Sentences with phrase «bramford mere»

Today's Fortune 500 list is a mere shadow of what it was in 1995.

I think it shows his fame will transcend and endure beyond most other mere celebrities.

(The license cost a mere $ 100.)

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Twitter and LinkedIn have made connecting with anyone — the boss, the hiring manager, the recruiter — a mere click away.

«The Duke of Wellington said that the mere appearance of Napoleon Bonaparte at the head of his army translated into the equivalent of an additional forty thousand men,» the book continues.

A vision, in other words, is more structured, intentional, enduring and rooted in daily living than mere wishful thinking.

Without a spacesuit, it would take mere seconds to asphyxiate.

The truth is that most of us are mere mortals and we don't need the newest and greatest anything — we just need something in our price range to get the job done.

For whatever reason, the cab driver appeared to be irritated by the mere look of me, rolled her eyes at the address I gave her and grumbled comments to herself that I could not understand.

They're so out of touch with basic commonsense considerations that they fail to see or recognize things that seem frightfully obvious to mere mortals.

Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam earned 5.3 % less last year than he did the year before — a mere 9.7 million Swiss francs ($ 10.26 million) for 2017 — thanks to shareholder pressure.

Beyond a mere letdown, however, the move seems to call into question the misguided nature of the venture itself.

It's a trend that once elicited one of the most annoyed public comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook ever: He called Chromebooks mere «test machines» in an interview from 2015.

And even if every PE firm were imbued with genius, the mere fact that the field is so crowded would drive up deal prices and depress returns.

Only 30 percent of these businesses survive into the second generation and a mere 12 percent make it to the third.

Just the mere threat of tariffs has shaken solar developers in recent months, with some hoarding panels and others stalling projects in anticipation of higher costs.

It's easy for us mere mortals to look at someone like Richard Branson and think how lucky he is.

When Waymo was just a mere project housed under Google's moonshot division X, it used LiDAR from Velodyne.

The retailer's shares tanked 19 % to $ 28.37 — their lowest level since 2010 — after it reported that same - store sales, or revenue of stores open at least 14 months, rose a mere 0.1 % in the second quarter, well below its own forecasts for a rise of 2 % to 3 %, and short of Wall Street projections for a 1.4 % gain.

More than mere pancake topping, global dietary trends favour maple syrup as an alternative to other sweeteners, Bonenberg says.

The average interest rate on a savings account is a mere 0.17 percent, but top - yielding savings account are now as high as 2 percent, according to Bankrate.

Within a mere year and a half after launch, Slawsa gained placement in the relish aisle in over 4,200 stores in the US and Canada with rave reviews from critics and consumers alike.

«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

Running experiments over the cloud is cost - competitive and far more time efficient; in Emerald's old lab, average setup time was a mere 25 minutes.

Today, mere months after the moms in the Dallas store told him they wanted more organic foods for their babies, Cornell has a goal: He wants organic items to account for 60 % of the company's baby food sales within two years, up from 40 % now.

No touchscreens, except for a «Touch Bar» on the high - end MacBook Pro that many have decried as a mere gimmick.

«Authentic» gets at a deep truth, while «genuine,» or «credible» seems to denote the mere absence of fraud.

(Such a rupture, of course, is precisely what President Trump has gleefully tweetened — my portmanteau for a threat delivered in 140 characters or less — in recent days, as he slammed those payments as mere «bailouts» to the insurance companies.)

His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a story about ice cream, because these are some of the most irresponsible people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.

Though many of these haters would chafe at the mere suggestion, it's a devastating cooperative relationship: domestic anti-Semites, while cherry - picking useful tips on online organizing and youth recruitment from Islamist terror groups» successes, are also emboldening terrorists.

Perhaps company policies could include 45 - minute lunch breaks, since American researchers found that this length of time spent in substantive conversation — not small talk — fosters a sense of closeness between mere acquaintances.

Did the results jive with earlier studies that covered a mere decade or two and which found that personality pretty much stays the same?

«That said, there have been some great Canadian success stories, like Shopify, that are changing history in that respect,» Ablitt adds, noting that the mere presence of other successful companies in Canada is encouraging for young talent and entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs are discovering that driving their dream car — an Aston Martin, Bentley, Lamborghini, Maserati, rare Mercedes - Benz or even a classic collector car — has more business advantages than mere status.

Since the call - to - action button simply said «submit» and the landing page included a mere 17 - word description, I didn't really know what I'd get after the click.

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Way.

It requires more than mere thoughtfulness.

Elon Musk does not abide by the same rules that constrict mere mortals.

From a personal standpoint, poetry has a way of making me remember life's beauty, something mere prose or narrative storytelling can not do with the same grace.

Yet, goals don't always work: According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, a mere 9.2 percent of participants the institute surveyed said they'd successfully achieved their New Year's resolutions so far in 2017.

A discouraging thought for job seekers: Sometimes competition for a position is so fierce that an HR person — mere human, after all — can not possibly eyeball them all.

It's easy to dismiss announcements about «cage - free» eggs as mere marketing stunts, but it will change supply chains for the better

That's why my own drug - testing company has created processes and policies to help make each customer's experience more than a mere transaction.

Within a mere two and a half years after launch, Slawsa gained placement in the relish aisle in over 6,000 stores in the US and Canada with rave reviews from critics and consumers alike.

In Chicago, no one's had a bigger recent victory than the Cubs in winning the World Series after a mere 108 years.

Gerdes, who is more than a mere perambulatory Rolodex, has the inside dish on the strategic focus of the various and diffuse fiefdoms within the Microsoft realm and in fact probably knows more about Microsoft's strategic direction than many Microsoft employees.

The first few meetings between brand and consumer dictate whether the relationship has potential or whether it remains in the mere acquaintance phase.

These actions can not be explained by mere sexual proclivities, or «boys being boys.»

In total, it will set you back 90 minutes — a mere fraction of the time it requires to take a whole head of hair from a natural shade to colorful brights.