Sentences with phrase «spending millions upon millions of dollars»

After spending millions upon millions of dollars promoting the Xbox 360 in Japan, Microsoft still only sells about 2,000 or so consoles every week.

They are in control of and spending millions upon millions of dollars of assets, donated in good for faithful Catholic good works, and using those assets to tear down and distort the real faith as their orders are decimated of new vocations.

Um, who spends millions upon millions of dollars building elaborate, ostentatious, horrendous church buildings, temples and mosques... and funds the religious hucksters» posh lifestyles?

Not exact matches

Just because a company spends millions of dollars each year on marketing in an attempt to bring their brand to mind first when stroller buying decisions are thrust upon you doesn't mean that the new loaded (sometimes overloaded) version that they are pushing at the time is the best choice for your family.

Silver and Skelos were once two of the «three men in a room» - the other being Gov. Andrew Cuomo - who controlled $ 150 billion a year in state spending, decided what legislation would get voted upon and what bills would die, and controlled millions of dollars in campaign donations that they could use to help elect lawmakers across the state.

In a time when most movies are little more than filmed deals that can spend millions of dollars on elaborate special effects sequences that fade from the mind almost as soon as they play out, he has created some of the most bizarre, hilarious, haunting and memorable imagery that I have ever seen in a film — who could forget the sight of beer baroness Isabella Rossellini standing upon artificial legs filled with her own product in «The Saddest Music in the World,» or the horses stuck in the middle of a frozen river in «My Winnipeg»?

Say you are a game developer who spent two - plus years working ungodly man hours and your publisher gave you millions upon millions of dollars to make a video game.

Meanwhile brokers and agents continue to spend millions of dollars on new online leads with the great likelihood that the majority of them will never really be acted upon and may just as well have been thrown away.

In the real estate industry, we spend hours upon hours evaluating properties, and consumers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on appraisals.