Sentences with phrase «than a place for»

When Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram first launched, few understood the purpose behind the social sharing sites and hardly anyone believed that they were more than a place for self - expression and narcissism.

He saw his physical environment as something more than a place for hunting and being hunted: it took on a character; it became a cosmos.

But the growing list of complicated plots and shady deals can be boiled down easily: Prosecutors allege that the Dixmoor Park District has served as more of a theme park for public corruption than a place for public recreation over the last five years.

2 If there's more water vapor than places for it to condense, already - formed ice crystals can also serve as seeds.

That was often the case in the emergency room, which was starting to feel more like a frenzied factory than a place for saving lives.

The boarding schools on this list are highly selective schools with many more applicants than places for students.

I see classrooms with an array of animals of all sorts; I even see classrooms that seem more like a small zoo than a place for kids.

When the first social media websites first launched they were little more than a place for teenagers to share music files and chat about homeroom gossip.

Not exact matches

Notifying the public with newspaper ads in New York for six weeks, as required by state law, can cost over $ 1,000 in more expensive counties, according to Horwitz, or more than five times the cost to file the LLC in the first place.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

-- Roman Giverts, CEO of VuMedi, a video medical education network, used by more than 250,000 doctors and hospitals, for learning and evaluating treatment options in one place

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

That meant developing more mobile technology for ultrasounds, for example, that could be in places other than the traditional hospital.

Stocks remain the best place to invest in 2017 and beyond, as compelling valuations show the market has further room to run, according to Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management's Andy Chase, who oversees more than $ 20 billion in assets for investors.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

But what I found is that FB was a much better place for people to be able to respond to my posts, ask questions, and add input, and it started driving more engagement than even Twitter.

The data give a range of deaths for each type of power, but the ranking consistently places hydroelectric power as more deadly than nuclear energy and natural gas:

With more than 11 million job openings, LinkedIn has always been a great place to hunt for jobs.

Yet that is exactly what has taken place in the B.C. Interior this decade, driven by Chief Louie, the vanguard of a new generation of aboriginal leaders far more interested in creating jobs for their members than in endless litigation or lobbying.

After Amazon debuted in 1995, ecommerce changed the role of the Internet, and websites became revenue drivers rather than just a place for branding.

But at more than half the properties I visit, I find myself on my hands and knees hunting for places to plug in, or relegating my phone to the bathroom overnight.

There has been a great deal of emphasis placed on China's poor trade figures, forgetting that it no longer is 2000 and that China has more going for it than exports.

Whatever your view on that score, support for smoke free places is higher now than it was when the law first came in.

With these benefits in place, among others — including surprise Apple Watches for employees and quarterly bonuses based on profits — Squaremouth has maintained a high level of customer service and has grown to more than $ 17 million in annual sales in 2016.

Sutterfield boasts that she hectored Safeway store managers for more than a year before they placed their first $ 50,000 SoapWorks order, in April.

It is designed to be carried in your front pocket, which is a much safer place for it than the traditional back pocket.

For a time Forest City, whose population hovers near 4,000, claimed more millionaires per capita than any other place in the U.S.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Doing far more than acting as a data guru, the chief marketing technologist must also define strategies and set priorities for leveraging opportunities within the digital economy, as well as survey, assess and put in place emerging technologies crucial for growth.

All of that will have to take place under a different matrix than the norm for the profession as the investing world itself faces new challenges.

Because, in many ways, you are in a much a better place than someone who works for a large company.

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It'll take more than sunny days and low taxes to make a place an ideal haven for your golden years.

Recruits, hires, trains, places, and manages substitute teachers and school support staff for more than 250 client schools.

«I'm going to be looking for places to trim, to raise cash, because I want to come into earnings season lighter than I am, so to speak.

I understand the place, and I've been there enough that it's — a second home sounds kind of corny — but more than that, it's a great place for commerce.

NBC has been in fourth place for more than a decade, and even CEO Jeff Zucker once said the network no longer believed it could ever be No. 1 again.

For all of that, however, judging TARP is easier said than done — for the simple reason that no one really knows where the U.S. economy would be today if the program wasn't put in plaFor all of that, however, judging TARP is easier said than done — for the simple reason that no one really knows where the U.S. economy would be today if the program wasn't put in plafor the simple reason that no one really knows where the U.S. economy would be today if the program wasn't put in place.

Look, there's no better place for solar than the Mexico border — the southern border.»

At these travel hubs, in addition to laptop computers, all electronics larger than a cell phone — including e-readers and tablets — will be placed in a separate bin for additional screening.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

«We sell tons of headphones in Houston,» said Brinker, «And for some reason we sell more pink headphones in Texas than in any other place in the country.»

There isn't much about the new text that's radically different than the initial proposal the FCC released in late April — it still aims to reverse the Title II classification that gives the agency broad authority over internet service providers, and still questions whether rules that ban those ISPs from slowing down or speeding up certain sites for payment are even necessary in the first place.

We have to fund innovations, we have to seed new ways of doing things and we have to get them in place so we can get the money out of the system that is being spent unnecessarily today without getting good results for patients and is causing more complexity than necessary.»

For those who love pulp fiction or the crime blotters in their town weeklies, however, there is no better place to look than in the small print of the Wall Street Journal's B section.

Your in - house team can help, but, as often as not, the thing that's busted is something they've built in the first place and have been bandaging rather than rebuilding for years -(See Build a Bridge Over Your Old Code, Not a Band - Aid).

Rather than ban certain sources of distraction outright, measures should be put in place to ensure they don't generate into tools for mishap.

If you can build a relationship that involves more than just sending follow - up emails or asking for signatures on a contract, then you'll probably be in a better place to get responses on those emails when you really need them.

The Trump administration's main justification for weakening fuel standards — less - than - expected consumer interest in efficiency due to lower gas prices — is actually the reason why the nation needs more stringent standards in the first place, The Conversation argues.

While there are no current estimates for market capitalization overall, Uber, the company that specializes in ride - sharing, recently was valued at more than $ 18 billion, and various reports place Airbnb's value at $ 10 billion.