strengthening our opposition and we sit and quibble about # half a million for some unknown child from Warsaw.

For comparison, Chelsea have spent an average of # 52.5 million per season, Manchester City have spent an average of # 46 million per season, Manchester United have spent an average of # 18.5 million per season and even Hull City have spent # 4.5 million per season — three times as much as The Gunners.

According to publicly available information Man City spent 462 million Euro or 405 million pounds in players acquisition since the arrival of Pepguadiola.

Certainly not Chelsea, United or Man City with their endless millions to spend.

«There was never any chance of United finishing in front of Chelsea and Manchester City this season, not even after they spent # 150.2 million on new players and recruited a coach with a distinguished reputation.

Man City by contrast have a net spend of # 1080.3 million.

The club also signed Fernandinho from Shatkar Donetsk for # 34 million, meaning if # 30 million rated Di Maria made the move to the Etihad, City's spending this summer would be close to # 80 million.

The same applies to Debuchy last year, why let Sagna go free to Manchester city and then go and spend # 12 million on debuchy who is almost the same age and plays the same standard of football with Sagna.

Jesus you are not writing a book get to the point Also I have to agree, we already have one dodgy Russian billionaire (can't even bring myself to mention his name) who nearly ruined the premier league by pumping cash into Chelski somewhere like 800 million (who can count it this stage) I won't even mention how much city spent buying the league also.

Sure they do get punished, but tell me how the monetary punishment and reduced CL squad stopped PSG from spending 400 million euros last year, or why the # 400 million Etihad sponsorship deal with Man City was not flagged as a state subsidy or maybe how RM and Barca getting subsidised by their regional banks is not an abuse of the rules if not breaking them.

Come on, I want Arsenal to be ambitious, But we can not spend # 300 million in 1 summer like Manchester City.

Surely common sense would suggest if Man City finish 4 points ahead of us then spend over 60 million on outfield talent compared to our zero, there is a high chance that that gap widens.

People say city needs to spend another # 250 million, as if they haven't spent enough already.