Sentences with phrase «handfuls of people at»

Online, even if you aren't connecting with handfuls of people at once, you're likely still getting some flattering attention.

Flabbergasted, Whitehorn told Rutan that Branson had long been looking to fund a venture that could produce a rocket capable of carrying a handful of people at a time into space.

Ozil right now is displaying the sort of attitude that the whole Football Club should show, there are only a handful of people at Afc who has the want to win every game attitude.

Even though his recovery was nice, it's a good thing there were only a handful of people at Marlins stadium to see Chad Quals» make this fall.

Even though his recovery was nice, it's a good thing there were only a handful of people at Marlins stadium to...

«Even though when all the Libor [fines] are out most of it is going to be around the wrongdoings of a handful of people at a number of banks,» Hester said.

The then 23 - year - old Oxford PPE graduate was one of a handful of people at the FT who were sceptical about British membership of the ERM.

I'm usually speaking to a handful of people at all times, though, and I'm always been invited out for lunch dates.

Not exact matches

So when we looked at the model, we got excited about the idea of what we call «incidental insurance»: Using tech to seamlessly integrate insurance within a handful of moments when it's naturally necessary people to think about insurance.

Gill is one of just a handful of people who bet on politics full time, but he's part of a growing community of thousands who test their luck — or, as many maintain, skill — at guessing the outcomes of the ever - unpredictable administration of President Donald Trump.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

As with other online applications, Web - based fax gives people the flexibility to use the service from anywhere, says Mike Pugh, senior vice president of marketing at a href = «http://www.j2global.com"> j2 Global Communications, which runs eFax, eFax Corporate and a handful of other Internet - based fax brands.

On a rainy afternoon in October, a handful of people hang out at the ING Direct café across from Toronto's Eaton Centre.

There were only a handful of people in the audience at this particular show, and that smallness makes a world of difference.

But looking at the data showed that when a new Twitter user signed up to follow a handful of accounts, that person was much more likely to stick around.

«We used to get overwhelmed with the number of people wanting summer jobs,» Mr. Miller said, adding that he now gets maybe a handful of such applications, at most.

As with the ongoing «fake news» scandal in the political world (where the public largely remains awestruck at the discord), only a handful of people in the world perhaps know bitcoin's inner - workings enough to really understand the issue or evaluate proposed code.

Curve worked at IDEA London for the first year of its life, where it grew from a handful of people to a team of 20 before moving to its own offices.

As a matter of fact, most people that runs party planning business choose to run the business alone or at most with a handful of full — time employees just for the sole aim of reducing overhead, and maximizing profits.

I looked at his Twitter feed, and noticed that he followed only a handful of people — and they were all Golden State Warriors players.

As a matter of fact, most people that runs event planning business choose to run the business alone or at most with a handful of full — time employees just for the sole aim of reducing overhead, and maximizing profits.

The customer can pick and choose the items through the digital platform or in person at a handful of brick - and - mortar shops.

Take a handful of texts, usually out of context, shove them all down the barrel of a shot - gun and fire them point blank at the people.

The handful of folks who replied helped fortify a thought I had been having: I am not a «religious» person at all.

However, 1) by no means is the entire faith «bad» or «wrong» because a handful of people abuse the religion, and 2) arguably, «Christian hypocrites» are not really Christians at all (in the Gospels, for example, the Pharisees, extremely religious Jews who took extreme measures to follow all of Moses» 613 laws, proved to be Jesus» «enemies», because they did not love other people.)

I repeat meals far more often than I used to and I take a handful of shortcuts but I am still fumbling through my days with the wee people at my feet (or on my hip and in the cupboards, more specifically).

Cazorla and Ozil are better out wide and before people criticise me, Cazorla has played on the left for 10 years and Ozil played on the right in a handful of games at Madrid and at the World Cup.

I hope this isn't a shot at people like me and our understandable frustrations with the handful of commenters here who are total morons.

A handful of them were so incredible, that they are still being viewed daily with people freaking out at how awesome they are.

Since 1990, he had been the president of a well - respected local non profit organization called the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, which operated a handful of programs in upper Manhattan targeted at young people: afterschool drop - in centers, truancy prevention, antiviolence training for teenagers.

There are a handful of times people feel justified to freely comment on your lifestyle choices — when you're pregnant or announce your decision to remain child - free; when you're a working mom or a stay - at - home mom; and when you get divorced.

While the US Breastfeeding Committee does agree with the US Department of Health and Human Services in encouraging moms to breastfeed for at least 6 months, only a handful of states are actually meeting the Healthy People 2010 breastfeeding targets!

The Englewood and Harrison districts have both seen a handful of people shot over the last two days, and there have been shootings as far south as the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood at the edge of the city to the Rogers Park neighborhood bordering Evanston.

I find it both mildly disturbing and amusing that you think that the entire beef eating population, some of whom have died after eating pink slime by the way, should somehow feel bad for a handful of people who had no problem at all whatsoever pushing such a disgusting product onto an unsuspecting populace.

A workout for working memory People may be able to remember a nearly infinite number of facts, but only a handful of items — held in working memory — can be accessed and considered at any given moment.

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

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

Nearly 4,000 people were denied the right to vote following the pilot of an ID scheme at a handful of polling stations.

Dopp claims that he requested info on Bruno's travels at the behest of curious members of the press, and that a handful of other people were involved in the plot.

«If we want to save this republic, I think that we need regular people to go into politics,» he told the crowd at General Assembly, before sipping a pale ale and taking a handful of questions.

Several senior politicians from Gordon Brown downwards, or upwards, tell me they can attract big crowds at a book festival or at a meeting of Make Poverty History, whereas if they deliver the same speech at a party meeting only a handful of people turn up.

And the Mississippi governor faulted the New York Republican Party chairman at the time for «letting a handful of people pick somebody who is not just a liberal Republican - she's more liberal than many of the Democrats.

But in recent years, potentially older artifacts have turned up at a handful of sites, including Monte Verde in southern Chile and the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, suggesting that people lived in the Americas long before the Clovis technology turned up.

And that was one of my goals in this book, and I found some people — it's actually a pretty small handful, but just, I mean to give one example, Scott Maisano at University of Massachusetts in Boston has written pretty extensively on this.

She was the first person to fill this position at Google after the company got caught up in a handful of privacy debacles that included Street View cars collecting user e-mails, passwords, and URLs.

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.

At that time, there weren't many people sharing their tiny stories on the internet, so we had only a handful of examples to look toward.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Up to 60 % of people with chronic insomnia may get relief from just a handful of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) sessions, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

«A small handful of nuts can be a great way to not be starving so you don't» make poor choices at meal time,» said Foroutan, who reminds people not to forget about noted brain foods walnuts and pecans.

Some companies don't care if you throw handfuls of samples into a crowd, but others will want the samples to go to people who want to buy (at some point).