Sentences with phrase «small efforts by»

The teat reacts to even very small efforts by baby when feeding.

Not exact matches

The hope is that by focusing their efforts on applicants most likely to be future leaders in their respective countries, even a small program might be able to impact relations between nations.

But the effort has been marked by stumbles, including menu misfires and complaints that food was too pricey or the portions were too small.

Airbnb is contributing to the effort by working with the NGO Vital Voices Global Partnership and the nonprofit Global Fund for Women to provide travel and free Airbnb accommodations to 160 women who are small business owners and activists.

He was joined by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett at an event called Detroit Homecoming, a relatively small invitation - only event designed to show off the city's ongoing rehabilitation efforts.

Many small businesses seek help in this arena by choosing internet marketing software solutions that help them optimize their efforts.

Any effort by these cloud companies to build their own chip tech, even if they use for just a small part of their overall data centers and cloud businesses, could cause Intel to lose out on sales.

It was also long before a small business owner in California named Kristen Christian, frustrated by Bank of America's now - abandoned decision to charge customers a fee to use their debit cards, launched a grass roots effort to convince people to move their money out of large banks and dubbed November 5 Bank Transfer Day.

Increasingly, companies both large and small have been investing in social media strategies — either by tapping influencer networks, or adopting video editing technology to streamline marketing efforts across such platforms as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

(That's short for the Milford Alliance to Defeat Sprawl at Exit Ten, an effort by residents in the small community of Milford, Pa., to stop a Home Depot from going up.)

Small businesses could even be boosted by the public works project he described that hearkens back to a New Deal - approach to creating jobs and an effort to renovate 35,000 new schools.

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

Gary Cohn, President Trump's top economic advisor, said that the effort by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan to jointly address healthcare was the same as the administration was doing by proposing rules to make it easier for self - employed Americans, small businesses and others to band together to get insurance through what are called association health plans.

By looking at Slack's Growth Score, sales teams might have understood, to some degree, the direction Slack was going in, and poured more efforts into prioritizing that seemingly small prospect.

As part of our efforts to understand the issues of communities in the region, the New York Fed worked with small businesses in areas affected by Superstorm Sandy to comprehend the storm's impact and firms» progress with recovery efforts.

The site aims to inform efforts to help small firms, by making small business insight from the 12 Reserve Banks easily accessible to policymakers, community leaders and service providers.

Smaller business owners are forced to sink or swim by their own efforts or take risks employing SEO agencies who themselves often don't have skilled content marketers able to produce the right level of content.

In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.

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?

I have seen Open Innovation being discussed and sought after by companies both large and small, and I agree with you that Open Innovation works the best when the definition of a problem is well - defined and the level of understanding among people involved in the effort are mature enough

Its big bet on live video is a big challenge to smaller players like Twitter and Snapchat, which should absolutely be afraid by Facebook's effort to replace others as the go - to place for real - time reaction and content.

The rising popularity of social media marketing has directly increased the amount of efforts put into utilization of this marketing channel by small businesses.

«Two things should be remembered, after purchasing six or eight stocks in different industries, the benefit of adding even more stocks to your portfolio in an effort to decrease risk is small, and overall market risk will not be eliminated merely by adding more stocks to your portfolio» Joel Greenblatt

NAHB today lauded efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to roll back onerous regulations that hurt home building firms and other small businesses but cautioned that much more needs to be done to further reduce regulatory burdens.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco vosmall privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voSmall Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

The book is further weakened by the author's effort to enlist Solzhenitsyn in his enthusiasm for E. F. Schumacher's «small is beautiful» critique of the modern world, and for Chesterton's notion of economic «distributism.»

But in a small town or rural area, your efforts to find help may be complicated by long distances to available resources.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

Greider does his best to highlight hopeful, albeit mostly small - scale, efforts by «pioneers» who are attempting to reform the economy, people in for - profit and not - for - profit organizations as well as academics.

While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

Not a food - gathering entrepreneur by nature, the current national bird prefers sponging off the efforts of smaller, more capable food - finding species whenever he can.

Whether you join a small group at your church, find an FPU or Crown Ministries class, or seek out virtual community by following a blog or hashtag, begin to knit together a group of people to support your efforts and point you toward God's plan for your life (which includes your money).

Since this effort is not instantaneous, transmission must exhibit a finite ratio of temporal extension to spatial size, such as that exhibited by the perspectival spatial shortening and temporal slowing in special relativity, with the smallest quantum «volume» in our epoch being expressed by, h, the famous Planck Constant.20 For any moment, a perspective that prehends something with less spatiality than another, must prehend it «with more temporal duration.

In a larger sense, however, Berry's work must be counted a failure, As in the effort to get Americans to protect the climate, small victories have been overwhelmed by crushing losses, As Berry points out in the opening essay, America now has half the number of farms it had in 1977.

Above all, he «must not be dismayed by small results after long effort.»

And while Kraft deserves some credit, as none of the other Big Coffee companies is making this type of effort, real environmental preservation and fair prices for farmers is far, far better served by purchasing sustainable coffees from small companies and roasters with relationships with their suppliers, especially those that provide information on the specific farms where their beans are sourced.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

In addition to ensuring our suppliers comply with the food safety standards recognized by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), we make a concerted effort to give diverse companies such as small, women - owned, minority - owned and veteran - owned businesses the opportunity to supply quality product options that meet our company's growing business needs.

Uh, small problem: All three players have been traded away by the Blueshirts in the past two months as part of the organization's rebuilding effort.

Meanwhile, the Celtics after taking game 3 with an all out team effort win, is only behind by the smallest margin of 1 game.

I was thrilled that years of hard work by food advocates around the country, maybe even including my own small efforts here on The Lunch Tray, had finally yielded strong federal competitive food rules to create a healthier school environment for my child and his fellow students.

I want to continue to recalibrate traditional gifting by either doing nothing (sometimes nothing can be a gift), focusing on giving one lovingly procured gift per person (rather than scurrying around trying to fulfill some sort of quota), giving small handmade treats (e.g., to neighbors and friends), and continuing my charitable giving efforts (for ideas, see these wonderful back posts by Isabel Kallman and Jennifer James).

«We continue to appreciate the efforts by many lawmakers to stand firm and protect New York's small businesses and family farms, but continued resolve is necessary,» Durant said.

What we got this weekend was our first hint that it might be joined by an actual, intentional EFFORT to raise money from small - dollar donors and join the modern campaign - funding world.

In an effort to quiet the concerns of residents who are rattled by the barrage of late - night explosions, Schenectady County legislators last night repealed the legal use of small fireworks.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

That effort brought in more than $ 700 million partly by finding new ways of maximizing small donors.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

The speaker won 68 percent of the vote thanks in no small part to the combined efforts of his allies in labor and the Working Families Party and in spite of the fact that he was widely lambasted by editorial boards and even saw the NY Times back Newell.

The initiative is part of efforts by the SME focused bank to promote financial inclusion and sustainable growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), OmniBank.