Sentences with phrase «handful of people asking»

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Still, she sent the link to a handful of investors Social Capital had worked with, asking them to share it with companies that might be interested in having their businesses evaluated by software rather than people.

Big difference in those viewpoints - especially when you are only asking a small handful of people.

Stupid, stupid people with blind hate towrds a religion are being led by fanaticism, because a HANDFUL of men, thats right a HANDFUL caused the destruction of the Twin Towers.For you people, I ask you to look in the mirror and see how much destruction your Government has done in YOUR name.

You're also going to ask the one friend who you know will show up on time to bring a bag of potato chips and a bag of pretzels to go with the kimchi dip, the one friend who you know is going to show up late and feel guilty about it to bring one of those little cases of clementines, and ask a handful of random, reasonably responsible people to bring bars of chocolate, dealers choice.

This exercise turned out to be hard, with only a handful of people out of hundreds asked filling out all five categories on their own.

Albany County Republican Chairman John A. Graziano said Carey, who made his announcement unaccompanied, is among a handful or so of people who have asked the party for its support.

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.

Other than a handful of currently - active athletes who have come to our facility for training, I can't think of a single person who, when asked what they're goals were, mentioned anything about strength.

We met with a handful of people [for the part] and Daniel was the shining star... He asked if he could do his own stunts — and then we were like, «You're hired.

We asked a small handful of the many people involved with the program to help fill in the answer.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

Coupled with the general air of resentment aimed at remakes of iconic films — looking at you, horrific and unnecessary nightmare of a Dirty Dancing remake — has people asking the question, «Books are published literally every single day... why are only a handful of titles getting the star treatment?»

On a random note, less than a handful of people raised their hands when asked if they knew who Tezuka was.

In my writing groups, people have asked me a handful of times about author groups that they may be a part of for marketing purposes.

He asked the audience to raise their hands if they did not have a blog and he seemed surprised when there were even a small handful of people that still didn't.

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.