Sentences with phrase «small time country»

Im a small time country girl.

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The survey, released Tuesday, polled 500 small business owners from around the country and found that half of them are in favor of a policy that would allow employees to use earned sick time when they or an immediate family member falls ill or needs preventative medical care.

Several weeks ago — with an extensive press rollout, a full - page New York Times ad, and a $ 300,000 one - minute commercial during Game 7 of the World Series — he announced «Create Jobs for USA,» a grass - roots private fund that will make loans to small businesses in underserved markets across the country.

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

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.

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.

In the midst of possibly the worst economic downturn of our time, it's safe to say that small business owners across the country are looking for answers on how tough times are affecting the value of their businesses.

World War Z. For such a small country, Malta's film credits sure are prodigious, which explains why the London Times once dubbed it, «the Mediterranean's mini-Hollywood.»

«High - tech, high - growth innovative start - ups create value fast, efficiently and effectively, and can be a strategic asset for a country like Greece at this time,» says Glezos, whose company has joined the small but growing ranks of promising Greek start - ups such as Gipht.me and Metavallon.

In April, The New York Times» Amy Chozick, in an article titled «Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers,» reported that the billionaire industrialists» expressed interest in the Tribune Co. papers was part of a «three - pronged, 10 - year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes» — with the third prong being controlling media through media investments.

Announcements by Wal - Mart and GM come as both companies are cutting jobs in the country, and their hiring, which was planned for some time, represent a small increase in their total U.S. workforce.

I use inflation for the advanced countries because global inflation data are always affected by a small number of countries that from time to time have very high inflation or hyperinflation.

For the first time in history a normal person in a relatively poor country could hold their wealth no matter how small in top - tier investment grade audited and insured Swiss bullion vaults!

It may be in visiting forest or seacoast in periodic retreat, either alone or in small groups with time for solitude; it may be by seeking out the edges of wild country in park or garden in the quiet corners of the day; or for those unable to travel first - hand, it may be by preserving such spiritual topography for future generations.

You can still catch it at Christmas in a village church when a small child with a strong country accent grapples for the first time with the nativity story in the King James Bible, and the music of the eternal flows into the silent building through his hesitating tongue.

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!

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.

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

A very small amount of water can keep someone clean, and in a lot of those 3rd world countries people are actually VERY clean and spend a lot of time cleaning themselves, their clothes and their homes.

Catholic sustaining - time program «Insight,» for example, has a smaller syndication than the larger programs: 59 stations for 51 percent coverage of the country.

Most of the freer Asian countries at one time or another adopted policies penalizing large families or offering incentives to small families, whether through the tax code or through benefits like preferential housing and jobs.

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

Living in the midst of cattle country (ranchers, feedlots, and packing plants) and in a small town (population 900) has made my choice challenging at times, but I have a clear conscience and a healthy body because of that decision.

During the same time frame, the median size of these breweries grew by 679 barrels, suggesting that these breweries are some of the smallest in the country — about 5.5 percent of the overall craft barrelage in 2017.

Plus, being able to headline a much smaller show that largely occurs at the same venue every time isn't even remotely as difficult as headlining in huge arenas around the country / world.

Very true, and i admit to having seen him play for his country more so than club, and even that was small number of time as hes not even a starter.

As for English representation in the Champions League, maybe it's time for qualifying clubs to adopt a different approach; drop the obvious arrogance possessed by this country's elite when playing supposedly «smaller» teams and get back to basics.

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I would like to note though that the big advantage of home birth in the Netherlands (which is also why I can't think that those fatality rates are due to home birth) is that our country is very small and most of the time the hospital is a five minute car / ambulance / cab drive away.

A very small part of the country's territory, East Thrace, is in Europe and it's application may seem unlikely to be denied on geographic grounds, like Morocco's was, but still the question of whether Turkey should be considered a European country or not has been raised multiple times.

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.

Second, by reducing distribution costs the web is creating opportunities for many news organisations from small and medium sized countries such as the UK to have truly global distribution for the first time, with up to two thirds of those figures for web traffic coming from outside their home country.

But Price's most naïve contention of all is that small, export - driven countries fare no worse than larger countries in hard times.

This ongoing rebellion is another consequence of the failed peace process in Congo, which reduced the RCD (at the time occupying a third of the country) to a small network within the apparatus of state and military that felt threatened from many sides.

2) IS may only have ~ 30k fighters, but, to quote the NY Times article referenced below, «though ISIS has grown to be the most powerful militant group in Iraq, its foothold in the country relies on negotiating a shifting tangle of smaller groups and alliances.»

New York's governor said in Puerto Rico's time of need, our country could have done so much more for the small island in preparation for Maria.

«Now to allow them to continue their failed policies of increased taxing, greater regulation and more government control at a time we need small businesses and the private sector to start hiring would be just a terrible thing for the country and the wrong thing to do, both from a policy standpoint and politically.»

Liberal Democrat Bob Russell, who tabled the question, said: «While I have no time for the welfare cheats, to try and blame this country's financial ills on that small category of the population I think is unethical.»

By the time Buhari was overthrown on August 27, 1985 he had become very politically isolated - alone with a small, inner core; the country was economically hobbled and the elite and even general populace stifled.

post 23: i wonder if the recent spate of attacks upon squats across the Country, and other alternative groups, most times - as like in Bristol - employing massively and unnecessarily heavy tactics by parts of the Police, could not incite a strong back - lash tomorrow by some small groups.

The technique was previously used to distinguish the wood of closely related species, or populations of the same species from different countries, but this is the first time that DART - TOFMS has been used to identify the source of samples over such small distances (less than 100 km).

The ideal, says Arshad Mansoor of the Electric Power Research Institute in Washington DC, is to centrally control small reductions in load across the board — turning down the air conditioning across the country for example, or dimming public lighting by a small amount for a short period of time.

North Korean officials have said the rocket was carrying a small weather - and Earth - monitoring satellite called Kwangmyongsong - 3, and that the launch was timed to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung.

And it wasn't an ordinary mission; in the article the reporter who interviewed Ed Carlson (yes, he has a name) spoke about Ed's single - minded pursuit of spreading love and peace throughout the country, one small town at a time.

And the number of good proposals to the total number of proposals is more or less the same everywhere and therefore in the end it does happen that larger countries do get more time than smaller countries.

According to Ruuskanen, there is one way to prove whether daylight saving time truly contributes to strokes: «If we, in our country, abandoned daylight saving time and, in a follow - up of several years, saw that the small increase in stroke incidence disappears, it would make a strong argument that it actually is the clock change that raises stroke risk,» he said.

Having said that, it must be noted that the commercial milk products in our supermarkets, whether they are full - fat & organic or not, are already highly pasteurised, homogenised and processed in order to meet legal requirements for sale (these laws do vary in different countries and states) which is why we only consume small amounts and often have periods of time without any.

I am a small town country girl down to earth love the outdoors lived in Florida for 32 yrs came back to Indiana for family I have no baggage no drama just wanting that cowboy to spend time with who knows maybe lead to a lifetime

My grandmother had a small farm she grew just about every thing and she caned just about every thing and pickled some things and the cooking for breakfast was down right home cooking not the way it is today i am a city gal i have been wanting to luve in the country for aome time now i am average...

This year, he set up a small shop and cafe in kathmandu, nepal, a country that he has visited several times.