Sentences with phrase «small countries do»

A well - known concept in international trade circles is that economically small countries do not influence the price of foreign goods due to their negligible impact on overall demand.

First, you have to keep in mind that a small country does not usually give as many «benefits» as a big country.

But beeing such a small country i don't expect there to be a lot of alternatives coming soon either.

Not exact matches

The House and Senate Small Business Committees should assign staffers to benchmark what has been done to reduce the regulatory burden in other countries, with the goal of copying the best initiatives enacted elsewhere.

Canada might be a trading nation, but we are mediocre traders: in its report on trade, the growth council said the majority of the country's smaller enterprises don't trade at all.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

com domains long gone, I can see small businesses in the U.S. utilizing their country code, doing what their counterparts in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world have already done.»

Women - owned businesses account for a greater share of this country's employment and payrolls than they did in 2007, but the numbers remain small.

We might be one of the smallest subsidiaries, with 20 - some people at the head office and 60 - some people across the country, versus something like 1,200 in the U.S.. We're not involved in product development at all or in the management of licensing, so we don't work with third - party software developers or even license merchandise goods like T - shirts and stuff like that.

Israel, like Canada, is producing a lot of small startups, but doesn't the country need big companies?

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

Other countries do it, but they typically are much smaller and have maybe one state owned telecommunications company running their infrastructure already.»

As the founder of Watsi, a nonprofit that allows people to donate small amounts of money to crowdfund medical treatments for individuals in 20 developing countries, Adam, 29, is doing his part to remedy this imbalance.

Here's an example: Karen Nierlich does website design for small businesses all over the country.

And being able to go around the country and see the impact that my company and my work has done — teenage girls saying they love to play games because of me, and families saying, «we picked up a tabletop game because of [Geek & Sundry show] Tabletop,» and college kids who come up and say, «Hey, I'm really glad you made The Guild because I never knew I could say that I was a gamer until you made that» — that's why you need to be creative, whether it's on a large or small scale.

It's the same hurdle Yelp faces: across the country are small businesses who believe they're doing just fine, thanks, and have managed to thrive for decades without the Web.

It doesn't apply to just those big countries either — it affects smaller nations such as Canada, as well.

According to a survey released last week by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a strong majority (two - thirds) of small businesses think Capitol Hill politics are «at the heart of the country's economic problems» and 76 % believe the current regulatory environment doesn't favor someone looking to start or grow a business.

More recently, it has been an intellectually lazy substitute for engaging seriously with the question that all small and medium - sized states face in a globalized political world: which powers does it make sense to share with other countries and under what conditions?

Instead of leveraging the MBA to make one or even two career changes — such as securing a promotion or moving from a small financial services firm to Morgan Stanley (MS)-- triple jumpers shake up three variables all at once: country, job function, and industry — and they do all of this in a highly compressed timeframe.

Only a third of the small and medium enterprises worldwide surveyed by Oxford Economics in April 2013 do business solely in the country they are headquartered.

But that didn't eradicate the dreams of the country's small but dynamic entrepreneurial community.

It is a notion that has made our Nation bold and bright, and the best place to do business for generations — from small - town storefronts to pioneering startups that keep our country on the cutting edge.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

So this week, as entrepreneurs across our country keep striving to turn their dreams into reality, let us keep investing in them and doing everything we can to help our small businesses succeed.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Not only does Asia offer a new market and consumer base, but a growing entrepreneurial support network in these countries offer the infrastructure for Canadian companies to dock, learn and collaborate with new, inventive small businesses in the region.

You people are killing small business in this country and there are MANY, MANY legitimate small business owners that do the right things and practice ethical white hat SEO who are severely impacted by this Bull Sh ## t that you people claim is in efforts to stop SPAM... who are you kidding man?

An exciting aspect of the law is that 98 percent of the country, which was formerly not allowed by law to invest in startups and small businesses because they didn't meet certain wealth criteria, will be now be able to do so, Feit said.

These include a much better customer experience (especially on mobile, which is a key driver for e-commerce in emerging markets), better privacy (particularly relevant for cross-border payments), the ability to do smaller transaction sizes, a global and fast - growing merchant acceptance network, and of course, for many people in emerging markets, the ability to transact online whereas otherwise they would not be able to, either because they don't have a credit card in the first place, or their credit card is rejected because of fraud risk associated with a particular country.

I don't like being a burden, however small, on the fictional finances of this country, so kiII me.

What you're doing now is dooming this country to becoming a small minded third world country.

Just a reminder, someday humanity will wipe away ignorance and intolerance like your as we did small pox, we might even invent an inoculation for you, but until then we will just continue to suffer your stupidity and hope that the minority of religious conservatives in this country never get to elect their insane candidates.

And it's natural for someone from South Asia to draw a comparison to Islam, since there is a comparatively small Christian or Buddhist population... Orthodox Christian women also cover their hair and dress in loose, modest clothing, as do Orthodox Jews — but none of them have sects or countries, to my knowledge, that require a burka, for example.

It is all about hiding, disguising the truth until it becomes of the past just as that as did that unlawful country was recognized by the USA with out the UN majority vote and UN members were to face the Reality that the USA is taking advantage of her majority states and voting power rather than the majority of the UN member countries no matter how small or poor they are although at that time the majority of member countries were under occoupation or protection of USA and Allies and after the WW1 & 2!

Why don't these people ever go to the small country church in small town America?

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

For example, let us assume we understand that the small state of Judah was threatened by an invasion by Syria and North Israel in the eighth century B.C. Knowing this does not keep us from being amazed that Isaiah insisted that the king will exercise his responsibility not by making astute preparations to defend the country but simply by clinging to the conviction that God will make such preparation unnecessary (Isaiah 7:1 - 9).

The bottom line is that every organization and institution — whether political, economic, or religious, from large corporations and entire nations to small country churches and individual households — have a «tenor» or a «way of doing things» that define, characterize, guide, and even justify the actions and attitudes of that particular structure.

We do so many things in this country poorly that perhaps what we need most of all is small groups of people trying out tasks in fresh and innovative ways — ways that work.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

And yes, it does get generalized to ALL Christians because more people hear about this nonsense rather than miracles happening in other countries and small parts of the US.

Basically that we Americans wake up worried that children in some small country might get two meals a day instead of one so we do what we can to make that not happen.

Because many Latin American countries don't value milk as a nutritional staple and only consider it a necessity for babies and small children, milk is left behind at a very early age.

I have spent most of my years living in surburbia, or out in the country, or a small city that doesn't really feel much like a city at all — more like a few towns connected by miles and miles of country roads and freeways.

We realize that diet - related disease can't be cured in a day, nor will there be a solution to the hunger problem in this country overnight, but small steps do help.

Melissa Kelly of Primo in Rockland was one of the first chefs in Maine to do true farm - to - table, starting with a small patch of dirt in 2000 and eventually adding greenhouses and pigs (her charcuterie program rivals any in the country).