Sentences with phrase «handful of winners»

Amazon has become a zero - sum game where a handful of winners take all.

Thank you to all of our fantastic publishers and supportive communities; you make it incredibly difficult to choose only a handful of winners.

Oscar season is usually an inevitable narrative of a handful of winners that everyone knows will win, but we still have to go through the motions of being surprised by it all.

«The majority of investments in this asset class will go to zero — that's the nature of a high - risk, high - return asset class — and the goal is to build a diversified portfolio where the handful of winners do well enough to provide outstanding returns across the whole portfolio.»

That means the competition to invest in Silicon Valley's small handful of winners is even stiffer.

Not exact matches

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

We don't need to wait until Tuesday night to name a handful of billionaires among the winners in this midterm election.

Yet, while precision, strength and unwavering stamina are vital to athletic careers, what sets the winners apart from the losers comes down to a handful of underlying values — and they go far beyond sporting acumen.

With market breadth drying up and industries such as energy and commodities producing few winners in 2015, pressure has increased on a handful of megacap technology and consumer stocks to shoulder gains.

Back in 1999, Buffett said the reason why he avoided buying red - hot technology stocks was because it is too difficult to identify the handful of long - term winners and buy their stocks at reasonable prices.

It can be frustrating having only a handful of trades per week, especially if they are not all winners.

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.

I had it pared down to a handful, and I was sure that cheesecake would be the winner, but after a week of vacation eating, I thought it would be best to put the cheesecake on the back burner and have something a little more healthy.

Here are a handful of asparagus winners that will teach you how to cook asparagus like a pro!

With only a handful of fixtures left, we currently have a total of 16 league winners, detailed below, with a couple yet to be decided:

Monday's betting slate was quite small across the major U.S. sports, yet sharp bettors were able to get down on a handful of games, including a winner

Razor - thin margins mean more than a handful of House races might not produce a winner today — or this week.

A handful of less narrative - friendly local races were also decided, and those winners, too, will run the city for the next few years.

Some day very soon, scientists and government representatives from the handful of countries that fund the SKA will decide whether the winner is Australia or South Africa.

The reputation of the original not yet sullied, Exorcist II attracted new A-list talent in the form of recent Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher (severe as ever) and Sir Richard Burton (drunk and devouring the scenery), who star alongside Linda Blair and a handful of supporting players from the original.

Gravity has become the early winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of top prizes, including Best Screenplay, Music,...

The most famous adaptation is the 1959 epic that starred Charlton Heston, a film that is deemed a classic, and the winner of handfuls of Oscars.

Just a handful of semi-attached major movie stars — Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, and Robert De Niro, who was saluted by the festival Monday night with a screening of Weinstein Co.'s mainstream Roberto Doran biopic «Hands of Stone,» co-starring Edgar Ramirez — and auteur Martin Scorsese directing a mob hitman script by Oscar - winner Steve Zaillian («Schindler's List»).

A handful of character actors and an Oscar - winner walk into an abandoned factory, decked out in the finest»70s polyester suits and most garish wigs imaginable.

A big three - time winner at the Sundance Film Festival, here is a film with talent, sophistication, humor, and sensitivity rolled into a joyous, grief - cleansing, heart - lifting 90 minutes that earns both good word - of - mouth and positions itself for year - end acclaim on more than a handful of top - ten best lists.

The short scuffle results in a handful of dead warriors on either side (with no clear winner in view) as the naturals head back to the woods and the Englishmen retreat to their forted camp.

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association repeated a handful of previous TV winners as well, resulting in a great night for streaming services.

Pedigree: Curtis is a first - timer, Redmayne is a Tony - winner but a relative unknown in film in spite of a handful of roles, and Branagh is a dark horse, given his past propensity for shameless hamming and the fact that he's done so little acting over the past decade.

Directed by Dayton and Faris who brought «Little Miss Sunshine» to a 2006 Best Picture nomination, and written by Simon Beaufoy (Oscar winner for «Slumdog Millionaire» and nominee for «127 Hours»), «Battle of the Sexes» is one of the best films to screen in Telluride and will very likely be nominated for a handful of Oscars.

However, always willing to share the love, Webber has teamed up with Porsche UK to offer a few joy rides to a handful of competition winners.

Rather than having one single winner in each of a handful of categories, the ongoing process stands to make exponentially more titles available to readers.

Canadian writer Yann Martel hit a home run with Life of Pi, an international bestseller and Man Booker Prize winner — even the film ended up with a handful of Academy Awards.

Today, this multi-national company's home is a sprawling campus in Austin, Texas — an impressive think - tank where academics and a handful of Nobel Prize winners put research findings into practice.

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.

Facebook would have been the easiest place to win since there were only a handful of entries (keep that... [Read more...] about Lounge Pass Winners Announced — Did You Win?

The remainder of the awards were split between a handful of games and you can check out the complete list of winners after the break.

I've used FAA for over a year (my premium membership just expired), Tumblr, Facebook (finally killed my public page because it was useless), Google Plus, Deviantart (even got a couple «Daily Deviations»), Twitter, Zazzle, Printerest, entered and ranked among the winners in 3 juried contests, but haven't made enough in «quick wins» (outside of a handful of small sales to immediate family) to buy a sandwich and coffee.

Cinga Samson's self - portrait, Time has no Eternity, (2017), one of handful of gothic selfies in oil by the 2017 Tollman Award winner from his concise solo exhibition Safari Fantasy at Blank Projects, Cape Town.

A deeper analysis of these apps reveals a handful of clear winners that stand out in terms of monetization.

So instead of picking one winner, we've broken down our picks into a handful of categories to better suit your needs.

Last week, Sony announced that as part of the PlayStation Plus subscription service, PS4 users would be getting opportunities to vote on a handful of games, with the winner being included in the next month's free game lineup.

Dahl went so far as to predict an environment where the number of bitcoin wallet providers is whittled down to a handful of well - capitalized winners.

All but a handful of states have had national Good Neighbor Award winners.