Sentences with phrase «efforts of a handful»

Thanks to the efforts of a handful of dedicated local farmers, organic vegetables are readily available.

Local democracy relies on the voluntary efforts of a handful of individuals, even in relatively affluent areas.

«Meridian World School exists because of the efforts of a handful of families that ignited a grassroots parent group looking for a deeper, more authentic kind of public school education that the IB programs can provide,» said Karalei Nunn, Meridian's founder and COO.

The Virginia Jack Russell Terrier Club (VJRTC) was founded in 2004, from the efforts of a handful of Jack Russell Terrier enthusiasts across the State of Virginia, and serves as an affiliate of the Jack Russell Terrier Club of America.

A special project aims to shed light on not only the plight of this species, but the amazing story about how it has made a recovery thanks to the hope - beyond - hope efforts of a handful of people.

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Assuming you've decided to follow through with your rebranding efforts, here are a handful of next steps for you to follow:

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Amplifying these tactics without a handful of effective tools will require more effort than the rewards are worth.

If you choose to pursue something that requires effort, you also, incidentally, choose failing more than a handful of times.

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.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

After I reject a handful of suggested alternatives, he says he will make one final effort to track it down, at the Metro store close to my house.

With these new platforms comes a handful of new tools to help social media marketers engage with audiences in creative ways, and to keep track of their efforts.

CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

In our effort to curate a singular church experience for such a broad and multi-channel audience, we do run into a handful of obstacles.

Save for a handful of admirable holdouts, we have practically given up the fruitful enterprise of a millennium: the believing mind's effort to understand the Christian mysteries.

And since I never want to take the time and effort to make pancakes with more than a handful of ingredients, I found a way to get my fix with only two.

Many coaches jumping from a Group of Five job to a Power 5 job leave their old program as quickly as possible after they're hired in an effort to try and cobble together a recruiting class and new coaching staff in the mere handful of weeks until National Signing Day.

Since then, fans have taken up a handful of grassroots efforts to keep college football games going, including crowdfunding ventures and modding NCAA into eternity.

There's also a handful of outfield players who went in goal as an emergency measure including Dani Alves» late effort for PSG and Jackie Blanchflower's FA Cup final heroics against Aston Villa back in 1957.

And their method of giving hasn't changed much during that time — while Neighborhood Preservation gave $ 32,00 to REBNY's independent expenditure efforts, they're among a small handful of donors on this list who didn't primarily spend through super PACs.

De Blasio was also heckled by a handful of horse - carriage drivers who oppose his effort to ban the industry.

A new limit on the amount of opiates a physician can prescribe at once is among a handful of changes lawmakers plan to make in an effort to combat the state's ongoing heroin and opioid addiction crisis.

(Like a handful of his fellow Democratic Senate candidates, Wagner's effort to petition his way onto the governor's Women's Equality Party line failed).

He was one of a handful of Republicans who broke ranks with his caucus rather than risk a government shutdown in a failed effort to defund Obamacare.

The lack of support among a handful of Senate Democratic incumbents is a major blow to the effort to change the upper chamber's rules.

In urging the Federal Government to desist from taking the loan of $ 2 billion from China or any other country we are compelled to advise the Federal Government to intensify efforts to recover the nation's wealth which has been criminally diverted by a handful of local and foreign looters.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an ABNY address, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

The congressman, who is among a handful of GOP members Cuomo has pledged to target in the 2018 midterms as part of the national Democratic effort to flip the House, said he would «absolutely» take the governor's call — if and when it comes.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an address to the Association for a Better New York on Thursday, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing, and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

Sugarman's referral documents extensive efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's election campaign to route large contributions through Democratic Party County Committees to Democrats running for the state senate in a handful of contested seats upstate.

They've brought a handful of voters to the witness stand this week in an effort to prove those votes were wrongfully excluded from the total.

Despite ongoing efforts by U.V.A. and a handful of other U.S. hospitals to identify and isolate colonized patients, MRSA raced through the health care system virtually unchecked because most facilities lacked effective infection - control programs.

The zone — one of two in Bangladesh, which are modeled on a handful of similar zones elsewhere in South Asia — is just one part of a multifaceted effort to pull the three vulture species back from the brink of extinction.

In an effort to prop up the scheme, a handful of European countries have already pledged at least $ 135 million to pay above - market rates to projects in the world's poorest nations while offering technical support to help emerging economies such as Brazil and China cut their emissions.

A handful of large - scale coordinated efforts are underway to characterize the soil microbiome, including the Earth Microbiome Project, TerraGenome, the Brazilian Microbiome Project, the China Soil Microbiome Initiative, EcoFINDERS and MicroBlitz.

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.

Since the first edition of the book The Strongest Shall Survive in 1976, Bill Starr's «big three» — back squat, bench press and power clean — have often been revisited in the effort to identify a handful of strength training exercises that can significantly improve performance in sport.

Only a handful of teachers I had would e we wear heels all day every day and I totally appreciated them more for doing it and putting in that extra effort for doing that!

After seeing a handful of earrings that I liked, I decided to make an effort to start wearing them again.

In February, I'd like to make more of an effort to put most of my money toward fewer items that I'll cherish, instead of a handful of cheaper things.

well, i can't really take the credit for it... it's actually a collaborative effort between a handful of my favorite vintage blogging pals including rebecca, emily and ashley (who created this lovely flyer).

Beyond these federal efforts, a handful of states have also attempted to clamp down on fraud in internet dating: new york has passed a consumer protection statute to regulate internet dating sites.

Hudd devoted a great deal of effort to bringing theatrical entertainment to the factory workers and more remote villages of England during World War II, though he still managed to play roles in Major Barbara and I Know Where I'm Going, among a handful of major movies.

10 Items or Less is a likeable film with a handful of delightful moments, but at the same time, why does it waste so much time, ours and theirs, in an effort that has no theme, plot or purpose?

And while there are admittedly a handful of eerie interludes sprinkled throughout - ie the fate of John Leguizamo's character - The Happening remains a misguided effort that bears few similarities to such prior Shyamalan successes as Signs and The Village.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Cartel Land risks trivializing the Autodefensas» genuine (if sometimes misguided and brutal) effort to take back Michoacán by juxtaposing them with a handful of American racists who've declared themselves the country's last line of defense.

But mostly my head has remained a jumble of criss - crossed movie thoughts, so in the effort to get unstuck, I'm just blurting out a handful of random ones, a couple of which might feel familiar if you follow me on twitter.

True or not, one resents the effort not made to dramatise these truths, rather than simply throwing them at us as we're leaving, like a handful of fortune cookies.