Sentences with phrase «piece of the pie for»

But that all changed when her mother told her: «There's a piece of the pie for everybody and you just need to focus on what you're doing.»

The $ 1.1 billion investments mirrored similar moves by Ford, which came in with a about a $ 9,000 average piece of the pie for 56,000 hourly employees.

As of late, it has been surging in popularity, with plenty of investors looking to secure a piece of the pie for themselves.

This makes it easy to serve a «fresh» piece of pie for our meal or for company.

But I have to have that piece of pie for breakfast, then the turkey sandwich for lunch.

As Wolf tells it, about all Council members care about is their piece of the pie for projects in their districts.

In one episode of Sesame Street, Ernie takes a bigger piece of pie for himself and gives a smaller piece to Bert.

Regulations are still being drafted, and every member of Congress is sure to want a piece of the pie for his or her constituents.

More authors means a smaller piece of the pie for each author individually, so when someone defrauds the system, they are effectively stealing from every other author in that system — not Amazon, because they get their share before the fund size is set, just the authors.

Audio is the missing piece of the pie for Kobo, it would allow them to better compete against Amazon who have been leveraging their Audible unit for years.

You may not be eligible for the 1st time home buyer $ 8k tax credit so why not at least get a little piece of the pie for yourself?

2.8 percent is still a small piece of the pie for 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat, but at least it's much bigger than 1.2 percent in previous Android distribution data.

My goal as an entrepreneur is to build a bigger pool of resources so all can share in the bounty — not just carve a bigger piece of the pie for myself.

Not exact matches

While the company has talked about wanting a piece of the European pie for some time, investor still reacted negatively to the news.

Now Starbucks is looking for a bigger piece of the pie.

I don't necessarily see them taking pieces of the pie away from Facebook or YouTube, but I do think it makes it a harder story for Twitter to tell about video.»

But Microsoft's success with the full - featured Surface PC is a good omen for this new attempt to get a piece of the mobile pie.

The downside of licensing is that you settle for a smaller piece of the pie.

(Little wonder Rupert Murdoch is angling for a piece of that pie with his recently launched Fox Sports 1 network.)

With the U.S. mattress market expected to generate nearly $ 15 billion this year, it's no surprise that startups are vying for a piece of the pie.

«I'd say they are going to be fighting very hard for the small piece of the pie that won't be owned by Facebook and Google.»

How big a piece of that pie Kobo will carve for itself remains in question; they say they've currently got about 10 % of U.S. e-book sales, roughly the same as Apple's iBooks store and well behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Using equity to recruit talent is more complicated than divvying out pieces of pie, and finding the right balance of cash and equity for employees relies on everyone knowing what they are getting into.

For all the hurrah about the IRS, it's vital to remember that federal taxes are just one piece of the pie.

In exchange for them working with your company, they will take a piece of the pie.

By saving a bigger piece of their income pie in the years leading up to retirement, those age 50 and older can help make up for lost time.

Obama has promised every segment of the electorate a «piece of the pied if the voit for him.

And if someone were to get a big piece of the pie, it would mean less for everybody else.

We have two small girls who will definitely want their «piece of the pie» for sure.

Also, FYI, I think the whoopie pie trend is fading and I have seen the pans on sale for as little as $ 5 (which doesn't help if you just don't have space for another piece of kitchen equipment, but still) happy baking!

Just one piece of advice: Make sure that what you buy is 100 % pumpkin — which is totally pure and unprocessed: Just mashed pumpkin — and not the infamous pumpkin pie filling - which is highly processed and full of bad - for - you stuff.

Cover with a piece of foil, top with pie weights and bake for 15 minutes.

We have a sour cherry tree out back that we share with our neighbors, and I can't bite into a piece of pie without giving thanks for summer's bounty and life's simple constants.

Spoon about 2 heaping tablespoons of the cooled cherry pie filling onto the bottom center of each dough piece, making sure to leave at least a 1/2 inch rim around the filling for sealing the turnover.

Instead of rolling out the dough, I pressed it into each muffin cup and this worked well for me; I also pressed a piece of foil into each pie shell for par - baking purposes, so that the dough wouldn't puff up too much.

Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake for 30 minutes, place a piece of aluminum foil over the pie then bake for another 15 - 20 minutes.

ingredients TURKEY POT PIE 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup pearl onions 2 carrots (peeled, 1 / 2 - inch dice) 2 garlic cloves (peeled, minced) 1 russet potato (peeled, 1/2 - inch dice) 1 head fennel (cored, fronds removed, diced) 6 tablespoon butter 6 tablespoons flour 2 cups turkey stock (recipe below) 1 tablespoon tarragon leaves (chopped) 2 cups store - bought turkey breast and legs (skin removed, shredded) 1 sheet store - bough puff pastry (thawed) 1 egg (beaten) Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper (to taste) FOR THE TURKEY STOCK: 1 onion (quartered) 1 carrot (peeled, cut into 1 - inch pieces) 1 head of garlic (halved crosswise) 4 sprigs thyme 1 fresh bay leaf 1 tespoon black peppercorns 1 - 2 pounds turkey carcass, bones and wings 1 ham hock 2 gallons water

Chop 3/4 of the squash into 3/4» pieces, keeping the last 1/4 for some chicken pot pie.

Scatter pieces of dough unevenly over entire pie and bake for approximately 40 minutes or until your pie is golden and the apricot mixture has turned glossy.

Or even a slice (except for that one piece of peach ginger pie that molded as a lesson in how stupid self restraint is).

That paid for the player and earned the club a profit... I wouldn't be surprised if Silent Stan would like a piece of that pie and part of the reason why Wenger has been told to invest.

This is the reward and punishment for paying fighters a larger piece of the pie.

I'm grateful for breastfeeding because I really am eating for two so a second piece of pie is totally reasonable.

The Park District and the village are hoping for a piece of the grant pie to ward off threats of commercial development of the site.

For instance, imagine that your breasts are divided into equal wedges, like pieces of a pie, and sweep your fingers along each piece in toward your nipple.

Amy Ramsland, Naper Settlement Museum Educator, at right, cutting a piece of apple pie for judges Mike Krol, president and CEO of Naper Settlement, and Neda Darwish, owner of Sugar Monkey Cupcakes in downtown Naperville.

Historically, collective bargaining is one of the principal vehicles through which workers have got hold of a piece of the capitalist pie for themselves, so shouldn't there be a basic right to organize in the workplace?

We're all for such legislation, but we also caution voters not to allow that piece of the ethics pie to satisfy their appetite.

That means advocates for HIV / AIDS, homelessness and several other constituencies will be vying for a piece of that pie over the next several months.

Meanwhile, he's joining the Legislature in whacking up a $ 1.1 billion capital pork pie into hundreds of smaller pieces for dubious projects all over the place.»