Sentences with phrase «convenience store owner»

Imagine a neighborhood convenience store owner turning off the lights and locking the doors after closing, leaving the store sitting quietly under a street lamp.

Edwin Coe LLP is best known for its work in representing large groups of consumers and shareholders as well as acting for small retailers on competition issues; it represented 50,000 Railtrack shareholders in their claim against the Government; 32,000 convenience store owners in their successful challenge against the OFT and the private shareholders in Northern Rock.

Indigenous nations have just as much right to provide food, clothing and shelter for their families as anyone else, including Canadian businesses, like convenience store owners — who do not have constitutionally protected rights to engage in the tobacco trade.

But local convenience store owners, as well as the head of the trade group that represents neighborhood convenience stores, have said the bill is «based on a flawed assumption» that the law would prevent youth smoking.

Calvin said convenience store owners would support the legislation if it actually meant fewer youths would smoke.

The recent death of a young black girl by an Asian convenience store owner enraged the community.

«Kings» takes place against the ambitious backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and opens with a dramatization of the 1991 shooting of Latasha Harlins, the 15 - year - old African American girl killed by a Korean convenience store owner that set the city on edge.

A Peterborough convenience store owner was vindicated yesterday after the Crown withdrew a sexual assault charge against him midway through the complainant's testimony.

Fueled by childhood scars and anger at being wronged, the comedian targets Hank Azaria, who voices Apu and who originally made the call to give the unnamed convenience store owner an Indian accent.

A Terrebonne Parish convenience store owner did not heed the warnings of law enforcement because he said he was fighting for his livelihood and his life when he encountered an armed robber this weekend.

and enthusiastic Retail convenience store owner with 14 years of specialization in retail business.

His firm is known for its work in class actions relating to consumer issues, banking and shares: for example, it represented 32,000 convenience store owners in a successful challenge against the Office of Fair Trading, and 36,000 private shareholders in Northern Rock following the 2008 global financial meltdown.

But convenience store owners, a key constituency of the WIGS push, determined they would be priced out of the medallion market, and pulled their support.

Ronk said that, in addition to being unconvinced that the law will have the desired affect, he is worried that convenience store owners and other businesses will be hurt by the law.

Last year, comedian Hari Kondabolu released a documentary called The Problem with Apu, addressing problems the titular character from The Simpsons, a convenience store owner of Indian - American descent.

To make matters worse, Shane steals money from a convenience store owner named Adjay (Sam Dissanayake), who then sends a hired gun named Colin Keith Threadener (Jemaine Clement) to get it back.

At a place like Harvard, full of communists, atheists, and rich kids, the young Fitzsimmons, son of a gas station and convenience store owner, would surely lose his soul.

When preservice teachers went to the next part of their lesson and replaced the photo of the mailman with a convenience store owner and instructed students about how people consume household goods in an industrial society, one student looked troubled and quickly raised his hand.

Unfortunately, Kondabolu argues, as a yogi, a PhD holder, and convenience store owner, Apu embodies multiple stereotypes about Indians.