Sentences with phrase «of lumber with»

Not exact matches

«When you buy the S&P 500, you aren't getting an index of corn or wheat or soy or lumber, some commodity with no real ability to help itself.

Two lumber companies with a combined land mass of 2 million acres are near a deal to combine, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

Called simply Surface, the sleek Windows 8 tablet with an innovative touch - keyboard cover was a surprisingly alluring gambit by the lumbering giant of Redmond, Wash..

Traction: Foxtrot Systems is currently working with 12 beta customers in the U.S., India, and Brazil, which represents a total of 180 drivers in a wide array of markets — from delivering laundry and beer to ice and lumber.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Spotting an opportunity to switch materials — «I was always sort of an environmentalist,» he says — and avoid the laborious staining and painting involved with lumber, he hunted down a plastic supplier, built an Adirondack mould inspired by the chair's original 1905 patent, and made a few units.

In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

It raised the penalty for exporting lumber to the U.S. from a combined rate of 10.8 per cent to 15 per cent; it also hit Canada with the so - called «surge mechanism,» designed to discourage investment in Canadian sawmills.

«Given that home builders are already grappling with 20 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and that the price of lumber and other key building materials are near record highs, this announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time.

The confusing part of this trade dispute is that the U.S. can not satisfy their own lumber requirements with domestic production alone.

Even despite softening markets and economic uncertainty around the globe, our port still saw 1.5 per cent growth in the first six months of this year compared to 2014, with increases in demand for Canadian wheat, sulphur, potash, lumber, and consumer goods.

The hostilities recommenced this year, with duties on Canadian lumber, after the expiry of the latest agreement.

In November last year, the U.S. Commerce Department slapped Canadian exporters of softwood lumber into the U.S. with permanent duties averaging 20 %.

We will continue to work with the Government of Canada, our fellow Atlantic Provinces and the softwood lumber industry toward achieving an exclusion,» said the trade minister.

Despite the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to hit all other Canadian producers with countervailing duties of 19.88 per cent starting this year, many industry insiders and political leaders are hopeful Atlantic Canadian companies can be exempted from tariffs on softwood lumber exports to the United States.

«The last softwood lumber agreement didn't work for the tens of thousands of people who lost their jobs with the closure of about 100 local mills.

The 45 - minute meeting with Rep. Duncan touched on a number of issues: softwood lumber, labor shortages and the need for a guest worker program, the long - term renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program, housing finance reform, and local growth and development.

Over and above, the lumber and building materials store industry is a profitable industry and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can chose to start on a small scale in a street corner or you can chose to start on a large scale with outlets in key cities through the United States of America and Canada.

But now that Trudeau has assumed his new role, he will first have to contend with a long - burning trade issue between the two countries: that of softwood lumber.

Howard urged Ross to work with his Canadian counterparts to craft an equitable long - term solution to the trade dispute that would ensure an adequate supply of lumber to the U.S. marketplace at a reasonable price.

They may also be lumbered with a property that they can not afford to repay, and this will ultimately result in a default on the mortgage loan and the repossession of the property.

However, as illustrated by the US's imposition of 20 % countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber in April 2017, along with the recent Boeing / Bombardier dispute, Canada is unlikely to escape the «America First» trade policy unscathed.

The church can solve this problem by a «render unto Caesar» approach by relinquishing the legal role that the state has lumbered it with, and gets back to the basics of celebrating who God puts together — which, as stated in the previous verse, was between a man and woman instinct-wise.

During the decades in which we have been lumbered with the lame - duck translation, much has changed in the Church: some of the changes have ironically been a matter of people continuing to do the same thing.

Then he insists we remember the meaning of the name which he chose and with which I was lumbered: «What does in mean in Latin?

But here's the thing: Straw bale building should not be confused with merely building a house out of straw anymore than building with lumber and timber should be equated with simply building out of sticks.

But — here our eyes widen — civilization lumbers us with substandard types who reproduce boundlessly and must finally swallow us up in their genetic mediocrity, utterly confounding and defeating the harsh kindness of evolution.

We find the bishop of Rome sending the churches lumber and lead, supplying the populace of Rome with grain, panem if not circensem, and supporting a great concourse of nuns presumably refugees in the city.

I put the caveat out there simply to keep people from grilling with a random piece of lumber.

Most wood pallets are made of decking lumber fastened with either screws or nails.

For example, although most of the products that all the Divisions work with on a daily basis are fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, the Promotion and Economics Division oversees research and promotion programs for honey, peanuts, paper and paper packaging, softwood lumber, popcorn, and Christmas trees, along with traditional fruits and vegetables such as mangoes and potatoes.

Since the re-introduction of lumbering «oaf ball» we have gone backwards, we do not play attractive football we have only won 2 FA cups, we have become a laughing stock, and we definitely can no longer compete with the best.

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

The ball bounced crazily away from him and Pierce lumbered all the way home from second base with the only run of the game.

Leicester are looking for around # 50 million for him, he's worth # 25 million at the most, I don't want us getting lumbered with a player for 4 - 5 years on a big salary who's only had one good season for that kind of money.

With our style of play, Kante would be like a fish out of water and reduced to lumbering around our midfield whilst the rest of the team pass the ball to each other around him.

Joe Hardy, a 74 - year - old Pittsburgh lumber magnate, isn't the world's wealthiest or most powerful man, but he has succeeded in securing something that has been beyond the grasp of the sultan of Brunei, King Hassan of Morocco and President Clinton: a tee time with Tiger Woods.

Everyone goes on about not playing players out of position then indulges the whippet in his belief about striker potential... he ain't and never will b... the difference with the ox when he came on was obvious last night... We have been lumbered with this overrated guy forb a decade now... Why we upped his wages is a mystery to me but torpedoes any talk of wenger's managerial prowess that is for sure

Ox Walcott, Arteta, Flammini, Per, Gabriel and possibly Ramsey should all be ditched BUT we all know this just wont happen we are lumbered with Walcott forever who to my mind is the biggest waste of time we have EVER had in our squad where are all the fans on here who tgouted his potential during last summers window?

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

A white - coated figure in a laboratory bashes a blonde on the head with a piece of lumber.

I seem to remember Alex Ferguson being able to stop certain officials from taking charge of Man United matches so how on earth have the FA lumbered us with this doughnut again.

But equally, you can look at that lot — and at some of the players he's been supported with and managers he's been lumbered with — and think that there's not much more he could have done.

Late in the first quarter, while Oklahoma was playing its flip - and - fly wishbone with uncharacteristic caution, Cooper picked a fumble by fullback Lydell Carr out of the air and lumbered seven yards to put the Longhorns ahead 7 - 0.

As he lumbers along, one can see that he doesn't have the classic configuration of the soccer player — all lungs and legs — but is built more like a tight end — wide shoulders with a bullish hunch and a narrow waist.

The Premier League lumbers closer, with all the terrifying inertia and unthinking disregard of a drunken hippopotamus.

While your little loved one is rocked to sleep through the smooth motion of the enclosed metal ball bearings, you will nestle into the comfort of the microfiber cushions, complete with lumber support pillow.

Unencumbered executive leaders worry about being lumbered with the blame for any failures of national security, because their autonomy leaves them exposed to carrying the can.