Sentences with phrase «by millions of dollars worth»

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) ran a competent campaign but was significantly aided by millions of dollars worth of ads pumped into the district by environmental groups attacking Rep. Richard Pombo (R).

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Flying to his remote company locations in his private jet, and surrounded by his early employees who were now worth tens of millions of dollars, the mantra of «you really have to want to work here or you ought to leave» rang hollow for the latest employees.

The quota has even driven theft on a massive scale, such as a 2012 incident involving millions of dollars worth of contraband syrup stolen from the federation's stockpile — as covered in Canadian Business by writer Tim Shufelt in his feature The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

At a Marijuana Investor Summit in Denver, an April event that drew 1,000 investors, Wendschuh says he was besieged by millions of dollars» worth of unsolicited offers to invest in his operation.

If the same investment of a few thousand dollars was made each year, then the investment worth would be worth millions by the end.

he can count the value of his «family Radio» media empire, estimated by the IRS to be worth $ 72 million dollars.

The already legendary merger of the Gannet chain of newspapers and a television company in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dollars.

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.

In the current recession, they are grappling with millions of dollars» worth of meals eaten by children whose families are deemed able to pay, but haven't.

The DN has also reported several times now on the millions of dollars worth of Empire Zone tax breaks Paladino received, and the relatively few new jobs that resulted from that investment by the state.

COR's work on nanotech projects is part of a sweeping Upstate development program worth hundreds of millions of dollars launched by Cuomo to revitalize the region.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

ALBANY — The annual tradition in the State Legislature of proposing «sweeteners» to state pensions for workers and retirees represented by politically powerful unions has produced 120 bills so far worth hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, according to the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

But Denenberg's campaign imploded in spectacular fashion after he was accused by his former law partners of inappropriately billing for millions of dollars worth of work he never completed.

The NY Post says if elected officials are serious about their anti-corruption statements, they'll return some of the millions of dollars worth of political contributions doled out by Glenwood Management.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

Referred to as «Uncle Leland» by his co-conspirators, the San Francisco Democrat allegedly offered to smuggle millions of dollars worth of automatic weapons into the United States from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines in exchange for campaign contributions, according to the FBI affidavit.

In a news briefing held at Hein's sixth - floor office in the county office building in Uptown Kingston Wednesday afternoon, Hein gave an update on the efforts to help people whose lives have been turned inside out by the havoc - wreaking floods which swept away several homes, drowned numerous cars and swallowed up at least several million dollars worth of the county's infrastructure.

Democrats are on a torrid fundraising pace in the first months of the Donald Trump era, powered by enraged small donors who are plowing millions of dollars worth of online contributions into campaign and committee treasuries.

We're far more excited to see Strait's character chased by several million dollars worth of really good looking CG.

It's hard to deny that recent remakes Friday the 13th (2009), Fright Night (2011), Fame (2009) and so on all figured their namesake originals would provide millions of free marketing and extra dollars at the box office, but by virtue of being remakes of well known, and usually quite popular, films they have to work harder to convince audiences that they are worth the time.

Once upon a time the only books that existed were books on paper made by printing presses and sold to the rich and not so rich and not rich at all for enough money to make publishing houses worth hundreds of millions of dollars, enough money to pay high salaries to publishing executives.

If a house is worth one million dollars and has debts of $ 800,000 the LTV will be 80 % which is acceptable by most lenders.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

Men and dogs search and rescue squadrons effectively retrieved approximately 150 survivors, 300 causalities, and millions of dollars worth of equipment by the close of world War II.

Millions of dollars worth of lobsters are harvested from the ocean in and around the natural harbour created by reefs that give shelter to the 120 odd fishing boats that work out of Lancelin in any one season.

Larry Gagosian, who has twelve galleries internationally, (including — go figure — one in Greece) is personally believed to sell over $ 450 million Australian dollars worth of art each year, all by his little old self.

For 40 years or more, Sarofim and Lee have filled the walls of their respective homes with drawn masterpieces by the megastars of modern and contemporary art, amassing collections worth millions of dollars.

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.

A 2006 report by Partnership Africa Canada, supported by recent independent media articles, revealed that millions of dollars worth of Venezuelan diamonds have been illicitly mined and smuggled into Guyana and Brazil, where they have entered the legitimate trade.2 Venezuela has also failed in its obligation to provide the KP with an annual report and credible statistics this year.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h / t JoNova — Climate Scientist Daniel Alongi has been indicted by Australian authorities, and accused of falsifying half a million dollars worth of expenses.

We have helped our clients win settlements worth millions of dollars and we can help you if you've been injured by the carelessness of someone else.

The court found the parties» agreement as incorporated in the final decree was unambiguous and contemplated that the responsibility for any capital gains tax liability generated by the sale of certain stock in Coca - Cola Enterprises, Inc., [which had increased the parties net worth by several million dollars] would be shared equally by the parties....

Contract disputes are typically limited by the value of the contract itself — you won't be getting sued for millions of dollars over a sales deal worth a few thousand.

As a firm, we have consistently proven our commitment to legal excellence by utilizing our unparalleled knowledge of the law and the court system, to obtain settlements worth millions of dollars for our clients.

Also, the couple alleges that contractors recommended by the insurance company caused close to a million dollars worth of damage to their home, which...

In 2004, the Academy Awards show boasted $ 38 million dollars worth of insurance policies, written by Lloyd's of London, to protect the assemblage of jewels there.

As noted by the Insurance Information Institute, for a few hundred dollars per year, you can buy $ 1 million worth of protection.

He got a degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Tennessee in 1982, which he put to good use right away: he started a real estate company and by age 26 it was worth more than $ 4 million, with Ramsey himself having a net worth of over a million dollars.

Tether printing has helped Bitcoin move up once again, by releasing $ 100 million's worth of tethers (surrogate US dollars), followed by $ 100 million for the next three days consecutively.

In June, an anonymous Reddit user posted images from his digital wallet about how he earned his first million dollars worth of cryptocurrency by switching his investments from bitcoin to ether tokens while the latter was still selling below $ 13 each.

Bitcoins worth millions of dollars have already been stolen from these exchange by hacking.

A hacker has allegedly just stolen around $ 7.4 million dollars worth of ether, the cryptocurrency that underpins the app platform ethereum, by tricking victims into sending money to the wrong address during an Initial Coin Offering, or ICO.

If Mt. Gox sell off has been causing the cryptocurrency market to fall, once it stops in the short - term, the market will not be affected by many millions of dollars worth of bitcoin being dumped into the public market, on cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Credo Initial Coin Offering (ICO), by Bitbounce, closed last week after raising a total of approximately $ 12 million dollars worth of Ether.

It was reported by several news outlets, that a trustee of Mt. Gox is selling off hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin and around 1.7 $ billion worth of Bitcoin is going to hit the markets.

A hacker has allegedly just stolen around $ 7.4 million dollars worth of ether, the cryptocurrency that underpins the app platform ethereum, by tricking victims into sending money to the wrong...

ACHIEVEMENTS • Prevented considerable loss to the company by apprehending a thief who was about to take off with products worth millions of dollars.

The Mexican government is committed to transforming Costa Maya into its next great tourist destination by installing millions of dollars worth of infrastructure, including new roads, telephone and electricity networks, houses for employees, marina and beach installations, and docks for cruise ships.

With the declining real estate market in the early 1990s, Trump's self - reported net worth of $ 1.5 billion dollars was estimated by Forbes to be nearer to $ 500 million.