Sentences with phrase «by millions of dollars spent»

Instead, it's a modern, Hollywood version of the Japanese sequels to Gojira and like - minded, derivative works, pumped up by millions of dollars spent on visual effects to make the incalculable destruction of property and the deaths of thousands of people look as inoffensive — and lovely — as possible.

Not exact matches

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

«By selling in - game bundles within the mobile game, consumers have spent around $ 6 million dollars in the game to date,» said Peter Warman, founder of Newzoo.

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.

Millions of potential leads are lost by not spending a few thousand dollars to create a foundation online.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

This footage was captured by a U.S. Navy F / A -18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon ATFLIR Pod that was being operated by a highly trained aerial observer and weapons system operator whom the government has spent millions of dollars to train.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

... You have access to the stock picks made by fund managers who often spend millions of dollars and every waking moment thinking and obsessing about the financial markets.

With approximately 12 million Americans out of a job right now, many people are spending significant dollars to be noticed by potential employers.

«'' They've spent millions of dollars advertising this Edsel, and it's being thrashed by the provinces,» Cuzner said.

He spent years at the Trust company of the West rising promptly to become manager of a $ 500 - million fund at age 28, by age 30 he was making a million dollars a year.

«They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and they have played by every rule put before them,» he said.

When we see the same large protests and see millions and millions of dollars spent by Christians to remove the marriage tax break like they protest gay marriage, then you will have far more credibility.

The executives behind Victoria's Secret brand strategies know that by investing in multi-million dollar contracts with it - girl influencers like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner, they're reaching the next generation of consumers — the 60 million known as Generation Z, a key demographic with a reported spending power of $ 44 billion in the U.S. alone.

Imagine an American citizen who, bankrolled by millions of dollars from the Soviet Union, spent his entire life as an apologist for Communist oppression, including Stalin's murder of many millions by planned famine and the terror of the gulag archipelago.

Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.

And while that last bit is funny, I don't have as big a problem with a couple thousand here and there for art projects as I do with spending hundreds of millions on air strikes of questionable efficacy that are not part of a larger strategy (not to mention multiple trillion - dollar - plus wars executed by «conservatives»).

In a world in which mass media is sponsored by multi-billion dollar corporations millions of those dollars are spent on creating commercials which portray lives in which everyone is able to afford to buy their products.

By increasing spending with no way to pay for it, Democrats have created an unbalanced budget that includes no relief for property taxpayers and continues to cut the STAR property tax relief program by millions of dollarBy increasing spending with no way to pay for it, Democrats have created an unbalanced budget that includes no relief for property taxpayers and continues to cut the STAR property tax relief program by millions of dollarby millions of dollars.

Both Democrats and Republicans had spent millions of dollars on the Westchester contest, airing hostile television ads, in an effort to win the seat, which was vacated in January by George Latimer, who won his bid for county executive.

After millions of dollars of spending on his behalf, much of it by the charter school crowd, Carl Marcellino was finally declared the winner of his race by about 1500 votes against a woefully underfunded opponent.

Republican Julie Killian, a former Rye city councilwoman, is taking on Democrat Shelley Mayer, an assemblywoman from Yonkers, in a contest that has generated national attention and sparked millions of dollars of spending by the candidates and their allies on both sides of the aisle.

A City Hall spokeswoman said, «The truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

Despite spending well over a million dollars (including more than $ 122,000 of her own funds) and outspending Halloran by more than 10 to 1, she has failed to develop a significant lead.

He sheds copious tears over the «thousands of dollars» spent by the bar owners, but nary a word about the «millions» they gained by concessions and expansion.

«We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» the spokesperson said.

The Working Families Party spends millions of dollars on statewide and local campaigns through funds provided by labor unions and other left - leaning backers.

«We have spent millions of dollars to combat the problem through law enforcement, treatment and prevention, and if those efforts have been unfairly impacted by the improper practices of pharmaceutical companies and others, we owe it to the tax payers to leave no stone unturned in recovering any unjustified costs.»

Hall spokesman Patrick McGarrity said: «Our democracy is weakened by candidates who spend millions of their own dollars trying to buy elections and then force their radical ideas on people like letting corporate polluters like BP off the hook — sticking taxpayers with the bill.»

An estimated hundreds of millions of dollars was spent by outside groups in the 2012 elections.

The Campaign for One New York has raised and spent millions of dollars since early 2014 to help advance his plans for universal pre-kindergarten and has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to political consulting firms run by some of his closest allies.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» she wrote in an email.

The awarding of a license to the Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes Region capped a 25 - year quest by developer Thomas Wilmot, who has spent millions of dollars, formed multiple alliances with Native American tribes and at one point learned Spanish in his effort to cash in on gambling.

In the highest - profile contests, voters in Suffolk and Erie Counties — two of the state's largest jurisdictions — will elect county executives in races that have involved millions of dollars in campaign spending, endorsements by some of New York's biggest political names and furious last - minute pushes to turn out voters.

For Democrats, the key talking point is all about the narrow Virginia victory by former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe over Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general, whom they spent millions of dollars painting as an «extreme» conservative out of touch with voters in the increasingly purple state.

The budget proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, would shift hundreds of millions of dollars in costs that had been paid by the state to the city; Mr. Cuomo has said improved efficiencies will keep those changes from producing increases in city spending.

[29] Reed focused on bringing attention to wasteful government spending and supported budget amendments that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating government funding for projects, including a sewer system in Tijuana, Mexico.

Garcia, by contrast, has appeared shaky in explaining how he'd pay for millions of dollars in new spending that he says would even Chicago's socioeconomic playing field — let alone how he'd deal with the city's $ 20 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYHCA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» mayoral spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie wrote in an email.

The Assembly meeting, led by Kenmore Democrat Robin Schimminger, heavily scrutinized the benefits of state programs compared to the millions of dollars spent.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Why I Am Against A Constitutional Convention By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz You should know that on November 7, 2017, New Yorkers will vote on whether or not to spend millions of dollars to hold a State Constitutional Convention.

He said the filing was linked to a decision by the Constitutional Court in March 2016, when it ordered Zuma to return some of the 16 million dollars spent on enhancing his residence at Nkandla in KwaZulu - Natal province.

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.

Trump spent more than a quarter - million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire's for - profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents conducted by the Washington Post.

The LLC loophole was created by the Board of Elections in 1996, and has allowed special interests to spend tens of millions of dollars since.

In a statement, a spokeperson for the mayor says, «We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

FLUSHING — The director of a pre-school program for children with special needs was hit with a two - year prison sentence Thursday for scamming the city and state out of millions of dollars by overcharging them, then spending the cash on a lavish lifestyle.

«I mean, I ran on it in my two campaigns, spent millions of dollars advertising it, but it does not have the same resonance, just by the nature of the subject — it's technical, it's difficult, and it's not about (the public).