Sentences with phrase «small as a force»

But the number of entrepreneurs who want to use commerce in ways great or small as a force not just for profit but also for good is growing.

The question was whether it was possible to measure something as small as the forces between two atoms.

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Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

With a smaller marketing budget, you are forced to analyze each click for key metrics such as click - through rate, bounce rate and average time on site which ensures higher - quality traffic.

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

In many cases, hackers simply take a tried - and - true method, such as Sality malware (which brute - forces networks to create easy - to - guess passwords), and make small tweaks to improve it for the modern world.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

Contreras - Sweet, who served as head of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama, first made an offer for the studio in November, after a sex - harassment scandal forced co-founder Harvey Weinstein from the company.

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

«The CEO of a huge corporation who has to give pink slips to 5,000 workers he has never met would not be under as much stress as the head of a small firm who is forced to fire a few employees he has known and worked with for years,» Rosch says.

The size premium has been out in full force as small and mid cap stocks have outpaced their larger counterparts in the U.S. stock market over the past decade.

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcAs for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcas many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

Dante Dallavalle: A lot of conservatives and liberals alike are touting the bill as supportive of small community banks and community development banks, because it no longer forces them to comply with regulations.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor fForce Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor forceforce.

«They are forced to operate as cash - only enterprises, inviting crime such as robbery and tax evasion — only adding to the burden of setting up a legitimate small business.»

As veteran Japan watcher Richard Werner (author of Princes of the Yen) recently described the situation to me, «while Japanese small firms were killed by the continued refusal of banks to expand credit (and many a small firm president was killed by having to sell a kidney to the loan sharks he was forced to resort to), foreign speculators received ample yen funds for a pittance.»

As the crisis intensified, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was forced to apologise to its billions of users amid a small but growing exodus from the site.

The online Oxford dictionary defines guerilla as: «A member of a small, independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger, regular forces.»

He has served as a member of the Innovative Committee of SBANE, which was the driving force behind the passage of the Small Business Innovation Development Act.

These he accomplished despite his growing sense that larger forces — the riptide of tribal feeling in a world that should have already shed its atavism; the resilience of small men who rule large countries in ways contrary to their own best interests; the persistence of fear as a governing human emotion — frequently conspire against the best of America's intentions.

Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush - hush meetings with spy chiefs and the occasional rogue world leader for a decidedly conspicuous U.S. Air Force 757 with «United States of America» emblazoned across its fuselage, a traveling press corps and frequent public appearances.

The likelihood of bringing about a higher good, i.e., eudemonia, by rudely expressing one's concern for others» health, voicing unflattering criticism, and forcing confrontational consideration of moral issues is small (and, in some cases, such as the friend who sings off - key, nil).

As long as the percentage of the work force that is unemployed is small, economists generally regard this as necessary and even healthAs long as the percentage of the work force that is unemployed is small, economists generally regard this as necessary and even healthas the percentage of the work force that is unemployed is small, economists generally regard this as necessary and even healthas necessary and even healthy.

But most importantly, observe that each point is built up from these lines (i.e., the intersection of several lines can be used to define a point), and, since these lines can be regarded as lines of force or influence, it would be but a small jump to say that each point is composed of the «influences» of other points.

That interaction can be thought of apart from dynamic time, as forces at a moment, state, or small section.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

Specifically, they are prone to see religious tribalism as a threat to the orderly progress of civil society, and to see religion itself as a force that should govern a small — and it is hoped private — area of human activity.

As the leader of the small Revisionist underground Etzel, he led a revolt against British forces in the 1940s.

Entropy, when acted upon by external forces, such as gravity, will allow smaller mass to coalesce into more complex and larger objects.

Finally, on Halloween night, small al Qaeda agents, disguised as children, invade major network television stations to «trick or treat» and force repeated playings of «The Lawrence Welk Show,» «Green Acres» and «Ishtar.»

What the argument by probability does is to reflect on the «fine - tunedness» of a universe in which life can exist, reflects on the chance of life occurring through purely random events, and concludes that the chance of life coming into existence through purely random forces of nature is so infinitesimally small as to be almost non-existent.

Muslims own many of the small businesses in Sri Lanka, a fact that many believe has helped make them targets as Buddhist - Muslim relations have worsened in recent years amid the rise of hard - line Buddhist groups, which accuse Muslims of forcing people to convert and destroying sacred Buddhist sites.

Small measures required as Philadelphia soda tax adds up Philadelphia's soda tax came into force on Sunday, and is reportedly causing a stir in the city's check - out aisles.

Pork: Bacon may be the favorite food of Americans as of late, but it's not doing pregnant or nursing pigs any good, as many of them are forced into gestation crates so small they can't even turn around.

A smaller player, such as 5» 11» Michael Peca of the Buffalo Sabres, a premier hitter who is listed at 181 pounds but who midway through the playoff grind looks as wispy as Kate Moss, uses his legs to generate force.

The teams chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer says that the rules are ultimately there to help keep costs down, something which is of massive benefit to teams running on a small budget such as Force India.

He lost ALL his assets which were given to his wife in a rotten divorce settlement, and although she still lives in his mansion, Eboue is living in a smaller house in Enfield, where they lived before moving to the marital home, but he is being forced to hand that over as well, which will make him homeless.

We all seem to forget the main reason why Leicester won is because they defended very well as a group and countered with deadly force which is why they usually won by a small goal margin.

At present Force India, like many of the other smaller teams, loses out in the sport's development war as they do not have the same funds to throw at new parts as the likes of Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.

The SQL Slammer was a small, rapidly spreading virus that infected some of the most - used web servers and caused numerous problems across the U.S.. Also known as Sapphire, the virus caused outages in 911 service in Seattle, forced Continental Airlines to cancel flights because of electronic issues and crashed ATM services for Bank of America.

This includes small amounts of fruits and vegetables, as he may eventually try them if he isn't pressured or forced into eating them.

As my third trimester nesting instincts have kicked in full - force, I have recently set up the baby's space in our bedroom with a diaper changing area, a small dresser, and the baby's bassinet.

He refused to come down the brightly colored vinyl stairs, forcing me to squeeze myself through a ridiculously small space and carry him — kicking and thrashing over my shoulder — while gripping all his clothes in the other hand as he behaved like I was kidnapping him.

This can be achieved by helping your child with certain play patterns such as grasping small objects, pouring water out of cups, squeezing things like sponges, and doing other activities that force a child to use their hands in creative ways.

In the early days, this was quite easy as America really only had to maintain a small military force to counter European and Native American threats on the mainland, both were not to powerful... and if war broke out, reinforcements were difficult to get to the Americas before the US could increase its own forces.

As mentioned earlier, these clubs, while small, can be a potent force when it comes to working on a candidate's behalf.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.