Sentences with phrase «one's pet projects»

But it will have trouble becoming profitable when its only competitors are pet projects of major automakers that only care about image and volume and expect to lose money on them.

Funny how millions can be found for pet projects especially at a time of impending school funding crisis.

But previously I was focusing too much of my time and energy on pet projects that weren't going to make any money.

Others think it will fund pet projects and never really make it into the classroom in meaningful ways.

Except, that is, when using public money to fund religious schools is the only way he can get his own pet project off the ground.

And with that in mind, we are also working on another little pet project that will allow even more precise tuning.

He is so focused on «social justice» and his other pet projects that he cant see the inherent flaws in pursuing such a course.

Between my work and relaxing with gaming I hardly have any time or drive to work on my personal pet projects.

Their goal is to help the world become a more diverse and interesting place, and not just by making a pile of money with which to sponsor a few pet projects.

My adviser wants me to work on her half - baked pet project instead of my good one!

Not surprising that someone whose pet project is to go to space has a go - big - or - go - home mentality.

And the wine isn't just some celebrity pet project.

I firmly believe that many people hold on to personal goals and pet projects long after they should have let them die a natural death.

Management sees all the money rolling in and starts to think about building their legacy through pet projects, executive perks, and billion - dollar acquisitions.

Infinity tells a different story — it wasn't intended to be just an indie pet project.

It's new pet project aims to deliver a super screen with a brightness that's never been seen before.

Likewise, each country has its own pet projects that address particular concerns in that region.

The Russian owners or really owners of teams outside of the US / Canada are just running these teams as pet projects, or they're actually part of larger sports organizations.

The funds historically gave favored lawmakers money for pet projects in their districts.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

His Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit that steered money from donors into pet projects like his Universal Pre-K initiative, was also under investigation.

«He has made matters worse by prioritising pet projects from the shrunken capital budget.

A fiscal watchdog group says it's uncovered what it calls a «secret slush fund,» used by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislators to fund pet projects around the state, but the governor's budget office says the grants are subject to oversight.

Spending on pet projects among City Council members is jumping to $ 57 million in the coming fiscal year — $ 7 million more than this year's levels, new records show.

Darren Fletcher was Sir Alex Ferguson's last great pet project at Old Trafford and the Scottish midfielder did his old boss proud.

In addition to Stachowski, city Dems Pedro Espada and Thomas Duane tried to hold leaders hostage over pet projects - to no avail.

The City Council dished out nearly $ 147 million for pet projects throughout members» districts, including a grant to a dysfunctional medical center in Queens that even Mayor Bloomberg's agencies doubt should get taxpayer money.

With the Constellation project scrapped and no concrete timeline set for a crewed Mars mission, Mars Society founder and president Robert Zubrin warned that NASA could get stuck in what he called «technology - driven mode,» pursuing pet projects with no clear purpose.

His critics argued that even if a carbon tax may made theoretical sense, it would probably be implemented so poorly (by politicians who would use it for doling out favors and financing pet projects) that it would do more harm than good.

Teachers and animal welfare campaigners have expressed relief after Theresa May was forced to leave two of her most controversial pet projects out of the Queen's Speech.

But whether focusing on Dean's eccentricities or on his latest pet project, the picture proves pretty fascinating from beginning to end.

The process of clarifying what counts as evidence and then using that evidence as a guide for deciding which interventions to keep and which to drop is no easy task, especially when pet projects turn out not to be having the desired effect.

The President now wants more money to fund more pet projects, when it is clear that his administration has not been responsible with the taxpayer dollars that have already been spent.»

Those commissions were often criticized as being too closely controlled by the mayor and too narrowly focused — sometimes with the goal of pushing pet projects or political initiatives or seeking policy changes that would have been more appropriately handled as legislation by the City Council.

Baidu, Xiaomi and NetEase all launched their crypto pet project.

The daylong veto-fest was designed to follow through on Paterson's vow to quash an estimated 6,900 spending provisions added to the budget by a defiant Legislature this week, including $ 600 million in school aid and thousands of legislative pet projects known as member items.

-- the choice to prioritise pet projects, such as free schools, elected police commissioners, and David Cameron's disastrous top down NHS reorganisation - even as school repairs are cancelled, police officers lose their jobs, and patients wait longer.

«Taxpayers have good cause to be concerned about state lawmakers and the governor using that borrowing power for anything besides its original purpose, especially when it's to pay for political pet projects,» said Ken Girardin, an analyst at the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy.

Many people do not know that Kobo originated from an Indigo pet project called Shortcovers.

For example, some of the new money is being used to pay for pet projects such as Achievement First, Inc.'s «Residency Program for School Leadership.»

In exchange for bankrolling Eastwood's uncommercial longtime pet project White Hunter, Black Heart, Eastwood would make The Rookie, a popcorn action picture cranked through the cliché machine.

A highly glamorised version of the life story of PT Barnum — the man who made the circus a lucrative business in America and had a unique flair for marketing — Jackman's pet project deserves to become a Christmas classic.

The company started out as Shortcovers in 2009, which was basically a Chapters / Indigo pet project.

Shelter pet project prompts bear adoption (OK, so Bear is the dog's name, but we still think it's pretty cool.)

BBC Worldwide continues to own a minority stake, and it remains to been seen if the news organization will help save their old pet project.

Sources have said the investigation involves funding for economic revitalization efforts upstate, including a Cuomo pet project called the Buffalo Billion.

A general invitation to interested institutions and individuals has gone out: in reality this will mean a multiplicity of bids by organisations anxious to use the initiative to keep pet projects afloat.