Sentences with phrase «little stakes in it»

Christians, therefore, have little stake in the question of whether we live in a postmodern time.

As a second - termer in Congress, Rice has little seniority and, being low on the totem pole, holds little stake in Pelosi, who's now in her second tenure as minority leader after serving as speaker during the last two presidencies.

Nearly 80 % of polled voters said they trust their local school leaders to make decisions and to hold schools accountable, more than they do elected officials in Lansing who have little stake in classrooms outside their own districts.

I frankly have very little stake in the game.

This approach means that approximately 30 per cent to 40 per cent of a brokerage's operational time is manned by individuals with little stake in the business.

Not exact matches

But then, in 2010, he abruptly sold his stake and moved to a little farm on the Lebanese border, where he opened a tiny catering company.

Yet in the face of these giant stakes, very little is in your control.

This so - called «optimism bias» can be a hell of a survival mechanism in the all - encompassing, high - stakes process of building a business, but it can also serve to downplay real problems — especially little ones that appear inconsequential and are easy to justify.

«These are good ways to transfer minority stock stakes to your children at levels that will trigger little or no tax liability,» explains Michael Mullaugh, an estate - settlement manager with Mellon Private Asset Management, in Pittsburgh.

During an IPO, the previous owners are attempting to raise capital for expanding the business, cash out their interest for estate planning, or any other myriad of reasons that all result in one thing: a premium price that offers little chance for buying your stake at a discount.

Berkshire's cost for a common equity stake of 320 million shares in the new company will be $ 9.5 billion, or «a little less than $ 30 a share,» Buffett told CNBC on Wednesday.

Suhail Rizvi, the little - known head of Rizvi Traverse who has helped himself and his investors amass stakes in Twitter since 2011, would count among the largest institutional shareholders, according to sources familiar with its investments.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

Many websites now offer small investors the opportunity to earn interest from lending money either to individuals or small businesses, while others allow people to invest as little as 10 pounds ($ 15) in companies in return for an equity stake.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

They argue that activists seek too much power given the size of their stakes, which amount to as little as 1 % in some cases.

You're telling all your little hedge - fund buddies 1 about the stake you've built, so they can buy in too:

It will mean that financial advisors will have a place where they have a stake in the company and can sleep a little bit better at night.»

We are the ones with all the investment and lively hood at stake, that also create a little economy in our respected area.

LGC Capital Ltd. (LGC) has completed a previously - announced transaction with licenced Australian Medical Cannabis business Little Green Pharma, whereby LGC increased its stake in Little Green Pharma to 14.99 % from 11.91 %.

Before the letter was released, Yahoo's total market value stood at $ 39 billion — an assessment indicating that investors put little or no value on the company's ongoing U.S. business while discounting for the taxes that currently would have to be paid in eventual sales of the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes.

In «The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light,» the morning sunlight clears up a long - forgotten murder, and the culprit is convicted, while «The Virgin Mary's Child» concludes with heavenly redemption, when «heaven opened up right then and there, and the Virgin Mary descended with the [penitent sinner's] two little sons at either side and the daughter in her arms» in order to save her from flames at the stakIn «The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light,» the morning sunlight clears up a long - forgotten murder, and the culprit is convicted, while «The Virgin Mary's Child» concludes with heavenly redemption, when «heaven opened up right then and there, and the Virgin Mary descended with the [penitent sinner's] two little sons at either side and the daughter in her arms» in order to save her from flames at the stakin her arms» in order to save her from flames at the stakin order to save her from flames at the stake.

Too often the church has taken a stance of concern for the world, but has understood itself as a delivered community having little ultimate stake in the fate of the world.

For common folks, at stake are not just ideologies and political utopias — which they have little time for anyway — but their own subsistence in extreme situations where even their basic necessities are unmet.

Marriage apart from Christianity feels nowhere near as high - stakes as marriage within Christianity, and that's certainly because Christians talk about marriage, think about marriage and pursue marriage in ways and avenues that facilitate a level of intensity and intention that, frankly, is a little uncomfortable.

So high in the popularity stakes, it would appear that these little tinkers have also been involved in highly competitive bake offs and come up trumps!

Australian investors will be able to buy a little piece of Mexico before Donald Trump puts his wall up, with a stake in Guzman y Gomez formally up for sale.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

Investors can get a stake in Growing Underground today for as little as # 10.

A crowdfunding campaign starts today, giving investors of all sizes the chance to buy a stake in the project from as little as # 10.

Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who has acquired fascinating and rewarding habit of winning big ones, tried his able hands for first time with Sword Dancer, plucky little 3 - year - old, in $ 81,250 Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

Yes we do he owns 30 % stake in arsenal but yet he is not aloud in to kronke gazidis and Wenger little party!!

And when the stake was over, in a little more than two minutes, Charlie Clark had won the biggest purse of his life.

Ohio State's loss tamped the stakes down a little bit in this one... but only so much.

With little more than a quarter mile remaining in the $ 82,575 Remsen stakes last Saturday, a 2 - year - old named Royal Ski was in about as much trouble as a horse can get himself into without actually falling down.

So little is known about Russian form that comparisons are impossible, but in the case of Garnir and Zaryad, it is known that they finished one - two in the mile - and - a-half Moscow Derby this July and that Garnir's winning time over a dirt track was 2:31 1/2 — or only a second and a fraction slower than Cavan's recent winning Belmont Stakes.

With very little at stake between now and the end of the season, I wasn't expecting a lot from Liverpool in the closing stages.

I feel what is at stake for us is our commitment and that's all we want to do.I don't compare us to any other team, I just think we have rebuilt confidence and belief and that will be vital in the race until the end.It can change very quickly because as soon as you lose a little bit of urgency you are in trouble in this league.

He has an estimated personal fortune of around # 4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15 % stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper - and - fabrics company co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne.

While some will vote for Nigel Farage's party come what may, others will only do so if they feel they have nothing to lose — that there is so little at stake in 2015 that it hardly matters who wins.

The fired - up governor chalked up that middling chance to a recalcitrant Legislature with little political stake in the concept.

«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

When the stakes become higher and your force can be felt in an organization, expect backlash for the least little perceived «mistake.»

In the hours before bedtime, I often watch a little TV, but only comedies — I've found that high - stakes dramas and gory scenes from Game of Thrones stress me out and keep me up later than I'd like.

It's fun to feel like you have a little bit of a stake in the games, more so than just cheering for your favorite teams.

Rodneyâ $ ™ s stakes its claim in the rugged west among the eclectic cafes, galleries and pubs of the Beltline, just a little south of downtown Calgary.

It follows a set formula with very little in the way of risk - taking, but so long as you can stomach the idea of warring kingdoms with very little at stake other than your level - up bar, it'll probably delight you too.

But Frozen River may have enough pure suspense to break that jinx, which is strange when you consider how little money is actually at stake in the movie: Hunt really manages to inflate the value of a dollar, making you feel every nickel and dime.

That leaves little for Detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore), who's also in the midst of a high - stakes divorce, to find, but she knows the murders mark the return of «The Thumbprint Killer.»

That is to say, there is little at stake in the third Thor movie apart from the possibility of an armageddon — called «Ragnarok» — striking Thor's planet Asgard.