Sentences with phrase «attended by few people»

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

Not exact matches

Follow - up questions about what people meant by «attending church» revealed that a few were counting things other than attending worship — such as going to weddings, funerals, committee meetings, Sunday school and choir practice.

While the annual Marijuana Marches in Santiago or Buenos Aires are attended by over hundred thousand people, Berlin's Hanfparade has attracted fewer than 10 000 protesters.

She arranged a public meeting to discuss options for a memorial, attended by around 800 people, and settled on the idea of a statue as an appropriate memorial, pointing out that there were very few statues of female politicians and activists in Parliament.

And the only people they are harming are themselves, by not attending lectures and not getting the education they are paying for... oh and a few motorists who will be caught in the traffic chaos around the march.

In Westminster, a much - publicised BNP demonstration was attended by just 150 people — far fewer than those who attended a nearby demonstration to protect badgers.

The first is that at a party conference attended by political curiosities — those few people in Britain driven by definite political beliefs — Cameron will face complaints that he is not being forceful enough.

The opposition culminated in mid-February at a commission meeting attended by a crowd of roughly 300 people, in a county with fewer than 5000 residents.

Toronto is one of the few «destination» festivals - an event attended by people from out of town.

I thought, «This is terrible that this great man, one of Africa's greatest leaders, would have a funeral attended by so few people.»

Now's the time to read a few books by the writing «gurus» (here's an excellent list), and some of the great craft - of - writing posts by The Kill Zone's contributors in the TKZ Library (in the sidebar on the right), and maybe join a critique group (in - person or online) and / or attend some writing workshops.

The conference cost $ 199 and was attended by, I'm told, a few hundred people.

A few hours before I left New Orleans I attended a performance by the rapper Beans at the Tremé Market Branch, a crumbling former bank building where the artist Gary Simmons had installed a soundsystem and invited people to perform.

The other such party had happened Thursday at Soho House, with Russell Simmons hosting and Miguel singing, and had been attended by like a thousand fewer people than had lined up to see Miley Cyrus, accompanied by a six - foot - tall topless black woman, open Wednesday's Jeffrey Deitch party with a cover of «Super Freak.»

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

Since few people are aware of these differences, executing an instrument under seal is a practice which is attended by some danger.