Sentences with phrase «by big leaves»

When marijuana grows, it's surrounded by big leaves.

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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.

The radio broadcasting business is undergoing a similar process as the brick - and - mortar meltdown, where PE firms piled into big retailers during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis and left the sector strewn with over-indebted retailers that then got slammed by a structural shift to online that they no longer had the resources to follow.

A recent study conducted by Glassdoor found that among employees who said they are thinking of leaving their current job, 45 percent (a plurality) cited salary as the single biggest motivating factor for leaving their current company.

For a company that's struggled to expand its user base and whose advertising revenues have been left in the dust by Facebook, its much bigger rival, it's a very attractive strategy.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission proposed a bigger new multi-year budget on Wednesday that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

The ad, by Saatchi & Saatchi New York and director Calle Astrand, marked Tide's first ticket to the big game and it definitely left its... er, mark.

On the Friday after Britain voted to leave the EU, the S&P 500 and the Dow both wiped out all of their gains for 2016, while Nasdaq fell by over 4 % — the biggest one - day drop since 2011.

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday launched the long and politically fraught process of drawing up its new long - term spending plans, seeking a bigger budget to finance new priorities like defense and border control and plug the gap left by Britain's departure.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

The famously successful investor Warren Buffett — who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful» — probably took a big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

Avon CEO Sheri McCoy, who took the helm in 2012 to fix a cosmetics giant left in disarray by her predecessor Andrea Jung, has repeatedly said that because of Avon's heritage, the fixing the U.S. business is her «No. 1 priority», and has pledged to return its second biggest market to profitability in 2015.

The three year old company fills in the gaps left by marketing clouds and other big data tools by bringing together all your data into one fast and easy - to - use database.

Exxon also has struggled in the past 16 months to unwind some of the biggest bets taken by former CEO Rex Tillerson, who left to become U.S. secretary of state in early 2017 before being fired by President Donald Trump last month.

Finally, Williams believes small businesses are uniquely positioned to capitalize upon opportunities left behind by the big companies that become too mired in their own politics.

This year's edition would have been played by the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings at the University of Michigan's «Big House» before a crowd in excess of 100,000 people.

Backed by a profitable business that still has avenues to growth, and with valuation metrics that leave room for substantial upside, Bitauto has the markings of an overlooked stock that could do big things.

The complete abscence of a retail chain of stores like this one leaves a big empty void in this segment of the retail market that can be successfully exploited by someone with the wisdom and foresight to see it for the virtually unlimited ground floor opportunity that it is.

«We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake,» Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and the EU's chief executive Jean - Claude Juncker.

This big data presentation does a pretty good job, but to sum it up, big data utilizes many of the digital footprints left behind by people thus allowing corporations to utilize that information to their advantage to build predictive models and make more informed decisions.

Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, recently estimated that an aging population — which means a smaller tax haul and bigger health and other outlays — will leave Ottawa and the provinces with a $ 46 - billion - a-year fiscal gap to fix by cutting spending or hiking taxes.

Smaller, independent brands are seen by many consumers, especially younger ones, to be more hip and healthy and rather than compete with them many big food and drink companies have looked to buy into and learn from startup innovation, a leaf straight out of Silicon Valley's playbook.

Such big winners stopped showing up a few years ago, leaving the large drug companies watching the calendar for the day when earnings would be hurt by the loss of key patent protections.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

It is an effort by the left to defund the right, which the former assumes is funded by big corporations.

The left - leaning think tank said the finding was «worrisome» because Toronto and Vancouver have seen some of the biggest increases in cost of living over the same period, with the price of houses, in particular, skyrocketing by 37 per cent in Toronto and 62 per cent in Vancouver.

The sharp drop in direct investment is a concern, although the decline is magnified by the decisions of a few big international oil companies to leave northern Alberta.

For instance, a big special dividend financed by debt would still leave shareholders with a period of high leverage and potential earnings volatility before they have as much in their pockets as the buyout price.

The Big Big Boom comes from the fact that the bill is financed entirely by deficit spending — approved by the Right as well as the Left.

The big players are made winners, but by leaving the government with more debt.

«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.

Monetary policy in China is too big a deal to be left to the central bank; the State Council, headed by Premier Li Keqiang, has to sign off on its decisions.

By countenancing these mergers and leaving inefficient operations intact, the Fed created enormous firms that are clearly too big to manage and generally do not generate positive risk - adjusted or even nominal returns.»

Her departure also follows the path forged by Maile Carnegie, the former Google Australia chief executive, who left the internet giant for big four bank ANZ in March.

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

The market strategist sees «no levers left to pull» for a market that has been supported by factors such as a decade of ultra-easy money policy and, most recently, a big juicy corporate tax cut.

One of the biggest includes the millions of people on the left who believe Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with Russian operatives to steal the 2016 election with lies amplified by social media...

When the time is right, he leaves that reality for the bigger, truer reality, where he is able to see another dimension to human life, and he finds that he is no longer bound by the laws of the universe that once held him.

The balloon - borne microwave telescope (called «Boomerang») examined the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.The angular power spectrum showed a peak value at exactly the value predicted by the inflationary hot Big Bang model dominated by cold dark matter.

If the message given by the church and the bible brings out the BIG GUNS then there is no love and it leaves the figure in your drawing with lots of confusion and questions.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

We have much bigger issues, LEFT BEHIND BY HIS PREDECESSOR, that we need to be concerned about.

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

The big kids either want to help or get on with entertaining themselves, heading outside the surprising spring weather, leaving me in the corner of the couch by the big front window to «keep an eye.»

Since I chased money by leaving my first church, I now decided I needed more education so I could chase money into a bigger and better church.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

Among those trying to live more deliberately is a young man who leaves a lucrative position at Microsoft in order to do what he has always wanted — be an actor and help others by volunteering, especially as a Big Brother.