Sentences with phrase «from big people»

The director then invites audiences under the floorboards and into the family's miniature household equipped with items they've «borrowed» from the Big People.

So much of his money has come from the big people and so little from the little people who want progressive government.

We think she might be just unfamiliar with other babies and how they are different from big people.

Because they often get a BIG reaction (be it positive or negative) from the big people in their lives.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

And as for that ship: To safely fit 100 people and protect them from dangerous solar radiation outside, it would have to be twice the size of the biggest spaceship ever built — the Saturn V, which transported astronauts to the moon.

Jun 25, 2013, Sam Stemler Maintain a positive attitude and voice; people get enough cynicism and negativity from their «friends,» which is a big reason why a large percentage of even apt social media users are unhappy with their networks.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

Typically they prevent people from joining together to bring class - action lawsuits that can force companies to change their practices under the threat of big monetary damages.

«In a year from now, what we want is for this not only to be nationally present, but something that people see as a big part of their every day lives,» Elliott says.

«There really wasn't a big impact from ambition to how satisfied people were with their lives,» Kammeyer - Mueller, a business school professor, told me.

And it's a break from the past: Gathering the 50 smartest people in an industry together in one room to talk shop is not necessarily something that would have happened during the highly competitive Mad Men era of big advertising.

The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

From humble beginnings to one of China's richest people, self - made billionaire Zhang Xin told «Managing Asia» in 2012 why wealth was not her biggest motivator.

«If we get people excited for agriculture and learning where food comes from, we could really start to change agricultural processes, and make a really big impact in the world,» she says.

Life in small towns differs from life in big cities in a lot of ways, including how people look for jobs.

Repeal proponents have argued that providing digital fast lanes could help, for instance, people who want telemedicine services; but critics say that only bigger health care companies would benefit from the preferential treatment.

For Fernandes, he's a «big believer» in being an entrepreneur, but in conversation with CNBC, he added that people can garner a lot through «invaluable experience,» with the CEO himself having learned a lot from working at Warner Music and with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

«Suddenly Canada is a great big bargain to people all over the world, but particularly from the United States,» she says.

What is the biggest takeaway you hope people get from your book?

I'm not cavalier about other people's money or jobs, but here that doesn't qualify as risk, which is weird because in many, many countries, quitting your job and starting a company and taking money from someone and losing it is a big, big no - no.

From six employees, Chapman's has grown to employ more than 300 people, making it big business in a village of 1,400.

While Trump doesn't come from private equity, though real estate investing in increasingly a big part of what private equity firms do, many of the people in his administration, or advising it, do.

«People looking for a big bounce in the dollar from the volatility spike must be feeling pretty depressed right now,» said Kit Juckes, chief FX strategist at Societe Generale in London, referring to the dollar's losses in recent sessions.

Missouri: Named for a group of native peoples among Chiwere (Siouan) tribes, from an Algonquian word, likely wimihsoorita, meaning «people of the big (or wood) canoes.»

Similar to the last one, but this is more forward - looking, which, says Burkus, allows for the other person «to choose from a bigger set of possible answers.»

What a lot of people don't know is that in 1892 it made that big shift that turned it from also - ran to a household name.

Attila Szigeti, COO of Drukka Startup Studio, recently crunched the numbers on 42 of the biggest and best companies to emerge from startup studios and accelerators: He discovered that startups that had partnered with accelerators raised more capital and employed more people than their studio brethren.

And finally, anything that keeps growing and getting bigger always runs the risk of distancing your best people from your customers.

In a call with the media, Wal - Mart executives said super centres are getting bigger purchases on each trip from people stocking up on bulk items, but traffic has been weaker, particularly in the bottom performing 10 per cent of its stores.

From a big picture perspective, the company will grow as more people move into the province — more than 100,000 people moved into the region last year — and as incomes grow.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

In its heyday, it was a popular stopover for people looking to see the Calaveras Big Trees, a recently discovered grove of giant sequoias that attracted tourists from all over.

I have contacted people I would have never imagined (everyone from homeless people collecting plastic bottles, to big executives thousands of miles away).

When it comes to struggle, I would say the biggest is the temptation and ease of staying behind a PC and doing things electronically, which sometimes keeps me from going out and meeting people.

Model Bakery, a longtime fixture of Napa's Main Street in St. Helena, went from small - town gem to international sensation last spring when Oprah Winfrey told People magazine that her biggest luxury is having their English muffins flown in.

It isn't because there aren't people without jobs out there, but rather because many of those people, either from birth or from discouragement of being without work, are not thinking about the bigger picture, «making the employer happy» as much as they are following what they are told «fill in that sheet of numbers.»

An even bigger loss, Jill and I have found, comes from the potential of customer advocates who aren't uncovered and nurtured because you're constantly relying on the same handful of people.

I originally started PRSUIT because I felt like there was a desire for young people to learn how to make big improvements in their lives, feel motivated to pursue their goals and dreams, and most of all, learn from people who have done it for themselves.

People who have a big portion of their assets in stocks and mutual funds stand to lose the most if the market tanks as they are preparing to or starting to withdraw money from their accounts.

Instead, the co-founders recently decided to open the company's big decisions up to an 11 - person leadership team, including senior executives hired away from companies like Google and Kate Spade.

Their main effort centered on convincing people that all consumers benefit from the widest possible choice of products at the lowest possible price -; which means that consumers would be the biggest beneficiaries of lowered trade barriers.

The CEO, says a person familiar with his thinking, believed selling through big boxes could introduce Moore paint to new customers; once impressed by the brand's quality, he believed, they would buy directly from Moore stores.

Duping people into thinking your social media voice (your megaphone) is much bigger and broader than reality isn't much different from the many ways that marketers seeking to monetize their media have lied about their metrics, viewership and reach since the beginning of time.

You can put cast a big vision of building a billion dollar business and put your own plan in place, or you can seek guidance from people who have already done it and follow their trail of breadcrumbs.

GGP rejected a $ 14.8 billion buyout offer from its biggest shareholder, Brookfield Property Partners, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

While they might have high standards and big picture concerns, research shows that people with high IQs are actually more likely to be happy; data from the research showed that people with the highest IQs were much happier than those with the lowest IQs.