Sentences with phrase «bigger than the rules»

It's so much bigger than the rules and nutrition guidelines.

Not exact matches

That said, there are exceptions to any rule and — in the case of presenting your business to the big guys — because they bring their old attitudes and ways of doing business to the bargaining table with them — it can be a big deal to look a lot bigger and broader than your business really is.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

I talk about this in The 10X Rule — go 10 times bigger than you think is necessary.

KFC, China's biggest restaurant chain with more than 4,000 outlets and plans to open 700 more this year, was hit hard by a report in December 2013 that some poultry suppliers violated rules on drug use in chickens.

Some of the biggest constraints on homebuilders come from local governments, rather than federal rules.

Small banks are strong supporters of the bill because it scales back many of the Dodd - Frank rules that are much more expensive for them to comply with than the big banks that have large compliance operations.

If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

Rather than take another reputational hit by trying to overturn a rule billed as pro-consumer, the big firms said they preferred putting the effort into complying with it.

If you are having real trouble keeping track of how much your employees are paid, you might have bigger problems than this rule.

Republicans are assuring people that Congress will, in fact, suspend PAYGO rules, but that, again, means the deficit will be even bigger than advertised.

Using official government sources, the National Federation of Independent Business calculates there are more than 4,000 federal rules in the pipeline, and that just the 13 biggest ones would, if imposed in an Obama second term, cost businesses a total of more than $ 515 billion over four years.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

As a general rule, borrowers that need loans with balances consistently larger than $ 2 million are too big for about 80 % of the banks in the U.S. Surprisingly, only about 6 % of the banks in the U.S. are larger than $ 1 billion in size and have the capital base to concentrate on middle - and lower - middle - market businesses.

Airbnb now claims more than one million listings in about 190 countries, and it became that big in part by ignoring inconvenient local rules banning short - term rentals.

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

I've discovered that when humans get together in groups bigger than a few individuals they must then make up «rules» for dealing with things.

So even without the relaxing of the FFP rules, Arsene Wenger is still likely to have a smaller transfer budget than our big Premier League rivals and with Chelsea and the Manchester clubs also able to offer the lure of Champions League football, our manager will be hoping that his transfer targets are not the same.

Whatever it takes could mean a lot more than we previously thought, though, as the Daily Mail is reporting that Premier League rules on wages and the limit of how much they can rise from one season to the next will almost certainly force Arsene Wenger to sell at least two of the club's other big earners in order to offer Alexis and Ozil the wages they want.

The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

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While the appeal of managing the Argentine national team should arguably be the bigger concern given he has effectively ruled out taking the Barcelona job already, it still seems like a long shot that we'll see Pochettino anywhere else other than on the touchline for Tottenham in the years to come.

This year DTM proved that making small changes to the rules can be more effective than making big ones, and here's why

«You're trying to socialize your child to see a world bigger than himself,» says Wayne Dosick, a rabbi and the author of Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Need to Teach Their Children.

I don't do this to belittle or make fun, I do this to remind myself that he is indeed eighteen months old and I am so much bigger and know so much more than he does, including how to be firm, but gentle when he needs to be reminded of a boundary or safety rule.

«You're trying to socialize your preschooler to see a world bigger than himself,» says Wayne Dosick, a rabbi and the author of Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Need to Teach Their Children.

«His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

I'm not going to go into the rules just now, but trust me when I say this is a big fat headache and way harder than rookie candidates expect it to be.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than # 40,000 of taxpayers» money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners.

A golden rule in looking at polls should be to examine to the big picture, the trend in the polls as a whole, rather than trying to draw conclusions from individual polls.

But if the Liberal Democrats are ever to be more than just a party on the parliamentary margins, while bigger parties decide who actually does the ruling, then Clegg has to imagine himself leading the country and Liberal Democrats have to imagine themselves running it.

The fact that it was seen in both language versions hints at a universal rule for online information consumption — big disasters don't capture our attention any longer than smaller ones.

Eat diverse food and apply rules such as using a smaller plate to fool your brain and think you eat more food than when you use a bigger plate.

Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and Buscemi's memorable appearances in such big budget efforts as Mr Deeds and both Spy Kids 2 and Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over served to remind audiences that Buscemi was still indeed at the top of his game, perhaps now more than ever.

I like his smaller movies better than his bigger ones as a general rule but even when doing something like Hellboy or Mimic he has always had a lot more imagination than most filmmakers.

This year's major rule change means that shows like «True Detective» and «Fargo» would likely appear here rather than in Drama, but neither of those big dogs are eligible this year.

Rather than colliding with big blue, it whiffs and zooms onward into the cosmos, birthing an alternate timeline in which dinosaurs rule the planet for millions of years to come.

All police stories function as sideways sociology: Examine the men and women who enforce the rules, and what happens when those rules are broken, and you get a much bigger picture than that of a single murder.

Harder Quadratic Equations, Circle Theorems, Upper and Lower Bounds, Direct and Inverse Proportion, The Sine and Cosine Rules, Probability Tree Diagrams, Surds --------------------- Harder Quadratic Equations animated PowerPoint GCSE The PowerPoint includes: 8 examples where the coefficient of x squared is bigger than 1 The examples are animated to show the steps 20 questions for learners to practice the techniques (with answers) 4 questions which are more like exam questions These 4 questions have full animated solutions I taught this technique for solving quadratic equations for many years and often had comments like» is that all you have to do?»

For example, I started writing about: the implementation of educational policy, when research at the time focused almost exclusively on the development of policy; the importance of qualitative methods, as a complement to quantitative methods that at the time ruled at the Ed School; the unheroic dimensions of leadership, when the focus was on the bigger - than - life hero who, like the Lone Ranger, rode into town with silver bullets.

Sure, it's a good rule of thumb, but all little vehicles with little engines don't necessarily do a lot better than big vehicles with big engines.

There is still a good market for these big throwbacks to the past, a world where giant cars with big V - 8 engines were the rule rather than the exception, and you could pile a whole family in one, take a long trip and be comfortable all the while.

But the scrutineers discover that Kwech's fuel tank was three gallons bigger than regulation — and in a ruling reminiscent of the tire controversy at the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix (as depicted in «Rush») Kwech is disqualified.

Sure, from time to time there is an author who gets noticed and makes it big, but those are the exception rather than the rule.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

I feel right now I've found a happy medium with higher royalties than the big six authors, but some of the benefits they have (although not all)-- I signed with a big independent publisher, however I wouldn't rule out either of the other two options in future.

In 2009 Ivan Naidenov made a programme for ereaders of Pocketbook, which can ease learning words, as when you're learning a foreign language a big vocabulary is may be more important than knowledge of grammar rules.

The big drawback is that they're trickier to schedule than free promotions because there are rules associated with them.