Sentences with phrase «about the dozens of people»

People like you care more about 4 people dying in Benghazi than you do about the dozens of people killed by gun violence in the US.

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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.

On this day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.

I won't write this morning about the terror attack in New York City yesterday that took the lives of eight people and injured a dozen more.

Merely rambling about your company isn't going to make you memorable to people who hear dozens of pitches a day.

His solution: he assembled a working team of about a dozen people — including industry sources and accountants — who created a comprehensive business plan and an attention - grabbing video that focused on the company and its industry's growth potential.

I regularly communicate with a half - dozen people about aspects of our business, whether it's staffing or financials or product or factories.

Most don't make a scene over it; they just make a note of it and take their business elsewhere, while telling a dozen other people about being treated poorly.

There were fewer than a dozen trains coming and going each day about this time, and fewer than one thousand people working in the depot, running the northern division of the Penn Central railroad.

In fact, they estimate they meet in person only about a half - dozen times a year, and most of those encounters come on the golf course.

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.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a Parkland high school that killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, pressure mounted for Congress to actually do something on guns — and Trump seemed enthusiastic about the idea.

We know a thousand items about the day or yesterday, we learn the events and troubles and heartbreaks of a hundred peoples, the policies and pretensions of a dozen capitals, the victories and defeats of causes, armies, athletic teams.

Articles like this are a dime a dozen with the same tired excuses for why people want church to be about them instead of about God and Jesus and God's Word.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

On a blustery Wednesday evening in central London, about a dozen people from different parts of the city made their way to St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.

@ Chad, although I suppose Israel forcing the US into dozens of wars will turn US attention away from the genocide of the Palestinioans and the Jewish Americans who brag about their two houses in the US and their house in Palestine that they only ahd to kill a few people for,... Badda bam badda bing.

Sara and I laughed and shook our heads in awe as we heard that story while meeting with about two dozen or more of these people.

We just hear more about it — and since some loonies — on the RELIGIOUS RIGHT — decided that it's OK for people to have access to weapons that can kill a few dozen people in seconds, those occasional crazies do a lot of damage.

Whenever someone publicizes their personal opinion about the hot - button issues of our day, it's instantly met by a dozen rebuttals or counterarguments from people on the opposite side of the issue.

A man who was born just a few years after Christ died therefore holds no credibility in mentioning him; not to mention the dozens of people who wrote about him just decades after?

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.

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.

They teach diverse beliefs about the nature of Jesus, God, the second coming, Heaven, Hell, the rapture, criteria for salvation, speaking in tongues, the atonement, what happens to persons after death, and dozens of other topics.

Each park boasts several «lands,» scores of attractions, dozens of food facilities and more than fifty shops, employs three to seven thousand people depending on the season, and entertains about 10,000 people on an average day.

About a dozen Christian clergy and other people of conscience were arrested as they did a sit - in (or a «pray - in»).

The first installment was posted yesterday and the comments contain dozens of responses of people thinking seriously about missiology.

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).

All I read, with the exception of a couple out of dozens, was comments about people WANTING to make it... I need to know what people who ACTUALLY MADE IT think...

I have so much constant guilt about the dozens and dozens and dozens of people I owe emails to, but at a certain point living life has to take precedence, particular as my blog is not my job (oh how I wish)

On a recent visit to a local market in London, Ontario, a city of about 350,000 people, Mike Kerslake found only a few kinds of fresh chile peppers but more than a dozen varieties of dried peppers.

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.

In case you don't know about Coach Tony, he is what I would call a «guy's guy»: a tough - talking «shock jock» - type of radio host who tends to shoot from the hip, and with a reputation for disdaining political correctness and for using outdated terms for people he doesn't like (I cringed while listening to an earlier show when he used the word «retarded» and «retard» more than a dozen times to describe a person he did not care for).

When she gets even more free time she bakes, climbs rocks, daydreams about homesteading, takes dozens of pictures of whatever strikes her fancy, blogs at Embrita Blogging, researches homeschooling, photography, and mindful living, and writes about offing (made - up) people.

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Lake in the Hills — Armed with brochures from about a dozen suburban park districts, west side resident Jeannine Smith took her case for the formation of a new Lake in the Hills park district to the people Wednesday night during a special meeting in Village Hall.

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.

I wear a charm bracelet nearly every day now — I have dozens — and people still stop me on the street to chat about whichever one I'm wearing or share tales of bracelets they have known, loved, or lost.

Currently, dozens of people collect, analyse and clean such data about the business sector, but it's possible this job could be done automatically using tax data.

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

Heating systems failed in dozens of buildings operated by NYCHA in the wake of the recent snowstorm, and repair crews were scrambling as 15,000 people, about 1 of every 11 living in agency buildings, did not have heat at some point during the storm.

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Olivia Santoro, with the Long Island Progressive Coalition, joined about a dozen people outside of Senator Flanagan's office in Smithtown today.

She told commissioners that she and the other candidates were chosen late last year during a meeting of about a half dozen people on the state party executive committee.

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

About a dozen people were circled around them watching with expressions of horror as blood spurted from multiple stab wounds, including her head and face.

He holed up inside the club with dozens of people effectively held hostage until about 5 a.m., when a police SWAT team raided the building and killed him.