Sentences with phrase «mere sidegrade»

... Transmitting obscenity to a minor to induce her to engage in sexually explicit conduct by video chat and photo — is far from mere «sexting.»

It took the founder a mere eight hours to develop the app that only sent and responded with «Yo,» but Or Arbel quickly saw his creation become «the No. 1 social networking app in the U.S. App Store and the No. 4 app overall» after its release on April Fools» Day.

Does hiring «Mr.. A,» who insists on $ 6 million in pay, rather than hiring «Mr. B.,» who would work for a mere $ 3 million, bring more than an extra $ 3 million in offsetting revenue to the company?

At the same time, female founders received a mere $ 1.46 billion in funding last year, compared to the $ 58.2 billion haul of companies with all - male founders.

When International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland walked out of Canada - EU trade deal talks on October 21, it was more than mere political posturing.

And there are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the total load taken on by grads of elite business schools.

They recently failed to fund an ephemeral, Snapchat - like messaging app on the latter, ponying up a mere $ 15 of their $ 50,000 goal.

In January energy specialists Wood MacKenzie analyzed its database of 2,222 oil - producing fields around the world and found that a mere 0.2 % of the world's supply would be operating on a cash - negative basis at $ 50 per barrel for Brent.

From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue - proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days.

In addition, the company currently counts 27 million video - streaming subscribers — compared with its mere 9 million mail - DVD members.

Rooney warns that an employer will be spending mere seconds looking at your resume, so it's critical you get straight to the point.

It was a mere glimpse of what Medical Realities has in mind.

If you're wondering how to fit all that stuff into the Fire's mere 8 GB of storage, look to the included SD expansion slot, which accommodates inexpensive memory cards.

Case in point: Mobile e-mail manager Mailbox was acquired last spring by file - sharing service Dropbox for a reported $ 50 million - plus in cash and stock, a mere one month after the Mailbox app was made available to the public.

Movie tickets could be a mere click and a beep away, but Cineplex says there are security hurdles that necessitate printing.

In the past year, Google has increased its percentages of female employees, female leaders, black employees and Hispanics by a mere 1 %, it says.

Cameron's personal involvement in the story has ensured that the debate over the use of tax havens has generated more heat than light, with little distinction being made between the mere use of tax - neutral jurisdictions to manage international investment, which in itself is legitimate, and criminal tax evasion.

This kind of behaviour is more than a simple wrong being committed against a single entrepreneur, a mere victimization of David by Goliath's over-zealous lawyers.

«Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation,» Trump tweeted.

Your team is taking risks just like you — and their reward shouldn't be a mere shot at the brass ring.

Sometimes the mere act of laughing, aside from burning calories, can do wonders for your mind.

This year's crop of 16 Coolest College Startup founders are no mere college kids.

Unfortunately, the mere mention of cold calling can cause anxiety to those new to selling, and even seasoned vets can get the jitters.

And the mere tens of millions of dollars tobacco companies will have to spend on the campaigns pale in comparison to their billions in annual sales.

President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the United States sends him hard evidence that Russians meddled in its elections, mocking allegations of a conspiracy to elect Trump as mere «yelling and hollering in the United States Congress».

The mere threat of the fiscal cliff has already worsened business conditions in the U.S., according to a July survey by Morgan Stanley.

That stellar performance was a remarkable feat considering the government - sponsored mortgage company was still repaying its federal bailout from the recession, only settling its tab in 2014 — and the stock's rise was mostly due to the fact that the shares had begun 2013 trading for mere pennies.

For Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, 38, such whimsical items are not mere fantasy but her vision of what may become SOHO staples.

Calgarians flock to this Kensington take - out spot for the tasty and cheap eats — four pieces of fried chicken with French fries and two corn fritters costs a mere $ 8.25.

But that may prove to be a mere trickle compared with the number of health apps that end up on consumers» phones in the coming years, as Obamacare continues to drive the health care industry to reach new levels of efficiency.

Meanwhile, there are a few activities out there that are the temporal equivalent of that awesome 100X investment, activities that if you spend mere minutes on them early in the day, will pay you back with vastly more energy and productivity later on.

Imagine how much you'd accomplish once working on your business became a mere habit.

At a time when working women must still fight for equal pay, outperform to be taken seriously in the boardroom, and hustle over the mere fraction of all investment spending open to them, a Trump presidency is seen as a blow for many.

According to Newell, on - the - go expensing means the process can be completed in mere minutes, not hours, upon your return.

Online reputation management is more than a mere buzzword in the ever - expanding world of internet marketing.

The vest is famous enough to have its own Twitter handle: @deraysvest (though it has a mere 3,000 followers).

«Denmark is a small place — its population is a mere 5.5 million, less than London.

This isn't mere talk.

Leaders of the campaign stress that this wouldn't be «a second referendum,» or, in other words, a mere repeat of the June 2016 vote.

It's that kind of blunt, shamelessly greedy statement that can seem like some sort of unvarnished truth — masculine worth reduced to a mere dollar figure.

The state finished a mere 13th.

Crude oil was trading at a mere $ 60 a barrel, though, so not many people noticed.

But the Apple that Jobs created, and the Apple he wants to leave behind, peddles more than mere products.

Long gone are the days when a company like Apple Computer Inc. could get venture capital only after showing a profit (and, even then, received a first round of a mere $ 250,000).

But in effect, they rendered Hugh Hefner a mere employee of the media company he created, known for nude magazine spreads and celebrating sexuality.

Just outside of Uber's spotlight are a handful of upstart companies in the person - moving space whose safety policies are not mere afterthoughts but integral to their offerings.

The almond cake is like a sophisticated Swedish Snickers — for nearly the same price, a mere $ 2.

«Such a controversial move could only be funded by cutting other vital priorities for our service members, mere weeks after the Department communicated its needs to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee during omnibus appropriation negotiations,» Democratic Sens. Jack Reed and Dick Durbin wrote.

Now, before you pooh - pooh such a rewrite as mere semantic nitpicking, consider the distinction — which, in truth, is profound.

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.