Sentences with phrase «of junket»

Dragon has already established a number of junket partnerships with an eye on this opportunity and plans to launch its first junket in the beginning of January 2018.

Included here are two un-extraordinary featurettes, the ten - minute «A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» which, with a mix of junket and on - set interviews (including cast member Mark Ruffalo and his crazy, amazing hairdo), is essentially an extended trailer for the film, and the slightly longer and in - depth «A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry,» which finds the actor and filmmaker sitting in what appears to be a grammar school band room reminiscing on the making of the film.

(O.K., well they are mostly made up of junket press, but that isn't fair to some of the general critics and journalists who are part of the organization.

Screen Rant's complete set of junket interviews for Deadpool 2 will be released later this week so stay tuned.

That's why the idea of a junket to the Red Planet is so appealing, he says.

He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.

The press will soon be full of stories of junketing politicians and rich business men with Tory connections, sunning themselves on their yachts.

Buhari's foreign trips bleeding Nigeria's economy; won't solve Nigeria's problems — Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that President Muhammadu Buhari foreign trips abroad are counter - productive noting that he should stay at home and govern the country instead of junketing from one country to the other.

Not exact matches

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

On Tuesday, casino billionaire Steve Wynn revealed that a junket operator in his Macau casinos — essentially a subcontractor — brought in clients whose winnings cost the casino more than $ 10 million in April, an astonishing swing for a business that can generate profit of as much as $ 50 million.

The contractor was Suncity Group, one of Macau's largest junket operators, according to people familiar with the matter.

And while Mr. Gorman may be Australian by birth, he is hardly Crocodile Dundee, and definitely not the type to go in for the jocular atmosphere of steakhouse dinners and junkets favored by stockbrokers.

Following his summit last weekend with the stalemated premiers of Alberta and BC (Insight Apr. 14), Justin Trudeau resumed his international junket, with stops in France and England.

A Chinese crypto firm has caught the ire of many junket operators after announcing that its digital coin may be used for transactions in Macau casinos.

A secondary method would be to swamp the Rep. and Senate District Offices while Congress is not in session although many of these guys will be on junkets.

As the GOP «ers did in the Sea of Galilee on a recent Israel junket, will the hurricane disrupt the drunken, religious themed skinny dipping in Tampa Bay?

Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

We were visiting the resort on a brief media junket that was a public relations event for the Taos School of Cooking, which was intent on publicizing and selling their 2004 calendar, «Chefs of Taos: Cooking in the Raw.»

They enjoyed a whirlwind junket from interested clubs, an itinerary that included private jet service, four - star dinners, a tour of the CNN studios and tickets to an NBA game.

USSF members enjoyed their junkets to World Cups, voting in committees, mixing with the great ones of the sport.

I spent the first two days of the fest with Coca - Cola and the remaining 2 days as an official member of the Essence Press Junket on behalf of Verizon Wireless.

So, Nestle also has a long history of hosting press junkets in which journalists are invited on swanky trips and plied with Nestle propaganda.

They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me during a CapTon interview yesterday that he has also encouraged members of his conference who are facing primary challenges to consider skipping what's essentially a three - day junket that features a lot of partying with some politics squeezed in.

I understand that Tom Reed did one heck of a cannonball while skinny dipping in the Holy Land (traveled their on a junket at tax payer expense).

But while Democrats are in the majority, several were absent, including Senate President Malcolm Smith of Queens, on a junket in China, Kevin Parker of Brooklyn, who was on trial for allegedly attacking a Post photographer, and lame - duck Pedro Espada of The Bronx.

At that time, the economy was sliding into recession; the Boko Haram insurgent group was carrying out deadly attacks, contrary to Buhari's promise of defeating the sect within a few months of coming into power, and the President was junketing around the world amidst the crises in the country.

My call for Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy, to spend less time manufacturing political spats with the SNP, by going on overseas junkets, and more time fighting for the people of East Renfrewshire seems, somehow, to have been cut from the story.

Travis Allen, R - Huntington Beach, who has dodged questions from the California press about his eight - day junket to China, is speaking with state - owned media in the People's Republic of China about his trip.

Within days of condemning the «communist regime in Vietnam» for its human rights abuses, an Orange County Republican lawmaker packed his bags for an eight - day junket to China, which is engaging in «the most severe attack on government critics since the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.»

You may recall that more than a decade ago, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland came to grief and went off to prison the first time for exchanging favors for charter jet flights and going with a group on a Las Vegas junket, some of whose members had a reported rendezvous with Las Vegas prostitutes.

«We are trying to shrink the junket - pool image and increase the seriousness of this conference as the Latino population rises dramatically,» Ortiz told us.

Last November, at least 18 state lawmakers attended one of two special interest - organized junkets to...

Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, has called for an end to special interest junkets, saying that such trips aren't in the best interests of taxpayers.

He was in bed with the Otuoke chieftain who embarked on a dollar junket in the southwest to buy the Yourbas, including some of its royal fathers and its Pentecostal deviants.

They are scared of competition and the Sen. Dems use their junket to Puerto Rico next month to vacation instead of working to solve the high rate of unemployment and substandard education in their communities.

Yes, the partisan and gridlocked NYS Board of Elections ruled that spending campaign cash on junkets is permissible as long as the campaign funds only pay a portion (50 %, 75 %, 99 %?)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has devoted press junkets, and his personal vacation, to touting the importance of preserving the Adirondack Park's beauty and tourism potential — particularly the village and its historic Olympic training facilities.

De Blasio's has regularly traveled out of the city on political junkets, often to much criticism, especially for a recent trip to Hamburg, Germany to protest outside the G20 summit of world leaders, where de Blasio said he was offering an alternative representation of American values to that of President Donald Trump.

I'm going with several friends; it's sort of a space junket.

The OMB guidelines were issued in response to reports of wasteful government spending by federal employees at «junket - style» gatherings.

It is loaded with authoritative analyses of biospheric damage, some of them compiled from the senator's own junkets to inspect the devastation of the rainforests, the game parks of Africa and the ozone hole above Antarctica.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

«I feel like it's become open hunting season in how women are attacked and it's not because of who we are as people, it's because of how we look or our age,» Bullock told E! News at the Minions junket this week.

The OMG writers have spotted Jessica Parker wore a pair of acid wash trousers to a Press Junket for the «Sex and the City 2», and her outfit was put in question.

This all begs the question: Is the sliver - of - stomach trend really something women can actually wear in any other setting besides a red carpet event, press junket, or in a magazine fashion spread?

This was for one of the press junkets she did.

Makeup artist Tracey Levy, who globe - trotted with actress Mila Kunis on her Friends With Benefits press junket, told us how she helped the star fake eight hours of rest.

I travel at least a few days each month on behalf of a global press junket, film festival, special event, or domestic press tour.

Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender at the press junket and photocall of The Counselor held at The Dorchester in London on October 5, 2013