Sentences with phrase «publicity stunt with»

However, that was a one - off publicity stunt with no passengers on board.)

Their last publicity stunt with hokey numbers last fall was loaded with invalid slants on the data they provided.

We caution teachers not to confuse a union - led publicity stunt with credible teacher voices.

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

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said that while the meeting with the dictator is a «step forward» in diplomatic relations with North Korea, he is wary that the president's announcement is a publicity stunt.

Even though the flamethrower seems like a publicity stunt, not everyone is happy with Musk's decision to sell it.

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.

«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.

It's not like baseball is so pure that it's never fiddled with publicity stunts.

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.

«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.

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).

The trade association for the produce industry, United Fresh Produce, countered in a statement to CNN, writing, «At a time when medical experts strongly urge Americans to realize the health benefits from eating more fruits and vegetables, it is irresponsible to mislead consumers with a sensational publicity stunt disguised as science.»

Tyler thinks the show could be a good publicity stunt and gives his OK, with Ricky Carr (Raffaello Degruttola), accused of murdering the host of a popular cooking show, given the honor of starring in the first episode.

, Eli Roth to Produce Horror Movie Based on Fake Trailer, Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Announced 19:50 — Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 52:40 — Trailer Trash: Green Lantern, The Green Hornet, Your Highness, Cowboys & Aliens 1:06:36 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catfish, We Live in Public, Kisses, The Losers, Conan, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, The Night of the Hunter, Toy Story 3, The Larry Sanders Show 1:34:00 — Junk Mail: Quidditch World Cup, Movies Overshadowed by Publicity Stunts, My Winnipeg, Movies Too Sad to Watch a Second Time, Spielberg and Tintin, Where is Chian?

A decade after Slade faked an onstage assassination in a much - maligned publicity stunt, journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is tasked with figuring out what happened to the former star.

«Jerry's Flight Over Cannes» (3:00) documents the publicity stunt Seinfeld made at the French film festival last May, with a pulley system, giant bee costume, and some help from Chris Rock.

The other was an over-the-hill hustler more concerned with publicity stunts than hard training, but he was going through the breakdown of his marriage and attempting to reconnect with his adult son.

The sight of legendary stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong plotting action sequences gave me a pang of nostalgia for the precious ingredients that were thrown out with the bathwater when Daniel Craig stepped into James Bond's shoes, and I liked all the business with publicity leaks dogging the filmmakers.

They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest big - screen sensation.

In Maps, Benjie thinks he's strangling the ghost of the little girl whom he'd visited in hospital as a publicity stunt — only to find he's throttled the little boy he's been forced to act with.

Though not a marketing stunt — let's call it free publicity — Conan O'Brien had a bone to pick with Disney over the film's title soon after the first trailer dropped: The studio was using the late night host's nickname (coined originally by Tom Hanks) without his permission.

This brilliant publicist ran interference for his employer, always putting a good spin on whatever embarrassing predicament his boss found himself in, from being caught on camera canoodling with a boy, marrying Lisa Marie Presley as a publicity stunt, or writing anti-Semitic song lyrics.

They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest big - screen sensation.With no entertainment websites or blogs available to tease audiences with stills from their films, lobby cards served that purpose for the studio publicity machine.

Caputo - Pearl called the $ 20,000 grants a «cheap - as - you - can - get publicity stunt» compared with the many millions poured into local charter - school expansion.

Hyundai «s nice little publicity stunt is now over: future Equus buyers will not be getting a free Apple iPad with their luxury car (much like we didn't when we reviewed it recently).

Just days ago, Ford announced it's partnership with Men's Health magazine as they drive a Ford Focus Electric across the country in a similar publicity stunt.

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

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.

The animal rights group, which is well known for staging publicity stunts to draw public attention to what the group views as «unethical» commercial activities is now bringing its fight to corporate boardrooms by buying a stake in the very companies with which it is clashing.

We can only wait with baited breath to see what publicity stunt Sir Branson pulls next to showcase Virgin Galactic.

Spend too much on speeches and publicity stunts and you won't be able to fix unemployment or deal with a crime wave.

This was just some stupid publicity stunt (that evidently worked) on IGN's part and they're probably trying to land some sort of deal with Nintendo.

Zhu Jun's publicity stunt can only help Firefall's visibility in China, which is already saturated with free - to - play games and is thus a daunting market for any new title, especially one with Red 5's checkered history.

There's no struggling to produce units as some would suggest ms are suffering with and there is no fake supply shortage to boost demand / hype as certain manufacturers have done in the past to hit the news headlines as it's a very different world now and having more units out there in the hands of gamers will do more for publicity than any of those old tired stunts could.

Famously, before the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, Kojima collaborated with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed team in a few publicity stunts and the like — but this all actually came about from Kojima approaching the studio fronted by Jade Raymond for advice.

«We're serious about this — it's not a publicity stunt,» says Peter Nesbett, who opened Triple Candie with Shelly Bancroft, his wife and the gallery's codirector, in December 2001.

The story took an interesting twist when doubts were raised regarding the incident, with some speculating that it was a publicity stunt planned by one or more of the artists involved in the show.

Now big businesses and groups in their pay are fighting back everywhere, with the same techniques - of grabbing press attention, rubbishing official reports, and organising publicity stunts - that eco-warriors once used against them.

Unless this is essentially a publicity stunt — and when it comes with its own legislation, it usually isn't — this is a bad sign.

The Chinese phone maker has a history of April Fool's pranks, having started such practices three years back with the DR - 1 drone which ended up having a limited commercial run as part of a prolonged publicity stunt.

If they have a disagreement with the mfr, then this is a publicity stunt.

No stranger to controversial, distasteful and outright wrong publicity stunts in the somewhat distant past, OnePlus strikes again with a Valentine's Day marketing campaign very obviously meant to shock.

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.