Sentences with phrase «millions upon millions of dollars of»

Seemingly just one in ten actually played it through to completion though, which when we're talking about millions upon millions of dollars of investment and hundreds of thousands of man hours is a very low return.

They are in control of and spending millions upon millions of dollars of assets, donated in good for faithful Catholic good works, and using those assets to tear down and distort the real faith as their orders are decimated of new vocations.

Not exact matches

I saw their cavalier attitudes in the wake of thousands of customers negatively impacted, dozens upon dozens of employees let go and tens of millions of dollars burned through.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

While not illegal, the trading activity by Joseph Otting's money manager could violate the spirit of ethics rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest... Otting gave the OGE a tally of his investments in March 2017 and agreed upon his June nomination to unwind millions of dollars in financial stocks within 90 days of being confirmed.

The user then «suicided» the wallet contract, which wiped out a bunch of code and left millions upon millions of dollars in ether inaccessible.

Um, who spends millions upon millions of dollars building elaborate, ostentatious, horrendous church buildings, temples and mosques... and funds the religious hucksters» posh lifestyles?

The fact is that, with the word «relapse» added to make things sound OK, the «no cure — treatment — relapse» disorder became a sump - hole for millions upon millions of dollars in public and private expenditures.

He tends to frown upon buying a $ 35 million dollar mansion but turning a deaf ear to the needs of others.

The success of Yellow Tail - built upon more than 8 million cases a year sold into North America, together with a low Australian dollar - helped drive 20 years of profit growth for the Casella family.

The fact is, the fervent atmosphere and SRO crowds at the Garden along with the TV exposure and gobs upon gobs of dollars (league officials predict a cool $ 1.4 million windfall for the schools and the conference from last week's event) all melded to create a spectacular climax to the conference's four - year pursuit of that beacon of intercollegiate marketing, the ACC.

Just because a company spends millions of dollars each year on marketing in an attempt to bring their brand to mind first when stroller buying decisions are thrust upon you doesn't mean that the new loaded (sometimes overloaded) version that they are pushing at the time is the best choice for your family.

Meeting these targets could save millions upon millions of dollars in later life issues like obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

Junk food sales are a direct result of millions upon millions of dollars in advertising, strategically placed high fructose corn syrup, and prime residential space in grocery stores.

Not a Start Up NY program where the governor hands out, at his discretion, millions upon millions of dollars to try to get new companies to come in.»

«This expansion will help create hundreds of good - paying jobs, generating millions of dollars to local businesses and further build upon New York's booming film industry.

Silver and Skelos were once two of the «three men in a room» - the other being Gov. Andrew Cuomo - who controlled $ 150 billion a year in state spending, decided what legislation would get voted upon and what bills would die, and controlled millions of dollars in campaign donations that they could use to help elect lawmakers across the state.

Some donors voluntarily disclosed their involvement — and just about all of them, gambling and real estate interests in particular, had business before the state, and millions upon millions of dollars at stake in the decisions Cuomo made.

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

There's the risk of corruption as officials dole out tax breaks worth millions upon millions of dollars.

«Millions upon millions of dollars are going out to these institutions, and we need to show that they are good stewards of those dollarsMillions upon millions of dollars are going out to these institutions, and we need to show that they are good stewards of those dollarsmillions of dollars are going out to these institutions, and we need to show that they are good stewards of those dollars.»

In a time when most movies are little more than filmed deals that can spend millions of dollars on elaborate special effects sequences that fade from the mind almost as soon as they play out, he has created some of the most bizarre, hilarious, haunting and memorable imagery that I have ever seen in a film — who could forget the sight of beer baroness Isabella Rossellini standing upon artificial legs filled with her own product in «The Saddest Music in the World,» or the horses stuck in the middle of a frozen river in «My Winnipeg»?

Daniel Radcliffe is worth millions upon millions of dollars all thanks to Harry Potter.

He promises millions of dollars to property owners now for drilling rights to their land; if — or, as he believes, when — the town comes upon hard times, his company will not be generous in their prices.

«Indeed, long before Akron School District embarked upon its $ 800 million dollar «Imagine Akron» school building program, Rev. Dr. Walker had the courage and faith to «imagine» that the schools of Akron could «build» Akron students into responsible, intelligent, and successful citizens.»

Here at Labor Pains, we often talk about the political clout of unions, how they funnel millions upon millions of dollars into elections, the vast majority of which goes to Democratic candidates.

In Hartford, this translates into an evaluation system in which the district not only wastes over a million dollars each year to participate, but, 22.5 % of the evaluation is based on student standardized test performance and another 22.5 % is based upon parental involvement.

This bill will stymie any attempts both the state and the city have made to win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education grants that are contingent upon having a strong teacher evaluation system.

It is an admission that he actively helped to misdirect some 4 TRILLION educational dollars over the last seven years, and that he harmed tens of millions of students during that time by imposing the mediocre and intrusive Common Core upon the nation.

With millions of dollars and countless hours invested, the KiraVan, upon its completion, will almost certainly be the most extreme, expensive recreational vehicle on the planet!

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.

Based upon this change in fees, it is estimated that plan participants will have a combined savings of almost $ 20 million dollars annually.

And in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, after which millions - upon - millions of dollars were pledged.

After spending millions upon millions of dollars promoting the Xbox 360 in Japan, Microsoft still only sells about 2,000 or so consoles every week.

One - person outfits without million dollar budgets pushed things forward in even more interesting ways: Quadrilateral Cowboy builds upon the Blendo Games» stylish short - pieces; Imbroglio is another dizzingly deep roguelike by Michael Brough, and Stephen's Sausage Roll is the culmination of Increpare's ongoing exploration of block - pushing games.

Games make millions upon millions of dollars.

Say you are a game developer who spent two - plus years working ungodly man hours and your publisher gave you millions upon millions of dollars to make a video game.

With Pollock paintings selling for tens of millions of dollars (his Number 5, 1948, sold for # 83 million in 2006), art experts have been called upon to make judgements about the authenticity of possible Pollock works.

The Telegraph apologized for creating the false impression that Dr. Pachauri had been earning millions of dollars from his consulting work, allegations that climate change skeptics seized upon to question the integrity of the United Nations climate panel he leads.

The chief executive donated millions upon millions of dollars to Republican candidates over the last few election cycles, gathering the money through outrageous means.

It costs millions upon millions of dollars to fight fraud, and the ones that don't get caught will cost you even more.

You pay a premium for a certain amount of «death benefits» (lets say $ 1 Million dollars for example) that will be returned to your «beneficiaries» (those whom you choose to receive your benefits upon your death) for insurance coverage you place on your life.

Traders and arbitrageurs use USDT to their advantage, and the scheme has made them millions upon millions of dollars.

If the NYT wins this suit it will save businesses (small and large) millions upon millions of dollars.

The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) a public blockchain technology offering longevity and stability through the mitigation of quantum computing attacks announced that after raising over $ 4 million dollars during its early crowdsale, QRL has now launched ERC20 tokens for contributors upon request.

When Robin writes resumes, she draws upon her broad knowledge gained during her 20 - years leadership experience as a Senior Chemical Engineer, Quality Engineer, Business Planner and Computer Simulation Applications Engineer, saving millions of dollars for Fortune 500 company bottom lines.

Indeed, the safety of pilots and millions of dollars of equipment rests upon you.

This budget crisis is also putting at risk millions upon millions of federal dollars; in home visiting funds alone, the state is at risk of losing $ 40 million in federal funding.

Meanwhile brokers and agents continue to spend millions of dollars on new online leads with the great likelihood that the majority of them will never really be acted upon and may just as well have been thrown away.

Say you came upon two older homes for sale on the same street that appeared pretty evenly matched with a value of about a quarter of a million dollars.