Sentences with phrase «about a dozen people say»

A well - respected businessman in the city in which we live, upon hearing someone in a group of about a dozen people say something that indicated we are Christians, immediately blurted out «You can't be Christians.

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The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

In a sign that investors are content with passive investing: Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Tuesday laid off roughly five dozen employees, or about 15 percent of his workforce, a person familiar with the moves said on Tuesday, in the wake of poor returns and investor redemptions.

Point number six, of course, is stated in about a dozen different ways, with people arguing over what the actual requirement should be (repent and be baptized, confess your sins, say this prayer, etc, etc), but for the sake of this blog post, I don't really care about that.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

Wenger has said it enough times about how difficult it is to try and bring in half a dozen players at once — surprised people are expecting any sort of quantum shift in policy this year.

Algonquin resident Larry Mountain, one of about a dozen people who attended Wednesday's gathering when the master plan was unveiled, said he thinks Algonquin citizens also might vote down a tax hike for more recreational services no matter who runs them.

He said he doesn't know former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara personally, but he and about a dozen other people involved with the PAC admire his record.

The dozens of people who called with tips about local government wrongdoing will have to take their complaints elsewhere, he said.

The State Police showed up and arrested at leats half a dozen people, according to CapTon's Mike Whittemore, who said about two dozen people were ready to be taken into custody.

Louisiana state officials said about a dozen people were arrested after throwing chunks of concrete at cops.

Mr. Smith, a 56 - year - old Democrat, and Mr. Halloran, a Queens Republican, were among about a half dozen people facing charges in the federal corruption case, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

Later in the afternoon a half a block away, about a dozen people including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan turned out for a «State of Our Community Meeting»... «When I go into our schools, our kids are saying the same things that the adults say.

Israeli officials said Hamas fired eight rockets at Ashkelon on Tuesday, slightly injuring about a dozen people.

«I'm about to have a couple dozen people doing experiments for me,» Dunham says.

About half a dozen people have taken advantage of the rebate, said Chris Burns, BED's director of energy services.

«It's grassy, citrusy and earthy,» Yakobson says to a gathering of two dozen people who have assembled for a seminar about Bretts.

In response to my article in Russian about why Internet dating was no longer a strange way of finding love, I received dozens of stories from people who said they met their partners online.

«We are exposed to dozens of people every day — in the grocery check - out line, during our commute to work or school, or sitting in a restaurant — yet we are very selective about those with whom we empathize,» Gehlbach says.

During the GT project he snuck down there as much as he could; he says people went in and out as needed, but about a dozen full - timers were involved.

«The weekend went quite well, with about 120 people attending and more than a dozen expressing serious interest,» said Johannes Suriadjaja, President Director of Sitiagung Makmur, the property's developer and a subsidiary of Surya Internusa, whose previous hotel projects include Melia Bali Villas and Spa Resort, Gran Melia Jakarta and Melia Purosani Jogjakarta.

It got me thinking about how we — players, critics, journalists — really struggle to appreciate that these games are created not just by the one or two people we see in a dozen pre-release interviews and profiles, but by dozens if not hundreds of people, each with some small say in what the final creative work will look like.

And, in general, Davidoff is spending a ton of money trying to get people like me and The New York Times to write about its arts initiatives, and I guess it's working because here's a story in the Times that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so times.

Sink had about a half dozen of his hard - working staff moving constantly in an effort to meet and greet the hundreds of people who wanted to stop by and say «hello.»

The event drew about a dozen people, she says.