Sentences with phrase «heard of a few people»

I had heard of a few people who did it, some were «earthy crunchy» and some just «regular folks,» and I thought if they could, maybe I could too.

I am soon doing a coolant change on my car, including draining the coolant from the block using the drain plug, and I have heard of a few people apparently snapping these off due to over torquing them,...

I have heard of a few people that are trying to give the government as little of their money as possible.

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A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

On Wednesday's hearing, he said that he made that decision because he was one of the few people in the Obama administration who had access to the leaked classified information.

And that takes me to Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, a great practitioner of counting who few people have ever heard of today — but who ought to be well remembered.

Few, if any, boxing fans will have ever heard of NeuLion, (and, the company's name still won't be very visible on Saturday either) but the company's technology and manpower will play a pivotal role in getting the stream of the Mayweather - McGregor fight into the homes of millions of people this weekend.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

So much of the Tim Hortons brand is tangled up in our national identity — and with a hockey player that fewer and fewer people have heard of.

Jelly's investors include fellow Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Afghan Citadel Software Company CEO Roya Mahboob, and a few other people you might have heard of: Bono and Al Gore.

I have heard very few complaints about the length of the safety razor from multiple people.

People have heard of it, the buzz is growing, and there is a sense that it is important — but few understand the size and scope of its future impact.

There used to be 1,000 + part - time referees to hear their cases: that's now down to fewer than 70 people, trying to handle a backlog of 10,000 appeals.

only minds can concvive of thoughts, sry if your lacking mr. fake... a thought is one that is transferible by accidenct — those that read or hear even sometimes feel can be instantly takenover by a thought, and as thoughts go — you, I, everyone, hasn't had a original thought in most likely ummm, say a long friggin time, i'd say personally i think being that the species is as old as (provible) 37,000 thousand years old, every thought as been thought since by maybe a few thousand years... and thats a hopeful «thought» being i believe our average person to be generally dumb.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

We just hear more about it — and since some loonies — on the RELIGIOUS RIGHT — decided that it's OK for people to have access to weapons that can kill a few dozen people in seconds, those occasional crazies do a lot of damage.

Lately, it's few and far between that the voices of people who believe similarly to me are heard.

«I am having a hard time because I heard so many of these stories in person,» Zanis said from Illinois, where he returned after spending a few hours in Colorado over the weekend.

While just about everyone familiar with Scripture has heard of the beautiful Queen Esther, few know of Vashti, the «other queen,» whose defiance set in motion the events that would allow Esther to rise to power and save the Jewish people.

Even the least educated of people in our pews are aware of these criticisms, but few have heard any answers.

Lots of people have heard about legalism, but few know what it is.

The way some people talk about the Bible, it seems that God's whispering of truth was only heard by a small group of Middle Eastern men for a few brief centuries.

Here are a few of the stories I have heard from homeless people in my town as I spent Easter Sunday among them:

Though Dubose was first, fewer people would have heard of Dubose.

The more accurate statement, however, would be that most people have thus far not even heard of process theism and fewer still have heard it presented by an advocate.

Yeah, respond to one of the few cases where people of one religion A behave with a surprising degree of respect to a radical member of your own religion B by haughtily saying that God doesn't hear the prayers of adherents of religion A, only those of religion B.

I'm so sorry to hear that, can I ask exactly what size your spoons are because I've made this a few times and given it to lots of people and I can barely taste the apple cider so wondering if you're using much larger spoons?

I'm amazed how few people have ever heard of it.Everyone I have shared Uncle Sam's info with are as happy with it as I am.

You've heard the GMO statistics correctly; a few of those crops are corn (even in the remote regions of Mexico, there are GMO strains, through no fault of the people there) and canola.

I'm so glad to hear about your stray bag of lucuma, I totally posted this recipe in hopes a few people in your situation would stumble upon it and be inspired to put it to use!

A few years ago, it's fair to say that few people had even heard of gluten.

Every generation of workers faces unique challenges, so although the more senior mentors can offer a wealth of advice, it can sometimes be more relevant to hear from people only a few steps ahead of you.

But few people have ever heard of the Mascarenes, and the islands are more known by their individual names.

Few people have heard of Zhikang Li, but history may judge the Chinese plant breeder to be one of the most important people of the century.

Before last season there were very few people outside of Arsenal circles that had heard of Alex Iwobi, but after breaking into the Gunners first team towards the end of last season, he is now practically an automatic selection for Arsene Wenger.

How many people ever even heard of Costa a few years ago?

Even so, few hear of people like Mrs. Kingsley Walker, who is an invisible but vital part of Derby tradition.

Last few days of talking to people and hearing Minkah Fitzpatrick is going too early in these media mock drafts, and Harold Landry is going too late.

Please remember to tip all people working there a few bucks, perhaps it makes them work harder for you the rest of your stay, they were all very professional and courteous to my family and I — in fact, I never heard a single complaint about the RS from anyone on the resort during our 8 day stay.

I've heard of so few people around here who had their bees make it to spring.

In contemporary society, very few people outside of the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology have heard of Kraepelin and understand the significance of his work.

Since we're in this together, I know you feel me with the comments people make to pregnant women that are quite shocking and seriously not helpful, so I compiled a (humorous) little list of phrases pregnant women hear along with a few alternatives.

The first hearing was in May when few people were aware of the project.

A few people have asked to hear how my big night away went, so I'll happily conjure up the memory of it here now.

I have heard of people who, while training, would stop mentioning the potty to their kids, and then after a few days the kids would decide on their own to want to use the potty.

I don't want to miss this «window of opportunity» I always hear people talking about, I just didn't think it would happen for a few more months... Any suggestions?

Sadly, not all people have heard this - just the other day this came up in conversation and another mother looked at me like I was a demon with 2 heads when I mentioned that I had once put my son in his crib for a few minutes when I felt like I couldn't handle any more of an extended bout of crying.

I'm hearing from quite a few people on Facebook that meals in some of these countries (Spain, e.g) are actually not all they're cracked up to be.