Ballyhooed

When some of these players sign with teams, I want to be able to look back on July 1, 2010 -- the beginning of the most ballyhooed free agency period in professional sports (... yes, I used the word ballyhooed in a sentence) -- and say simply that I called it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

-- the beginning of the most ballyhooed free agency period in professional sports (... yes, I used the word ballyhooed in a sentence) -- and say simply that I called it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Guedes calls the ballyhooed Niteroi museum "an expensive lookout tower," and Brasilia's photogenic ministerial esplanade "columns of block buildings marching in a military parade." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hoping to damp down any potential negative commentary that the catagory 3 Gustav could bring to McCain/Palin's trek to the White House, the GOP hierarchy wisely scaled back opening day activities of the much 'ballyhooed' convention. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'd been wondering what kind of impact the much-ballyhooed, first-time mixed seating – senators and House members breaking the tradition of sitting on separate sides of the chamber by party, and mingling for the first time – would have on the theatre of this event. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Glad to see someone take on the much ballyhooed base closing commissions, or as I like to call The Red State Welfare Commission. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And today, the Globe & Mail's Paul Koring has uncovered the inconvenient truth that the much-ballyhooed new detainee transfer protocols put in place in 2007 aren't working: ❋ Unknown (2009)

The space was used as a fallout shelter until 1975 and a much-ballyhooed food court was started in the mid-1990s. ❋ Derek Kravitz (2010)

This memo was ballyhooed by right-wing blogs as proof of Democrat hypocrisy only briefly before it was declared a hoax -- though salivating Republican Congressman Scott Garrett (NJ) couldn't stop himself in time to avoid being revealed as a lying ass in public by Anthony Weiner (N-NY): ❋ Unknown (2010)

Military commanders, reminded of last spring's ballyhooed but ephemeral "victory" in Marja, say, yeah, but this is different. ❋ Nick Mills (2010)

The Illinois League's partisanship is a stark reversal from its national organization's much ballyhooed departure from the presidential debates 20-odd years ago, when the League accused the Democrats and Republicans of "perpetrating a fraud" by limiting such debates. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2010)

•Positional battle: Warner will attempt to fend off former ballyhooed first-round pick Matt Leinart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most ballyhooed aspect of AoT: 40 is its emphasis on teamplay toward victory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With Drury gone, none of the Blueshirts' ballyhooed free agents are still contributing to the team. ❋ Kevin Clark (2011)

His much ballyhooed leadership during 9/11 cost lives and was non-existant until a day or tow later. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had he been playing in Montreal, Detroit, or another city where his profile as a ballyhooed rookie would have been higher, the pressure on him to produce might have been stifling. ❋ Mike Sielski (2011)

The much ballyhooed refund was on there, but it wasn't as much as the newspaper stories had led us to believe it would be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over five years, $443 billion would be saved in that category, compared to $154 billion in savings from the administration's much ballyhooed freeze on nondefense discretionary spending and $188 billion in revenue from tax increases and tweeks to mandatory programs. ❋ Glenn Kessler (2011)

The report was ballyhooed by liberals as proof of rising income inequality, but that argument is for another day. ❋ Unknown (2012)