Sentences with phrase «of big help to»

Thank you for your article it is of big help to me.

This was one of the biggest helps to them in keeping the clutter down and the dinning room picked up.

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Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Even after more than 20 years in business, the world's biggest streaming video service experienced some of its fastest growth ever in the first quarter, helping to give its stock a big lift.

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Your team needs to know that you're dedicated to moving forward and helping them achieve goals that are bigger than any of them.

The founder of one of Facebook's biggest acquisitions is working behind the scenes to help Donald Trump's candidacy, according to a report.

Whether you're running your company out of your dorm room or Skyping your partners in four different time zones, here are a few tricks to help the little guys compete against the big fish.

Its capabilities had fallen behind those of Wal - Mart, which had the capacity to use a big chunk of its stores to help fill online orders a year before Target did.

However, I've had the luxury of learning early on how to harness the power of web videos and thus help my small business make its first big steps towards our pot of gold.

In June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVs.

Meanwhile, GSK said it would launch a review of its consumer healthcare nutrition products, such as Horlicks — a malted hot milk drink that's particularly big in India — in order to help fund the joint venture buyout, and to focus its efforts on over-the-counter medicines and the oral health category.

Plus, it definitely helps to be familiar with King T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) home of Wakanda, where one of the movie's biggest fight sequences takes place.

It may only be one tool to help low - wage earners — others include reforms introduced this week by the Province of Ontario, more affordable housing and child care, and more ways to pursue collective action — but it's a big one.

Figuring out what customers want is a $ 21 - billion industry in the U.S., according to IBISWorld, and many major brands solicit advice from polling firms such as Ipsos Reid or the legacy research arms of advertising agencies like JWTIntelligence to help them spot the next big thing before it arrives.

Record numbers of consumers drive out to malls, big boxes and smaller retailers only to be ignored by skeleton staffs and made to feel like they are troubling the staff when asking for help.

Part of what needs to happen to change that statistic is that we need more women with big ideas going after it, and the other part of it is the right funding structure to help them get there.

«There are a lot of people trying to help us out, and it just shows the bobsled community really is one big family, even though we compete against each other,» said Gibbs.

Not satisfied with the gun industry's response to demands for help ending an epidemic of gun violence, groups representing millions of workers are pressuring what they see as an even bigger change - maker.

«This is big business... These girls are helping the bakery decide what their product launch is going to look like,» Meridith Maskara, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater New York, said.

«Farmers are already big users of smartphones today and are looking for information to help them make better decisions,» Kull said.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

James Cowan's current Canadian Business cover story, on how McDonald's Canada is helping to turn around the ailing global burger giant, is an in - depth look into one of the world's biggest business turnaround stories.

That kind of detail can help answer some of the biggest questions writers face: What am I writing and who am I targeting it to?

Adam Miller, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), drops by to tell us how big data can help.

One of the big «Justin - fications» for this proposal is that it'll help parents deal with expensive and hard - to - find childcare, which is often cheaper and easier to find for toddlers (partly because staff - to - child ratios are looser after 18 months, so daycares are less inclined to hire additional staff to accommodate more infants).

Is this really where they will find the help they need to survive against the big brand takeover of America's cities?

When you can stroll over to a tap whenever you like and help yourself to a glass of clear, cool water, it is hard to believe that one of the biggest business opportunities of the 21st century — and one of the best opportunities for business to give back to society — lies in supplying fresh water.

Kane closely tracked the daydreaming of 274 volunteers and discovered that, while planning your next vacation during a big presentation will forever remain a terrible idea, daydreaming strategically can actually help you solve problems and focus when you need to.

One of my biggest realizations is that looking the part helps others see me in the leadership role I'm striving to attain and promote.

Since late 2012, the once high - flying charity — which has raised some $ 500 million over the years to help 2.5 million patients, caretakers, and survivors get access to services such as fertility preservation, clinical - trial matching, and insurance assistance — has lost some of its biggest sponsors, including Nike and RadioShack.

LONDON — An influential Tory MEP who helped to draft the biggest change to European finance laws in the last decade says the government's leaked Brexit impact report shows a «consensus» is emerging around the effects of leaving the EU.

Start every feedback discussion with the employee's bigger picture: «John, I have some suggestions to help you achieve your goal of $ 1 million in sales.»

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

If you end up among the many who decide to begin a job search in 2018 in pursuit of your next big thing, here are two important but simple things you should make sure you do that will not only significantly increase your chances of finding a great new job but will also help you land one that you can feel good about long after the «new company halo effect» has worn off.

The settlement with Universal Entertainment may help clear a path for Steve Wynn, the company's biggest shareholder, to sell part of his stake should that be necessary.

With the help of 500 employees across two production facilities (the other is in North Carolina), Spinrite packages and sells more than 50 million balls of yarn a year under seven brands to big retailers like Michaels and Walmart, as well as smaller independent shops.

It could help scientists find answers to the very big, very unanswered questions about the origins of the solar system.

But the projected bump from President Donald Trump's tax reforms are expected to help compensate the banks with even bigger future profits south of the border due to tax savings and increased economic activity.

But there are good financial planners out there if you know where to look, and in the right situations a financial planner can make your life easier, save you a lot of money, and help you reach your biggest personal goals sooner.

Uday Hegde, CEO of USEReady, a firm that helps businesses leverage big data and BI technologies, shares why business leaders struggle to implement BI,» The problem is driving adoption in a large organization, as the data needs to be something each stakeholder can make use of.

«Our biggest priority right now is to put pressure, wherever we can, to try and get [the civilians] out» of Aleppo, Obama said, and noted that he would help president - elect Donald Trump — who said on Thursday that he is in favor of establishing humanitarian safe zones in Syria — with any advice he can provide so that he can make informed decisions.

Big corporations already use it for training, providing information to workers in the middle of their jobs, helping designers visualize ideas, and marketing.

More recently Schwartz has been making a bigger push into London, U.K.. It's been a challenging market, but he may have another big name to help shore up that part of the business: Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, is returning to Onex to spearhead that part of the business.

The inventors will be given the resources and help they need to take their products from concept to reality, building, testing, and perfecting their products for the biggest pitch of their lives.

One of the biggest hacking threats to companies and to customers» sensitive data comes from a surprising source without a computer's help.

Governments will need to have a much bigger role in helping people whose jobs are disappearing because of technology, said the mayor of Atlanta.

She urged her colleagues in Congress to think beyond the incremental rebuilding needs to consider the big picture of helping the region better prepare for and mitigate damage from future disasters.