Sentences with phrase «by a few people in»

Erasmus once compared himself with an obscure preacher whose sermons were heard only by a few people in one or two churches while his books were being read in every country in the world.

Not exact matches

Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

If Occupying Wall Street is to have any real impact, it won't be by motivating a few hundred more people to camp out in the street.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquBy 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquby about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

This is incredibly difficult, especially in an industry that very few people grow up dreaming of working in (not a lot of web developers that always wanted to build a quilting website), but the value of a leadership team can be judged by their ability to attract and keep the right talent.

I have overcome it by being lucky enough to find a few good people who believe in me to the point where they will do anything to ensure the company's success.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

These successful entities have just a few people who are smart enough to standardize, automate and delegate the majority of the tasks in a way that can't be screwed up by their average employees.

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

The steel mill, now owned by Luxembourg - based ArcelorMittal, employs fewer than 5,000 people in 2017, according to CityLab.

Clek Media brokered a deal that few people believed was real: The URL was purchased by a company called Fund.com in an all - cash deal in 2008.

So people who have been scraping by on a few hours of sleep a night might not be in as good as shape as they would like to believe.

If you rush out to buy a new smartphone simply because it's hyped as the hot new thing — by the people who are selling it, mind you — you'll probably end up disappointed in a few months.

Since they were probably raised in the same house by the same people, they will likely have a few things in common, but their interests might be few and far between.

By getting more people involved in the juggling (including expert jugglers) fewer balls are likely to drop.

The biggest problem with business plans is that they offer pages of blah, blah, blah about the wonderfulness of the entrepreneur and the whiz - bang product followed by a few measly paragraphs about how every person in China is going to be a customer.

Try and scare them when you interview them by letting them know how few resources — in terms of money and people — as a way to show them that they'll need to be ready to dig in and do the work themselves.

In the past few weeks, Wells Fargo has been widely criticized for having a compensation structure that rewarded sales people for opening accounts, regardless of whether those accounts would actually be used by customers.

And while PXG clubs are sold by certified custom fitters and course clubhouses in just 29 states, Parsons says the U.S. market is «larger than anybody would dream, a few million people.»

If you're landing in a city that has clients or potential clients within a few miles of the convention center, why not set up a lunch or extend your stay by a day so you can catch up in person?

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I have seen sales people triple their business in a few weeks simply by following up on quotes that they had sent out.

To be sure, a few centers of growth in the marketplace are dominated by the so - called network effect, in which a product gains value when more people use it.

Groups is very simple: For $ 65 a week, it offers group therapy in areas plagued by opioid addiction — targeting towns with fewer than 10,000 residents and little access to recovery programs — so people at different stages of recovery can learn from one another.

It has not been used in finance except by very few people.

A few people even dumped the Chairman's Award, the highest honor in the company, a glass plaque bestowed by former chairman and CEO Ullman on his most valued employees.

We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»

That means fewer workers to support the ever - expanding population of elderly: The number of people in the workforce is expected to decline by about 20 % to 63.4 million in 2035.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

Golf industry insiders said the strict rules for officials would be a drag on the sport's wider development in China, with fewer courses open and people worried about being tainted by getting involved in the game.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

I got an application by singing telegram, a few taped to skateboards from people who knew that I skateboard to work, even one by courier when I was in the middle of a Utah camping trip from someone who figured out where I was from my Instagram and Twitter.

In our case, we were blessed by a lot of people who stuck by us through the moments when, frankly, we had lost our way a few years ago.

Instead, focus on a few platforms that are favored by people in your target market.

In fact, many startups — including players like LearnVest (recently acquired by Northwestern Mutual for more than $ 250 million, according to several news reports), Betterment, and Wealthfront, to name a few — are now targeting a traditionally underserved demographic: people between the ages of 18 and 34.

But by the time everything was over, the village was an estimated $ 8.5 million in debt, a potentially crippling figure for a small village of a few thousand people.

And as anyone who has ever set foot in the door of an Apple store knows, Jobs lived by his own advice — devote all your resources into a few great products and watch people line up like it's a Boxing Day sale.

A few years ago, a software developer shadowing the member experience team (the name Achievers gives to its customer support) was puzzled by how many people phoned in with requests to retrieve or renew their passwords.

Several people brought forward similar ideas, but the term and specific system was first revealed to the public in a white paper published by Musk and a few engineers at Tesla and SpaceX in 2013.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

The bill permanently eliminates the individual mandate that penalizes people for not having health insurance, raising $ 338 billion over 10 years by causing about 13 million fewer people, according to the Congressional Budget Office, to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance.

That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a few years, and while I think most investors are more long - term oriented than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated with money in hand now.

He started over 40 years ago addressing a significant need in the small business market: businesses owned primarily by people with technical skills but few business skills, and no place to go to get meaningful help.

He's just a regular, average Joe who'd heard about people doubling their money in just a few months by investing in Bitcoin.

The lookout is visited by thousands of people each year and provides one of the few opportunities in Western Australia for the public to view an operational mine site.

Trump delivered a swift kick to the political status quo by running on a populist platform, promising the average Joe more money in their pocket, and fewer people coming in to the country to compete for jobs and benefits.