Sentences with phrase «gimmick from»

GLXP has been a Google marketing gimmick from day 1, $ 30M isn't even enough to cover the launch and at least an order of magnitude less than the cost of developing and building a lander.

The FCC filing also confirms that HTC is bringing over the squeezing gimmick from its U11, which allows the phone to perform certain functions when you apply pressure to its sides.

To be clear, this isn't a gimmick from one company, it's a new and officially adopted standard for wireless device charging.

The game manages to maintain the same atmosphere and style as the previous game, but this unfortunately means that there isn't too much innovation to be had with the game — with the same gimmick from the previous game, it really just feels like Puyo Puyo Fever in more ways than one.

In addition, it will also be given the V.S.B.R, a brand new gimmick from the designer Kunio Okawara, which is a metallic rifle that also extends to reveal much more.

I'm a huge fan of his debut feature, Very Bad Things; visually, I think it's wrong to underestimate how influential is his romantic rack - focus gimmick from Friday Night Lights.

(This whole scene plays like an undigested gimmick from the book.)

Plus, it blatantly steals the rocking - chair gimmick from The Woman in Black.

The climax borrows a gimmick from an earlier «doppelganger» melodrama, The Black Room (1935).

In today's Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Democratic Representative Richard Neal tells WAMC's Alan Chartock that he believes the sequester was a gimmick from the get - go.

Statement on Gov. Cuomo's Tax — Free Zone Gimmick from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R, C, I — Fishkill)

Statement on Gov. Cuomo's Tax — Free Zone Gimmick from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R, C, I — Fishkill) «Governor Cuomo's «tax free» plan is a gimmicky attempt to justify corporate welfare.

We do not expect the marketing gimmicks from T - Mobile and Sprint to be any more successful than they have been to date.

This is Tarantino at his best: able to cherry - pick his favourite moments and gimmicks from movies past and stylise even the most reprehensible of themes for his own purposes.

Travel writers are often on the receiving end of small gifts and gimmicks from tourist boards and marketing companies plugging a particular destination.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

From Trudeau's cabinet selection criteria down to his much - cited selfies, this is an administration with a firm handle on symbolism and gimmicks.

Ordering on brown paper bags is a gimmick at the sandwich chain — just one good idea from Jeff Sinelli

The ploy — arguably a gimmick — is meant to draw fashionable New Yorkers out from their shoebox apartments across the country to San Francisco, where Michael Preysman, Everlane's founder and CEO, will give these potential job candidates a personal tour of the office.

Aside from the Switch's main gimmick — turning into a portable console — and Nintendo's first - party game lineup, there's no standout sell point for the Switch.

Within that context, the cold - can makes sense as an eye - catching gimmick that could lure a customer away from a sugary Arizona Iced Tea drink.

When you are extracted from a religious community for a while (your decision or theirs) and this game is no longer sustained by the crowd dynamic, the gimmick becomes even more obvious.

She should certainly not become one sided, expecting everything from a gimmick, but she must not want to do everything with the same energy either; she must have the courage to concentrate her finite powers on a few points, even though this will mean giving up other important things.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

Gimmick or not, this final aside reminds us that Smith, ten years on from her ordeal at Nichols» hands, is of course more than just a character in a film, and is now a married, drug - free Christian.

The «gimmick» used throughout the discussion is the image, by which is meant a cartoon - like picture that selects central points in the foreground and neglects photographic - like detail that could detract from the needed impression.

Far from a one - off gimmick, the atheist Sunday Assembly has taken off in a way no one could have predicted.

Hockey fans never seem to suspect that the play - off games could possibly be a gimmick to wring more money from their pockets; they practically fight to get tickets.

There were a lot of things that just made me cringe: poor quarterback play from both sides, suspect game plans, stupid gimmick plays, bad pass protection and the list goes on and on.

Though it's more of a gimmick than a game, that won't stop folks from throwing some cash down.

All WWE had to do was preserve her gimmick by keeping her far away from Rousey.

This was paranoia with a purpose, a gimmick Gretzky learned from his former Edmonton Oilers coach and general manager, Glen Sather.

Now, not sure if this source simply jumped on my bandwagon from last week where I considered a move for the Portsmouth veteran as potentially a good bit of business or whether its some gimmick to promote their own site, either way I still stand by the idea being a sound short term solution.

At NAB Show — a convention for the media, entertainment and technology industry — Wanger said Fox plans to go in a different direction for Thursday Night Football and steer away from «gimmicks» to get fans to watch.

Alberto Del Rio recently returned to the company, won the United States Championship from John Cena (who is currently taking time off) and is working a fairly confusing gimmick where he and manager Zeb Colter are touting an imaginary country called «MexAmerica» and calling fans «haters.»

I wonder if all of these gimmicks really help runners and our sport or if they're just the latest scheme to separate dedicated runners from their money.

Which features are absolutely essential, and which are unnecessary extras that were only invented as a sales gimmick to separate you from your money.

No marketing gimmicks or paid placements — just real recommendations from real parents!

Speaking to reporters at the gay pride parade in Manhattan, Paterson said the two - way deal the Assembly and Senate plan to pass tomorrow «theoretically» will avoid a government shutdown, but also called it a «gimmick to prevent me from using emergency appropriations.»

Former President Bill Clinton is again offering up the chance to spend a day with him in New York as a fundraising gimmick to help his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, retire the still - lingering debt from her 2008 presidential campaign.

And his response to this is a load of top down tinkering - state funding for St George's Day or whatever gimmicks, plus reforming the welfare state by taking from the poorest.

He speaks emphatically, as if from bullet points, itemizing the problems with a bond issue that Pataki had tried to force through — a «gimmick,» he says, that would have mortgaged the state's future — and how he'd blocked it.

The chancellor dismissed the Labour freeze as a gimmick that would force prices up by deterring companies from investing.

Statement on Gov. Cuomo's Tax - Free Zone Defense Op - ed from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R, C, I — Fishkill) «Opposition to Governor Cuomo's tax free zone gimmick is growing every day.

Cuomo's gimmick has drawn criticism from the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the Kingston Daily Freeman, and the non-partisan Tax Foundation.

The Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo has taken a swipe at President John Mahama for describing NPP's pledge to extend the service period for army recruits from 25 years to 30 years as a political gimmick.

Here's a 60 - second radio ad launched by NYSUT that opposes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed property tax cap, calling it a «gimmick that takes control away from the local communities and provides no real relief.»

Gimmicks like the Home Office briefing that there would be a # 3,000 bond payable for anyone intending to visit from one of five countries, which was immediately dismissed by the PM's spokesman.

WHEREAS this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance.

``... this renaming gimmick is intended to be a cheap diversionary tactic from the overwhelming demand from Ghanaians for President Akufo - Addo to stop mortgaging our sovereignty for a pittance,» the NDC stated.