Sentences with phrase «kiltie fringe»

Today, the jasmine - fringed Georgian homes between 83 and 107 East Bay Street are synonymous with the popular Southern city.

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

An independent events company responsible for organising one of Fringe World Festival's major venues has allegedly failed to pay about $ 200,000 owed to performers as it prepares for voluntary administration.

Fringe World Festival is taking steps to mitigate losses to performers left $ 200,000 out of pocket, with plans to appoint a liquidator over the independent event company that failed to make payments.

The ending of fringe benefits like the golf course are symbols of a larger transition both at IBM and at most American corporations in recent decades.

Data journalism expert Jonathan Albright has also spent some time mapping the right - wing alternative media ecosystem, including the connections between fringe sites that were the largest channels for «fake news» reports during the election.

Scientology is a fringe belief system.

On receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, Rowling gave a heartfelt commencement speech titled «The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination».

The social media platform Wednesday banned the Facebook page of «Britain First», the far - right fringe group U.S. President Donald Trump once retweeted to near universal condemnation.

«We've touched them from the fringe, but haven't invested in a big way.»

It is easy to laugh at the bizarre logic which lies behind the trade war started by US President Donald Trump, but in countries on the fringe of a remarkable global event, such as Australia, the laughing will soon stop.

One option is to find ways to help employees invest in themselves as a kind of fringe benefit of employment.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Petersen then expanded his digital footprint by joining Gab, a fringe social media platform popular with white nationalists and those who identify with the alt - right.

Fringe benefits such as a company car, subsidized meals and insurance can be a great way to pay for services and decorate a more enticing employee package.

Knowing which fringe benefits linger outside the taxable realm can ease the tax burden every year.

The tax rules for each are a little different, so it's important to choose the right fringe benefit investment for your individual company.

The bob - haired, bright - lipsticked Amoruso herself arrives in a rock»n' roll black flared miniskirt, blue sneakers and a rainbow - fringed shag jacket.

In recent months, the real estate mogul has staked out fringe positions, for example proclaiming the need to build a wall across the U.S. border with Mexico to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants.

He said that though the vast majority of creators respond to changes at YouTube in a reasonable fashion, a fringe element always sees conspiracies and plots in every move made by the company's leadership.

Multinational pharmaceutical companies are investing in India, as they find it a cheap place to manufacture, as well as to gain the fringe benefit of the potential huge local - growth opportunity.

For example, when plastic surgery first became technically possible, it was largely feared and relegated to the fringes.

Understand that white supremacy is not limited to the most fringe elements of our society.

«For us, it's that sort of connection between ideas that were fringe years ago — out of the mainstream — are suddenly mainstream, and seeing the path is not hard to follow.»

If the surprise switch goes ahead, it would see 5 - Star enter mainstream European politics and move away from the anti-system fringes, a shift that might reassure other EU capitals that have grown uneasy about its rising popularity.

And, counterintuitively, to the extent that the euro is devalued because of the fiscal basket cases on the southern fringe of Europe and in Ireland, it facilitates German exports.

While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.

Not that long ago, cord - cutting was seen by many in the pay - TV and cable industry as a bogeyman, a spooky ghost dreamed up based on fringe behavior by a small number of millennials and other malcontents.

Start by brainstorming common words and build from those, pushing farther out to the fringes of the English language to uncover uncommon words that evoke the feeling and tone that you're striving for.

For one thing, if an area like Toronto had more restrictive rules, we «might see mini-bubbles form on the fringes of the area.»

In just about any other industrialized nation, the NRA would be a quaint fringe group.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

If you're a fan of a team with a fringe chance of making the playoffs, consider the prudent thought of placing an emotional hedge bet, so that if your postseason hopes crash and burn on Sunday you'll at least make a profit off of your misery.

It's located in a yellow cinder - block bunker, fringed along the roof with blue shingles.

Box office sales for Perth's two major arts festivals have remained steady against last year's figures, with Perth Festival on track to make $ 3.8 million and Fringe World Festival hitting $ 10 million.

American singer Macy Gray once got a crash - course in racing on the fringe of the Sao Paolo Grand Prix.

It often means that they are forced into even worse options that are less regulated, sit on the fringes of the economy, or unravel stability in other parts of their lives.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall, Matt Mckenzie, and Katie McDonald discuss the Quintis collapse, Wheatstone's environmental conditions, Doric's Chinese joint venture, wage gap battle, Fringe festival and land developers.

Instead, Netflix began at the fringe.

And I'm completely unwilling to join them on the fringe extreme.

' cents Transportation fringe benefits: Through 2010, the amount of transit benefits that are excluded from the employee's gross income and payroll wages is increased to $ 230 a month — the same amount as the employee parking benefit.

Wedges also need to be able to work from a multitude of lies, giving you a high level of versatility in shot making, whether you're on the fringe or in the fairway.

Washington actually ordered the use of fringed hunting shirts as a field garment to provide some uniformity until the Continental Army had a more consistent uniform.

In the case of the small business, most if not all of the company's profits are used to pay salaries and fringe benefits, which are deductible, and double taxation may be avoided because no money is left over for distributing dividends.

After they deduct all business expenses, such as salaries, fringe benefits, and interest payments, C corporations pay a tax on their profits at the corporate level.

But aside from a few fringe extremists who think we should go back to being a lawless frontier nation, it's hard to imagine that are too many Americans who don't think we should have a fully functioning air traffic control system.

The beauty of fringe benefits is that you are generally providing something the employee would otherwise have to purchase, and you're doing so without incurring a tax liability for your company or the employee.

More important, it's time to look at the fringe benefits you could and should be offering.

In the case of the small business, though, double taxation may not be a consideration, because most, if not all of the company's profits are reinvested in the business or go to pay salaries and fringe benefits, which are deductible, and no money is left over for distributing dividends.

The Gold Standard and non-interventionism have long been pushed to the fringe of our politics, and ambitious people tend to dive into the mainstream.