Sentences with phrase «local base of»

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

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Since these are largely public sector jobs at the provincial or municipal level, the characteristics of the local tax base has an effect.

On the top of the page is a new navigation bar that lets people see the top headlines of the day, more local coverage, and a new «For You» tab, which lets people customize the news they want to see based on topics of personal interest.

This model exists in many other countries, and we see local food - based businesses, bars and pubs, art and creative studios and other product based companies taking advantage of these models and raising on average about $ 700,000.

Ha Lam, co-founder of Vietnam - based Triip.me, talks about how the travel - platform connects travelers with local tour guides.

Even if Korean lawmakers push forward with an exchange ban, local investors are likely to find ways to keep buying cryptocurrencies, said Mike Kayamori, head of Tokyo - based exchange Quoine, which counts Koreans among its customers.

Since these are largely public sector jobs at the provincial or municipal level, the characteristics of the local tax base has an effect on what you'll earn.

The first tells the story of a Bristol - based man who had built a bomb - building lab in his kitchen and planned to detonate his explosives in a local shopping center.

Jason Sutherland, the founder of Peninsula Shops, a Web - based community portal, devised the game as a way to promote local businesses.

Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

Katsenelson also argues that since local officials are tasked with meeting specified growth targets on a per capita basis, there's an incentive to downplay the size of the local population.

Dunn Brothers Coffee This St. Paul, Minn. - based franchise is the ninth - largest coffee chain in the U.S., but most of its 92 locations can be mistaken for indie coffeehouses — beans are roasted daily in the store, local music and art are the featured decor, and owner / operators are encouraged to make their stores hubs of neighborhood activity.

Feldstein scoured Facebook looking for local Fort McMurray cleaning crews — mainly South Asians and Filipinos long based in the city — and hired them with the promise of plentiful work and daily payment.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«To be successful, we knew we had to work with artisans in each city and build an online farmers market filled with local products,» explains Lior Lavy, co-founder and COO of Dallas - based Artizone.

This Houston - based power company is giving back to its local community in the form of one million dollars to Houston organizations.

Spear, senior vice president of operations for Quadrem, a Plano, Texas - based online marketplace for buyers and suppliers of products and services used in the mining industry, was in Rustenburg in late 2003 to convince local businesses to subscribe to Quadrem's service, which would allow them to bid online for purchase requests from buyers around the world.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

A Sydney - based fintech company is seeking an ASX listing through the reverse takeover of local resources company Metallum.

To calculate someone's market value (which the Know Your Worth tool recalculates for participating members each week), Glassdoor's machine learning algorithms take into account current job title, base salary, employer, work location, industry, typical job transitions, years of relevant experience, and current state of the local job market.

Also, establish a strong local customer base before thinking of expanding.

So she came up with a solution and started Floom, a London - based online marketplace dedicated to connecting customers from all over the U.K. who want unique and seasonal arrangements with local, independent florists who can provide both a bespoke work of art and same - day delivery.

Local and regional magazines and newspapers, as well as specialist B2B publications, dedicate a certain number of column inches to locally based businesses so get in touch with the right press contacts and exploit this for free publicity.

Local engineering services company Clough is boosting its North American presence with the acquisition of Canada - based Enercore Projects for $ C10 million ($ A10.5 million).

An outpost in Miami is seen as a way to link local «treps to the growing number of business tycoons who are based in Latin America, where Endeavor first got its start and has access to board members in sectors such as tech, telecoms, retail and finance.

Crowdshipping, for instance, is a web - based method of delivery that connects packages needing transport with local lay and professional couriers locally, regionally, and even nationally.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

The report focused on how local unemployment rates changed between subsequent Februarys, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Canada was given its own local edition of Vice News along with a Toronto - based newsroom — an early sign that the company was once again interested in the country in which it was founded.

Parmelia Resources has announced plans for a reverse takeover of a NSW - based software company, while one of the first local companies to complete a backdoor listing has flagged a new acquisition.

Millennials would rather support small, local brewers, even if they have to spend a little more money, according to Jason Wilson, founder of Alabama - based craft brewery Back Forty Beer Company, which grew annual revenue to $ 2.2 million in 2014 from $ 52,000 in 2010.

According to an impact survey completed in April 2010, businesses in the Peach State that worked with a local SBDC increased their sales by an average of 3.5 percent, even as the average business based in Georgia experienced a 1.5 percent decline in sales.

Local commerce in the metro region, which also includes Pasco and Richland, is primarily based on farming, wine, health - care and the automotive industries, all of which support STEM graduates in some capacity.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Using data from Washington, D.C. - based think tank the Brookings Institution, NerdWallet compared 357 metro areas based on the demand in each city for employees with a STEM bachelor's degree, the average salary of STEM graduates and the health of the local economy.

Businesses naturally become an integral part of the communities in which they do business — they hire its people, contribute to the tax base, become points of local pride, and much more.

If you start out with 100 or 1,000 local investors, it might be a nice base of customer support and people invested in your success.

The movie was based on the true story of a wealthy Mississippi family that took in a local football player with a troubled past.

Manjoo notes the inconvenient fact that, in some of the most visible cases, the soaring costs of delivering these small - scale, bespoke services on a hyper - local basis with quickly growing volume has in fact already brought about price increases, not savings, for the end users.

«US - based Mexican [transnational criminal organization] members generally coordinate the transportation and distribution of bulk wholesale quantities of illicit drugs to US markets,» the DEA report states, «while retail - level distribution is mainly handled by smaller local groups and street gangs not directly affiliated with Mexican TCOs.»

A study cited by local media suggests the number of Norwegians who listen to the radio on a daily basis has dropped by 10 % in a year, and the public broadcaster NRK has lost 21 % of its audience.

Although we will still block content based on standards and local laws, our hope is that this system of personal controls and democratic referenda should minimize restrictions on what we can share.

Targeted, precise offers will be waiting for us the first time we visit a new site, courtesy of Chicago - based Local Offer Network.

If you mainly ship out of a local fulfillment center, for instance, basing one or two alternatives in regions farther afield makes sense.

The most effective way to do that, he adds, is by working with other firms based on the ground; Kinova leverages a network of distributors around the world to better convey its brand message, conducts business according to local customs and — crucially — does it all in local languages.

Plate cost is a good indicator of the local supply's relative sufficiency, says Dan Hara, whose Ottawa - based economics firm tracks the taxi industry.

Sea more: Stackpole and Lang, who lean more toward the maker culture than the scientific, used off - the - shelf parts and plastic scraps from the laser cutter at their local TechShop — a nationwide chain of membership - based workshops — to build prototypes.

Still, you shouldn't overlook the power of a loyal local fan base.

In a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.»