Sentences with phrase «lot by relatives»

If you're heading to parties, your little one may get passed around a lot by relatives and friends.

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The stimulus arguments made by proponents of a higher minimum wage tend to both fairly weak (not a lot of empirical support) and the benefits fairly small relative to the size of the economy.

For example, the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand dollars all increased by similar amounts against the US dollar over the six months, even though Canada's interest differential relative to the US was a lot less than that of Australia and only about half that of New Zealand.

«Because a lot of my relatives helped write and administer New Deal legislation,» he recalls, «I associated leftism with a constant need for new laws and new bureaucratic initiatives which would redistribute the wealth produced by the capitalist system.»

Often it appears in symposia about the relative incapacity of anyone to say much of anything with security about God, since everything we can say is a perspectival construal conditioned decisively by the sociohistorical situation from which one comes — a view that, oddly, always seems to be coupled with a plea to discuss the matter a lot more.

Some nations were better poised than others to take advantage of innovation — England in particular, because it had a relatively open society with more scope for entrepreneurship; strong institutions of political liberty; a commitment to the scientific method exemplified by Newton; lots of seaports and colonies; a relative isolation that reduced the risk of invasion; and lots and lots of coal.

Big gifts may be reserved for relatives, Hanukkah lasts EIGHT ridiculous nights and therefore requires lots of presents, and on many occasions creativity is trumped by convenience.

I think a lot of people get influenced by their relatives and friends about when the right time is, but it depends on your child.

A few months ago every day was like a totally fresh start, but now they recognise lots of familiar faces (even relatives they haven't seen for a month), they remember their toys, and can figure out they're going to the park just by the route you take with the buggy.

«Rose» (1.1) includes a merry yak - track by Davies, producer Phil Collinson, and executive producer Julie Gardner that devotes a lot of time to the relative affordability of CGI as if they were expounding to a roomful of monkeys on quantum mechanics.

Tyre pressures are critical to the way a car handles, and a lot of fine tuning can be done to suit your style, for example changing the amount of under or oversteer by adjusting the relative traction front and rear.

You wouldn't guess that these two are such close relatives if you spotted them hanging out side - by - side in a parking lot.

Don't get me wrong, the M235i is a great car by a lot of measures, but it never did escape that feeling of being out of place relative to the other members of the M family.

It's fine to have it reviewed by a friend or relative, or by teachers and people with English degrees (I hear this a lot), but you still need a professional editor to put the finishing touches on your work.

Honestly, most of my relatives don't know I run a book blog and the friends that do don't read a lot so I never really ran the name by them.

but the ebook market is still tiny, so any discounts would be dependent on the relative power of the companies selling physical books — and indeed other things since the big six publishers are owned by multinational parent companies who sell lots of other things via these stores.

I think the biggest benefit, that I can see, is for my elderly relatives that all have RRIF's and can no longer contribute to their RRSP's, this will help them a lot since all of their income is interest on savings, and by the time we all become seniors it might be a very significant part of our retirement savings.

His two best years of the past ten, if you look at the «relative results» column, were — by far — 2002 and 2008, when the broad stock market fell a lot, but Berkshire's book value did much better.

Over recent times it has become apparent that there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding relative to the grading system used by the SV in their assessment of Elbow Dysplasia.

Christie's reports mixed half year results Political unrest, a relative lack of showpiece lots, and a more general art - market slowdown have contributed to a 27 per cent drop in the value of sales reported by Christie's earlier this year, reports The Art Newspaper.

I mean: thinking about all the factory work that is being done around the world, by such a lot of people, and knowing what it does to the natural world on which we all depend, not only in the short term but in the long run as well (time is relative).

I mean: before the all the smart, knowledge - seeking people of this world all go mad with the realization that we're in the slow (but time is relative) process of destroying the living habitat of ours, by means of oil, gas, and coal; as well as a terrible lot of chain saws.

This second versiont goes in to a lot of the background to St Michaels mount, as being a tidal island it gives some useful pointers as to relative sea levels then and now.We seem to be around 30 cm lower today than in Roman times and sea levels oscillate around a mean by some 1 metre.

The irony here is that most climate change refutation is by those who do not have relative expertise on the issue (and in fact, even if they have a lot of «info,» have such a misunderstanding of what the actual issue is, as well as all of the relevant facts, their net understanding is very low.

Though your relative should be aware that a position as a support worker will expose her to a lot of challenging, difficult, and emotional situations with families, it sounds like she is more motivated by the rewarding aspects of this field.

«There are a lot of people looking for this type of community,» she said, from retirees looking to downsize to tech - industry types weaned on co-housing to young families who lack the support system provided by nearby relatives.