Sentences with phrase «more publicity stunts»

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Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

Her own publicity strides (and stunts) aside, Corcoran says the media needs to shine a spotlight more on women - owned businesses for female entrepreneurship to thrive.

This is nothing more then a publicity stunt to improve someones job status / relationship status.

Do you think all the so - called controversy is just a publicity stunt to sell more records?

But he did it more as a publicity stunt than anything else.

I am surprised that more people haven't yet realised that the last minute Lemar bid was purely a publicity stunt.

Excessive prizes can look like nothing more than a publicity stunt, and trolls love that stuff.

AJOG articles are nothing more than publicity stunts created in an effort to maintain a monopoly on birth and not to forfeit even a small amount of business to competitors.

Some have groaned at the idea, describing it as nothing more than a cheesy publicity stunt for Tesla, a company facing fresh delays in production goals.

It probably does not benefit the US, although the more I look at the Paris Accords, the more they look like a photo op publicity stunt, because no nation made any sort of legally binding commitment.

Councilman Robert Cornegy asked New York State to declare a state emergency so that new boilers could be purchased and installed more quickly at Housing Authority properties; his request was dismissed by some of his colleagues as a publicity stunt.

The trade association for the produce industry, United Fresh Produce, countered in a statement to CNN, writing, «At a time when medical experts strongly urge Americans to realize the health benefits from eating more fruits and vegetables, it is irresponsible to mislead consumers with a sensational publicity stunt disguised as science.»

Some sources consider those arrests as publicity stunts, and criticize Russian authorities for not taking more vigilant approach in regard to computer crimes.

The other was an over-the-hill hustler more concerned with publicity stunts than hard training, but he was going through the breakdown of his marriage and attempting to reconnect with his adult son.

Though Shia LaBeouf's recent antics have only earned the movie even more publicity, it wouldn't be surprising to discover that von Trier was behind the whole stunt.

Even though AMPAS's decision last year to widen the Best Picture field to 10 nominees was an obvious publicity stunt, a means of boosting the Oscar telecast's ratings share by ensuring that more than one box office cash cow would compete for Oscar's top prize, we were optimistic that a few legitimately off - the - beaten - path treasures would somehow manage to enter the race.

If it were a publicity stunt the publisher would have had more than enough physical copies to meet the potential demand.

No more need for publicity stunts or having to go somewhere to «be seen.»

There's no struggling to produce units as some would suggest ms are suffering with and there is no fake supply shortage to boost demand / hype as certain manufacturers have done in the past to hit the news headlines as it's a very different world now and having more units out there in the hands of gamers will do more for publicity than any of those old tired stunts could.

The story took an interesting twist when doubts were raised regarding the incident, with some speculating that it was a publicity stunt planned by one or more of the artists involved in the show.

The Stuckists became more widely known for their effective publicity stunts than for their art, notably their annual demonstrations against the Turner Prize, when they would dress up as clowns — the premise being that the Tate had become a circus.

And we do have to say that even if it is a bit of a publicity stunt, getting unused electronics turned in for recycling is more important than ever, considering the increasing scarcity of resources used to make the devices.

Their attacks on power — ridiculous, childish publicity stunts — are charades, or rituals, intended to convince those who play them out more than the public, that they really are in opposition, and that there isn't a revolving door between NGOs, government, media, and big business.

The reason for the blatantly illegal hack was because the rather hubristic CEO of HGBary Federal, Aaron Barr, boasted, in the Financial Times, more as a publicity stunt than anything else, that he «knew» the identities of some alleged Anonymous «Chiefs» (there, apparently, aren't any and the alleged «identities» he found ended up being quite innocent people!).

What actually he wants to do turns out to be less of a major threat to the future of judicial review and more of a publicity - oriented stunt: a cut to time limits, a rise in court fees and removal of some appeal rights.

Probably this takedown will generate even more publicity for Blakes than the original stunt did, most of it relatively positive, so even if it's an unforeseen consequence, it will probably end up being a good one.

Granted, these could both have been publicity stunts and the device would have turned out to be nothing more than vaporware - especially after it achieved its $ 75,000 Indiegogo funding goal in less than an hour - fast forward to 2017, and we finally have the actual product, now dubbed «Eve V», in our hands.

It seems more like a publicity stunt by politicians rather than genuine concern about protecting customer interests.

Many experts, Kravets and Bromberg included, expect to see more legitimate infrastructure projects and products tailored to the cryptocurrency market in 2018, in stark contrast to this year's publicity stunts.

Critics say that the chain's vow to pay $ 1 above minimum wage was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

Otherwise, he is little more than a financial publicity stunt man.