Sentences with phrase «handful of years as»

'' If people are discarded at a young age, after a handful of years as a minister, then we lose everything they have learned.

He's been a huge part of the Steelers» offensive success this season, just as he has the past handful of years as one of the best wide receivers in the NFL.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Since Google created Area 120 roughly two years ago, it has launched a handful of apps, but Enthoven knew she wouldn't learn as much about recruiting or scaling if she stayed within the tech giant.

Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.

Last year, a handful of spots hit on topics such as immigration and diversity but took measured tones aimed at appealing to a broad range of viewers, Taylor said.

He says the frequency of his communication with the CEOs of Berkshire subsidiaries ranges from a handful of times a year — he averaged three calls a year with Benjamin Moore's CEO for a long time — to almost daily for a handful of key figures such as Berkshire's reinsurance chief, Ajit Jain.

The Canadian government collects roughly $ 4 billion a year in tariff revenue, but only a handful of products such as cars, clothing and shoes generate a significant amount of money for the federal government.

During the past few years, a handful of games have been released between January and April — but generally as a result of production snafus.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

Today's lifting of the ban on general solicitation, item 201 (a), was one part of a handful of measures included in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, known as the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April last year.

A handful of self - driving Volvo XC90 SUVs will be deployed as part of the pilot program later this month, with 100 expected by the end of the year.

Last year, a handful of former Trump aides and Republican consultants dismissed the potency of Cambridge Analytica's so - called secret sauce as «exaggerated» in a profile by the New York Times.

As of today there's still no power on the island except for a handful of generators powering high - priority buildings like select hospitals, and the island likely won't return to full power for another half a year.

Bitcoin has recived the lion's share of cryptocurrency headlines in the past year, but a handful of popular altcoins have begun to get some major investor support as well.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

Add it all up and economists predict prices will rise by a handful of percentage points this year, although probably not as much as 2014's approximately 5 % gain.

After a handful of years of getting to know teenagers and young adults who were brought to the US as children, or who were citizens themselves but continually feared their parents» deportation, this church felt compelled to act.

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

«In the handful of instances during the John Paul years in which local bishops tried to formally expel abusers from the priesthood, in a process known as laicization, the Vatican often urged caution — not to excuse abuse, but to defend the priesthood.».

As the largest organic certifier in Australia we host a handful of delegates from China periodically throughout the year and we will seek out opportunities for clients at the AUSVEG national conference in June this year.

Here are a handful of things to watch as the remainder of the year unfolds.

I tossed a handful of chocolate chips into mine this year (a darker recipe which calls for pecan butter as well as pecans) and it was great!

A handful of smaller Australian winemakers maintain the tradition — producers such as Sami - Odi in the Barossa, who each year bottle a shiraz called Little Wine that is an assemblage of four vintages.

Haas» second season in F1 didn't quite reach the heights of their debut year which saw a handful of top six finishes and served as a campaign in which the team firmly established itself as a key player in the midfield rather than a new squad just there to make up the numbers, something we have been accustomed to with other new teams in recent years.

I've spoken to a handful of tournament directors over the years and all cite player recruiting as part of the job and something they're constantly working on with the Tour.

Next season will be tough as hell This season was our best chance to win the PL in 12 years Wenger not signing a single outfielder to strengthen the squad was ridiculously bad decision We only needed a top CF and another DM He needs to make up for it by getting a handful of WC players: CF, winger, CB and DM

All of those seven named are still Arsenal players, but there were only two named in Roy Hodgson's squad this week; Theo Walcott who (as usual) got injured in training and will not face Germany (even if Hodgson would have actually taken him off the bench), and Danny Welbeck, who has played in only a handful of games since returning from a year out through injury.

As you say, they only have a handful of years to make anything.

and the others who never played or had only a handful of appearances could not even be loaned out some of them, that's good business they were cheap, now we knwo why they were cheap, now look merterseker, sanchez, ozil, theo, koschilney off contract, how much money is there alone, also wenger has a habit of buying kids spending 5 - 8 years developing them then other clubs say thanks we will have him, oh well he wasn't good enough, as he plays for his country, when are we going to start pressuring kroenke, gazidis and wenger with lowering of the stocks and merchandise so we are not profitable to the greedy self centred yank who uses us a a money pit.

never waste CAPITAL LETTERS on an article about Chambers at this juncture... I still can't believe that no one from management has ever explained why such a frugal club spent so much money on him in the first place... we haggle for months and years with clubs for players who could have a monumental impact on the very future of our club but somehow we found $ 16 million for someone who couldn't regularly crack a Southampton lineup (very fishy)... don't get me wrong, I like what he showed at times last season in Middlesbourogh but from the handful of games I watched him play I still have some serious questions about his consistency as a back - line player in the EPL; as such he should prove himself on loan for another season, making sure that he goes to a team that wants him in the starting 11... bottom line, let's not get bogged down with the semantics of peripheral players and focus on the real task at hand = figure out who the hell is going to be our starting 11 for the foreseeable future, which means getting contracts signed, getting rid of a lot of deadwood and bringing in talented players into the positions which truly need upgrading... the rest is just unnecessary noise

Team Valvassori who has had a ton of success in the past handful of years has made the leap as well..

Make your jokes about the «Big Game» nickname or the handful of poor playoff starts if you must, but you should also recognize that James Shields just had a run as one of the best pitchers in baseball for four years.

Im sure he will come through this, you always have a couple of players that ai nt on their game 100 %, yes he so far ai nt been the player he was last year but lets not start slaughtering him, the same as Noble.If he doeant improve then fair enough you replace him but i ai nt going to write someone off after a handful of games

After being loaned out to Birmingham City in 2007, he returned to the Emirates the following year and made a handful of appearances, as Wenger's side suffered from a number of injury problems.

Initially, Rugani struggled to find game time, making a meagre handful of appearances before the new year, as the struggles of the club forced Allegri to revert to the 3 -5-2, and rely on the BBC defensive foundation.

I've also learned over the years to throw in a handful of teabags from home, as I really miss my cuppas and have never found a decent substitute when I'm away... unless, of course, I'm in Great Britain!

Busy in my own 10 year career in international private practice as a Transformational Master Coach specializing in Love and Relationships, I was thrilled when I was personally invited by Katherine to train as one of a handful of top coaches worldwide in Conscious Uncoupling and be part of pioneering the beginning of this powerful program.

We bought this a couple of weeks ago it's a great help due to me being home alone with my two kids all the time, a medically challenged developmentally disabled two year old whos a handful and my new two month old, but it'd be even better if it had a pocket for your phone and a few odds and ends like money and a couple of places you could attach things too such as the binkie and a toy.

Even as midwifery grows increasingly popular nationwide, with an estimated 40,000 babies born outside hospitals last year, a handful of states remain severely restrictive of the profession.

Democrats believe Larkin's district will be a battleground race next year as fight for control of the chamber — narrowly led by Republicans — will be centered around a handful of closely watched Senate districts.

«With important work still to do and only a handful of session days remaining, we expect to govern the Senate responsibly as the Majority for the rest of the year.

Candidates in a handful of competitive state Senate districts are using Albany's corruption problem as a hook in this year's election.

The 19 - year - old Orozco was all smiles as he dined with family, friends, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and a handful of other Bronx leaders at a restaurant in Castle Hill, just a short drive away from the Soundview neighborhood the London Olympian calls home.

«With important work still to do and only a handful of session days remaining, we expect to govern the Senate responsibly as the Majority for the rest of the year,» Reif said in his statement.

In the ensuing handful of years, as he served his time in prison and got out, American politics came unglued in such a way that invited his return.