"My strategy from day one was 'We're going to look bigger than we are, '" says Braasch.
This gave us a footprint far bigger than we could ever have hoped to achieve on our own.
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Scotland's Ryder Cup in 2014 is now likely to be even bigger than we have anticipated up to now.
But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
Yet in all likelihood the number of people moving where taxes are a factor (and probably an important one at that) may be bigger than we realize.
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"DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are (from) an old, a bygone era, where characters were bigger than we were, " he said.
And the impact is often much bigger than we realize.
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For the Nutch project we needed distributed computing technology, we needed to store datasets that were much bigger than we could store on one computer, and we needed to have processes that would run and be coordinated across multiple computers.
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If the diagram above does not materialize in another 20 years, we are in much bigger trouble than we think.
"In terms of dollars, we think this could be bigger than anything we have ever seen before, " says Stephen Vickers, Asia chief for Kroll Associates, which helped investigate the wealth of the Philippines' former President Ferdinand Marcos.
"This is bigger than everything we have ever imagined before, " he said, according to the BBC.
Because the innovations around people connecting to things, or P2M, could be bigger than anything we have ever seen.
The impact is often much bigger than even we realize.
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The amount of leverage throughout the economy has magnified the loss of wealth on balances sheets, making this event far bigger than anything we have experienced in the past.
We always figured that LCDs and plasmas used less power than CRTs, but apparently digital HDTVs actually suck up more power than analog TVs (see the chart below), and to make matters worse, we're buying bigger and bigger television sets than we used to.
"We're going to try to build something a little bit bigger than hopefully what we can sustain on our own, " said Lora Lefebvre, associate vice chancellor for health affairs at SUNY.
We are tougher than the times we live in, and we are bigger than our politics have been.
The happiness paradox states that the more we strive to attain happiness, the less happy we become, and the more we focus on something bigger than ourselves, the happier we get.
Labour leader of the council, Julie Dore, said the result was "bigger and better than we imagined".
And there's a Pew poll out today showing a bigger generation gap than we've seen in decades and young people really disagreeing with Republicans on all kinds of cultural issues.
But everyone was running and we all felt like we were part of something bigger than us, and of course we were.
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However, it seems past time that we acknowledge that they play a bigger role in our global economy than we think.
According to our latest projections, China's economy will have become bigger than America's: we think it might happen by 2027.
We have a much bigger country than do the Europeans and Japanese, who tax gasoline far more heavily than we do.
We will move forward together, or not at all, for the challenges we face are bigger than party and bigger than politics.
"We think we can be bigger than Disney in China, " he clarifies.
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Do we really want to live in fear of one another, praying our gun is bigger than the next person's, or that we are quick enough to shoot first?
The promise that our children will dream bigger, hope deeper, climb higher than we could ever imagine.
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