Sentences with phrase «small businessman from»

Joe The Plumber became an unwitting star of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after Republican candidate John McCain decided that the small businessman from Ohio was a helpful metaphor for middle - class Americans.

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As the U.S. businessman has gone from long - shot Republican presidential candidate to the party's nominee for the White House, fears that Mr. Trump will act on some of his campaign statements — like renegotiating the North American free - trade agreement and pulling the United States out of the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement — have spooked some Canadian small - business owners with U.S. interests.

Small businessmen and family businesses organized around trades and crafts characterized the Merchant Era, from 1770 to the 1850s.

And after his recent disparaging remarks about small businessmen, the newly - ennobled entrepreneur was the subject of no fewer than four questions from Conservative MPs when ministers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills came to the Despatch Box yesterday.

The manner in which he wove together his personal story — the son of a successful small businessman — with his experiences visiting upcoming small businesses as part of his Future Jobs tour was poles apart from the hectoring Junior Common Room poses that Ed Miliband strikes when he talks at business.

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.

While businessman can mean anything from a small shop owner to a tycoon, entrepreneur implies the new media and tech industry.

I have heard from many small businessmen who simply no longer use lawyers.

In this podcast Joe and I talk about how he recovered from the shittiest month he ever had in his firm and part of that for him was the realization that he actually needed to start working on his business and we kind of talked about why it's hard for lawyers to get going on stuff like that but I kind of want to spin off of that and talk about why does it seem so hard for small businessman, small firms, lawyers, to do the things they know they need to do.