Sentences with phrase «do about a dozen»

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.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

We did this about a dozen times, if you are unsure, this is a cheap method to check.

Indie authors will take a closer look at podcasting to reach new readers - My limited experience of doing about a dozen episodes of the Smart Author podcast has opened my eyes to the power of this medium.

I've done about a dozen projects in the last 15 years ($ 5k — $ 600k) or so and know that it isn't a passive business but does take skill and work to make a profit.

After graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law this past summer, I wrote two sets of bar exams — Ontario and New York — as did about a dozen other Canadian JD graduates.

Last year she did about a dozen transactions for a volume of $ 60 million.

Since then I have done about a dozen!

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

He's active on Twitter and Facebook, but what about doing something with the dozens of dog - lover blogs, websites, and newsletters?

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

Dozens of readers told me they felt the list revealed a lot about their own situation working for a boss who didn't quite understand their motivations or skills.

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.

Catch an episode of «Mad Men,» the award - winning cable drama about a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the 1960s, and you'll see dozens of lessons about what not to do in business today.

The same was said about diamonds and mattresses, but Blue Nile and Casper have proved otherwise, and in recent years, half a dozen upstarts have emerged to do likewise with bras, a $ 13 billion industry long dominated by Victoria's Secret.

Jennifer and Andy Taylor did it, along with about two dozen friends, family members and volunteers.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

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.

A note about researching / archiving: This is something I've done for half a dozen case studies or websites on abuse situations.

I didn't really think too much about the details of the ceremony, because to be honest, I had seen more than a dozen weddings in the past few years and pretty much knew the drill.

Since no one else in the New Testament uses this Greek word for hell to talk about hell, I surveyed a dozen texts that mention two possible outcomes of final judgment, to see what words they do use to discuss the dreadful option.

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.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

After several months of brainstorming, talking with others in the publishing industry, doing hundreds of research on publishing methods, and reading dozens of books about publishing, I ended up with a process for book publishing which accomplished all three of my goals.

Don't rightly care about Russ but I am curious... if a woman takes a blade to her throat or downs a few dozens sleeping pills, is it legal to stop her or try to save her?

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

Along similar lines, physiologists believe that the human eye is capable of distinguishing among more than six million hues, and yet the fact that we typically use only about a dozen words to describe colors suggests that we see them much less richly than we are capable of doing.3

Oh, by the way, scientists don't expect ME to pay money in their honor every week so some guy in a staged ceremony can read from a 2,000 year old book, translated dozens of different ways, written by a bunch of folks whom we know virtually nothing about, where the facts and moral lessons are both flawed and contradictory.

I didn't need them all, and didn't want to throw any out, so ended up donating about a dozen to my -LSB-...]

My father didn't speak much about his youth in Bensonhurst, but what he did say was enough to fill that neighborhood — which we visited every Saturday for dinner at my grandparents» house, with several dozen cousins and hangers - on — with myth.

So, in a volume containing dozens of books, as well as thousands of stories, parables, and countless pieces of wisdom, how does one choose a phrase about snakes as the basis for any «Christian» theology — or, for that matter, any considered spiritual philosophy at all?

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the bible).

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the Bible).

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.

Unfortunately about a dozen or so issued weak statements that, in fact, served to establish a «conscience» loophole that allowed dissenters to claim that couples whose consciences did not consider contraception to be wrong in their case, could use contraception without sin.

Since his election Wednesday, I have heard at least a dozen Jesuits say, «Well, I don't know much about him, but I know he made the Exercises.»

And I don't know how Wendy does, but when I read these children's stories that I've read a dozen times before, I find that even as I'm reading, my mind is off thinking about something else.

AE You can continually quote mine the dozen or so things that Einstein said that sorta, kinda implies that he believed in a kind of higher power, but the vast bulk of his words about religion clearly indicate that he did not believe in a personal God or anything even remotely close to Christian or Jewish theology.

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

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

I did «sample» a few (or about a dozen), so you might plan on having about 4 dozen to give away.

Sometime I will give this a try; the one thing I do love about a good cornbread is how quick it is to whip out half a dozen ingredients and toss it together.

Here's what I changed: I used a 15 - oz can of pumpkin (not pie filling — just pumpkin puree) in place of the bananas; I swapped out the spices for about 1 tsp each of cinnamon and ginger, and mixed those in with the pumpkin first; I opted for the larger volume of maple syrup from the original recipe, as the pumpkin wouldn't contribute sweetness the way the bananas do; I baked the batter as a dozen standard muffins, which took about 20 minutes at 350.

I am up to about a dozen sk recipes now and I can say I have never met a recipe of yours I didn't love.

Avocados are on the clean dozen list, so I don't fret too much about buying organic.

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).

And since my Oma taught me to keep my mouth shut when I've got nothing nice to say (typical old lady advice), I'm going to keep my cynical thoughts to myself and let those of you who do enjoy your boxes of heart shaped chocolates and dozen red roses, enjoy them without some vitriolic, negative Nancy adding her two cents about the greed - driven hijacking of what was once a pretty badass holiday.

After clearing the table, doing some dishes, cramming the leftovers into the fridge (because somehow we always felt the need to cook up eight dozen pierogies, even though we'd usually only eat about three or four), and exchanging some presents, out came the cookie platters.

I got about 3 dozen cookies, I did not grease the cookie sheet and did not have any trouble removing them at all after waiting the recommended two minutes.