Sentences with phrase «small force of»

A few days before that, a small force of Union militia from Cedar...

About four years ago the district, which is about 85 miles north of Dallas, started what's known as the «guardian» program: a small force of volunteer school staff allowed to carry a concealed firearm on school grounds, said school superintendent Steve Clugston.

There's a story here that basically pits an initially small force of troops and hired mercenaries against a powerful nation's military after their president's plane is shot down over enemy territory and the mission is to find out if he, along with a great military hero traveling with him are still alive.

He then led his relatively small force of mounted archers east to China and west to the Caspian Sea in a conquest of unmatched velocity.

I find it odd that when the small forcing of CO2 is brought up people say it's a miniscule change, even though the trend is there, but when someone says it's the Sun, even though that is a miniscule change, they see the trend immediately.

As I hope you understand, IF we assume those things, then an «unnatural» small forcing of man - made carbon dioxide MIGHT cause a warming, but only if the climate system is in an unstable equilibrium.

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My mentor in the program was CEO of a credit union who forced me to NOT think small & mom / pop regarding services.

But the task force made clear the intention is to foster an industry where small - scale «craft» or «artisanal» producers are able to participate (including individuals who can grow a maximum of four plants for personal use) among larger players.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

Small businesses are the driving force of the U.S. economy.

In the case of business customers, a small business's sales force can often collect trade references and financial statements from potential customers.

Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

Over in the UK, many small businesses are undoubtedly thinking hard about the viability of employing extra staff before legislation that forces employment contributions to pensions comes into force.

If they don't want to force a firm to shut down, the vocal opposition of smaller LPs doesn't count for a lot.

The small business owner who clearly communicates personal expectations and company goals, provides adequate compensation, offers meaningful opportunities for career advancement, anticipates work force training and developmental needs, and provides meaningful feedback to his or her employees is far more likely to be successful than the owner who is neglectful in any of these areas.

She said small and medium producers were being forced to export most of their product because they can not compete domestically with the mass produced labels.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

NATO's membership offer to Montenegro has set off a firestorm of protest from Moscow that might seem outsized considering the small scale of the Balkan country and its minimal military force.

That means shoppers are forced to accept change in the form of chewing gum, cigarettes, and other small items.

Small - business owners, with their strong voting records and firm intentions of hitting the polls in November, represent an untapped but potentially game - changing force in this presidential race, particularly if overall voter turnout comes in low.

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

Tack said that the tank army would partake in the exercises, but it would only be a small contingent of the corps - sized force.

A small window titled «Force Quit Applications» with a list of the apps that are running on your machine will appear.

It forces you to think through all of the areas that form the main concept to the smallest details.

Just last month, American Airlines was forced to cancel dozens of flights from Phoenix when temperatures of nearly 120 degrees made it too hot for smaller jets to take off.

In an era of small businesses and startups, however, benefits packages are considered extras, with workers sometimes forced to choose between higher pay and costly health insurance premiums or lower pay for the ability to provide great medical insurance for their families.

These small businesses know that the powerful force driving their agility stems from the implementation of technological solutions that eliminate the need for hardwires and the once - necessary connectivity to physical space.

A small task force of Bain consultants undertook a six - month study of the steel market.

Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch said in a note Thursday that Aereo appears to be attempting to force the case back to the high court so it can find a way of paying some smaller fees for content.

He told CNBCthe only issue for mobile is the «fairly small» form factor, «so your ability to put a lot of stuff on the page, advertising opportunities, is more limited, but that forces you to therefore create new ways of getting revenue.»

The smallest companies still make the most use of incentive - only (commission) plans to pay their sales force.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra has said the company's small - car production will remain in Mexico, but it could only be a matter of time before she's forced to change course.

The winter storm that plagued the East Coast forced the world's largest passenger jet — an Airbus A380 — to divert to Stewart International, a small New York airport about 80 miles north of its intended destination: John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Doctors were forced to choose which patients received the smaller supply of Leucovorin and which would be given a less effective but more costly treatment.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

Add to that a lack of regulation: After the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, which aimed to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital, startups could take on many more investors before the Securities and Exchange Commission effectively forced them to go public.

But the number of entrepreneurs who want to use commerce in ways great or small as a force not just for profit but also for good is growing.

The problem is, the technology won't take off if consumers are forced to pay extra for it, so which of the existing parties is willing to take a smaller cut of the action in order to let newcomers in?

Contreras - Sweet, who served as head of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama, first made an offer for the studio in November, after a sex - harassment scandal forced co-founder Harvey Weinstein from the company.

Wendy L. Patrick, a business ethics lecturer at San Diego State University, says the order may have the salutary effect of forcing government and small business to order their priorities.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

The USAF EC - 130H overall force is quite small, consisting of only 14 aircraft, based at Davis - Monthan AFB (DMAFB), in Tucson, Arizona and belonging to the 55th Electronic Combat Group (ECG) and its two squadrons: the 41st and 43rd Electronic Combat Squadrons (ECS).

«Either it is a sign that Sarbanes - Oxley created a burden on entrepreneurship, inefficiently forcing companies out of the public markets, or alternatively it provided some protection to investors by inducing smaller firms that should never have been public to begin with to abandon that status,» Eric Talley, the report's co-author, said in a statement.

«Irreversible structural forces,» including a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, technology, global markets and small - business - friendly demographics, mean the next decade will see this startup wave continue and accelerate:

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

Cooper added that the new rules would likely force small businesses out of the SNAP program and send those customers to larger retailers.

The most advanced of several options on the market is the Biojector 2000, a product that uses the force of a burst of carbon dioxide unleashed from a small cartridge to deliver drugs into a patient's muscle.

The FCA said last November that RBS was guilty of «systematic» mistreatment of distressed small businesses that came to it for help, but cleared the bank of the most serious allegation that RBS forced businesses into default for its own benefit.

But instead of sitting here wallowing in envy of this super-heavyweight marketing marriage, let's look at what Disney is doing to promote the upcoming and eagerly awaited installment in the Star Wars series, «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» and outline five lessons we can use in our small business marketing campaigns.