Sentences with phrase «small countries who»

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«We want to be the office for micro and small companies, because that is basically what our country is,» say Kotka, who now works as a consultant to Estonian startups.

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.

The group's «members» — 30 smaller distributors across the country who buy their merchandise through the headquarters — have seen their sales increase 71 %.

But the way to address those who have been left behind is to harness the growth opportunities digitization and globalization bring by getting more small businesses, more workers, and more parts of the country to participate and benefit.

The bureaucracy in Brussels is largely made up of officials from the smaller countries, who saw the EU as a method of enabling themselves to exercise far greater influence than they could as leaders in their own governments.

It also provides credit insurance to small companies in the U.S. who'd similarly like to sell to customers in other countries who might need more favorable purchasing terms than many small companies can offer.

Blank, who recently spent two weeks in Chile lecturing about innovation, says Start - Up Chile could offer a breakthrough model for other small countries hoping to create a start - up climate.

To put that in context, it's more than the annual GDP for some small countries — more than The Bahamas for example — or as USA Today put it, «a big slice of the $ 90 billion in total market value created for all investors who own these shares»

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.

(A Fortune magazine piece last year covered how GoDaddy worked to change the tone of its racy, sometimes sexist, ads in order to better appeal to women, who represent a large swath of the country's small business owners.)

The post-Soviet generation of engaged and wired Russians who are loudly finding their political voice remains small in number for a country of Russia's size.

Who has time for sleep when trying to make a profit in the country's second most expensive city for small businesses?

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.

Lithuania only got to the games thanks to funding from small time donors and one big contributor: THE Grateful Dead (pictured), who commissioned the t - shirts in support of the team / country's recent independence from the Soviet Union.

The impact will be enormous, particularly for the 25 million small land - holder farmers who grow coffee in more than 70 countries.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

These are tumultuous times for bankers, who either must reinvent themselves at the giant banking institutions being formed through a series of mergers and acquisitions across the country, or must figure out new ways to compete against those giants from their own smaller regional bases.

Bizlaunch founder, Andrew Patricio has started seven businesses of his own, authored two books, and is an internationally recognized small business expert who has delivered key note speeches, seminars and workshops in twenty - two countries.

Their sample included a lot of small OPEC countries, who necessarily had high growth and low interest rates when oil prices were high, as well as a lot of Asian countries that followed the Japanese development model and themselves practiced financial repression, which of course made them pretty useless as points of comparison.

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?

«[We'll provide immediate and permanent help for Canada's hard working small business people, who are the backbone of the local communities and the creators of 80 per cent of all new jobs in this country,» Mulcair said, in announcing the nearly 20 per cent tax reduction.

The retreat of first home buyers — who typically have smaller deposits and borrow more — from the country's most expensive markets was also likely to be pushing the average figure lower, Equifax's general manager for commercial and property products Neil Shilbury said.

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.

While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

For ETF investors who own funds such as the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped (EWZ)-- the largest Brazil ETF — and VanEck Vectors Brazil Small - Cap ETF (BRF), the last four years coming into 2016 saw these funds bleed 60 % and 70 %, respectively, as country's economy worsened and investor confidence faltered.

Byle is part of a small number of Christians in Turkey, and an even smaller number of expatriate Christians, who openly evangelize in the country.

Halfway houses (where small groups of patients who are not ready to return to their homes live together and receive help in social rehabilitation), day hospitals, foster home services, rehabilitation centers, and ex-patient clubs are still in short supply in all parts of our country.

The small Southeast Asian country of Brunei also newly forbid Christmas, and fines those who participate up to $ 20,000 or 5 years in prison.

In former Communists countries, like Poland in some Churches women are not even allowed to read during mass, forget about altar girls I've only seen 1 church that allowed it, and couples who practice contraception, who are divorced, who have children out of wedlock, priests often deny them the Sacraments especially in small towns.

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

And while the country's comparative advantage in technically adept manpower has benefited a small minority, it has excluded hundreds of millions of Indians who neither have nor can easily acquire the special skills needed to enter the country's booming services sector.

As a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reap.

The larger part of this process is carried on by the small minority of people in the developed countries, who consume by far the largest part of these and other resources.

Fairtrade - certified vanilla indicates that it was grown by small - scale farmers in developing countries who receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices.

Mr Ramon Marañon, small farmer representative to the National Organic Agriculture Board who is the policy making body of OA in the country, attended the conference and discussed updates and trends in organic agriculture policy.

Meredith Vieira, I hugged her one year... The people you think are going to come in for a hug, the crunchy granola people who have the «love» buttons, they walked right past me but the high end, you know they run a small country, come running over.

Mr Crittenden, who founded Mornington Peninsula winery Crittenden Estate, is one of a dozen small wineries pooling their market power to sell wines via a new website that offers consumers wines from key wine regions across the country.

Conduct a variety of postharvest e-learning programs for young professionals who work with small - scale farmers in developing countries.

In an analysis of obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA (Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease) Project, which encompassed Western European countries, Australia, the United States, and China, there was a small effect of total fat, but the energy supply from total sweeteners per capita showed no relation with obesity (40).

Instead, I found a small pocket of people in a small corner of the country who have learned the (very) hard way that life goes on without football.

Theories abound: The scholarship limitations mean smaller teams and bigger opportunities for younger players; athletes are just better sooner; it's a big country, so there ought to be an 18 - year - old here and there who can knock your socks off.

He's become a national presence in a small market tucked away in a far corner of the country, but treats the everyday people who work for the Blazers the same way he did when he was a rookie.

Oh how we laugh and scoff at these desperate clubs like Man City and Chelsea who feel they have been lax if they have not spent at least a small country's national debt during a transfer window.

Likewise, if Leicester do win the league the biggest embarrassment with be for Utd, City etc who every season spend more than most small countries on transfers.

Nobody raised a stink, wondering about the underachieving Portuguese who failed to qualify for most tournaments and struggled to win when they did qualify, because a small country of 10,000,000 people isn't supposed to do much.

Perhaps the LPGA's most effective reply yet to all those who think the women's game is troubled — that it should be thinner or younger or sexier or richer or smaller - breasted or larger - breasted - came in last weekend's JCPenney / LPGA Skins Game, a grandiose, made - for - TV 18 - hole event at windswept Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, Texas, where Dottie Mochrie won a record $ 290,000 in a single afternoon.

Wales are receiving the support of many people around the globe who want the small country to cause an upset in the tournament.

Almost unanimously, professional youth sports administrators who oversee the fields at parks and recreation facilities across the country will say what a great group of volunteers they have but they will almost always concede that it's a very small group, or even an individual who ends up taking a majority of the responsibility.

At the time of the Revolution Twitter had a far smaller footprint, with perhaps 500 active users within the country's borders, but as we'll see, who was tweeting mattered more than how many people were doing it.

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.