Sentences with phrase «publicity stunt»

As publicity stunts go, this is a pretty good one, with gasoline prices approaching $ 2 a gallon.

This latest publicity stunt is absolutely absurd and shows just how far the coal lobby is willing to go to market their dirty product as somehow being clean.

I will start a police / community relations plan from day one - and not a 90 day publicity stunt when violence gets out of control.

Some have even speculated this was an intentional publicity stunt made to look like a leak.

Here are a few examples of businesses that have pulled outrageous publicity stunts.

What's the most outrageous book publicity stunt you've seen or done?

I suspect it's an ongoing publicity stunt to help drive traffic to their website and help them sell their products.

A bizarre publicity stunt - at large expense to decent and hard - working taxpayers.

You can also do it by video, by doing cool publicity stunts, by organizing groups or events, by starting a cause or a movement, by doing something ridiculous or noteworthy.

The grind of endless self - promotion + flash - bang publicity stunts STILL needs work.

So what we have here is a minor - league baseball publicity stunt.

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

He notes that these are not actual auctions, but promotional «sales» of fish done as publicity stunts.

He comes from celebrity - land, a place where outrageous publicity stunts are a proud tradition.

Uber has been shuttling wealthy festival goers to events such as Bonnaroo and Cannes Film Festival in helicopters as publicity stunts for a while.

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

Murray O'Hair had pulled publicity stunts in the past, so the cops didn't investigate her disappearance, even though her ally Roy (Brandon Mychal Smith) knew that she wouldn't leave her beloved dogs at home.

«This lawsuit is a clever publicity stunt with a multi-camera, tightly - scripted video featuring Stone's founder Greg Koch,» MillerCoors representative Marty Maloney said in a statement to Business Insider.

He likes publicity stunts.

It'd be easy to dismiss CSR as an elaborate publicity stunt designed to win over the hearts of stakeholders and clients but employees can reap the benefits too.

I wouldn't be surprised if the UFC was working with McGregor on some kind of publicity stunt at UFC 223, but I don't think it was related to this particular incident.

Item has a long and checkered history of inserting itself into high - profile or controversial cases (O.J. Simpson, Scott Peterson, Roman Polanski, Tiger Woods) and — as events of this past week demonstrate — even at current long - in - the - tooth stage, item has lost none of its effectiveness at cheap publicity stunts.

Was this most controversial movie of 2014 worth all the hype or were we all just honeypotted by Sony into one of the greatest publicity stunts of all time?

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).

And when Mr. Miller quickly parlayed that empty publicity stunt into an appearance on national Fox News, during which he made one gross misrepresentation after another but was nonetheless hailed as a national hero for restoring «local control» to districts, we all saw the handwriting on the wall.

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.

The Phantom Pain, a Fox Engine project from Moby Dick Studios (or: almost certainly an elaborate publicity stunt for something Metal Gear Solid related), has received another weird teaser.

David Beckham «s phantom affair with an opera singer... first pics of Ada Nicodemou «s bub... Kim Kardashian «s shameless publicity stunt with a wedding dress... scrawy celebs in bikinis...

Will these scientific results keep island nations like the Republic of Maldives from pulling publicity stunts like the one pictured at the top of the post?

Sir Richard Branson has pulled some crazy publicity stunts in the past to showcase the Virgin Brand.

«No - one opposes fair immigration rules, but that doesn't require polarising publicity stunts which fuel fear and intimidate vulnerable communities, poisoning delicate race relations,» Liberty policy director Isabella Sankey said.

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.

De Blasio appeared to dismiss Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.4 billion revitalization initiative for Central Brooklyn as a mere publicity stunt seriously until he sees «actual results,» and blasted his actions on affordable housing as «big talk, very little action.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared to dismiss Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.4 billion revitalization initiative for Central Brooklyn as a mere publicity stunt seriously until he sees «actual results» — and blasted his actions on affordable housing as «big talk, very little action.»

As usual, the quote is nonsense and the odds exist as a brazen publicity stunt, but I thought you might be interested anyway.

Something tells me he won't end up in a Padres uniform, but it's a nice publicity stunt.

On the public front, Uber has been a marketing success, with recent publicity stunts including the rollout of deluxe delivery services for gourmet lunches, ice cream and even puppies.

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 session abruptly ended after a handful of questions, and after he left, some of those gathered complained that Chen was here as part of a pro-Communist Party publicity stunt.

Kessler's advice to business owners looking to stage their own next publicity stunt?

And you expect them to do this in some sort of prideful publicity stunt to make you forgive them for what people they don't know have done?

I smell publicity stunt.

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

Publicity stunt alert.

They recognized what was going on for what it was — a terrible publicity stunt used to fuel Manti Te'o's Heisman campaign.

Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer reckons that off - field publicity stunts will help Cristiano Ronaldo win the Ballon d'Or this year, Goal reports.