Sentences with phrase «of little means»

This allows people of little means access to the civil justice system.

It meant being merely a glorified servant but it is what many widows of little means but good breeding found themselves lucky to achieve.

So many of the lines and performances are played awkwardly big — usually around the central joke of Leonardo adjusting to a life of little means and tons of work — that it feels more suited to a terrible sitcom with lots of mugging for the camera and canned applause from a laugh track.

For expectant moms of little means and no insurance, Young is happy to help them get signed up for Medicaid benefits, if they qualify.

This story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people of little means brought tears to my eyes.

Experiential: with awareness and active effort, maximizing the time spent doing things I love (time with kids, traveling to fish, writing, ice hockey) by minimizing hours spent doing things of little meaning to me (television, Internet).

A welcome shift, but of little meaning when Nestlé undermines breastfeeding throughout this period.

But sequential performance is of little meaning when it comes to apps.

Not exact matches

That could mean spending up to $ 100 a month on a storage unit on the outskirts of town — a little more if you're only looking to store your things for a month or two, since most facilities try to lock renters into contracts.

According to a third party site that monitors their sales the most expensive kitten so far was bought Sunday for $ 117,712; the mean price of a virtual kitten is currently a little less than $ 90.

Without just one little word — a — the meaning of the entire phrase becomes the exact opposite.

Critics find this arrangement invasive and creepy; every uptick in profits for Google means a little less privacy for the rest of us.

Such a liquid market, in which buyers were comfortably in the driver's seat — with bidding wars the norm and house inspections regularly waived all in the name of FOMO (fear of missing out)-- meant there was very little possibility of anyone with any sense allowing their home to go into default.

It tells us that as soon as we are just a little bit better than another person, we can stop trying, even if it means stopping short of our potential,» Achor notes.

«The key trick is that the little triangle up top is similar to the pink triangle, which means that the little triangle is just a smaller version of the pink triangle,» Kiersz said.

Nintendo has released a graphic illustrating all of the third - party publisher support the Switch has, but as we know from previous consoles, that means very little.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

content while the already tech - heavy world around you seems to be getting a little meaner, harsher, and more polarized, you can take a small measure of comfort knowing that there are people out there who see the world the same way.

As Andreessen explains, using this technique means that» [e] ach time you do something, you get to write it down and you get that little rush of endorphins that the mouse gets every time he presses the button in his cage and gets a food pellet.»

Depending on your product and services, sending little gifts of appreciation with elements of surprise and delight to your best customers can be a superb means of telling them to come back.

Since Estonia had little means for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it came up with a quirky idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.

«What I mean by this is people try and make themselves seem more exciting, so they can sometimes oversell some things or even tell little white lies within very basic parts of their lives.

I mean, of course, that there's no violence, but a little drama.

This image of what it means to be decisive may be appealing (who doesn't want a little clarity and surety in his or her life?)

But small businesses mean small investments, and corporate Canada contributes relatively little of total spending on research conducted at Canada's post-secondary institutions:

«And when a consumer is a little uncertain around their future and really trying to figure out what this election cycle really means to them, they're not as apt to spend as freely as they might have even just a couple of quarters ago,» said Penegor.

A portable charger means I have access to my digital library of books, emergency phone calls, emails, music, and more at all times during the day, so I don't waste even a little bit of free time.

Solving logistical and cultural issues, of course, will mean little if the country destabilizes.

The limits of tax cuts as a way of stimulating the economy are also obvious; as I reported in Why Growth May Still Leave 95 % of Americans Behind, rising income disparity means that tax cuts benefit the top 5 % and make relatively little difference to the bottom 95 %.

Sure — it might mean spending a little bit of extra money to consult a lawyer but, if Delta's legal department has taught us anything, it's that it is always better to solve a problem before it morphs into a lawsuit.

For one, they typically look for larger opportunities that are a little bit more stable, meaning the company would need a strong team of people and a even few million dollars.

It may sound a little like something out of an episode of the «The Jetsons,» but the reality is the Federal Aviation Administration is required to implement regulations to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace by 2015, meaning flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.

But I can't think of a social interaction that creates so much goodwill for so little effort as when I tell someone they were right and I was wrong, as long as I mean it.»

Now, parked in a 300 - square - foot office near the San Francisco Caltrain station, with four crazy guys in the suite next door creating one of the first «I - S - P's (nobody even knew what that meant back then), I made a little videoconferencing program with equally little hope of generating revenue.

These kinds of cliches have little to no meaning, they're just verbal fluff, and they don't add anything to what you're saying.

«Development» and «evolution» — words of such importance to us — would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was — their city, their fields, their herds, their plows — had always been.»

And while indicators such as retail sales and exports are solid, there is little evidence of inflation, meaning the central bank faces no serious pressure to cool the economy.

Even if you don't have kids, getting older and having the desire for a little more convenience go hand in hand, which means that eventually at least some millennials are going to see the appeal of living in the suburbs.

As envisioned by Solar Roadways, the roads would heat themselves — meaning little to no work to maintain them in winter — and have lights that could replace street signs and warn drivers of impediments ahead.

You can drop those beliefs with just a little bit of awareness, and live the life you were meant to live.

«pure badger bristle» means very little, denoting only the lowest grade of the animal's fur.

Not all badger hair is created equal, however: Like the term «genuine leather,» «pure badger bristle» means very little, denoting only the lowest grade of the animal's fur.

In fact, given that these letters are being sent to tens of thousands of businesses, and they are all form letters, means that there is very little «proof» of wrongdoing anyway.

What it really means: When investors fund a startup a little bit at a time instead of in a lump sum.

«Or you get correlations between sets of words that mean very little.»

«Tom feels like my ex-girlfriend who has a really pretty face but needs to lose a little bit of weight — you know what I mean right?»

That means he spends little time on social media, and batches shallow work into small bursts of time at the peripheries of the day.

The democratization of the short position beyond the circle of market insiders means there are now short sellers with little or nothing to lose.

Reading about the Elon Musks and Jeff Immelts of the world leads us to assume that business greatness means little sleep, and even less time with loved ones.

Not Out of the Woods Just Yet The fact that little mobile malware exists does not mean that cell phones are completely safe, of course.