Sentences with phrase «small majorities as»

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Small employers often hire family members, neighbors, and friends, and requiring these employers to then jump through the same hoops as a multinational corporation whose CEO resides 1,000 miles away from the majority of her workers is counterintuitive and wildly inefficient.

That's important because the majority of exporters are small, and as the economy experiences sluggish growth and weak job gains, they are generally seen as a bright spot for their reach beyond domestic markets.

He says that figure has remained fairly constant for some time — suggesting there is a small hard core base of people who use bitcoin as everyday money, while the vast majority are using it to speculate and invest.

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand tsmall business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand tSmall Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

The locals saw us doing this and started coming to us with all kinds of electricity issues, work issues, transportation issues — I spent the majority of my first deployment acting essentially as the mayor of a small town.

The choice «didn't impact the small business owner vote as the majority (58 %) says they still plan to vote for Romney and 25 % say Obama still gets their vote,» according to a statement released with the results.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

The partnership will provide small businesses — which GoDaddy defines as companies with twenty or fewer employees, although the majority of its customer base consists of businesses with five or fewer employees - with seamless access to professional email accounts connected to their domain names and a full suite of Microsoft productivity solutions, including shared calendars, instant messaging, and online conferencing, all delivered through the cloud.

Tim Christiansen, the owner of Vino Per Tutti, an independent wine shop in Bozeman, Mont., said in a press release from the Seattle - based Main Street Alliance, that he, as well as the vast majority of his small - business owner compatriots, make less than $ 250,000 a year.

However, these tax savings apply only to C corporations, and the majority of small business is conducted as one form or another of pass - through entities — partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs) taxed as partnerships or S corporations.

It's been a wild ride in Congress the past couple of months as the Trump administration and Republican majorities in the House and Senate pushed through a tax reform bill that will be beneficial to most small businesses and even more favorable to larger corporations.

In summary, a total stock market fund does not capture the total stock market; it captures a majority of the large - cap stock market with extremely small representation of other segments, such as mid-cap and small - cap stocks.

The majority of respondents in our survey work closely with a small number of colleagues in their marketing teams or act as the sole marketer at their company:

2) Because of this performance streak in small and mid-cap stocks (which make up the majority of stocks, but not the majority of market cap), breadth measures based solely on advance - decline statistics have not yet picked up the deterioration in sponsorship that's evident if we examine other market internals such as industry group action, interest - sensitive securities, and trading volume; and,

Most Canadians may think of small businesses as mom and pop operations, but that is not reflected by the majority of individuals using the tax break, Milligan told HuffPost.

GoDaddy by the NUMBERS 1997 Formed as Jomax Technologies 1998 Launched First Website Building Software & Hosting 1999 Changed Name to GoDaddy 2000 Became ICANN Accredited 2001 Became Cash Flow Positive 2002 2003 2004 Launched SSL Certificate Offering $ 100MM Annual Revenue 2005 2MM Customers First Super Bowl Ad Reached 500 Customer Care Specialists Launched Domain Name Aftermarket 10MM Domains 2006 2007 4MM Customers 20MM Domains 2008 6MM Customers Partnered with Microsoft to Launched Hosted Exchange 30MM Domains 2009 Reached 1 Million International Customers $ 500MM Annual Revenue 2010 8MM Customers 40MM Domains 2011 Received Majority Investment from KKR, Silver Lake & TCV 50MM Domains 2012 Launched India, First Localized Market Outside the US 10MM Customers $ 1 Billion Annual Revenue 2013 Partnered with Microsoft to Launch Office 365 for Small Business Introduced Website Builder 7.0 2014 Localized Solutions in 37 Countries 12MM Customers 58MM Domains

As these family offices improve their deal capabilities, hire more seasoned investment professionals, and gain experience executing smaller investments, it is expected that they gradually will join the family offices and institutional investors that are taking majority stakes in companies and investments and targeting larger deals.

Today, a small majority (54 %) lean the opposite direction, as seen in the graph that follows.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R - Miss., speaks to a group of small business owners as Republicans work to pass their sweeping tax Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R - Miss., speaks to a group of small business owners as Republicans work to pass their sweeping tax small business owners as Republicans work to pass their sweeping tax bill.

The majority of the industry is characterized by self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

The majority of smaller stressed defined benefit schemes are likely to end up in the Pension Protection Fund, according to consultancy Barnett Waddingham, as it raised concerns that the Pensions Regulator's new tougher stance may remove vital flexibility from the system.

Many individuals that have large bitcoin balances will store the majority of their balance in this way, and transfer small amounts to their online storage as and when required.

the small group... its oligarchy... they overturned the VOTE of the MAJORITY... such as in California..

We or our embodiments are just containers wherein and upon the bodied insides lives superior beings of such a finitely small scale, they are as unaware of our being just the same ways the vast majorities of our being remains dumbfounded and agast

The same majority opinion also refers the tax as too small to actually compel compliance and is therefore just a small optional tax for those who choose to forgo health insurance.

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!

In elite capitalism, where a small group of families may control the vast majority of land, capital, or other resources, this openness to competition is seen as a threat and is not present.

Yes, when it comes to things like percentages of «Christians» as a majority of Americans the tent is extended as large as it can get, but in other issues the t.itle «Christian» seems to be claimed by a very small group of fundamentalists who have great conviction that Mormons, Catholics, mainstream protestants and orthodox aren't really Christians like they are and thus doomed to the same hellish fate that other non-Christians are.

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

As a consequence only a small fraction of conceptions have reached the age of majority.

Roulac wants to expand what he calls more of a rainbow diet, as he says most people get the majority of their calories from a small amount of food sources — many of which are not highly nutritious or sustainable.

«The majority of BMI's affiliated songwriters can be viewed as small business owners, just like most wineries,» said Dan Spears, BMI's Vice President, Industry Relations.

While the majority of organic dairy farms are small - scale family farms, the United States also has large - scale corporate dairy farms as well.

It will also expand the company's sourcing operations in the Indonesian region, thus providing bigger market opportunities for small cocoa farmers, as smallholder farmers produce the vast majority of cocoa beans in Indonesia.

However, ACCC analysis indicates that these increases in gross margins could have only made a small contribution to overall food price inflation.2 In other words, the vast majority of grocery price increases in Australia are attributable to other factors, such as supply and demand changes in international and domestic markets, increases in the costs of production and domestic weather conditions.

We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

The Blunt Review noted that the majority of small businesses regarded section 49 as having been of no real assistance to them, noting that those seeking relief from price discrimination were generally seeking relief from predatory pricing by powerful firms.

At the time of publication, a majority of bets were on the Gators as small road dogs.

Unfortunately, a recent study found that a majority of kids wear shoes that are too small, which put them at risk for developing serious foot deformities, such as bunions.

Although the vast majority accepted these changes as the inevitable (and even admirable) progress of technology, a small percentage continued to use cloth diapers.

It's smaller than my other wet bags, but this doesn't bother me as the majority of my diapers are being stored downstairs anyway.

Further, it has been shown that in the majority of cases where a child was apparently suffocated, some abnormal sleeping arrangement was present, such as too many people in too small a bed, parents under the influence of sleep - altering drugs or alcohol, or unsafe sleeping surfaces such as couches or bean bags.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

As has been the case in Graphs 2 and 3, the majority of MPs fall within the 90 - 100 per cent band, making it difficult to single out individual high - spenders (barring a small number of MPs who overspent on their budgets).

«An overwhelming majority of downstaters feel the state is on the right track, as do a small plurality of upstaters.»

«We do not want the responsible, sensible majority of drinkers to pay more or suffer as a result of the excesses of a small minority.»

In 2012, Obama won 26 states, and as such, would have been the winner, albeit by a much smaller majority in the Electoral College.

As a result of his party's victory Theresa May has an even smaller majority in the Commons to navigate the path towards Brexit.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

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