Sentences with phrase «small battles over»

While it's a bummer, I'd plan on dropping a bit of change for some nice transitional pieces that will see you through your first 6 - 12 months, just because fighting with clothes was the bane of my existence and I wish I had just made a dedicated one - time effort instead of fighting it in small battles over the course of many months.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

Kale — and small business — triumphed over Chick - fil - A in a trademark battle over the phrase «Eat More Kale.»

As a small business owner, is it frustrating that greedy young kids, the players, are battling over money with greedy old men as owners?

There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

Aereo, a service that allows users to stream live TV over the internet for a small monthly fee, has been embroiled in a legal battle with the four major broadcasters that's gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

Today the Small Business Majority held a tele - press conference and Main Street Alliance held a briefing call with small - business owners on the battle over where the new tax threshold should beSmall Business Majority held a tele - press conference and Main Street Alliance held a briefing call with small - business owners on the battle over where the new tax threshold should besmall - business owners on the battle over where the new tax threshold should be set.

Any product launch, big or small, you'll find yourself battling with technology, obsessing over results, and scurrying to complete tasks on time.

The Liberal government is bracing for a battle in the House of Commons over its decision to close tax loopholes affecting small business

The superpatient person is like one who has a very serious illness, who has come through the most dangerous phase of the illness yet later unexpectedly dies from a sudden relapse of fever; the fever was finally the cause of death.15 Again, the superpatient person is like a soldier who has had a great victory in the field — the main battle is over; going into the city thinking the victory already secured, the negligent soldier is stupidly captured by a small, insignificant force within the gates.

A crucial battle over a small area - Agincourt, Poitiers, Crecy - can ultimately determine the control of an entire territory: Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine.

Though tough mentally his small body is often pushed over in the heat of the battle.

Small children have very little control over their lives, and the more powerless they feel, the more likely they are to make eating, getting dressed, going to the potty, etc. a battle of wills.

It's easy for parents to skip over some accomplishments and jump right to the next thing — the undone dishes, the afternoon homework battle — but learning to identify and celebrate your family's success, even if it's small, can really help to create positive momentum and lead to lasting change.

We're unlikely to see him poring over dense regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, competing with fast food outlets because of an open school campus, or, most importantly, battling an unyielding Congress for more school food funding.

I read this after I had a one hour battle over a very small piece of broccoli, which saw my little guy still not eat it...!

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan won a marquee battle with the Common Council to keep the city's new trash fee, but she lost three smaller skirmishes over her picks for the five - member board that runs the Albany Parking Authority.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

ALBANY — Although the payoff for taxpayers may be small, the fight between the State Legislature and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over his centerpiece issue of freezing property taxes has become the biggest battle of the 2014 - 15 budget.

But with smaller parties standing to gain political influence, battles over issues such as the regulation of gene - edited organisms and how to cut greenhouse - gas emissions could grow fiercer.

Georges and the eldest son, Constant (Nicolas Giraud), intermittently visit the farm on small periods of leave from battle over the years, intensifying the drama and suspense, as the audience doesn't know if it will be their last time visiting or not.

Then there's Lady Bird, a smaller indie that might have Juno - like staying power, and Battle of the Sexes, which has proven particularly timely right now and, if it wins over audiences, could drive a campaign well into Oscar season.

The two sides battled relentlessly over matters big and small.

Bottom line: While asset allocations can change over time, as well as the battle for lowest fees, at this time Schwab should serve you well with the combination of a long - term target - date fund and an additional commitment to small - cap value.

That means that issuers are battling over a relatively small number of customers, says Ron Shevlin, a financial services analyst with Aite Group, a research and advisory firm.

With those weapons of, er, light destruction, you'll simply go from area to area battling small groups of the same enemy grunts over and over, with the occasional big guy thrown in for good measure, although he doesn't really add much of a dynamic to the combat.

With the smaller starting budget of the long game and four players sitting around the table many of my earlier complaints vanish; suddenly great actors and actresses are in short supply, forcing players to battle it out over who they want, cursing as their opponents sign the one actor or director they really needed to be in with a chance of snagging Best Picture.

Small meteors have been crashing down all over the Battle Royale island and destroying structures.

As the pieces advance within a game, there is a small animation of them fighting each other to take over their spots, just as in Battle Chess.

But it does have a small quirk which is its battle system its free control but you play as one person and have to keep swaping over and over and over

Epic has also noted some other stats behind the game, including smaller things like the total number of hours played within the game (nearly 45 million), the number of traps found (nearly 59 million), and the number of people who have jumped from the Battle Bus (which flies overhead and allows players to jump out wherever — over 292 million).

The Ferrum League is broken down into league battles, which you must complete over and over to achieve top 10 status, then it goes into a small tournament that you get one shot to get through (well, at least one shot before you have to go through the entire process again).

That was the case when Jimmy McGinley and i had our Battle Royale over a very small, but very significant change to the Spellirium game mechanic.

◊ Over at the smaller Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, director Jeffrey Deitch, who has had to battle an uprising among his board, earned $ 916,000.

A legal battle over a proposed wind farm of 63 turbines is brewing in a small community in the Thumb area of Michigan.

My own guess was (and to some extent still is) that the world of competing think tanks doing battle over AGW is a small one and someone somewhere must have have gossiped or boasted.

Though they have played out on a fairly small stage, with relatively little national notice, the struggles over climate policy in Washington presage larger national battles.

any couples fall into a power battle whereby they fight over every decision, however small and this is a very destructive and cyclical habit to get into.

Many couples fall into a power battle whereby they fight over every decision, however small and this is a very destructive and cyclical habit to get into.

From a battle over an oil pipeline in the American mid-west to small Australian communities fighting for survival, Indigenous people are harnessing social media to take their stories global.