Sentences with phrase «efforts of a handful of people»

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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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).»

It was only through the efforts of a dedicated handful of people that the breed survived.

Nevertheless, the handful of individuals at the top of the tree are there to preserve a creative vision, and steer the efforts of hundreds of talented people towards a common goal.

Other than a handful of people who appreciated my efforts, I think all my time was spent in vain as 90 % of the people there held a level of dogmatic certitude that was unassailable by logic.

The first meeting in San Francisco, from that, an effort called the Never Again Tech Pledge was created, and so it was spearheaded by a handful of people starting off at that first meeting, and what that was about was resisting, or applying pressure from the bottom of these tech companies, so employees telling their management and telling the public that they would not work on a Muslim registry, or any kind of registry that was based on race, religion, national origin.

Furthermore, after boiling down who you are to a handful of pages, the person making an organization's initial hiring decisions will spend, on average, 15 seconds perusing your effort before placing you in the «yes», «maybe», or «no» pile.