Sentences with phrase «just money grabs»

«If a charter... is just a way of infusing a school or a group of schools with additional resources, that's just a money grab,» said Margaret Raymond, the director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes.

That novel is proof that traditionally published novels are just a money grab and little else.

Recently, I received a question from someone in our community asking if blood tests were necessary or if they're «just a money grab.»

Unless they say we need to block the Sun or fill up all the Volcanoes then its just another money grab for liberal causes.

The current iteration is just a money grab.

Not exact matches

As an entrepreneur, you know you need to stand for something more than just making money or grabbing fame.

She grabs just half the endorsement money of Sharapova, with sponsors like Nike, Wilson, Gatorade, Beats By Dre, Mission Athletecare and Sheets energy strips.

These fans have already backed up the money truck to Activision's front door (the CoD franchise has sold 56 million console units in the U.S. alone, with the November 2010 - released Call of Duty: Black Ops, topping $ 1 billion in sales in just 42 days) and see Elite as more money grab than value - added proposition.

There's no question that tons of ICO projects we see now are super unlikely to succeed, are non-credible teams, and are just in it to grab money.

This guy is willing to expose his on emotional shortcomings just to grab attention (and money, of course).

Just goes to show how money grabbing the board is ffs.

He should just slap the money on the table and grab Aubameyang before anyone else realises heis worth the money.

What if we used a «Smart Money» method, say two hours or so before game time, and grabbed a play when there was just a 0.5 - point line move (with the Public on the Other Side)?

No, We arent Ignorant, we are just smart enough to realise you, Wenger and the rest of the board are a bunch of money grabbing selfish arrogant cnuts who do nt care about anyone or anything else except your own pockets.

Just on that alone they should have given it to Casey if they're doing 105 soon which I think they will because they're running out of ideas and it's one of the last quick money grabs they can do.

I just noticed very early on that he was in it for the money grab, that it was an in and out scam.

If they lose either Sanchez or Ozil through not offering them enough to stay it will just show what a bunch of money grabbing arseholes they are.

Aston Villa gave them a run for their money, United defended just as well as Chelsea, and Everton's sheer hard work saw them grab a 1 - 0 victory against the odds.

Its the same old bollocks at our beloved arsenal, we have no idea what's going on behind closed doors, who even knows if Wenger has any money to spend, he is just a puppet at the club, the money grabbing bastards at the top create the problems and leave Wenger to deal with them making us blame him when its really the wankers at the top just getting fatter off our hard earned money we invest in the team watching them!!!

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

It was in the middle of those empty seats that a group of people just rushed up and grabbed me and said I was giving out money.

BUCHAREST — Romanian scientists are engaged in a battle with their government about an alleged power grab that they say will lead to the diversion of research money to government cronies and will isolate Romania's small scientific community just as it was beginning to nurture connections to the rest of the world.

Pre-workout supplementation may sound like just another fancy, money - grabbing scheme from the fitness industry to some hardcore natural bodybuilders, but we can assure you that this is not always the case, although there are some lifters who take it to a quite unnecessary extreme.

This isn't just another corporate money grab — they really do care.

It's a pity the answer is couched in formulaic terms that summon up remembrance of The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Capricorn One and just about any episode of Lou Grant in which all reporters are crusading heroes acting in the public interest, all corporate executives are money - grabbing, conscienceless villains, and all public relations people are sanctimonious toadies.

It just seems redundant and a money grab, especially with Matt Smith not involved.

This movie is based on the first of four books in a series written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and from the trailers would look like just another «Twilight «cash grab for teens to hoard money towards.

Oh, and director Francis Ford Coppola has admitted it was just a cash grab, as he needed money at the time.

Stephen Palmer (sp483): Thanks:p I liked the base game, but a lot of the DLC just felt like a money grab.

But Gamer does have that advantage of being a film about just this sort of money - grabbing commercial excess, which makes the ludicrous and unnecessary third dimension offered by this set at least coherent with the world that it's selling.

It wasn't just a quick money grab; it was a genuine learning experience for both parties.

That really excites me because there is this huge pool of money just sitting out there waiting for us to grab.

Just the fact that Goodreads are now charging money doesn't necessarily make this a «cash grab,» as many are criticizing.

So just pay a little amount of money and grab the best services from our team of professionals and skilled writers of assignments.

The second mortgage insurance payment is just a shameless money grab — and one you probably can't do anything about.

Thanks Neil, You are one of the only ones out there who truly teaches and not just in it for a quick money grab.

Because you can't just walk into a branch and grab money at will, and because you won't have a debit card attached to your savings account, you aren't going to binge spend this money on useless junk.

Can it really reduce your debt or is it just another scam to grab more of your hard earned money?

They're really just trying to grab your money before you have a chance to check properly.

For modern - day travel, just grab your Alpine Rivers Money Belt and Go!

They are not fuel surcharges which is just a bogus money grab.

They give attention to small details and follow emergency procedures, unlike most dive centres who just want to grab your money and not provide a good service.

This sounds more just a straight up ps3 / xb2 - > ps4 / xb3 lazy money grab.

It has So many areas of application, yet, they are just used as a money grab.

Meanwhile there's always the allure of extra loot to contend with, money that you can grab if you hang around just that little bit longer, risking more dangerous waves of enemies in the process.

Usually when I write a review I'll just add the value for money in the score bar at the bottom and not mention much about it other than in a summary, this games pricing has been set up differently to what we usually see, for example you can buy the full game for about # 30 OR if you're an online multiplayer fanatic and only want to play that part of the game you can buy the Multiplayer version for # 20, now if you've bought the multiplayer and fancy expanding to the full game it will cost you # 15 for the single player being # 5 over the original price, most will think that this is fair, you can get the multiplayer element cheaper and test it out, if you like it you can then grab the campaign, well, this is where it gets dark.

And it's not just the obligatory money grab season pass either, there's free content for all players, even on -LSB-...]

how many of the little things that made this game great have been removed because the new staff is incompetent -LCB- for lack of a better word) and OMG the DLC money grab just like all other game companies now.

And it's not just the obligatory money grab season pass either, there's free content for all players, even on launch day.

The ending went against everything that the company stood for and unfortunately it wasn't just the ending of the game that was problematic, it was the money grabbing multiplayer in a single player RPG — a trend forced upon BioWare by EA in their insistence to move away from single player games.