Sentences with phrase «advocate of a handful»

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Use the suggestions above to start engaging customers, scaling your engagements, expanding your efforts beyond your handful of «go - to» advocates and measuring your campaign's success.

An even bigger loss, Jill and I have found, comes from the potential of customer advocates who aren't uncovered and nurtured because you're constantly relying on the same handful of people.

So far there are a handful of Texas bills which advocates consider anti-LGBTQ that have been filed amid the usual slew of pro-gun, pro-God, anti-undocumented immigrant, anti-abortion and anti-federal government proposals up for discussion when the legislative session starts in January.

While Taylor Swift has likewise advocated for this approach, the reality is that shutting off streaming may be feasible only for a tiny handful of mega-mega-stars like Swift and Adele.

Although we only advocate playing our Best Bets and a handful of our most profitable bet signals, some customers will actually take every system that is triggered.

Sen. Roy McDonald is one of a handful of GOP lawmakers under intense pressure from opponents and advocates of same - sex marriage — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who is one of a handful of Democrats gearing up for a 2013 mayoral run, has hired a veteran D.C. operative to serve as his new communications director.

The WFP played a key role in helping the Democrats take the state Senate majority in 2008 and reached its apex in 2009 when it helped elect a handful of so - called «progressive» City Council members and its first citywide official, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

The Green Party is fielding candidates in a handful of other City Council races, as well as a full slate in the three citywide races for Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate.

And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.

Now, I'm not advocating you grab a handful of gummy bears or a giant frosted and rainbow - sprinkled donut.

He explicitly advocates that it's fine to consume a small handful of nuts (about 2 oz according to him) per day, which equates to 362 Cal, yet for some reason it's absolutely forbidden to consume the phytic acid equivalent of 228 Cal of brown rice, which would be a generous, slightly greater than one cup serving.

«The idea was to begin with handful of advocates, who will serve as good ambassadors when talking about higher education.

Union advocates are frustrated that they don't get credit for such developments, while critics say, «Sure, a handful of districts are inching forward, but those are outliers.»

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

In a handful of states, school choice advocates have successfully challenged the prohibitions, arguing that once money is in the hands of families, how they spend it is a private matter.

But the question of whether a handful of children get a wink and a nod pales in comparison to the larger number of students who are effectively excluded from attending, public education advocates say — the children who arguably most need help.

We know, as an organization that started with a handful of teachers and has become into a national movement, that a relatively small group of people advocating for change can grow to a critical mass.

They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave without ever collecting a pension.

«Handfuls» of blue dogs — all strays — are appearing on the streets of Mumbai, local animal advocates report.

But in climate science, as in all professions, there are a few good individuals, a lot of mediocre ones and a handful of bad ones (either simply incompetent or driven by some other agenda as advocates for a cause).

Finally, the evidence has mounted up that, with a handful of exceptions, «sceptics» are not, as they claim, fearless seekers after scientific truth, but ideological partisans and paid advocates, presenting dishonest arguments for a predetermined party - line conclusion.

But while a growing number of Democrats have come to see the importance of fair and equal treatment of clean energy sources to solve climate change, a handful of elected officials remain ideologically opposed to nuclear power — even as they advocate subsidies for wind and solar.

weADAPT began as an idea among a handful of UK - based climate adaptation researchers, grew to incorporate a few articles on a wiki site, and then went on to become a full - fledged global platform (linking to other platforms, such as the University of Cape Town Climate Information Portal) connecting a global community of researchers, practitioners, advocates and policy - makers.

«There are a handful of people and organizations who have tried to cloud the debate... they have engaged in this 11th - hour smear campaign, where they have stolen personal emails from scientists, mined them for single words or phrases that can be taken out of context to twist their words, and I think this is rather telling... Those advocating inaction don't have the science on their side, so they turn to this last minute smear campaign.»

While the bill has wide political support and a handful of celebrity endorsements, many sex workers and actual advocates for trafficking victims have spoken out against it, arguing that it will make vulnerable populations less safe.

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