Sentences with phrase «enormous amounts of money over»

Tobacco use is rapidly declining because of really effective measures (plain packaging, advertising bans and increasing price through taxes) that save lives and enormous amounts of money over a lifetime for people who used to smoke.

Not exact matches

«China is incredibly important, where we have invested an enormous amount of time, people, resources and money, in growing our business over the last decades,» Andy Bird, chairman of Walt Disney International, said in Xinhua news report last year.

My 23 year old son Joshua has given himself the enormous task of raising a significant amount of money for the Kids Help Phone over the next two days.

As you'll see in our highlight reel, the speeches displayed much of what Team Cuomo has going for it; four years in office with some significant legislative accomplishments, nearly universal support from elected Democrats and their political organizations, enormous amounts of state money spent over the past four years which, whether well spent or not produces support from recipients, and a powerful speaker at the top of the ticket.

«A few years ago, the five - year capital plan allocated an enormous amount of money, probably not enough, and that money needs to be spent appropriately and in a very timely fashion, and that doesn't always happen,» said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which has some oversight over the MTA.

So, if I would try to do this experiment with elephants or even fruit flies, I would need enormous numbers of animals and enormous numbers of animal counter [s], and a tremendous amount of money; but to do this experiment in yeast [is much easier], because we can grow billions and billions of yeast over night.

The reason I highlighted the damage cost estimates and that they are trivial in context of global GDP over the 21st century, is to point out that we are wasting an enormous amount of time, effort and money researching something that is not important.

Identity theft has been rife for years and has cost people an enormous amount of money, leading to concerns over how to secure our personal information when stored in government databases.