Sentences with phrase «few handfuls of people»

I have seen the reaction of the few handfuls of people who have tested Babl so far, and many of them have found it addictive.

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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).»

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.

The Rate Mortgage Rate Lock Decision The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.

Note in OT few people walked with God (Abraham, Moses, Enoch, Noah, the prophets and a handful of others) and the rest had the law on their back.

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

Membership in all but a handful of congregations today is relatively casual, making few demands of persons who indicate interest in a congregation.

I've made this soup a handful of times since last year, for quite a few different people, and it never fails to amaze.

I have found this to be especially crucial when working from home (due to frequent grazing) and now having a mini person, simply because I am not always interested in making myself lunch and would rather eat another few handfuls of trail mix and a piece of toast than make a mess and wash dishes.

It is a wonderfully (if somewhat uncomfortably) intimate thing, to stand a few feet from a handful of people, look them in the eye and tell them a story.

Only a handful famous people bore Fleur as a name like St. Fleur of Beaulieu and Fleur East, to name a few.

The organisation has managed to recruit only a handful of people in the country (fewer than ninety, according to reports).

A few years ago, online activists had only a handful of ways to reach people...

[34] Yates told the Committee, «It is very few, it is a handful» of persons that had been subject to hacking.

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy: «A few people, a handful of activists, have insisted that it isn't enough simply to celebrate the beliefs of minority communities; they want to disown the traditions and heritage of the majority, including the Christian faith and the English language.

Here is a breakdown of how power is concentrated, in just a handful of key bodies and a few dozen people.

After a few minutes, one of the students spotted a handful of people standing along the perimeter of the Capitol grounds and debating whether to get into a waiting taxi.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

More to the point, few of these studies have yet to be replicated, and most of them rely on a handful of unrepresentative people (US undergrads) who are asked to undertake the kind of lab - controlled tasks that usually share a questionable (at best) relationship with real world activities.

As I think I state pretty clearly in the article, omega 6 are healthy in very small doses — nothing like the high amounts people consume in the Standard American Diet or even on a few handfuls of nuts every day.

Too often, however, people think that they can continue to consume the Standard American Diet (high in animal protein and fat, and low in dietary fiber) and somehow avoid all the SAD's harmful consequences by downing a few handfuls of vitamins and supplements now and again.

Its run and own by people that run adult friend finder services, gay personals amongst a few - and they a the cheek to add all these members into their «Christian» member headcoun, in actuality only having a handful of real born again belivers on ther site.

The New York Film Critics are a handful of people who mostly aren't real film critics, except a few names here or there.

How many front list authors go on tour and report back about hosting events where a handful of people showed up and only a few copies of their books were sold?

They involve time to set up, travel time, and the time in the store and can result in only a handful of people showing up and even fewer sales.

Most people are astoundingly good at a few things, fairly average at most things, and not - so - great at a heaping handful of things.

It won't work to build a few profiles, connect with a handful of people, and then sit back and watch.

In the few months I have been operating Superior Mutts Doggie Rescue Inc., I have been approached by a handful of people whose friends or relatives have died and who need to find new homes for their pets.

Final Fantasy VII was well - covered territory by that point, but I realised that while we'd all heard the story of its development, it usually came from the same handful of people — producer Hironobu Sakaguchi, director Yoshinori Kitase and a few others.

Ahmad stresses to me that Sony's relationships with indies «was never just about a handful of visible people — nothing could have happened without an enormous pulling together of the whole company,» but what devs both on - the - record and anecdotally tell me is that it is usually just a few people who ultimately get them through the door.

People — queer and non-queer alike — were furious, due in large part to the ignorance of a few higher - ups at the Smithsonian, a handful of Republican congressman, and a lone, pot - stirring conservative who makes up the entirety of The Catholic League.

These days Mann's once iconic «hockey stick» looks pretty flaccid once you add in tree rings post-1980, and, aside from addle - brained activists like Ed Begley Jr and a handful of sycophantic eco-bloggers, few people wish to be associated with it.

A few powerless critics sounding off on a handful of blogs is radically different from the consensus people in POWER seeking to stamp out all remaining independent thought.

Even though Canada is a bilingual country, few people in this law office are fluent in French and it just so happens that I've recently had a handful of lawyers desperately needing French documents translated.

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.

At the time, however, this feature will only work on Tango - enabled phones — of which there are only a few at the moment — but hopefully we'll start to see more Tango - equipped handsets hitting the scene so this killer technology can actually get used by more than a handful of people.

Although it seems like this list randomly grows and grows (few people regularly «audit» their contacts list), we usually end up contacting the same handful of people over and over again.

Having a generalizable sample is important because answers drawn from only a handful of people might not tell you a lot about the rest of the population, especially if the few people you ask are your own friends.

Face - to - face, traditional therapy is here to stay; however, having an online interface might reach a handful of people that are looking to get in a few tips and tricks from the comfort of their own home.

The Rate Mortgage Rate Lock Decision The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.