Sentences with phrase «few dozen members»

In theory, July 9 was International Save the Vaquita Day, conceived to press Mexico to do more to protect the last few dozen members of a tiny and profoundly endangered porpoise species confined to overfished waters at the north end of the Gulf of California.

Last summer on a warm Paris morning, a few dozen members of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature gathered at the National Museum of Natural History.

Long, an attorney who lost to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012, told a few dozen members of the NRA affiliate she would protect the Second Amendment.

Not exact matches

A few dozen companies around the country have ended or scaled back promotions for members of the NRA after the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

The prospects for the gospel might be better if the average town had only a few dozen Christians in place of the few thousand church members now listed.

By the time a few dozen lawmakers had assembled in Albany the week before Christmas for an economic development meeting, negotiations were moving so rapidly that the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, instructed his members not to leave the capital until they had called his office — just in case a gun control deal was ready.

New Queens Democrats, which in several months has modestly grown to nearly two dozen members, is now focused on supporting other progressives who want to run for county committee, a massive body of representatives from each election district that meets biennially, but has few concrete powers aside from helping to select candidates for special elections and nominating judicial candidates.

Assembly members often take dozens of votes in one day, particularly late in session when bills are finalized and passed — so a member might only miss a few days but be absent for many votes.

About a dozen staff members were milling about, but there were a smattering of seats available, including several at the main table, where lawmakers shared space with a few members of the Capitol's press corps.

A member of the theropod group, [1] they weighed a few dozen kilos and could measure up to two meters in length.

The group is small, with fewer than a half - dozen full - time staff members, but its mailing list includes more than 1 million people.

Depending upon how they are organized, graduate training programs may present students with anything from a dozen to a few hundred faculty members who are approved to be thesis mentors.

The good news is that none of the institute's 200 staff members were hurt as the storm made landfall just a few dozen kilometers to the east of the coastal station, which focuses on conducting ecological, fisheries, and biogeochemistry research.

After identifying that short strand of DNA, the team members inserted it into yeast DNA and were able to grow copies of the few dozen genes it contained.

The three members of this group vary in size; the smallest (a translucent white being with few discernible features) is a fraction of Mei's size, the middle one is about as tall as the girl, while the largest is big enough to support Mei on his rounded stomach (which he does, in their memorable first encounter) as well as a dozen other children her size.

The first time he screened the film for an audience, Coogler said, was for a group including a few dozen family members, Ava DuVernay, Kendrick Lamar (who produced the soundtrack), Issa Rae and George Lucas.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

One of the few books written jointly by an academic librarian and a classroom faculty member, Implementing the Information Literacy Framework packs dozens of how - to ideas and strategies into ten chapters specifically intended for librarians and classroom instructors.»

Bushwick Daily photographer Erik DuRon and I were lucky enough to be included on an exclusive «Beat Nite Party Bus» which took a few dozen reporters (including Hrag Vartanian, Mostafa Heddaya, and Jillian Steinhauer of hyperallergic, and members of the New Criterion), the event's curator James Panero, and several other friends of Norte Maar Gallery, who organized the event, on a joyride tour of all the galleries.

I agree it would be quicker to simply note the qualified skeptics on the list (there are probably a few dozen), but, from a rhetorical point of view, I think pointing out these immensely unqualified members of the list is more effective.

MAKING UNEXPECTED INROADS IN WASHINGTON DC: A few months ago, when a bit more of a nonpartisan spirit prevailed, Felix Kramer joined a delegation of several members of Environmental Entrepreneurs from around the country with teams that visited dozens of Senators, Representatives and key agency officials and their staffs, making the case that investing and spending on efficiency, renewable energy and a low - carbon economy can generate jobs, save money, and improve economic and strategic security.

But Avila — who directs the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University — contends the need for the law is demonstrated by studies such as one that depicts dozens of school districts in California with a majority of Hispanic students but few, if any, Hispanic school board members.

The room was filled with a few dozen people: dedicated members of our local CBA BC Branch, a handful of casual members, representatives of the national office (including CBA's CEO John Hoyles), and facilitators for whom BC is just one whistle stop out of five in cities across Canada.