Sentences with phrase «hands of a select few»

It is just one type of free economy and it does lend itself to the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a select few.

Very tongue - in - cheek, but then what isn't funny about the impending closure of a major high street retailer, the loss of thousands of jobs, and a further move to consolidate online retailing in the hands of a select few business megaliths?

Placing your funding in the hands of a select few could mean that a work of art will never get past the idea stage, because the grant allocators might dislike it for reasons that you'll never discover.

1 The fact that Cook's works succeed by the very terms established by Fried for painterly success — «being convinced that a particular work can stand comparison with the painting of the past whose quality is not in doubt» — reveals that, even if such a change has come to pass, in the hands of a select few artists, like Cook, it has reinvigorated rather than impoverished painting.

Carbon trading will do to energy what the WTO / FAO / OIE are doing to food: placing control AND record profits in the hands of a select few while driving more and more people into grinding poverty and death.

That way, electricity, and the profits that go with it, can go from the hands of a select few into the 100 % clean energy homes of many.

«It is clandestine and in the hands of a select few,» he suggests.

Not exact matches

Each season, Wyoming Whiskey distiller Sam Mead hand - selects a few special and unique 5 - year aged barrels of our Small Batch Bourbon to be part of our Private Stock program.

On the other hand we really need to do some serious trimming of the squad before the window closes and I think we all know who those selected few are by now.

«It sets up our ability to start using three million to five million years of diversity» rather than a few hand - selected traits to improve production, says Ed Buckler of Cornell University and a collaborator on the research.

In both cases, users select the part of a scene that is OK to share by drawing a rectangular border around it, either by hand or with a few clicks of a mouse.

Video privacy software developed at Duke lets users select the part of a scene that is OK to share by drawing a rectangular border around it, either by hand or with a few clicks of a mouse.

Hand is a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, and one of a select few to have visited the carbonate chimneys of the Lost City at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

I hope that Apple makes sure that the pull out scroll can lock into place, because I only know two people with four hands, and I don't know how you would hold the thing open and use it at the same time unless you were one of those select few gifted with many hands.

Dick's documentary includes interviews with numerous men and women who've suffered at the hands of their comrades and superiors, but wisely narrows its focus to a select few, including married mother - of - one Kori Cioca, who's still suffering from a jaw injury given to her by a rapist while in Coast Guard, and former Naval officer Trina McDonald, whose post-rape PTSD continues to complicate her daily life and relationship to her partner and her three kids.

Career mode has had a few minor changes, such as the Global Transfer network, which necessitates the use of scouts in finding the top potential additions to the teams rather than just selecting the players with the best overall stats, making team selection a far more engaging and even - handed affair.

And that means good news for some people, and bad news for others, as Jimmy Kimmel hosts the 90th annual ceremony and a bevy of stars will hand out golden bald men to a select few people at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

He or she asks a question directed at the entire class, waits for hands to go up, and then selects one of the few hands raised.

We ask a question directed at the entire class, wait for hands to go up, and then select one of the few hands raised.

Many teachers hand out their Student of the Week awards during the first few months of school to their highest academically achieving students because these students are easy to select and come up with reasons for why they deserve this special award.

The S5 even has a button right on the steering wheel that can be remapped to toggle between the Drive Select modes without taking a hand from the wheel, which is great for when you stumble upon a sweet stretch of road and need to quickly hop into the Dynamic setting for a few curves.

For $ 60 / year, Self Lender offers you a suite of financial education, and a few, hand - selected, exclusive opportunities for helpful financial products, and services.

If, on the other hand you're just looking for a few fund recommendations or want to get a ballpark estimate of how much you should be saving for retirement, then a broker with an established, reputable investment firm or a representative with a mutual fund firm or discount brokerage that has a good roster of online tools and calculators for selecting investments and building a portfolio may be able to satisfy your needs.

However, of the lucky few animals who escape situations of abuse, there are a select group who go on to advocate for animals like them who are still suffering at the hands of humans.

Director David Cage was on - hand at GDC to debut the new video to the press, and his presentation touched on the origins of «Kara» — we've selected a few choice quotes below.

Career mode has had a few minor changes, such as the Global Transfer network, which necessitates the use of scouts in finding the top potential additions to the teams rather than just selecting the players with the best overall stats, making team selection a far more engaging and even - handed affair.

Now there are a few hand selected hero / class based FPS games that I adore and with that being said; my aim isn't to piss off the die hard fans of Team Fortress 2, but Overwatch blows it sky high, out of the water and any other analogy you want to throw at it.

Originally the achievements of old, uncovering secrets was a rite of passage only a select chosen few with either too much attention to detail or too much time on their hands could solve.

Harriet Lamb, CEO of Fairtrade International, provides this important reminder: «The FAIRTRADE Mark does not mean that the product comes from a few hand - selected sites where conditions are perfect.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

Early researchers like Schulman selected only a few of the best samples for analysis, in part because measurement was a slow and laborious process and all calculation was done by hand or with a slide rule.

By using the model of a select few, we ensure our best people will be working with you and that our most senior associates will be hands - on to ensure quality of service delivery.

Work with your hiring managers and recruiters at different locations, regions, and facilities to lend a hand and a few hours of their time to select relevant assessments, sort through candidate resumes or interview.