Sentences with phrase «over millions upon millions»

The story of humans and energy is a remarkable one: how fossil fuels were laid down over millions upon millions of years, what life was like before we were able to access them — then how we began to use them faster and faster, and how this led to the excess that resulted in today's consumer - focused, energy - intensive lifestyle.

This makes her head over millions upon millions of people.

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Importantly, Series E investors negotiated for a guaranteed 20 % return upon an IPO, and so their stake is worth $ 180 million at the time of the IPO (and over $ 250 million at current trading levels).

By the time of the magazine's 75th anniversary in 2003, by then under the leadership of Joe Chidley — a former Maclean's staffer who quickly rose at CB from writer to technology editor to finally take over the editor's chair upon Johnson's departure in 2000 — Canadian Business was a true biweekly, with a readership of nearly 1.1 million and several popular annual issues, including the Investor 500, the Rich 100, and the annual MBA Guide.

Once the Spirit of truth, (The Helper) was poured out upon all flesh he could be with each and every one of his children, not only on this world but upon all worlds in his domain (Presently well over 3 million worlds) and ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Taming The Tiger» was a publishing sensation — selling more than a million copies all over the world upon its release in 2004.

this planet has known 4 mass extinctions and you people believe that god made those millions upon millions of species die off so that you could live, take over the planet, convert or kill off everything that gets in your way, and then finally kill the planet by removing its resources... which of course you believe god made for YOU!!!

Nevertheless I believe that, basing the argument upon our general knowledge of the world's history over a period of 300 million years, we can advance the following two propositions without losing ourselves in a fog of speculation:

A recent paper discovered over $ 42 million in contributions since 9/11 to anti-Muslim opinion leaders who have mass - mailed DVDs and other hate - based content upon the US citizenry.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

At noon Monday, a coalition of over 90 HIV / AIDS advocates will launch a statewide Week of Action on the steps of City Hall, calling upon Governor Cuomo to invest $ 70 million in a plan to end AIDS in the 2016 New York State budget.

As currently constituted will cost Rockland County over $ 1.5 million) To the Editor, It is truly disappointing to see that when a real chance to act upon unfunded state mandates presents itself, and that effort has been scrubbed of -LSB-...]

According to Jenkins, who opposed the contract that turned control of the amusement park over to Standard, the company's first payment of $ 1.75 million — $ 250,000 of which was already paid to the county upon the contract's approval in March — was due on June 15.

The Assembly's plan goes well beyond what Gov. Cuomo included in his 2017 - 2018 budget proposal, which simply extended the top tax rate of 8.82 % on all incomes over $ 1 million and also implemented previously agreed - upon middle class tax cuts.

«I hope the sentence I impose upon you will make other politicians think twice until their better angels take over — or, if there are no better angels, perhaps the fear of living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit,» said Caproni, who also ordered Silver to forfeit $ 5.3 million and pay a $ 1.75 million fine.

«Our actions build upon the landmark legislation Governor Cuomo signed into law last year and this year's investment of over $ 200 million in additional support for prevention, treatment and recovery programs which address chemical dependency, expand residential service opportunities, and promote public awareness and education.

The new Management of COCOBOD, upon the assumption of office in February 2017, had a liability of US$ 280 million (equivalent to 61,894 metric tonnes) to serve as a result of rolling over contracts from 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.

Sure, it started as a Facebook app, but since then, it has grown to over 40 million users and improved upon its matchmaking system.

A re-visiting of the somewhat seminal work — which scored a visual effects Oscar nomination, rang up over $ 50 million in its initial theatrical run, and expanded upon the notions of what was an acceptable Hollywood studio animated release — reveals a spirited but flawed rendering of a deliciously wonky premise, a movie long on cultish personality but lacking in the sort of storytelling vim and vigor that sticks to the imagination outside of a captive viewing.

In total, tracks from Beerbongs & Bentleys were streamed over 431 million times this week to cruise past the previous record holder, Drake's More Life, which accumulated nearly 385 million streams upon its release in March 2017, Billboard reports.

Told in a stark, non-linear fashion, the wrenching trailer captured worldwide fan attention and unanimous critical praise upon its debut, receiving over one million hits in its first 24 hours online, and nearly 10 million views by two days after its debut.

Julia happens to stumble upon a hidden recess in the floor that contains over $ 300 million pesetas.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Historic Rock Concerted Revisited by Bittersweet Bio-Pic On August 15, 1969, over a half - million young people descended upon the Catskills Mountains in upstate New York for a three - day music festival which would come to define the hippie generation.

Zanelli recently scored the fifth installment of Disney's «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise, «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales» which debuted at # 1 in the world upon release in May 2017, earning over $ 347 million in its first weekend.

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.

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.

It will be the most expensive model in the 86 range, with a retail price starting from 4.18 million yen ($ 45,000), a 1.28 million yen ($ 13,800) premium over the regular GT upon which it is based.

Offering an array of over 2.5 million books, magazines and apps, nook.co.uk will become fully operational upon the launch of the hardware, which will itself be made available through bodies which Barnes & Noble currently refers to only as «well - known UK partners» (so roll up and place your bets now!

There'll be of course additional «best sellers» available in English and other languages, so the store will actually offer over one million titles upon launch.

In addition, Oxigene is to place approximately 8.5 million common shares in escrow to be released to VaxGen shareholders contingent upon the occurrence of certain events over the two - year period following the closing.

OXiGENE will also place an additional approximately 8.5 million shares of newly issued common stock in escrow to be issued contingent upon certain occurrences over the two - year period following the closing.

By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC / EFA has raised over $ 225 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.

If you plan to travel in March, head to Cancun where you'll be just in time to experience over four million spring breakers descend upon the capital's most extravagant night clubs.

The Beatles: Rock Band has in fact sold over a million copies to date worldwide, a number they're «very pleased» with and expect to build upon.

Wilson stated that over 10 million users had begun The Journey, although it remains unclear what percentage of this number actually completed the story of British stalwart Alex Hunter, who many surmise was more or less based upon the earlier success of Machester United's Marcus Rashford.

Gold coins are all over the Mushroom Kingdom (more so than usual), and the Mario Bros. are determined to rack up a million of them, with the coins you collect in any given stage being added to your grand total upon completion.

Wall Street investor and New York art collector Steven Tananbaum is seeking $ 39 million in damages over three sculptures that were not delivered, despite deposits, installment payments and agreed upon delivery dates, in a legal filing that describes a selling practice»... that harkens the name Ponzi.»

REI, for example, inspired over 6 million consumers to #OptOutside this past Black Friday (up from 1.4 million last year) with its second annual hashtag - driven campaign calling upon consumers to go outside instead of shopping.

(Apparently, his retirement plan alone was estimated at $ 100 million, and the other $ 300 million involved compensation, bonus, stock options, etc.) So, ONE executive apparently got more, upon his retirement, than the company is investing in this project with Stanford OVER A TEN - YEAR PERIOD.

Why are millions upon millions of dead sea creatures suddenly washing up on beaches all over the world?

This has been escalating in observed effect over the past 400 years, particularly within the last 100 as this effect is CUMULATIVE and is linked to Human Population and the rematerialing that Population has, and will continue to, produce upon the Planetary Surface in its so far RAPID climb from 500 Million to over 6 Billion in those 400 years.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

QUOTE:» There were over 3 million pCO2 measurements of ocean waters in the past decades which confirm Henry's law...» ANSWER: You seem to refer to Takahashi's data; as the exchange of CO2 between air and water is strongly dependent upon the speed of the wind (as the third power of the wind according to Wanninkof & McGillis 1999) it's not Henry law!

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

As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.

Based upon data drawn from the lowest average car insurance rates viewed by over 1 million auto insurance consumers in the Insurance.com 2007 platform through September 2007, the Third Quarter Report confirms that state - specific trends in pricing continue to be relevant.

Even though the payout of a life insurance policy won't be hit with income tax, if the money gained from your policy pushes you over the estate tax threshold (which was placed at $ 5.49 million in 2017), any money in your estate above that threshold will get hit with the estate tax upon your death.

Building upon a successful 2016 with over 106 million smartphones sold worldwide, Huawei is hoping to capitalize on the void left behind by the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

An outdated piece of hardware upon its release in 1989, Nintendo would nonetheless sell over 115 million Game Boys and Game Boy Colors.