In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
