Sentences with phrase «of publicity stunts»

The Government's various voluntary greenhouse programs with industry also fit the criteria of publicity stunts with no real effect.

«The Publicity Confidential: What Authors and Publicists Wish Each Other Knew» was an eye - opening session in an era of publicity stunts and media blitz.

Days after revealing their special - edition Vanquish, dubbed the Centenary Edition, the British automaker has released a video chronicling another one of their publicity stunts as part of their centenary celebration.

It's sad that they are reduced to this kind of publicity stunt to try to diffuse all the lies being spread.

That's just what happened in Adelaide as part of a publicity stunt for the Adelaide Motorsports Festival.

War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet.

T - Mobile broke two Guinness World Records with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus as part of its publicity stunt meant to draw attention to the wireless carrier's release of Samsung's latest Android flagships which is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Does being «nasty and evil» offset the carbon usage of a publicity stunt?

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.

T - Mobile broke two Guinness World Records with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus as part of its publicity stunt meant to draw attention to the wireless carrier's release of Samsung's latest Android flagships which is scheduled for tomorrow.

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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.

The stunt turned a marketing flop into a publicity juggernaut and icon of customer engagement.

For years he'd been dreaming up publicity stunts — such as offering Amanda Knox a large sum to appear in an adult film — and then enticing the likes of Gawker or TMZ to treat that stunt offer like news.

I first heard of them from that publicity stunt, when I paid $ 20 for shipping from Vietnam and $ 0 for a pair of classic high - rise leggings while a senior in college.

After the publicity stunt, Key received a barrage of angry e-mails.

One major competitor accused Dan of pulling «a cheap publicity stunt,» while others charged he was holding the rest of the industry to a standard entirely of his own creation.

You can try to name a Planned Parenthood clinic after your client or pay D - list celebrities to say offensive things about themselves to get all sorts of publicity that promotes your book (OK, those stunts were mine).

The Ten Commandments were plastered as a publicity stunt for the movie the Ten Commandments by the P. T. Barnum of Hollywood, Cecil B. Demile.

Apparently CNN didn't realize people on both sides of the fence can recognize hypocrisy and publicity stunts when they see them.

But Neuhaus calls the faculty protest «smarminess» and goes on to denigrate the «national prominence» of Calvin College, as if it is some rude, liberal Podunk institution looking for cheap media attention with a publicity stunt.

You seem to think this is some kind of contrived publicity stunt.

A rep from the Church of Scientology told E! that the whole thing «is a publicity stunt cooked up by a small band of unemployed fanatics who live on the fringe of the Internet.

«The Rev. Terry Jones of the Gainesville, Florida - based Dove World Outreach Center, standing with a Florida Muslim leader...» This just goes to prove this was all a publicity stunt.

Hey it may not have been the end of the world, but I give credit to Mr. Camping for pulling off a a pretty good publicity stunt (whether he beleived it was the end of the world or not).

It's just a publicity stunt to to get attention to the player and drive the value of the player up

How she expects any self respecting celebrity to give her the time of day behaving the way does is beyond me, but perhaps this was all just another publicity stunt.

Publicity - hungry Paddy Power, who provoked outrage when claiming to have deforested part of the Amazonian rainforest as a marketing stunt at the World Cup, have paid out # 400,000 to those lucky punters who backed the Blues.

Yesterday I posted a news item about Sarah Palin's publicity stunt of bringing 200 sugar cookies to a Pennsylvania school to protest the proposed regulations in that state which will limit sweets in school for classroom and holiday parties.

The only way it is not a publicity stunt is if she makes it a habit of sitting in the middle of the walkway while she breastfeeds.

If you know some definition of «publicity stunt» for which what she did wouldn't qualify, we're all interested to hear it.

Whether or not it was a publicity stunt has nothing to do with her personality or how she felt about the situation or what her intentions were or whether or not she planned it ahead of time.

The thing i see is that she did it with the intent of making a publicity stunt.

That would really deflect a lot of criticism, if she just came out and said, Hell yeah it's a publicity stunt!

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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.

Rather, it was a combination of socio - political factors: A strategically timed publicity stunt to bolster Russia's positive image internationally in the run - up to the Sochi Olympics, a result of skilful lobbying efforts by the German diplomatic elite and a humane act of mercy driven by Putin's personal convictions about vengeance, justice and mercy.

«This publicity stunt by Plaid Cymru is a crude attempt to weaken our strong and historic link with the Labour Party and to deprive trade unions of a legitimate political role.

Howie Hawkins called Governor Cuomo's plastic bag ban proposal yesterday a publicity stunt designed to divert attention from thousands of climate change activists at the Capitol on Monday saying it was time for Cuomo to Walk the Talk.

Amy Klein, 35, of Brooklyn's South Slope neighborhood, called deBlasio's pledge «a publicity stunt» while waiting for a train inside the City Hall station.

Well if the tiny number of people who take part in the pointless publicity stunt, sorry open primary want a MP who overreacts at the slightest provocation and is easily fooled, I think the nomination is yours.

But to upbraid Milne as fascist sympathiser by way of a cheap publicity stunt is as offensive as it is inaccurate, and it is hardly surprising if readiness to badmouth senior Labour appointees counts as a black mark against her when seeking another stab at being a PPC.

One cable stated: «Very few of the 64 measures recommended by Muslim leaders on the task force have been implemented, Khan said, creating an «air of despondency» and leading the community to believe that the entire exercise was just a publicity stunt.»

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.

This is understandable, because the episode exposes him as a man who can't even stage a four - subway - stop publicity stunt — even as he runs for a second term as chief executive of the world's greatest city.

Hook, so do you mean to tell us that this was all a publicity stunt to continue your union bashing??? Get your resume ready, Cuomo actually has a brain and can think for himself, the whole lot of you will be walking out the door with Dave when he «retires» at the end of the year (if not sooner).

But it turns out Kid Rock was joking all along, part of an elaborate publicity stunt that fooled Pataki as well as President Donald Trump's adviser, Stephen Bannon, both of whom voiced support for the rapper's «campaign.»

McLaughlin ousted an incumbent, Tim Gordon, through the campaign equivalents of trolling: McLaughlin aides trained cameras on Gordon at public events and recorded his awkward and frustrated reactions, and McLaughlin heckled the assemblyman during a publicity stunt when Gordon mowed the lawn at a shuttered state park.

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.

But his publicity stunt has a half - life way beyond even what he could imagine — the Roadster should continue to orbit through the solar system, perhaps slightly battered by micrometeorites, for a few tens of millions of years.