Sentences with phrase «from about a dozen of»

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When Hootsuite started, with just a few dozen employees, we were honestly worried about being swamped with calls from our millions of users.

The team assembled in December consisted of about a dozen top managers - including executives from finance, legal and human resources - and aides to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of sanctions on Rusal.

In reality, the harassment may be dozens of emotionally manipulative text messages, threatening visits to the office parking lot, traumatizing flashbacks from the night before, or anxiety about «revenge porn» circulating to colleagues.

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

From the dozens of feral cats that are «employed» by Disney as pest control to the secret train car that's dedicated to Walt Disney's wife Lillian, we've rounded up 22 of the most fascinating secrets about Disneyland that will make you feel like an expert.

Using tips from Di Vincenzo, along with time - tested advice from sources like DealNews and Mint, we've complied dozens of examples of the best times to buy just about everything.

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Buyers began closing on about half of the project's 27 units soon after in 2017, and in July the developers landed a $ 53.2 million condo inventory loan from First Republic Bank covering a dozen remaining condos.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

The Cambridge Analytica office was in the posh Mayfair neighborhood of London, and the dozens of young workers — many of them contractors, a number of whom were from Eastern Europe — buzzed about with Apple laptops.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

Last year, the event brought together thousands of activists to listen to dozens of Republican leaders speak about everything from economics and foreign policy to social issues.

Regardless of points of view, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is already «pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone...»

On a blustery Wednesday evening in central London, about a dozen people from different parts of the city made their way to St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.

Over the course of the next three weeks, I will be running the responses I received from about a dozen men and women from all over the country and from a tapestry of ethnic backgrounds.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

@ Chad, although I suppose Israel forcing the US into dozens of wars will turn US attention away from the genocide of the Palestinioans and the Jewish Americans who brag about their two houses in the US and their house in Palestine that they only ahd to kill a few people for,... Badda bam badda bing.

We have a minister (servant), a youth pastor (shepherd), and an assistant pastor (that's me — I particularly like the «assistant» bit — I'm there to assist everyone, not just the minister) and a team of about a dozen elders (most of whom are far from elderly) who are responsible for different aspects of the life of the church and meet monthly.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Whenever someone publicizes their personal opinion about the hot - button issues of our day, it's instantly met by a dozen rebuttals or counterarguments from people on the opposite side of the issue.

A few weeks earlier, a speech by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, a Catholic, attracted opposition from dozens of campus progressives, who said his proposed federal budget violates Catholic teachings about helping the poor.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

Oh, by the way, scientists don't expect ME to pay money in their honor every week so some guy in a staged ceremony can read from a 2,000 year old book, translated dozens of different ways, written by a bunch of folks whom we know virtually nothing about, where the facts and moral lessons are both flawed and contradictory.

Of about 90 Southern Baptist churches in Puerto Rico, so far the North American Mission Board (NAMB) has heard from a dozen, all of which suffered limited damage, Baptist Press reporteOf about 90 Southern Baptist churches in Puerto Rico, so far the North American Mission Board (NAMB) has heard from a dozen, all of which suffered limited damage, Baptist Press reporteof which suffered limited damage, Baptist Press reported.

Now, I'm a Christian, who loves Jesus and who hopes to honor God with my life, but frankly, after hearing about 100 «God bless Americas» shouted between the two conventions, and dozens of biblical references dropped by both parties, I was just fine with seeing God's name removed from yet another piece of political propaganda.

Let us suppose, what is in fact quite unlikely, that Harvard University would decide that it should address the problems of the world Let us suppose that it brought together its leading scholars from a dozen departments to think together about what changes should be made in the current world order.

About two dozen parishioners and former clergy gathered in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, protesting last month's controversial report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

Here's what I changed: I used a 15 - oz can of pumpkin (not pie filling — just pumpkin puree) in place of the bananas; I swapped out the spices for about 1 tsp each of cinnamon and ginger, and mixed those in with the pumpkin first; I opted for the larger volume of maple syrup from the original recipe, as the pumpkin wouldn't contribute sweetness the way the bananas do; I baked the batter as a dozen standard muffins, which took about 20 minutes at 350.

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

Chimichurri is the sauce most commonly served with beef straight from the parrilla, and there are dozens — if not hundreds — of variations of it, and a debate about whether it should contain chiles.

While there are about a dozen recipes we want to make immediately, from a Shepard's Pie Poutine, Falafel Waffle (yep a falafel that is a waffle), Thai Chicken and Dumplings and a Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Dutch Baby; we opted to share this tasty bowl of Cauliflower Clam Chowder with Crispy Bacon with you.

After reading and trying dozens of «sour» bread recipes from a multitude of cookbooks, I've used this method on my own (I derived it from bits and pieces from the aforementioned library of cookbooks... minus the Vitamin C) for about a year now.

If you're not sure about the safety / quality of your food, check the Dirty Dozen / Clean 15 List for produce and the Rate your Plate section from the Environmental Working Group (EWG.org).

There are only about 250 beds in about two dozen hotels and guesthouses, and most of the tourists fly into the small airport from San José.

♦ One 5 / 9 - bushel box of vegetables (containing 7 - 10 items) and / or one dozen free - range eggs weekly or every other week throughout the growing season ♦ A weekly newsletter including pictures, stories and news from the field, recipes, and cooking and preservation tips (here are a few sample newsletters: June, July, August, September, October) ♦ Invitations to on - farm events and news about the local food community ♦ The opportunity to purchase other items, like storage and canning vegetables, for delivery with your weekly box ♦ New this year: A free gift for folks who purchase $ 300 or more!

The dubious advisers included Luigi DiFonzo — a former felon who claimed he was anItalian count and defrauded players such as Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson before committing suicide in August 2000 — and disgraced agent William (Tank) Black, who built a pyramid scheme that took a total of about $ 15 million from at least a dozen players, including Patriots running backFred Taylor.

Byrd manages and promotes events from basketball games to rock concerts, serves as agent to a half - dozen players, consults with companies like Spalding and Converse about opportunities in Great Britain, runs several summer camps and handles the accounts of all the companies that do promotional tie - ins with the Kingston club.

Every year, Bill Belichick makes the NFL world's head spin with little tidbits from «Patriots sources» about their interest in so - and - so, how they are going to trade all of their picks for Blue Chip Player X — and then he sits back, watches with satisfaction while everyone panics, and then drafts who falls to him in the first, moves up half a dozen spots if the MLB / DT of the future is dropping, or trades down.

«Dark places, depression, anxiety, addictions, poor choices, poor decisions, brought about by dozens of concussions and thousands of sub-concussive injuries from playing this sport.»

In case you don't know about Coach Tony, he is what I would call a «guy's guy»: a tough - talking «shock jock» - type of radio host who tends to shoot from the hip, and with a reputation for disdaining political correctness and for using outdated terms for people he doesn't like (I cringed while listening to an earlier show when he used the word «retarded» and «retard» more than a dozen times to describe a person he did not care for).

From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]

Splash Station's season was cut from a planned 81 days to about a dozen full days, causing a loss of $ 270,000.

Our science kits - I majored in physics in university, and the Walter Kraul science kits that we carry from Germany are absolutely inspirational; they are about a hundred times better than any of the «Follow Step 1 -2-3» and discard a hunk - of - junk in - a-flashy-box science kits you'll find out there, as they offer dozens of different ways to explore and think about what you've built or what you're observing, with excellent booklets with probing questions, offering different levels of explanation or exploration, depending on the child.

There are dozens of parenting sleep books about kids and sleep problems, from Dr. Ferber's «Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems» book to Elizabeth Pantley's «No - Cry Sleep Solution».

Lake in the Hills — Armed with brochures from about a dozen suburban park districts, west side resident Jeannine Smith took her case for the formation of a new Lake in the Hills park district to the people Wednesday night during a special meeting in Village Hall.

When I was about 15 years old, my mom took my entire collection of Enrique CDs (which was at least a dozen cds) away from me for a week as a punishment!

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

Mothers and babysitters on Tuesday were pulling their curious youngsters away from a spot near the shore of the lake where about a dozen of the dead silver herring were lying.