Sentences with phrase «history of a handful»

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While a handful of architectural salvager firms exist in Ontario and Quebec, Uniquities is virtually a soloist in the West, serving a growing core who appreciate the history of humble bricks.

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.

They're met with an intuitive and inviting interface that prompts them to answer a handful of questions about the car they want to buy, their recent employment and their payment histories.

This handful of periods, amounting to just over 2 % of market history, captures a cumulative market loss of over 50 % -LRB--30 % annualized rate of loss).

In fact, there are only a handful of examples I can remember from recent history in Alberta politics:

The American history boasts of the country being build on christian values, which obviously mean in the word of God, Gay unions are a definite big NO and yet looks like only a handful of true christian are there.

Maybe a handful of people in history have done anything similarly remarkable.

He committed the worst crime in history, ever — the betrayal of the innocent and perfect Son of God for a handful of coins.

A handful of wishful thinking atheists will not change history.

Throughout voting history, there have been plenty of close elections, some won by just a handful of votes.

During the long history of the Church, popes have done this only a handful of times.

That's something that has only been done by a handful of franchises in All Sports Series history.

Today would have been Gilles Villeneuve's 65th birthday, and despite only a handful of victories to his name he will go down in history as one of Formula One's greatest drivers, all thanks to his bonkers driving style.

«Stating the obvious, they both sit within the one handful of greats that there are in the history of the sport.Those great drivers are able to pull out an extraordinary lap.

The Minneapolis Miracle is certainly worthy of a display in Canton, as one of the handful of moments in NFL history where all you could do was scream in awe at what had just happened (or sadness, if you're a Saints fan).

W / Embiid on the court the Sixers rate as a 68 win team — only a handful of teams in NBA history won 68 games.

Any local in the crowd were also buoyed by a 15 - minute cameo from Welsh hero Gareth Bale, who goes down in history as one of only a handful of players to win the cup in his hometown.

Commercial marketers usually have a wealth of data to work with, from demographics to credit history to homeownership, but when he started working in politics, Ghani was struck by the fact that political campaigns are trying to build voter models based on a handful of data points.

Would he really let a handful of Republican state senators deny him his appointment with history?

In the current context, those behind the Labour purge are not only seeking to exclude handfuls of individuals, but seeking — like King Cnut — to arrest the tide of history, and prevent the Labour Party from stepping outside the tired and failed routines of Westminster politics.

Meanwhile, Republicans aim to extend their majority to a modern - history record of 245 seats — and they believe the financial gap could leave a handful of seats on the table this year.

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.

For the first time in the history of the fraught diplomatic talks, he said, China has taken a concrete step away from the current Kyoto Protocol rules that demand only a handful of industrialized countries act unilaterally while hundreds of developing countries act on a voluntary basis.

It outlines the past half billion years of Australian history, and tells about the handful of scientists who have explored that past.

Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaohs in history — Hatshepsut (one of only a handful of female pharaohs)-- on an object in the Egypt Centre stores, which had been chosen for an object handling session.

In the whole intellectual history of humankind, says Kruskal, there have been only a handful of genuine totally ordered number systems: the naturals, the integers, the rationals, the cardinals, and the ordinals.

Can a handful of ancient copper coins from a once - opulent corner of East Africa change what we know about Australian history?

There's only a handful of games in the videogame history that accomplishes something that forever changes how we look videogames.

A handful of pioneers began to change this in 1968 and four of them tell their humiliating and often emotional stories to Armen Keteyian about an unpopular chapter in the history of America's most popular sport.

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

In just a handful of scenes Django Unchained reminds us that it is a film set in one of the darkest and most shameful periods of American history.

Characters are pulled from a small pool of titles in the grand scheme of Fire Emblem history, and a handful of them borrow movesets from each other.

Don't forget, the Badge Arcade is taking players on a nostalgic trip through history all this week with a handful of Nintendo console and software catchers in celebration of Nintendo's next console...

Don't forget, The Badge Arcade is taking players on a nostalgic trip through history all this week with a handful of Nintendo...

By the end of its first weekend, it was the biggest hit in the history of distributor Lionsgate, long considered just outside the lines of the major movie studios, decimating the company's handful of modest performers, nearly all of them having the words «Tyler Perry» or «Saw» in their titles.

Despite this history and the number of Hispanic actors who continue gracing the silver screen today, only a handful of Latinos can be counted among those who've won Academy Awards for acting.

In the history of movies, a handful of long takes emerge as the best — pardon us if we don't include the feature - length Russian Ark or Alfred Hitchcock's seamless Rope.

We follow in almost real time a handful of individuals forced to make split - second decisions after this incomprehensible event that would change their lives and forever alter our world's landscape: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the unwitting cameraman who captured what has become the most watched and examined film in history, the FBI Agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of a country in a moment's notice.

With only a handful of X-Men remaining, Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) uses her powers to send Logan's (Hugh Jackman) consciousness back in time to his younger body circa 1973 in order to reunite Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) for a single purpose: stopping Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from murdering the creator of the Sentinel program, Dr. Boliver Trask (Peter Dinklage), in the hope that it will alter the course of history.

A perfect black comedy with one of the most underappreciated central performances in film history, by Dennis Price (and a handful of genius ones by Alec Guinness).

But the most notorious episode of pubescent female hysterics occurred more than 300 years ago in the rolling farmlands north of Boston, when a handful of girls, ages 9 - 20, launched an infamous chapter in American history: the Salem witch trials.

«You can have thousands of school kids doing research in a way that accomplishes much more than a handful of scientists,» adds environmental history professor Andrew Kirk.

Then teaching units are provided on themes such as Inventors, People in U.S. History, My World (Multicultural Studies), and In the U.S.A.. Each themed unit includes a handful of different lessons.

A handful of studies from the U.S. Department of Education show that students with a history of in - depth involvement in the arts also tend to have better academic outcomes even beyond graduation, have higher career aspirations and are more civically engaged.

We chose a handful for their significance in advancing the cause of speed, no easy choice given the automobile's 100 - plus - year history.

There are a handful of race cars out there that made history.

During that time it's amassed a large history file full of old MOTs, a handful of early tax discs and a report confirming the car's provenance by marque specialist Paul Linfoot.

she intends to redress the exhaustive violence done to women by men throughout history by an even more pervasive violence, eliminating all but a handful of men needed to perpetuate the human species.

8) You've written up your family history or the lifetime of a loved one that will be of great interest to Aunt Coco, Cousin Momo and a handful of other blood relations but no one else

We do have a small amount of non-fiction: a memoir, a history book, and a handful of writing books.