Sentences with phrase «big big stretch»

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The area covered by traffickers around the Galapagos Islands is as big as the continental US, Ray said, leaving Coast Guard assets assigned to the area stretched thin.

Wal - Mart, the world's biggest retailer, has created a new class of companies that need factoring because it also stretches out its payments.

«In a league of specialized big men — rim protectors and stretch - 4s, elbow facilitators and designated rebounders — Davis embodies virtually every archetype.

While the trip's big costs are out of the way — I bought my flight in October and I'll be staying with a friend — stretching $ 60 over the four days I'm there could be tricky.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

It's attempting to look at the tech industry not as a silo of big tech firms such as Google and Facebook, both of which have offices in New York City, but as a diverse ecosystem stretching throughout the city's economy.

His council's self - defined benchmark for success is unusually precise and an undeniable stretch: devise measures big enough to lift the median household's income to $ 105,000 in 2030, way up from about $ 80,000 today, and well above the mere $ 90,000 expected if Canada fails to adopt new ways of generating wealth.

If it seems a stretch to apply the experiences of a radical second - wave feminist to the business world, consider that a surprising number of companies — big and small — are today opting to operate as ersatz capitalist communes.

Rather than launching new brands targeting discerning palates, big breweries have lately been stretching flagship brands like Bud Light, Miller and Alexander Keith's to include beers with higher alcohol, more nuanced flavours or even tinged with lime and margarita.

The bigger footprint that both parties are eyeing is the string of counties that make up the eastern and southern border of the state, stretching from Lake Erie to Cincinnati in a J - shape.

In the big picture, this tournament is one of NBA's ideas for combating tanking, an issue that will only become more prominent as the league's regular season enters its home stretch.

In this way, a sense of gratitude inspires you to think bigger, take risks, push through fear and follow through on the actions needed to hit stretch goals.

The final three months of 2015 proved to be a rocky stretch for the biggest banks.

«We can all benefit by cultivating a grand ambition, a goal that is big enough to stretch our vision beyond our current horizon and important enough that it fuels our tenacious effort.»

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Even CBS, which owns the most popular comedy — The Big Bang Theory — and drama — NCIS — on TV, saw viewership decline over that stretch.

There are all kinds of cat beds out there, but the PetFusion Ultimate Cat Scratcher Lounge is our top pick with its unique dual - purpose design as a scratcher and a nice big cat bed your kitty can stretch out on.

There's a stretch of ocean off California's coastline that's different from the rest.It starts around Bodega Bay; extends south to about 50 miles west of San Francisco; and ends in the Big Sur region.This area is infamous for shark attacks, but not just any shark: an estimated 38 % of all great white shark attacks in the US happen here.

Their return tells a bigger environmental success story: federal and state regulations stretching back 40 years have curtailed pollution and repaired the marine food web that includes white sharks (formerly called great white sharks).

From stretching your budget and investing wisely in your home to protecting your family's money and building wealth over the years, The Big Payoff offers a concise bounty of precious information and practical steps toward financial wellness.

make a big difference in how far you're able to stretch your savings.

Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of «pocket universes,» separated by impassable inflated areas of space.

Now, Amazon may be the next big test of whether consumers who are already stretching their wallets will open them even wider.

I'm my happiest self when I have big stretches of time to spend on whatever I want without rushing to the next thing, so I stopped scheduling meetings outside of Mondays and Tuesdays.

And so, with Netflix and McDonalds soaring despite steeper prices, Amazon may be the next big test to see if consumers who are already stretching their pocket books will open them even wider.

These days it isn't a big stretch to liken pipes carrying internet access to those carrying water or electricity.

Our single - biggest concern continues to be stretched valuations, which suggests there is little room for multiple expansion.

Those arrays of photo - voltaic modules stretch across thousands of acres in 35 countries — from Thailand and India to Chile and big sunny tracts of desert in the U.S. 4

Kaye, that's a big stretch.

Thank you for the ease of my skin and the stretch marks, thank you for these too - big - for - fashion breasts, they have satisfied the ones I love best.

The likelihood of some all powerful being standing in charge of it all is a really big stretch, to be kind.

I guess if you are gonna have a bunch of white people playing middle eastern people then it wouldn't be a big stretch!!

They just tell stories about friends of theirs who heard about a guy who caught dozens of fish on a stretch of a river in Africa, or another guy who pulled a fish so big out of a frozen pond in Minnesota that the fisherman had to make the hole in the ice bigger just to pull it out.

It takes a pretty big stretch of the imagination to believe that this text is talking about a spiritual baptism and not water baptism.

To me, love looks like him, stretched out big next to little bodies, making the mattress sag which rolls them right into his side like magnets.

... possibly but that seems like a pretty big stretch.

Some of its just a stretch for me but the when I look at the Big Picture, I'm more comfortable and know who I am and what I beleive.

Standing beside each other, these bottles would stretch for over six miles — each full to the brim with sand, each grain a solar system (probably) on average as big and complex as ours, resplendent with planets, moons, asteroids and, in some cases, perhaps life.

«You see,» my father explained every year as we sat down to eat, «this is the way to do it: a big breakfast to stretch your stomach, then no lunch, so by dinner time you're really ready for a full Christmas meal.»

Not that big a stretch really.

Francis looks again to John XXIII in Evangelii gaudium, and his explicit support for the Lérinian legacy stretches back to his pre-papal writings (e.g., On Heaven and Earth), continuing in the same Lérinian vein in a later interview (A Big Heart Open to God), prominently in Evangelii gaudium, up until his most recent encyclical, Laudato Si», and reasserted in this address to the Congress.

They are big stretched out ovals of a lightly sweet dough, fried quickly and topped with a halo of a honey orange glaze.

(I have two big eaters with a teenage son and my husband, so I have to make things stretch.)

Vegetables not only add extra nutrients and fiber, but they also stretch whatever you are eating to allow BIGGER portions!

My friend Sibella feels the same way about apple strudel as I do about apple pie, and when I saw her recipe — complete with homemade strudel dough that you stretch and stretch until it is see - through - thin and big enough to cover your entire kitchen counter — I changed my tune from apple pie to apple strudel.

The big upside to this meal though, is that it is a great way to stretch one can of chili to feed four people without cooking more beans.

«Australian conventional cattle producers don't use a lot of chemicals or inputs for their farms or cattle to start with, so for a lot of our suppliers, it's not a big stretch for them to get certified organic.

It's technically in the town of Saugerties, but very close to the main stretch in Woodstock, The Big Deep and Opus 40.

Looking at a map of the Midwest, Oakey says, the company determined it was time to move into bigger markets instead of stretching out beyond the Midwest and extending its supply lines too far.

The big skies, the clouds that stretch forever, the desert sunsets (which have yet to be beat), fresh air, wide open spaces, this beautiful city.