Sentences with phrase «in the class of small»

In any case, it promises to be one of the very few options in the class of small Android devices as we head in toward the holiday shopping season.

Not exact matches

MICHELLE Milton is one of a small group of aficionados in demand from big business worldwide to bring a touch of class to product launches or major events.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

The Xbox console owners filed a proposed class action against Microsoft in federal court in 2011, saying the design of the console was defective and that its optical disc drive could not withstand even small vibrations.

The tax changes contemplated by the Minister are aimed mostly at incorporated small business owners, so any «unfairness» will be in the comparison of salary earners and small business owners, not different income classes.

«I think Bernie's a helluva guy and has a lot of good ideas, but clearly he missed a couple days of class when they were going over economics at the U. of Chicago,» writes Jeremy Thornton, an account executive at Lamar Advertising, a small ad firm in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

While cryptocurrencies are currently too small an asset class to pose systemic risks to the financial system, that may change as the space continues its rapid evolution, Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, said in a letter to G - 20 finance leaders published Sunday.

Fixed - income investors should be realistic in expecting this to be a year of relatively low returns across asset classes in general — a year in which small ball becomes much more important than swinging for the fences.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

Yet for Jill Foucre, the owner and founder of Marcel's Culinary Experience, a cooking class, cookware and specialty food retailer in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a small business loan was just too taxing.

«One thing to keep in mind,» said Salesforce vice president of corporate strategy, Bruce Francis, «is that small businesses and medium - sized businesses are now getting access to world - class technology that they've never had access to before.

«The continued growth of small and independent brewers illustrates that additional market opportunities and demand are prevalent, although competition in the sector is certainly growing and the need for brewers to differentiate and produce world class high quality beer is more important than ever.»

The «generational shift» Stanford is referring to raises the prospect that many traditional MBA recruiters in consulting and finance will see a smaller percentage of the best and brightest in any graduating class.

In the years since the introduction of the Oasis class, the cruise line launched a new smaller, state - of - the - art series of ships called the Quantum class.

We are currently using just GXC in our International and Global Multi Asset Class portfolios but will monitor the development of other available ETFs, including the ones more recently launched and currently too small for us.

«A lot of my clients are in Class 35 for marketing agencies and business consultants, but some also consider themselves business coaches, where Class 41 comes in,» says Rachel Rodgers, a lawyer and the founder of startup law resource Small Business Bodyguard.

Now, some of this best - in - class tech is available to small companies too.

In an effort to grow revenue and profits amid margin - crimping cost increases, American and its rivals are segmenting their cabins into smaller classes of service, including no - frills basic economy and premium economy, which offers a larger seat, more leg room and an amenities kit for a higher fare.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

Doug Mataconis, a political blogger, writes that Cain is «either blind or idiotic to ignore the impact that a combined federal and state sales tax would have in jurisdictions that already do have a sales tax, and the impact that a combined levy approaching 20 percent on the sale of goods would have on the middle class, and on small businesses.»

The anticipated DBRS rating for the Class A Notes would be the highest rating ever for a class of notes in an asset - backed securitization of small business loans in the online lending induClass A Notes would be the highest rating ever for a class of notes in an asset - backed securitization of small business loans in the online lending induclass of notes in an asset - backed securitization of small business loans in the online lending industry.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

Small business vendors, including minority or disadvantaged businesses, women - owned businesses, veteran - owned businesses and small businesses operating from HUBZone or high unemployment areas, are a vital part of our commitment to world - class customer response and will be given an equal opportunity to compete for Clean Harbors» business in this environSmall business vendors, including minority or disadvantaged businesses, women - owned businesses, veteran - owned businesses and small businesses operating from HUBZone or high unemployment areas, are a vital part of our commitment to world - class customer response and will be given an equal opportunity to compete for Clean Harbors» business in this environsmall businesses operating from HUBZone or high unemployment areas, are a vital part of our commitment to world - class customer response and will be given an equal opportunity to compete for Clean Harbors» business in this environment.

Limited voting stock - Limited voting stock is a class of stock providing its holders with smaller than proportionate voting rights in comparison with another class of stock issued by the same firm.

In a Mar. 18 letter to G20 central bankers and finance ministers, Carney gave a low - risk assessment of cryptocurrencies on the basis that the new asset class was small relative to the global financial system.

They consider four criteria in selecting asset class proxies: (1) market capitalization - weighted coverage of a wide variety of investable assets; (2) small initial investment; (3) low annual expenses; and, (4) versions that investors can short.

China should be attractive to small U.S. companies, due to the market's size, rising consumption in the country and an increasing fondness for American products among China's young and growing middle class of over 300 million consumers.

Also because of regulations, smaller retail investors have effectively been blocked from participating in higher - yielding investments — namely, private equity and venture capital, whose 10 - year compound annual growth rates have averaged 11.8 and 11 percent, quite a bit more than Treasuries, equities and other common asset classes.

The increasing use of dual - class stock structure, in which founders can have small ownership percentages, but outsized influence over company decisions via voting rights, has played a role.

There is a very small chance that any individual investment you make will ever see a liquidation event, so when that coveted liquidation event does occur, it should have a chance of being big enough to offset a significant amount of losses in other investment you've made in the venture asset class.

Obama says that he will «lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the paychecks of the Middle Class and working Americans, while still reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order.»

The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

Noting Walmart's ongoing high - profile fight with credit company Visa, and recent news that consumers in the U.K. are preparing a 19 billion - pound ($ 24.5 billion USD) class action lawsuit against MasterCard alleging unfair practices, he added, «Whether retailers are large or small, when credit card and related transaction fees for merchants run rampant, it directly and immediately increases the cost of doing business.

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

... We are in Virginia... We might be a small town but we are getting some BIIGGG publicity a bunch of us at GHS walked out of class this morning

We all still break but not so often because of hunger anymore, at least not in the western world where the middle class is now easily the majority by population and poverty is a small percent.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

An energetic graduate of Wesleyan College, class of 2013, no longer proud of her achievement - packed résumé, cuts off contact with her mother, flies to Hawaii, lives in a hut, and survives on plants from her small garden.

This open acknowledgment of the moral context of the therapeutic group enabled the group to function in relationship to the individual somewhat like a small congregation or Methodist class meeting.

The small nature of private colleges tends to create groups in which students can meet and engage with people from diverse points of view, simply because class sizes tend to be so small.

As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

As a small project, why not photocopy those words from the Catechism, and send the copy to your Member of Parliament with a brief note, saying that this is the message that you will be teaching the children in your Confirmation group / parish youth group / RE class and you would like an assurance that it is not against the law to do so?

Step out of your comfort zone; join a Sunday school class, small group or church committee in which you are a minority.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

There were three main limitations on early Hebrew morals: the field of ethical obligation was tribally constricted; within the tribal circle certain classes were denied full personal rights; and the nature of moral conduct was interpreted in such external terms of custom and ritual as to make small demand on internal insight and quality.

After attending classes in Eastern religion and the 19th - century English novel, she walks down the main street of this small university town with her new friend, Helen Kim to one of their favorite eating spots, Hoagie Haven, which is owned by Greek immigrants and run by Guatemalans.

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In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday TimeIn a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Timein Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.