Sentences with phrase «activity of a handful»

The switch works by regulating the activity of a handful of sleep - promoting nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain.

Not exact matches

There aren't enough hours in the day to attend every club meeting and bonding event, so pick a handful of culture - focused social activities that you will personally enjoy.

In our work across dozens of industries, we've found that companies gain the most momentum by focusing their digital activity along a handful of pathways.

Just a handful of stores across the country have seen some activity and have been impacted,» Brian Cornell told Fortune.

I'm here all week for work - related activities, and I'm squeezing in some QT with my dad, little brother, and a handful of my favorite LA residents, which is always a treat.

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

To make you'll need a handful of LEGO bricks, a plastic container with a self - closing lid, and several DIY activity cards.

2013 has been a whirlwind of activity for youth sports concussion laws as a handful of remaining states passed legislation, or currently have legislation pending, leading nearly every state in America to have its own laws to educate coaches and parents about concussion prevention and recognition in youth sports.

The pressure to participate in a handful of activities all the time and to «keep up» can be physically and emotionally exhausting for parents and kids alike.

I personally had a mental breakdown last week just trying to figure out how I'm going to get my kids to and from two different schools, schedule and drive to a handful of extracurricular activities, and make dinner each night, all while managing my own work schedule.

They can head outside and gather a handful of their favorite colored leaves to use in many fall activities for kids, or shape leaves out of clay and fabric.

It should be noted that if you include deaths from sweatshops, activities outlined in «confessions of an economic hitman», and a handful of wars... capitalism likely has quite the death toll behind it as well, but where do you draw the line between imperial ambitions and capitalism... and if we're willing to draw that line for capitalism, where does that line lay for the communists death toll?

Gillibrand, who is holding a fundraising event today for Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, has been a fundraising juggernaut, even if her campaign activity over the summer amounted to a handful of emails asking for donations.

«For the handful of members in the chambers, I'd like to encourage them to vote, and for the number of members who are not in the chambers, I'd really like to encourage them to come to the chambers so we can move this morning's activities along,» Morelle said.

Testing only a handful of cyclic peptides with the synthetic amino acid, Heinis» team was able to identify several peptides that showed enhanced activities.

But it could pay for a handful of researchers to examine California's unique data set on statewide gun transfers and other firearm - related activities, he says.

Beckmann has turned a modest amount of state economic - development funding — the institute has received about $ 1.6 million a year in state support since its inception in 2007 — into a handful of achievements, including $ 26 million in additional funding with affiliated researchers at Oregon universities and companies and a laboratory capable of screening more than 10,000 chemicals a day for druglike activity.

A state of suppressed physiological activity is known as torpor, and a handful of mice, bats, and birds employ it on a daily basis.

In May, he said the climate is always changing, suggesting that scientists are using a «handful of decades of research» to serve as evidence of a longer - term trend that is directly attributable to human activity.

More to the point, few of these studies have yet to be replicated, and most of them rely on a handful of unrepresentative people (US undergrads) who are asked to undertake the kind of lab - controlled tasks that usually share a questionable (at best) relationship with real world activities.

I can't promise you that you will like this activity the first or second time but you do need to give it your best effort and try it a handful of times before you can fully decide.

There is no one magic activity that you need to take on, but trying a handful of the following will help.

I say approximately because it depends on a handful of factors including sex, age, activity levels.

Black, purple, and red rice and their pigment compounds have been found in a variety of antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-heart disease, anti-diabetes, and anti-allergy activities, but these are all studies done in a lab; we don't yet have clinical studies, but they have everything that brown rice has, plus five times more antioxidants and all these extra goodies; so, that's why I cook red, black, or purple, or rather my rice cooker does, always with a handful of lentils or split peas thrown in for good measure.

So today I thought I'd bring a little... or a lot of those fresh spring vibes into your lives and fill your eyes with some of the gorgeous blooms that are popping up everywhere in our neighborhood and get a head start on offering some outfit inspiration for your Easter activities next week, or any of the other handful of spiffed - up spring events that pop up everywhere this time of year like baby showers, bridal showers, birthday parties and so many other fun things!

Weber's Cider Mill Farm (about 1.25 hrs from the city)-- This would be a GREAT place to take your kids as they have a handful of «barnyard fun activities» like a giant hill - slide, mini tracker ride, mazes, hayrides, duck races, the list goes on... They also have their own bakery and the sell turkeys!

Instead, it tasks you with completing handfuls of side activities for its condemned supporting characters, and triggers cutscenes once you've finished a certain number of them.

As a result, the film is chock full of prolonged sequences in which these people engage in aristocratic activities that aren't compelling in the least (ie a hunt in which the filmmakers appear to have actually killed a handful of animals).

The movie's problems are exacerbated by a sporadic emphasis on elements that couldn't possibly be less interesting (ie Uncle Andy's less - than - savory extracurricular activities), and although the narrative has been peppered with a handful of undeniably poignant moments (ie Arnold finally breaks down over his unwitting role in his brother's death), The Stone Boy's inability to hold the viewer's interest on a consistent basis ultimately negates its positive attributes.

A handful of deaths pepper the picture, but the first one is the most startling, and it leads to a deepening of the plot as Dorie's tutor (Jeffrey Hunter) and her sister (Virginia Leith) also become involved in Bud's sinister activities.

Over the years, teachers have pulled from their «bags of tricks» a handful of activities employing the common paper bag!

Following are a handful of activities and a swarm of Internet connections that you might use to motivate and challenge your students to learn more about what's bugging them.

Education World takes you on a tour of a handful of great sites that provide simple forms for creating Web - based classroom pages, activities, quizzes, and much more.

Extension Activity If students are comfortable with the role - play debate format, you might present a handful of questions for debate.

This activity includes a handful of online games that you can use to give students a variety of fun ways to reinforce their state - naming skills.

Westwood teachers have consented to share a handful of their activity ideas so that teachers in other schools might use or adapt them — or use them to spark new ideas — for their own Literature Days / Literacy Nights.

For teachers who are looking for new activities to get students more involved in reading and writing at home, here are a handful of suggestions.

The complete teachers resource area includes classroom handouts and fact sheets; twenty - four learning modules that include lesson plans, fact checks and activities; more than forty resource guides that can be browsed by period or by topic and include readings, primary sources, teaching resources, and audio - visual resources; and a handful of lesson plans for secondary students.

Follow up eLearning activities with a handful of targeted questions, or ask them how they can use the information in new and creative ways.

During National Schools Snowsport week, there will be various different activities on offer at all of the participating schools, with schools able to send whole classes, whole year groups, or even just a handful of students.

Even if just a handful of students utilized the vouchers, a district such as Hot Springs County — which covers a wide geographic area with one school in each grade span — would face difficult decisions such as reducing classes and course offerings, cutting activities, or reducing student supports to compensate for the reduced funding when students leave.

Decisions are made by the small handful of officers and shop stewards who participate in union activities.

As you've probably heard me say a hundred times, there are only a handful of activities (like writing, research, book design and building an audience) that truly matter for selling books.

Despite that huge range of tactics, there are a handful of specific marketing activities that we hear authors and publishers buzzing about most.

Same story as with FPA and Aston: in response to increasingly irrational activity in small cap investing (e.g., the numbers of firms being acquired at record high earnings levels), Intrepid is concentrated in a handful of undervalued sectors and cash.

ASHGI has a handful of regular volunteers (see text box) who see to the organization's ongoing activities and are vital to ASHGI's accomplishments.

To try a variation on this activity, scatter a couple handfuls of kibble around your yard so your dog can search for the pieces in the grass.

A handful of volunteers handle intake and fostering activities, as well as adoptions, home visits, website updates, voicemail and email checking, public outreach, fundraising, events and other critical administrative tasks.

That only leaves a handful of hours to get the activity they need to stay at an ideal body condition.

Just a handful of us run the organization, with an extended network of volunteers who help us with trapping and other activities.