Harrah's spokesman Gary Thompson calls the seizure of funds a "nonevent" that won't slow online gambling or the company's lobbying efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference

And if he doesn't participate, it will be a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2009] Reference

ROBERT LEVY, CATO INSTITUTE: It's actually a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2001] Reference

OF AMERICA: January 23, we believe, will be a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2007] Reference

But it's impossible to pass up such a momentous nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Days Edition] Reference

We're only 18 months past the Millennium nonevent, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Panic] Reference

They found hotel rooms at nonevent ski resorts easy to come by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Host City CurseTorino 2006: Host City Curse] Reference

I mean, the point of the matter is, as he said, it was a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2002] Reference

The speech is a nonevent because, really, all state of unions are.    From Wordnik.com.  ["He's totally eclipsed. Nothing he says is going to be important for anything that happens in the next 12 months. The speech is a nonevent."] Reference

Usually happens so late after the fact, Heidi, that it's a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009] Reference

Note how quickly that made-for-media nonevent disappeared from view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

Without Edwards, Obama and Clinton, the CBC is left with a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

"It was a total nonevent," Ms. O'Doherty said of Tropical Storm Earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Grazes New England With Minor Impact] Reference

A Y2K bug is a nonevent, and the weather's pretty noneventful as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Seeing the Future - January 1, 2000] Reference

Despite all this, for us economists, the Olympics is one big nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olympic Economy] Reference

The Gulf of Tonkin incident was largely a nonevent and Iraq had no WMDs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Three Fraud on Iraq & Bill Richardson Alternative] Reference

Here is my comment about this nonevent that I think has become an event.    From Wordnik.com.  [The List that Roared?] Reference

Randy: "It was kind like a nonevent, like it didn't even really happen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

So, this really could be, if that's the case, this could be a big nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007] Reference

We don't know -- we know that he was also unarmed and that it was a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: James Kopp Arrested in France - March 29, 2001] Reference

It became virtually a nonevent and the market was quite stable in that regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panetta Benson Briefing] Reference

And yet for days after, networks remained obsessed with this decided nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Alterman: Think Again: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's...Cable News] Reference

So we're expecting that things are going to actually turn out to be a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2003] Reference

French government spokesman Luc Chatel described the resignation as a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [SocGen Chairman Quits, Citing Attacks] Reference

I think he said it was, as it were, a nonevent because it did not have such an impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2002] Reference

After Y2K was shown to be a nonevent, they sucked that money out and the market came down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: What's Happening to the Economy? - March 1, 2001] Reference

They acted ahead of a Federal Reserve announcement that largely turned out to be a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyeing a Turnaround for the Dollar] Reference

A few arrests by protesters, but overall, from the security standpoint, this has been a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: George W. Bush Inauguration: Inaugural Parade Proceeds Despite Wet Weather - January 20, 2001] Reference

He sat on their house the? rst night and remembered it was a nonevent, no ransom call, no nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['City of the Sun'] Reference

Economic analyst Tony Hawkins said Murerwa's proposals were "a nonevent based on wishful thinking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There was nothing we couldn't say to her, even this, but we just - it was a silent - it was a nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2003] Reference

And yet, for such a world-historical automotive event as this, the Leaf driving experience is a curious nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting a Charge From Nissan's New Leaf] Reference

I think this particular story is a nonevent, but I do think it raises a larger issue which we touched on in the prior thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Strongly Denounces Antigay Gospel Singer] Reference

Campbell Soup's earnings report on Friday "should be a nonevent for the stock," RBC Capital Markets analysts predicted last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traders Warm to Campbell, Cool to Limited Brands] Reference

"Politics is a nonevent," says John Simpson, a professor at the University of Cape Town who has extensively polled South African youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [GENERATION BORN FREE] Reference

DOBBS: You testified that this is a nonevent, effectively, in your view while others say that this is a critical national interest issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2005] Reference