Sentences with phrase «backed by millions of dollars»

They are backed by millions of dollars from investors and they put together the most current and most fresh online drivers ed program in the country and they aren't stopping.

When Andersen Consulting recently changed its name to «Accenture», the new name and logo was backed by millions of dollars of print and television advertising, in addition to numerous sponsorships.

The Sanders candidates are opposed by attorney Nick Melvoin and teacher Kelly Gonez, who support charter schools and whose candidacies have been backed by millions of dollars from groups funded by (among others) Walmart heir Alice Walton, Netflix founder Reed Hastings and real estate magnate Eli Broad.

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In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has lifted its first - half profit by 74 per cent, to $ 20.4 million, on the back of a weaker Australian dollar.

Bell Labs was backed by AT&T, the largest monopoly in the world, which allowed them to spend millions of dollars on research that might never prove profitable — a situation unimaginable for many of today's companies.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that even if Sanders has been contributing just 3 % of his salary per year for his entire time in both the House and the Senate — and has earned a modest 5 % annualized rate of return — he'd have accumulated almost half a million dollars by the end of 2015, thanks in part to the government's matching contributions.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

AT&T and Time Warner have said there won't be any incentive for a combined company to threaten to withhold content or increase prices, because by doing so, it would risk distributors walking away, leaving the company out tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue and subscription fees — far greater than any revenue AT&T might pick up from customers who would switch to its own pay - TV services in order to get Time Warner content back.

Metcash angered suppliers in 2012, after its acquisition of Franklins, by demanding millions of dollars worth of retrospective discounts and lower prices stretching back to 2010.

By pushing down the fee, well below the 5 per cent industry standard and then also charging a rebate on top of that, it could allow Coles to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from these middlemen and channel it back into its own revenue stream.

Its either that or he pulls the old «its just a marketing thing where Im endangering children and setting public neuroscience awareness back decades in order to make a couple million extra dollars out of the pockets of suckers» defense, and I just do nt see how a humble classy guy like Wilson would ever cheapen his name by lending it to a bottle of snake oil that could wind up giving its purchasers real - world neurological damage if they were to use it in a manner consistent with what Wilson tells them.

Distributing tons of pork around the district and backed by a near - million - dollar war chest «the best looking man in the Senate,» 76 this year, is still a force.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

The city already offers hundreds of different services backed by millions of taxpayer dollars to support women and their businesses.

An independent expenditure committee that supports tax credits and has been funded by individuals such as financier Roger Hertog and Walmart heiress Alice Walton had spent nearly half a million dollars backing Cabrera as of Aug. 29.

By the typical benchmarks, Jeffries appears to be the strong favorite, sewing up the majority of union backing and filling his campaign coffers with more than half a million dollars from scores of affluent donors.

«He simply sat back and collected millions of dollars by simply cashing in on his public office and his political influence,» the prosecutor said.

Now the US attorney tells us Silver «sat back and collected millions of dollars by cashing in on his public office and political influence.»

«That's a fact that's been lost very quickly in this discussion in part because of the misinformation that Uber has spread backed up by millions and millions of dollars of lobbyists.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

It gave an edge to the Islamists, because they had a political ground game going back decades and, some say, because they were financed to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by the conservative Persian Gulf states.

Based on a true story of a North Carolina robbery that happened back in 1997, the film follows security - guard - turned - heist - mastermind David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) who falls in love with his former co-worker (played by Kristen Wiig) and is roped into snatching millions of dollars from the company he works for in order to win her hand.

Film festivals are often chock - full of «independent» movies that are headlined by known actors, made by established industry professionals, and backed with millions of dollars.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

At some point in the not - to - distant future, this simmering symbiosis — backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing campaigns — is going to explode onto popular culture.

Rep. Boehner claims he is wielding the axe in order to «save several million dollars» by shoving the climate issue back into the exclusive purview of the House Committee on Science and Technology.

To better understand the impacts of global freight movement, consider that the freight industry transports trillions of dollars» worth of goods every year to every corner of the globe and back, largely by burning millions of gallons of diesel fuel, which emits greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice — backed by statistics, real - life stories, and incontrovertible evidence — to the millions of «deplorable» Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar «climate change» complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.

There was a photocopy of the million dollar «commission» paid by park to strong on the internet awhile back, while strong ran that oil for food (after running the ipcc).

Now DeSmog Blog was founded with $ 300,000 of money from a man called John Lefebvre who is an Internet gaming fraudster convicted last year of making hundreds of millions of dollars — a large chunk of which he is now being made to pay back to the U.S. government — by unlawfully laundering money to do with unlawful Internet gaming.»

Sullivan Law is backed by a team of lawyers who have decades of combined experience handling personal injury lawsuits and who have recovered settlements that total more than 100 million dollars.

In Massachusetts and Ohio, several banks have launched programs where law firms can choose to donate to IOLTA programs some or all of the «cash back» benefits generated by millions of dollars of credit card transactions.

Backed by former Twitter investors with millions of dollars in funding, they created the single best online traffic school to ever become available.

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- A local media reported that the electric car start - up Faraday Future, backed by Chinese entrepreneur Jia Yueting, managed to raise 900 million dollars from Indian Tata Group and the money accounted for 10 percent of its shares.

Calling the situation «out of control,» Reidy charged back by mentioning how Zachary Cruz's bond was set at a half - million dollars.

C.R.E.A.M.: Back in 2016, progressive Democrat Tim Canova shocked the nation by raising millions of dollars in an ultimately less - than - shocking double - digit primary loss to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D - Weston.

Back in the summer of 2007, when «Umbrella» by Rihanna was a new summer hit and «Transformers» was the summer blockbuster, a contract was signed in Destin, Florida, for the sale of a six - lot waterfront subdivision for around three million dollars; the property was bought at auction «as is.»