Sentences with phrase «of the smallest units of»

Source critics see here the same three primary strata of tradition — J, F, and P — which we have already seen in Exodus; but we will do well to remind ourselves again that these symbols represent by and large the collection and arrangement of smaller units of oral and / or written material some of which, at least, were already long in existence.

Playing with the sounds in words can help your child understand that words are made up of smaller units of sound.

In Structured Literacy instruction, teachers guide students through systematic mastery of the smallest units of sounds (phonemes) and build upon that knowledge by introducing new, more complex material (morphemes and lexemes) in a structured and cumulative way.

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In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

If you remove the need to income split by taxing the family unit of those in married or living common - law relationships and then adopt a flat tax for everyone — say 20 % — there really is no need for small business to incorporate, except for perhaps liability issues.

To counter that, at each roundtable the company set up smaller units of customers and people from Specialized who took notes.

The technical term for a geographic territory of this size is a dissemination area: this is the smallest geographic unit for which StatsCan data is available, and typically includes about 400 to 700 people.

A good friend of mine owns a small rental property near this one and he often hires me to answer phones and show units when he is out of town.

The investment bank also expects to see a fall in rents amid an increase in the number of flats, mainly smaller units, being completed.

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) live in small units, which consist of up to a dozen females, a few subordinate males and a dominant male, who holds exclusive reproductive rights to the females.

After the Microsoft sale Nokia was left with its core network equipment and services business plus its smaller HERE mapping and navigation unit and Nokia Technologies, which manages the licensing of its portfolio of patents and develops new products such as the N1 and the Z Launcher.

Leaders from nearly three dozen tech companies, including Salesforce, Yelp, AT&T, Comcast, and Square, signed off on a letter to local officials last week, urging them to consider a development proposal that would add seven million square feet of commercial space and 4,400 housing units to the small city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet, as did most of its smaller, research - driven units, including connected - home business Nest and Google Fiber, its home broadband initiative.

Companies ranging from small Silicon Valley start - ups to units of some of the world's largest banks and makers of industrial products are turning to Amazon's expansive data centers and homegrown infrastructure to run their data centers.

The unit has a fraction of the paralegal and administrative help of even a small private law firm.

It was a shocking change from the egalitarian meritocracy of the military, so to stay balanced I volunteered with the ROTC, taught them mixed martial arts and small unit tactics.

As for Google and its parent company Alphabet, cloud computing business is growing — although the company did not provide detailed quarterly information about the unit's financial performance because of its relatively small size.

While Valve is by any measure an extraordinarily successful company with an estimated 50 million users on its Steam platform and with estimated revenues of US$ 1.1 billion, it's still far smaller than Nintendo and the gaming units of Microsoft and Sony.

How three mighty mites have managed to carve out niches in the face of competition from brewers big and small, Amazon, and SAP's Ariba software unit.

Using a somewhat similar calculation, Tesla expects the average home customer to order 1.5 to 2 of its smaller Powerwall units.

The Beef Jerky Outlet, a 13 - unit franchise sells over 200 varieties of small - batch jerky, including alligator, kangaroo and pheasant.

While the companies on Entrepreneur's 31st Annual Franchise 500Â ® grew overall — adding more than 12,000 units, 2.9 percent above 2008's numbers — that growth was considerably smaller than the 4.7 percent increase of the year before.

«If you're a small player with a very good product or a big consumer packaged goods company with a small unit, you will struggle to get the attention of some of our larger banners,» said Narayan Iyengar, senior vice president of digital marketing and e-commerce at Albertsons.

The unit took small - arms fire from a nearby mountain top during a routine patrol, and was able to suppress the enemy with the assistance of local Afghan National Security Forces.

Their portfolio consists of single family homes, small multifamily properties, and a 24 - unit apartment complex.

The small, furnished condos are popular with out - of - towners who stay in the units when they're in Vegas, and then have the building's management company rent them out (and arrange cleanings) the rest of the time.

It leaves a mark on our mode of thinking — we become silo thinkers when people say «my department» or «my unit» thereby identifying themselves with small parts of a business solution rather than with its entire mission.

As the number one auto market, China had a knockout 2016, with sales jumping 13.7 percent to 28 million units as consumers took advantage of the government's tax cut on smaller - engine vehicles.

Dating back to the 2016 campaign, he publicly blasted the companies» merger plans in no small part because he is a vocal critic of CNN, which is part of Time Warner's Turner TV unit.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

Being a franchised network of IT consultants to small businesses, CMIT Solutions is expecting to expand from 130 locations to 500 locations across the nation and from only having units in 32 states to all 50 states within the next couple of years.

A unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG), KRC Research offers the quality and custom service of a small firm with the reach of a global organization.

Duplex / Triplex / Quads — Small multifamily properties (2 - 4 units) such as these are one of my favorite investment routes.

We are creating a system of on - demand labor akin to «cloud - based labor» where companies «provision» labor resources at will and release them at will, not by the year or month but by the job, labor unit, or small time unit, including minutes.

It further clarifies that the third - party in charge of processing purchases, Central Nervous, used BitPay, a company that specializes in processing payments with bitcoin for purchases large and small, including Lamborghinis, to convert bitcoin into dollars before any profits reached Jackson's company G - Unit Records.

Vantiv, which started in the 1970s as the payments - processing unit of Fifth Third Bancorp before being spun off in 2012, will gain greater exposure to Internet retailers and small businesses following the deal.

JD Finance, which only owns a few, small financial licenses such as a third - party payment license in China, will likely get access to some lucrative businesses of First Capital and its units, including those of securities, funds and stock futures, after the stake acquisition, one of the sources said.

In Toronto, much of the building seems to have been in smaller units, and it could be that there has been some overbuilding in units catering to singles or small family units (although demographics would argue for long term demand for smaller units).

Exchange fund - A exchange fund is a type of investment fund where investors having significant holdings in a single stock can exchange that stock and diversify meaning they can exchange the holdings in that stock for smaller units or assets in a portfolio.

Though small investors could buy Satoshi, smallest unit of Bitcoin, but still they're loosing interest in Bitcoin and looking for Bitcoin alternative cryptocurrencies to invest their money.

Whereas KLX's aerospace unit remains solidly profitable, its smaller energy business has been mired in the carnage of the oil and gas downturn.

The first article in this series discussed points made by Julie M. Riewe, Co-Chief of the SEC's Asset Management Unit, on enforcement trends, principal transactions, conflicts raised by side - by - side management, valuation, allocation of expenses and the potential deterrent value of smaller enforcement actions.

As the value of a «whole» Bitcoin increased, to be useful for day to day transactions, people started accounting in smaller units.

They're pulled from a two - drawer refrigeration unit made especially for McDonald's that features a different compressor to ensure the proper holding temperature of the fresh beef, says Christa Small, senior director, new development and business integration.

Variable Cost — Usually directly proportional to the (high or low) volume of units being produced by a company or small business; generally, they rise as production increase, and fall as production decreases.

Fast - casual burger brands with smaller menus showed consistent unit and sales growth, including sales gains of more than 20 percent for chains like Wayback Burgers, Smashburger and Shake Shack.

A house provides income as well — I have two smaller rental units and have also rented out 2 of 4 bedrooms for extra cash when I first bought the house.

If we knew all the tax deductable contributions corportations and small units of corporations make we would have fodder for stories like this from all perspectives to infinity.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.