Sentences with phrase «handful of celebrity»

«Celebrity» is a category that features a small handful of celebrity voices as an alarm sound.

While the bill has wide political support and a handful of celebrity endorsements, many sex workers and actual advocates for trafficking victims have spoken out against it, arguing that it will make vulnerable populations less safe.

«Publisher profits are holding up and, broadly, so are total book sales if you include ebooks but authors are receiving less per book and less overall due mainly to the fact that they are only paid a small percentage of publishers» net receipts on ebooks and because large advances have gone except for a handful of celebrity authors.»

This coffee table book, whose sale proceeds will go towards Every Mother Counts, is filled with highly stylized photographs of painted pregnant bellies, including a handful of celebrity bellies.

On Tuesday 5/3, New England Patriot Patrick Chung and Chef Ming Tsai teamed up with a handful of celebrity chefs for Cooking Live, a fundraiser by Family Reach Foundation to benefit families struggling financially in the face of a cancer diagnosis.

That leaves the individual entries for a dozen or so poor unfortunates to reject or pass on to the handful of celebrity chef judges who decide the winner.

A handful of celebrity business owners had choice words for the other candidates as well.

... I think it's a really smart idea,» said Terrence J. from BET's show «106 and Park,» one of a handful of celebrities who joined the mayor and Schools Chancellor Cathie Black at East Harlem's Isaac Newton Middle School.

These days, though, they've become big business, and a handful of celebrities are touting their weight - loss benefits on social media.

Although Reiki has been around for almost a century, we've only recently seen this modality of alternative medicine garner mainstream attention thanks to a handful of celebrities and key influencers touting its benefits.

Yes, there are always a handful of celebrities who come out in a little dress or high heels or a full - on limelight look, but for the most part, the pieces are simple, easy.

A handful of celebrities such as Demi Lovato, Kelly Osbourne, Moby, and John Mayer have all been seen using this application at least once.

Members of the community teed off over funding cuts to the Washington County JROTC program last year — and a second charity golf tournament scheduled next week will include appearances by a handful of celebrities to help youths enrolled in the local leadership courses.

In addition to a handful of celebrities who lent their voices to Abe's journey, Oddworld Inhabitants also enlisted the talents of their community of die - hard fans to voice some of the inhabitants of Oddworld that Abe will have to rescue.

Mudokons now have a much greater scope in terms of ambient conversation and replies, and also feature the amazing talents of our community fans - and a handful of celebrities!

While we often hear about skiers being seriously injured, and many people can name a handful of celebrities who have been killed in skiing accidents, the fact is that a relatively small number of skiers are seriously hurt or killed each year relative to the number of people who ski.

A handful of celebrities and politicians that championed the company have also been caught up in its wreckage, as has the Department of Energy, which ended up loaning the company close to $ 200 million.

Not exact matches

Mayweather is among a handful of prominent celebrities and social media personalities who have promoted Initial Coin Offerings, a practice that seems primarily aimed at buyers with little substantive understanding of cryptocurrency or blockchain technology.

The chain's airport location is part of its brick - and - mortar expansion outside the U.S., taking the brand beyond the handful of locations it has in cities including New York, Los Angeles and Miami, which turned celebrities Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, David Beckham and Steven Spielberg into fans.

From the handful of occasions on which I interacted with Wiesel, I recall the eagerness and warmth with which he endeavored to put the company at ease, as if he were a celebrity forever loyal to the precocious, shy small town boy he once was.

(Sandberg, of course, is a billionaire tech celebrity; still relatively early in her career, Weissman - Unni has a handful of publications in some of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, including Nature and PLOS ONE.)

Some decried the lack of scientists of color or female scientists on our list — just four women made the top 50, for example — and noted that our search strategy, which started with a handful of Twitter celebrity scientists and looked at who they followed, likely biased our discoveries toward white males.

The result is that the same handful of contrarian names get constantly recycled to the point where they have long reached virtual celebrity status.

The truth is anybody can reach out to a manufacturer, throw together a «proprietary blend» of useless ingredients, slap a fancy label on a bottle, recruit a handful of steroid - fueled Instagram celebrities, and move a lot of product.

A handful of fashion - forward celebrities have donned their versions of the sweet, feminine coat with promising results, but cape coats haven't been able to make a strong transition to mainstream retail, mostly because they're so different from the traditional winter jacket.

This is when Leo invites a handful of movie stars and celebrities and several handfuls of models to mingle with European billionaires to raise money for environmental causes.

That continues here; there are a handful of scenes that go too long, and at least one significant «intervention» sequence involving a number of celebrity cameos that falls flat.

3) In both this post and the one dating from March 2014, M. Kozlowski states that only a handful of self - published writers actually become celebrities and make a fortune with their craft.

Some of the eggs at the hunt had a ticket in them to win a prize and although our dogs did not get a basket of goodies they got a personal performance from a local celebrity, a handful of treats, the chance to bark at a man in a bunny suit and the priceless chance to pee in a new place so all in all, everyone's a winner at the Myriad Gardens Doggy Easter Egg Hunt.

No, not the kind who imagine the art world as a handful of dealers, critics, collectors, and celebrity artists out to screw serious painters like them.

When it recycles the same half dozen Hollywood personalities and tries to market news about a handful of art dealers and collectors as fresh stuff, the art world is advertising the fact that it contains a couple of thousand not very interesting people who are awfully satisfied with themselves long after their celebrity shelf date has expired.

The result is that the same handful of contrarian names get constantly recycled to the point where they have long reached virtual celebrity status.

In this guide, we'll take a peek at some of the good green efforts put forth by a handful of the planet's most committed celebrities.

While this type of distribution is typical for industries like professional sports or celebrity entertainment, Henderson says that he's never seen this type of distribution for «a normal labor market involving tens of thousands of people and not just a handful of superstars.»

Not only does she do mom duties like no other but she has catapulted to celebrity chef status with a handful of top notch cooking shows (Nigella Bites, Forever Summer and Nigella Feasts, to name a few).