Sentences with phrase «in the small pond of»

The spirit of teenage independence sings out loud and clear in Raise Your Voice, starring Hillary Duff playing Terri Fletcher - a girl with a big voice in the small pond of Flagstaff AZ..

And as this article, Supreme Court Connection: High Court Clerks Tackle Entertainment Law (Matthew Belloni — Oct. 3, 2006), explains, Supreme Court clerks are trading in on their celebrity status in the small pond of the legal profession to represent big - time, Hollywood celebrities.

Displays are not lost in the crowd in the small pond of a solo exhibition because every artist, or lawyer, is treated is an equal.

She surmises this might be because he is a big fish in the small pond of Saskatchewan's legal community, which has only 1,500 lawyers.

Instead, to save time and money, you want to fish in a small pond of targeted customers.

Not exact matches

They became a big fish in a small (er) pond earlier in their life cycle, and most likely reaped major benefits because of it.

So, if you put someone in a very, very highly competitive pond, they are going to reach very different conclusions about who they are and what they are capable of than if you put them in a less selective pond, a smaller pond.

But as opposing experts (and a small army of writers) feud over the issue here in the United States, across the pond several top universities are eliminating the underlying logic of the argument by creating programs to help budding business owners get their start - up dreams off the ground — while they get their degrees.

Here, Wealthsimple is a smaller fish in a much bigger, crowded pond that includes the likes of local robo - adviser Nutmeg Saving and Investment Ltd. and giant HSBC Holdings PLC's automated investing platform.

In the summer of 2010, an algae bloom forced the closure of a small swampy pond near the center of Mont Vernon, a storybook New Hampshire town of 2,400 people.

The Field Book of Ponds and Streams was her first discovery, «a small blue - bound book printed in fine type on thin paper, like The Book of Common Prayer.»

Sociologists and anthropologists have spoken of the way in which the nuclear family — the small group of three or four persons — can be vicious because it may (not must) become centered on its own existence and, hence, entirely inward - looking — like a pond with no outlet.

The juxtaposition of seeing a massive ship in the middle of a field with no water in sight save for a small brown pond is disorienting, but only adds to its grandeur.

The impact of the Nazarene sect would probably have been localised like a small stone in a still pond.

«We make a lot of noise,» Legeron says of natural wine devotees, «but we're a big fish in a small pond, in a way.»

Nearby is a small pond in which she keeps fit by swimming, usually naked and heedless of the crocodiles who also exercise there.

Martinez is clearly starting to get to the point where he's sick of being a big fish in a small pond, playing in the Portuguese league.

While he may have been a big fish in a small pond in Ames, he frequently tested himself against NFL - caliber defenses in four years of Big 12 play.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

But at Spurs, he is a «small fish in a huge pond», and it's a shame that we can unlock the talent of the Belgian midfielder, but never say never with football, anything can happen.

The transition from big fish in a small pond to simply being one of many talented players was always bound to produce frustrating moments for Iturbe and Roma.

In a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponIn a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small pond.

The stark contrast in his role and his production perfectly embodies the really big fish in a small pond idea, and truly conveys what happens when a superstar footballer drops way down in weight class of the league he plays in.

Porto are in many ways a big fish in a small pond; the Portuguese League generates an annual TV revenue of 50 million to split between its clubs, while a club like Arsenal alone earns more than that annually, just to put it in perspective how much of an uphill battle it is for Porto to mix it up deep in the Champions League.

For the very lucky, you only have to clean up a small pond's worth of pee over the course of a few weeks before you're in the clear, but for most people, potty training a kid involves a series of trials and tribulations that can take months (or in some cases years; our thoughts are with you).

William Resetarits of Texas Tech University in Lubbock created small ponds and put fish in some of them.

So it wasn't too hard to, sort of you know, be a big fish in a small pond.

And at the University of Exeter in England, lake expert Gabriel Yvon - Durocher has been working to measure, on a small scale, how exactly ponds and lakes will respond to rising temperatures.

Although gas exchange in larger lakes can be predicted by wind speed, this relationship breaks down under low - wind conditions, such as in small ponds, said Meredith Holgerson, the lead author of the study, who conducted the research while completing her Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).

In the case of electrons on helium, the system is pure and homogenous, but the surface of liquid helium is nonetheless disturbed by capillary waves — ripples associated with the surface tension and similar to small, circular ripples in a pond when a pebble is tossed into the wateIn the case of electrons on helium, the system is pure and homogenous, but the surface of liquid helium is nonetheless disturbed by capillary waves — ripples associated with the surface tension and similar to small, circular ripples in a pond when a pebble is tossed into the watein a pond when a pebble is tossed into the water.

This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes» explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water, leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

In fact, the ring - like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by a small intruder galaxy passing through a large one, compressing the interstellar gas and dust, and causing a wave of star formation wave to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond.

Cane toads produce many more eggs in a clutch than do any of the native frogs, and so a single clutch can result in many thousands of small black tadpoles in a pond.

Even if you are miles from the countryside, you can find some peace in a local park, by a pond, or even on a small patch of grass outside.

We'd restore and heal our raw skin and aching joints in the timeless waters at Ojo Caliente (literally «hot eye» in Spanish, so named because there previously were small ponds or pools of water in the springs), a secluded refuge deemed sacred by Native Americans.

The footprints probably play an important role in allowing these small life - forms to spread, as they form a network of connected ponds.

am on Day 6 First time... has been the easiest diet ever and was 6 ponds down on the 5th Day and I agree that this diet has lots of nutrition... do nt know what the person above was talking about (dangerously low in nutrition and calories) I have been a purest with it as well and have not suffered any... my version allows Beef or skinless chicken on the meat days and does not have all the added things I have seen above; but my cravings for chocolate, ice cream, cookies etc have dissapeared... my diet also warns to take a two week break between rounds... I am hoping the next two weeks I will eat smaller portions and stick to healthy foods... then I will try for the next 10 pounds

Being the biggest fish in a small pond doesn't make you the biggest fish pointblankperiod — it's just indicative of your perspective at that given moment in that given space.

All of a sudden, I went from being a small fish in a big pond to being the only fish in a totally new pond.

My first day was everything you'd imagine it to be... getting lost, feeling like a little fish in a huge pond, experiencing the awful feeling of forgetting everyone's names, and being forced to make small talk.

Just as a side note, it is interesting to point out that most of the big fish in our small pond and beyond prefer salted hash over everything.

Thanks in no small part to Pixar, DreamWorks & Illumination holding down the fort across the pond as well as the utterly charming Aardman Studios on this side of the Atlantic, animation is now no longer a playground just for kids; true, the target audience is still primarily child - like in both age & size but the best and most successful animated features now possess whip - smart humour that's definitely targeted to adults.

Being a big fish — even in a small pond — takes a great deal of effort.

Josh Hutcherson makes an appearance as the flighty ex-boyfriend of McKayla, as does Craig Robinson as Big Al, a local big mouth and small fish swimming in a tiny pond.

It's taut, impeccably written and realised drama, comparable in many ways to Paul Greengrass's similarly disquieting «Bloody Sunday» — between this and the «Red Riding» trilogy, it's an odd truth that the best filmmaking of the year so far has only appeared on the small screen on this side of the pond.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

The Ka + is Ford's most affordable automobile in the European market, and while its diminutive size and modest power would make it a poor match for America's roads and sensibilities, the small car is quite at home across the pond; Ford has sold more than 61,000 examples of the supermini since late - 2016.

In its place is the Auris small hatchback — which we know as the new Scion iM on this side of the pond.