Sentences with phrase «few people are speaking»

The issue is an issue that too few people are speaking intelligently about.

I thought about how much Americans value democracy and having their voices heard, yet I was perplexed that so few people were speaking out.

Not exact matches

Few people Adam Goldstein or Steve Huffman spoke with before launch thought there was a problem with how they searched for flights.

Contribute a few comments on this issue during a meeting — you may be surprised at how seriously people take the input of someone who speaks sparingly!

The fear of public speaking is said to plague 75 percent of the population, meaning that people who speak well publicly are few and far between.

Speaking with Bloomberg, Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham said Silicon Valley would be «the first to suffer if it got harder to come to America or if increasing xenophobia made fewer people want to.»

While few people outside Quebec would recognize the soft - spoken octogenarian, in his home province, he's a genuine star.

Q Can you explain why the President, when he spoke — when he answered questions from reporters a few weeks ago about the $ 130,000 payment from Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, why the President was not truthful with the American people and with the people in this room?

«People on TV news shows spoke significantly fewer sentences about Hurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Florida.»

One reason Uber is in talks to raise money again just a few months after a prior round is because of an overwhelming amount of investor interest, said a person with knowledge of the company who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the process is confidential.

Speaking of Evelyn Davis, here's a few more facts: «Until rather recently, people like Johnny Carson, 96 Dr. Spock, 97 and others of their ilk were nominated from the floor of the annual meeting by the Evelyn Davises of the world.»

I've been friends with the people at the Foundation for Economic Education since I first discovered them in college and over the past few years have spoken at a number of their summer seminars, helped them improve some of their marketing, and did some photography for them one summer.

Jesus left us relatively few words — a person could memorize them all — and he spoke with such economy and precision that each can be seen as a goad and a nail.

Many had said that communism lacked popular support; few realized what pent - up resentment would boil forth once people were free to speak about the tyranny of the past half - century and more.

But as the spirit continued to work behind the scenes (she's a sneaky little sucker) and within a few years, both brands seemed to have lost their original luster and spaces began to emerge where more people began speaking out — e.g., see the fury over Driscoll's Real Marriage (2012) and Phyllis Tickle's Great Emergence Memphis speech [birthed @emergentdudebro meme](2013).

I just can't imagine that an elaborate «cover - up» was necessary or worth the energy to save book deals, speaking gigs that only a few hundred people would read or attend.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

The wedding celebration sounds like it might have hit a snag when Timberlake's longtime buddy, L.A. real estate agent Justin Huchel, played an eight - and - a-half minute video he'd shot of a group of homeless people — some of whom had clear mental issues and one of whom was incapable of speaking — offering a few words to the multimillionaire couple.

It is the life in which one learns to speak the truth «no matter whether a whole people is listening, or only a few individuals,» and learns to speak it quietly and clearly through having been in hell and having returned to the light of day again.

The few who speak out are ignored, or people do not know what to do with the words they hear.

These are the voices of dreams, claiming to speak the will of God but not holding the dreams up to the light of the promise; few people ask if the dreams speak to love of neighbor.

And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment in the community and it's important for those invested in the community to speak up when its leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm not sure I can do that anymore.

I guess that is why there are very few people I deal with on a regular basis with the kind of beliefs Nye is speaking against.

There are few things that annoy me as much as people who get up to speak when they have given little or no thought to how those hearing their words might be in a completely different life - stage and circumstance to them.

To confront evil, to speak out for my sisters that are silenced, to work and rabble - rouse, to piss a few people off and sing freedom to the rest, to give from everything that I have.

The «gift of celibacy» is not the desire or capacity to be celibate — humanly speaking, few single people can do this; Christianly speaking, anyone with the Spirit can.

That is an evil message to send, and the few priests who try to speak up against the severe damage down to people are usually silenced fairly quickly.

It is ironic and telling that within a few days of writing a post about how young people seem to be gravitating toward either neo-Reformed theology or the emerging church, I should come across a piece by Dan Kimball in which he speaks of the emerging / emergent phenomenon in the past tense.

For example, miracles could be given a «scientific» explanation and few people spoke of natural disasters as «the judgement of God».

We've had so many disastrous events over the last few months and we've learnt in our church that we need to be open so that people can come and find space, and they can find God who's speaking to them all the time if they would listen.»

Father Bazi was in Washington to bear witness for his people in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, a few hours after we spoke, voted unanimously to declare that what ISIS is doing to Christians in Iraq is «genocide.»

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

Yes, this messes a bit with our understanding of the inspiration of Scripture, but in the end (at least for me) it amplifies the grace of God for it shows that He was speaking His truth to lots of people at different times, not just to a select few Jews in a few hundred years of human history.

If, like me, you are already part of the speaking circuit, always have a few recommendations in mind to leave with the person who brought you in to speak.

I like this place because: it is multicultural; the music is excellent (they played with the Houston Symphony a few months ago); there is lots of laughter; everyone from every conceivable background is accepted; there is never judgment or shame spoken from the pulpit; the preaching / teaching is generally inspirational with the main theme being the hope of Godâ $ ™ s kingdom breaking through the shit barrier most people know as life.

Traditionally spoken of as the work of David, only a comparatively few Psalms are assigned to him in the editorial headings added by people long after the birth of the songs.

I was finally able to speak to my dad on the telephone after the good people at the Red Cross and neighbors supplied him slippers, a coat and a gift card for a few nights at a local hotel.

She spoke of her part in the origin of a particular brand of ice cream, in her own words: «Someone was having a really good time, and after a few glasses of wine, they poured some cabernet over a bowl of ice cream,» and that person was totally not her.

Seemed capable at the USA camp but he didn't hit any at Donofrio and the few people that I spoke to at Donofrio said he is much more of an inside threat tjan outside..

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

I apologize if i'm speaking for you in the wrong context Jonestown, but I think he was trying to point out that these «squad» players that people seem to want so badly may not be as stoked at the competition within our team as we would be... Sure there's arguments for a quality upgrade with a few players, but a few may have to leave before anyone comes in.

In fact, he's one of the few people willing even to speak with me about their usage.

A few people have spoken very highly of him, which is good.

Looking at his stats and a few clips (I know that's not enough to judge), also having spoken to people who do know what he is about, he seems more than worth the punt.

Culturally speaking, here in the western world we start potty learning very, very, very late (in most cultures around the world even today, pottying happens much earlier simply due to logistics — just consider how few people really have access to disposable diapers or laundry facilities to accomodate cloth diaper washing, so these cultures are simply more aware of and responsive to a baby's innate ability to recognize and signal about their need for elimination, just as a baby is able to signal for hunger).

You might not get any thanks from the angry mob, but you'll have fewer deaths on your conscience than they; and that alone makes me glad people like you who are brave enough to speak out exist.

As you point out, the sugar industry fights very hard to suppress anything negative about sugar, and the few lone voices who speak out about it are often fairly easily discredited as people out on a limb.

One outer London Tory councillor I spoke to said that they were finding very few people with any interest in the race.

The main question is whether the political elite is really willing to embrace change, take a few risks and let the people speak.

They say, he should be the last person to speak for anybody on human rights abuses, having harshly ousted an employee of the NIA, a few days ago, without any just cause.