Sentences with phrase «as big a community»

«Angie and Tom O'Hara and Heather Gartner have built a reputation as big community supporters with a strong focus on quality customer service.

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This is a high demand area with families as the excellent schools are the biggest draw to this community.

As opposed to big - box stores, you can adapt more quickly to changing market conditions and provide better customer service, unique products, and community benefits.

Co-founder of the Silicon Prairie News, the self - described «chief community builder» has spurred innovation across the Midwest with events such as the entrepreneur conference Big Omaha.

But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.

«My opinion is that if you take care of the locals and support the community, even if your growth is contained [to regional growth instead of national], you're going to make a bigger impact on those other markets as you expand.»

In a world where big business is often marked as self - serving bad guys, companies are looking for ways to remove themselves from the stigma and reach out to their communities and the world.

«The biggest failure of the larger polling community,» he said, «was that they were implying that this race was not as close as it was.»

«We have a big gaming industry and we're known all across the nation, but we have to be a community that is marketing ourselves all the time as well be inventive and creative.

City of Swan spokesman Charlie Gregorini said that, while the Rothgard proposal sounded impressive, the State Government's plan was just as big or bigger in terms of employment and investment opportunities as the Rothgard proposal, and had been strongly supported by the community through public consultation.

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

Linnea Geiss, vice president of corporate development for NCR Corporation, and a board member for Venture Atlanta, describes this as a city where the entrepreneurial community invests in the most important things, which she lists as: «Revenue, finding real solutions to big problems and creating products that people really want.»

Bringing in close to $ 800 million in total sales over the course of a cookie season, the cookie program enables girls nationwide to think big as they take action in their communities on issues they're passionate about.

What began as an attempt by community bankers to get a free pass from the qualified - mortgage rules imposed by the Dodd - Frank Act has expanded to include the biggest banks.

It serves as a reminder for their community to never forget their accomplishments, but to never lose track of the bigger vision.

Kindra's keynote will provide concrete ideas on maximizing storytelling techniques to ensure that the customer intelligence you get from your insight community makes a bigger impact as you share it with your stakeholders and decision - makers.

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

Especially during Ramadan, the traditional month of giving, all entities big and small do their part for the community, often without publicity, as is the Islamic tradition.

Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

As Todd Tucker, a trade expert at the left - leaning Roosevelt Institute, argues, the move could be productive if it was actually a bargaining chip for something bigger: negotiations with the global community over how to deal with China's cheating on steel production.

Wired later revealed that the London Stock Exchange Group and big - name banks JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, joined an initiative alongside IT vendors such as IBM, Intel, and Cisco to develop The Open Ledger project, aimed at developing distributed ledger technologies which will be overseen by the Linux community.

Reducing the compliance burden for community banks has been identified as a top priority, but the lawmakers are also discussing ways to free bigger regional lenders from some of the strictest post-crisis regulations.

He doesn't splurge on more toys or a bigger house as much as he could (I ride past his normal looking, non gated community house everyday on my way to work).

As our relationship with Big Brothers Big Sisters has grown, we've seen firsthand the important work they're doing to help match kids with a healthy role model that will help them learn and grow into a valuable contributor in our communities.

«I think Alberta, rightly or wrongly, is often viewed as this kind of big, bad oil place and all we want to do is sell our oil and we don't care about our environment and communities.

«Proposed legislation seeks to redirect investments to low income and rural communities and would make it tougher for developers to access funds in big cities such as Miami.

And whether you live in a big city, small town, or somewhere in between, we know you care about your community — as do we.

09 / 17 / 17 - Big Pine Key, FloridaÑRyan OÕBrien walks towards his devastated home on Big Pine Key as he tries to clean up after Hurricane Irma hit the Big Pine Key the area destroying most of the homes in the community.

«One of our biggest requests is for the international community - wealthier nations - to provide more support to help organisations such as Tearfund who are on the ground to help more people.»

The report agrees with the US State Department assessment in October, which pointed to the «new phenomenon» of non-state terrorism as the biggest threat to minority Christian communities.

Here are our suggestions for other Community actors in big - budget origin stories: Joel McHale as the Grinch.

It is why many in the g ay community have done a disservice to themselves, in my opinion, by labeling christians as ho m phobes and big ots when many of us are the furthest thing from that.

Thus Herberg concluded with what became the book's most famous line: «America today may be conceived, as it is indeed conceived by most Americans, as one great community divided into three big sub-communities religiously defined.»

For Warren, it is neither rural community («stickers») nor big city ambition («boomers»)-- as Berry puts it following Wallace Stegner in his Jefferson Lecture — that is at the heart of the trouble of the American soul.

You'll ALSO notice, that this was a community of Christians living as a big family.

Students coming to Moorlands are studying as part of a worshipping community something which makes a big difference to the way the theology is implemented.

His entourage wasn't as big; he was more visible in the community.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

This may look like working within the community as a partner, it may look like supporting active work, it may look like participating in a big life - changing way, foster care advocacy, it may look like writing to our government, employment, opportunity, friendship, or perhaps protesting or participating, it may look like advocating for these changes and opportunities at the highest levels of government.

It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high society with the leaders of the community.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

Often times, as in my case, the religious community is a substitue for our broken families of origin.Idolized leave it to beaver believers... what results, ineviable, is people do what people do... display their confusion and pathological leanings to miss the mark... Finally, after a slow painful death to my / our illusions, we can give up being perfect in favoure of a peace that passes all understanding and give a big jucicy kiss to the abusuridy of our naccasistic culture while finding ways to celebrate our ONENESS....

The big problem is: if this is your first or only experience of church, how quickly you can lose faith in the the church community and Christianity as a whole.

What started as a pretty low - key tussle has turned into one of this year's biggest controversies in the American Christian community.

The latter, lay brothers, did most of the menial tasks, assisted by the novices; in a big community like that of the Augustinian house, these tasks might include such things as brewing beer — the Erfurt cloister was substantial, and sometimes they would be putting on a meal for as many as two hundred.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

that is never as fun and big as asses in the seats... but it is good when those asses are actually well balanced, fed, and contributing to the community... not exploiting it.

there are lot of Christian communities who are absolutely jealous of the unbroken continuation of the Catholics church and of course they are the ones who actually try to make a big noise even without any truth in most of the abuse accusations coz they are guilty of how the main split from the Catholic Church happened just because of a Top English catholic wanted to divorce and re-marry which the church did not allow as per the sacrament of holy matrimony, where Jesus has been very clear of not allowing divorce.

«Chief Collaboration Officer Rodney Youckton, as well as other executive team members, leads by example and sit on local nonprofit boards such as Community Youth Services, the Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters or United Way,» Miles says.

Indeed, universities and agribusiness companies have been telling farmers for years that the only way to survive is to «get bigger or get out,» and because the only way to get bigger is to take over the neighbor's farm it is difficult to feel much community when everyone is seen as a potential threat.