Sentences with phrase «after millions upon millions»

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Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

That's the position that 10 million American families were in when they were foreclosed upon after 2008.

Shkreli, a rap music fan who spent a reported $ 2 million to buy the Wu - Tang Clan's one - of - a-kind album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, also tweeted that he would «spit bars» a reference to rappers vying to have the last word, after the verdict in his case.

If an additional U.S. $ 250 million of Debentures is issued and all U.S. $ 1.25 billion of Debentures were converted, the common shares issued upon conversion would represent approximately 19.2 % of the common shares after giving effect to the conversion, based on the number of common shares currently outstanding.

In due course, after the passage of further thousands or even millions of years, it can, and it must, super-centrate itself in the bosom of a Mankind totally reflexive upon itself.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

Is it «immoral» for the religious to believe in an afterlife once one dies after living a most perplexing life here upon a planet that has manifested millions upon millions of multi-diversities in living embolisms of Life sustaining forms and formations that permeate the grounds and the waters and the air?

Madden, who has covered baseball for New York's Daily News for 32 seasons, draws upon his extensive personal history with the Boss — as well as from more than 150 new interviews and the previously unmined tape - recorded diaries of former team president Gabe Paul — to paint a vivid and entertaining portrait of the marine - transport scion who, after he and a group of investors bought the club for $ 8.8 million in 1973, vowed, «I'll stick to building ships,» and then did anything but.

He sits on the commercial board and was brought in to succeed former chief executive David Gill after helping to engineer the Glazer's takeover and all its precarious, leveraged details that forced hundreds of millions of pounds of debt upon United.

It's true, even after spending millions upon millions, Chelsea still needs time to get a good run and there's only so many matches left this season.

If there is one thing for certain, there are millions upon millions of questions that emerge in our lives after pregnancy and infant loss.

After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

Told in a stark, non-linear fashion, the wrenching trailer captured worldwide fan attention and unanimous critical praise upon its debut, receiving over one million hits in its first 24 hours online, and nearly 10 million views by two days after its debut.

Issue upon issue of title after title means you can get lost amongst millions of words, photos and adverts from yesteryear.

Well, I have a bad habit of grabbing a lot of the free books — upon further reflection, there were about a dozen I realized either (a) the content really wasn't that appealing after all, or (b) I don't have enough time to read a million or so books and never would get around to reading them.

And in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, after which millions - upon - millions of dollars were pledged.

The game received a warm reception upon release and Sony even bragged about the game surpassing 1 million units sold after nine days at retail.

After spending millions upon millions of dollars promoting the Xbox 360 in Japan, Microsoft still only sells about 2,000 or so consoles every week.

After all, a popular writer, upon finishing a book, will send that book to a publisher to be printed, at which point it could sell millions of copies around the globe.

After paying an initial sum of USD$ 3.2 million for Koons's Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (2013 - 15) in 2014, Silver claims that the gallery kept pushing the completion date back, but insisted the collector keep up with the payment installments — Silver says that the gallery rejected his offer to pay into an escrow account, which would have released the funds upon delivery of the work.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) a public blockchain technology offering longevity and stability through the mitigation of quantum computing attacks announced that after raising over $ 4 million dollars during its early crowdsale, QRL has now launched ERC20 tokens for contributors upon request.