Sentences with phrase «few faces of people»

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While the speaker drones on you can silently brainstorm things you're grateful for, or alternately make a mental list of a few specific people who you'd like to send a thank you note or even thank face - to - face after you escape your torturous meeting.

Few people know much about Facebook outside of its consumer - facing social networking site, Facebook.com.

«The idea of having too few great people is the single greatest risk that we face,» Norgard says.

If you aren't wowing people within the first few seconds of meeting, you'll face an uphill battle when it comes to shifting their opinions.

«For example, when faced with the daunting prospect of expending all that effort to recoup a $ 35 fee or even a $ 100 overcharge, it is no surprise that few people bother to try.»

Specifically, with respect to racial equity — which is what Encompass focuses on — it's important for organizations to recognize that advocates of color face unique pressures in our movement in part because there are so few of us and because the people we work with often don't understand the nuances of the challenges we face.

I think one reason fewer black people join the LDS church is because they see a lot of white faces and assume (prejudice?

A few people back in the 1890's or something made some dubious statements about race that frequently get thrown in our faces, and it is very hurtful to us because they are not representative of what nearly all Mormons believe — or teach in church.

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

Bishop Martyn told Premier, while it's not surprising people assumed it was a terror attack because of what the UK has faced in the past few years, people should avoid jumping to conclusions.

He will help them to get well if he can, and he thinks that on their part they should try: «Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable malignant disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen the ravages of the disease or cure it.

A few people pushed back on me last week for thinking that the Doctor pushed Half - Face Man out of that freaky skin balloon thing — after all, isn't he non-violent?

«Few people opening their door to two grave - faced detectives with a request that they should accompany them to the police station,» she remarked, «would do so without a qualm of unease, however certain they may be of their complete innocence.»

Once a few people get hold of it, it spreads like wildfire, changing the face of the world and becoming the most important movement in the history of humankind.

That these guys maim innocent kids and rip people's faces off with piano wire and fly planes into buildings... well... we can't deprive them of a few zzzzzzzzzzz's to see where the bombs are hidden, now can we?

You can imagine the shock on the faces of simple faithful people trying to follow age old rules pertaining to what you do when you go to the one temple allowed in ancient Israel in those few centuries before Hadrien destroyed ancient Israel.

But I'm not here to gloat, promise; I, too, was bone - chilled, quietly resentful of people anywhere that their face didn't freeze within half a block of their apartment and questioning all of the life choices that had led me to take up residence in such a place just a few days ago.

Every generation of workers faces unique challenges, so although the more senior mentors can offer a wealth of advice, it can sometimes be more relevant to hear from people only a few steps ahead of you.

People make mistakes and nearly 90 % of the league smokes weed according to some players... but very few are facing 11 years in prison.

Harris is facing a number of challenges, including what he described as, «People wanting more services while paying fewer taxes.»

He has faced criticism over his Europe policy over the past few months, namely because of the decision to pull the Tories out of the centre - right coalition in the European parliament, the European People's Party (EPP), and form a new grouping.

These hardship faced by many ordinary people isn't something that can be solved with a few minor tweaks, it's an intrinsic aspect of the economic approach people like Martin and Parris advocate.

Those are just a few of the problems people in our community are facing when they are addicted to drugs and need treatment.

Even as it was unfolding, the Twitter angle was being downgraded in the face of evidence that the Moldvovan protesters seemed to be using just about EVERY online tool available — from Facebook to text messages to blogs and email newsletters — to organize and spread the word (of course, it didn't help when it turned out that very few people in Moldova are even ON Twitter).

Surely few can be harder than that faced by the tens of thousands of older people who must «heat or eat» each winter, harder than those faced by families whose wages have stayed flat while food prices have gone up 30 % in just five years.»

On the face of it, fewer people seems like good news for the environment.

It has certainly changed the face of my career and provided me with an experience that very few people will ever have.

About 15 % of the world's land areas — and more than half of the world's cities with at least 3 million people — face what Shedlock calls «high to very high risk» of severe shaking in the next few decades.

Those patients often face the stark choice of either paying out of pocket for an expensive in - person consultation or waiting for months to be seen by the few specialists working at public hospitals, which receive government funding to help pay for patient care, Komarneni says.

«How you deliver genomic medicine to real people is going to be a problem we're facing in the next few decades,» says Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

After a few weeks on the drugs, some people start to get strange tics and spasms of their face muscles.

Their new web app allows people to upload a single colour image and receive, in a few seconds, a 3D model showing the shape of their face.

Poking your boss in the face is something few people would dream of doing, but today researcher Shuichi Nishio puts aside his inhibitions.

At a cost of a few hundred dollars a year per person for drug and monitoring, PrEP would add to the enormous economic burden that the country already faces in trying to treat all infected people, Bekker acknowledges.

In the past week, country after country has admitted that millions of birds and a few people have succumbed to bird flu, and it has become clear that we are facing the worst ever outbreak of the disease.

Typically developing children begin to focus on human faces within the first few hours of life, and they learn to pick up social cues by paying special attention to other people's eyes.

When I first started writing about autism, I thought that I had to describe myself in terms of function, because I had to acknowledge that I faced fewer challenges than people with more severe issues.

Here are a few tips and tricks that I use in my clinical practice to help people in the face of stress eating:

Here are a few common fears / ambitions I or people in my life have faced and the tricks we used to ease ourselves out of our comfort zones and finally go for the gold.

However, it's also the most dangerous exercise in the gym and hundreds of people get seriously hurt every year by bench pressing with improper form, while a few dozen get killed by dropping the bar on their face, throat or chest.

I have to confess Joe, when I read stick and carrot, I automatically visualized the faces of a few people into whose mouths I would love to stick a carrot!

A study published in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain found when people who suffered from chronic migraines participated in exercise involving indoor cycling, they experienced fewer migraines.

And one final thing it all depends on the type of person you are, some can go straight to longer duration fasts and others need to work into it, such as starting with 10 hrs, then 12 hrs, then 14 hrs, etc... For me I went straight to 16 hrs, and it was tough but doable (mostly facing my hunger pangs), and after a few days it started to become normal routine and hunger pangs went away for a majority of the fast.

As she worked on a few campaigns and greeted folks door to door, she was fascinated by the faces of all the people she met.

It's no surprise that people gravitate to this product — with just a few drops of product on two cotton rounds and you can cleanse your entire face and remove all traces of makeup.

While we have the privilege of celebrating diversity on the fashion runway, let us not forget the people who are facing extreme brutality today in Russia, where LGBT teens have been ambushed by vigilante mobs and humiliated; Uganda, which has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the whole of Africa; and Nigeria, the most homophobic place on earth, according to the Pew Research Center, where gay people are stoned to death; as well as countries like Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran, to name a few.

If you are facing difficulties in being accepted as a couple and feel uncomfortable with your partner as people challenge you over something ridiculous as the color of your partner's skin, you should follow few things that help you in maintaining relationships.

In my experience those interactions are much more superficial and shallow, simply because you have only a few minutes together and because you're face - to - face physical attraction becomes even more of an anchor, That causes a lot of false positives (easily rationalized away until the third of fourth date when you realize that you can't actually tolerate the person).

That's all well and good, but does slightly fly in the face of the site's main advantage over Tinder and its ilk — that there's space for more than a tweet's worth of information on the profiles.Still, the full profiles and questions are available, and it's free - to - use (with a few irritating ads), making it a worthwhile option for anyone hoping to know a bit more about their dates before meeting up for the first time.Just like online dating before it, dating apps started out as a bit of a dirty secret — how many Tinder profiles joke that they'll want to lie about how you met?But time and ubiquity have meant that apps like Tinder and Grindr are no longer seen as a source of shame, and they're just another of the many ways people can try and meet each other in the modern digital age.It limits you to 12 or so potential matches per day (the exact amount depends on how many Facebook friends you have), giving it a bit more focus than the sprawl of Tinder or Happn.They also just introduced timed matches which give you 24 hours to send the first message otherwise it expires, encouraging users to make matches more quickly.

Without ever meeting the person face to face or at least having a few conversations with them, you have no idea who is on the other end of the computer at the keyboard.