Sentences with phrase «of small contests»

In addition to holding big annual competitions, some brokerages find success holding lots of small contests throughout the year.

Not exact matches

Wheeler said he also planned to set up an FCC ombudsman that would relieve small businesses and consumers of the burden and expense of retaining their own lawyers to contest alleged abuses.

The goal of any marketing promotion — for large companies or small — should not be participation in the contest, number of «likes» or some other advertising metric.

This small scale ice cream company used strategic partnership power to achieve what most of the big scale companies could not - they simply started using the real life images of their products on their websites and promoted them exaggeratedly on their social media channels, they coupled that with various promotional contests, awards and giveaways and made a killing.

In February, the chain confirmed a «small batch» of misprinted extra large - size cups were distributed in Atlantic Canada and Alberta for the annual contest, but added no major contest prizing was affected because third - party consultants audit the production process and the seeding of prizes.

Contests are good for adding email addresses to your user base, but it is often far better to have a smaller, avid fan base than a larger number of people with no enthusiasm for your brand.

Winners of The Facebook Big Break for Small Business contest each receive $ 20k.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

Chase launched a contest today that offers a dozen small businesses the chance at a $ 250,000 grant, a new Chromebook Pixel laptop and two days of marketing and business development help from the experts at Google, according to a blog post written by Jon Kaplan, Google's vice president of U.S. sales and operations.

Some of her recent posts include her link building recommendations when using contests & how small businesses can build links & likes with Facebook.

On Thursday, the company was announced as the winner of Intuit's «Small Business, Big Game» contest.

I want to spotlight the Investor Be Aware video contest, run by the Small Investor Protection Association to show the hidden dangers of dealing with financial advisers.

However, the rules of every contest are different, and for some you simply need to own a small minimum amount of the coin.

The exercise combines elements of a rite of passage with characteristics of an endurance contest, pitting attendees against overheated (or overcooled) auditoriums, crowded lobbies, middle - aged men who don't use Flomax, and small doorways unable to accommodate large crowds.

ICE's Detroit field office said that many of the immigrants who were arrested were wanted for «homicide, rape, aggravated assault» and other violent crimes, but advocates contest this, saying many of the Chaldeans had already served sentences for small crimes or minor immigration infractions.

then we violate the very teachings of our lord... If u do not understand... I wont blame u coz lot of people are being mislead by money hungry small Chritian communities who do not come from the apostals of the lord and it is only the Catholic church which does and pls read well about our church before u criticise the Holy father coz he is not self appointed NOR he has contested a currupt election to be in this place today

The small town festival takes full advantage of its unforgettable qualities in its recipe contest.

For example, a contest between Alabama and Auburn may receive more than ten times the number of bets as a game between two smaller schools which greatly amplifies the impact of public betting.

An underrated small - school superstar, Ekeler has played only 35.0 percent of the snaps over the past four games, but he's averaged 6.3 carries and three targets in those contests for an efficient 60.5 yards, three receptions, and one touchdown per game.

Lowly La Liga side Leganes are contesting only their second ever Spanish top - flight season this campaign and play in front of a maximum crowd of just 11,454 at their small Estadio Municipal de Butarque.

A small state, it hosts one of the most tightly contested Senate races of the midterms.

An associated complication is the imprecise definition of US commitments to its ally nations in the event of disputes in contested territories, especially vis - à - vis the Philippines and Vietnam, and the possibility that alliances will be used to escalate a small battle into a regional affair.

Suffolk elections officials on Friday began the lengthy process of counting the 16,690 absentee and affidavit ballots in the tightly contested countywide sheriff's race, starting with the county's smallest town, Shelter Island.

The small - but - powerful party, a coalition of progressive activists and unions, has also endorsed Katie Wilson in New York's 21st Congressional District contest this fall.

As no consistently accurate poll figures are presented here for the regional parties, or for the very small parties, I have assumed — for the purposes of this model — that support levels for these parties / groupings will remain «as was» relative to the 2015 contest.

The contest encourages people of all ages to recognize and reward family caregivers in their lives in small but meaningful ways, -LSB-...]

Inside, a woman who identified herself as an editor of a small - town newspaper and a contest judge, enclosed a brief but complimentary note.

Operatives from both parties say the young secretary of state likely holds a small lead over the longtime politician Blunt, a remarkable development for a race that most analysts considered a second - tier contest when the summer began.

«New Yorkers and small businesses deserve a level playing field when contesting City - issued summonses and the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) continues to work towards the goal of creating a truly user - friendly court,» said OATH Commissioner and Chief Administrative Law Judge FIDEL F. DEL VALLE.

But in contests as close as yesterday's, even the smallest of shifts in a different direction could change the result in a constituency.

The contest is one of the smallest pieces of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative.

While each of the four largest parties — the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems — are contesting all of Scotland's 59 constituencies, independents and smaller parties will be thin on the ground.

Smaller gambling developments proposed in economically strapped areas should be able to compete with resort projects proposed by big - name companies in more affluent areas, the head of the state Gaming Commission said of the contest to win up to four casino licenses upstate.

«By agreeing to limit your personal spending on your own behalf and adhering to the program's disclosure regime, we can ensure this is a race about ideas, not a contest pitting the voices of thousands of small donors against one man's fortune,» Stringer said.

Hassan Ayariga posited that, he does not see the other smaller political parties qualifying to contest in the general elections because they can not meet the requirements of having two - thirds of district offices across the country.

But, with thousands of late absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted, there's still a small chance that a second Republican could shut out Democrats from the November contest.

November's election will determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the New York state Senate in the next term, and it could come down to just a few hundred votes in a small number of key Senate contests.

But in Buffalo, Cuomo again stopped short of specifically endorsing Amber Small, a Democrat running in a contested race for the State Senate.

Back in 2008, Barack Obama's success at recruiting an army of online small - dollar donors gave him a tremendous advantage in the long primary battle against Hillary Clinton, and his subsequent general election contests.

As we all know the NEC is keenly contested by the various wings of the Party and, despite advances by the Left in the past year, can still be swung by a relatively small number of changes.

One of the small surprises of the Labour leadership contest to date has been Douglas Alexander's decision to back David, not Ed Miliband.

The intra-party showdown in a year with no presidential, statewide or even mayoral contest at the top of the ballot is likely to be decided by a relatively small slice of city Democrats.

The seat held by Martin, the Republican Senator running for Congress on Long Island, will come down to a contest between Republican Elaine Phillips, mayor of Flower Hill, a small town in Nassau, and Adam Haber, a Democratic businessman who lost a challenge to Martins 56 - 43 percent during the last election.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

This is one of a series of interviews with 22 smaller parties contesting seats at the 2015 general election

• Of all the many Assembly and Senate contests of Western New York this year, there appear to be only two «real» races: Jacobs / Small in the 60th Senate, and Democrat John Ceretto versus Republican Angelo Morinello in the 145th Assembly based in Niagara CountOf all the many Assembly and Senate contests of Western New York this year, there appear to be only two «real» races: Jacobs / Small in the 60th Senate, and Democrat John Ceretto versus Republican Angelo Morinello in the 145th Assembly based in Niagara Countof Western New York this year, there appear to be only two «real» races: Jacobs / Small in the 60th Senate, and Democrat John Ceretto versus Republican Angelo Morinello in the 145th Assembly based in Niagara County.

The contest is the premier business ethics award in our region, honoring small, medium and large size companies that exhibit the highest standards of business ethics.

The parties contesting the election were the incumbent People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress — Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People (a UNC splinter group), the Tobago United Front — Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago - based party) and the Democratic National Assembly (a new party based in Tobago).

In the course of a two - minute contest, it gathered up and delivered six small balls, deftly placed a beach - ball - size sphere on a large tee, and with just 20 seconds left on the clock, reached up, grabbed, and hung from a 10 - foot - high bar, winning the contest.

«To use this «momentum effect,» candidates will spend a lot of time in the coming months trying to persuade voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though the number of delegates distributed in these contests is actually very small.»