Sentences with phrase «lives of a handful of people»

Eric Steel's documentary explores the lives of a handful of people who committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

In The Unwinding, George Packer looks at the lives of a handful of people as a way of exemplifying the evolution (or in some cases, devolution) of American politics, economics, and culture.

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In the short - but - punchy talk that was recently recommended on both the blogs of both top VC Brad Feld and prominent angel investor Joanne Wilson, Forman offers a handful of tips to companies that want to both make themselves appealing to that vast pool of talent that actually wants a life outside work, and get up to date on cutting - edge people management practices, including:

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

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.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

As the Kim regime maintains its grip on North Korea's people and starvation persists, a handful of refugees are risking the welfare of their families and their lives to escape through China.

A handful of people started showing up every week to worship in the living room of the Banks House.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

«A handful of organic soil contains more living organisms than there are people on this planet.»

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»

More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from HIV infection, and more than a million currently live with the virus, but a relative handful of people infected with HIV never get treatment for it and never get sick from it.

The handful of people with HSAM have an uncanny ability to catalogue and retrieve information about their experiences on pretty much every day of their lives after young childhood.

In 2011, when ProPublica first reported on the different health problems afflicting people living near gas drilling operations, only a handful of health studies had been published.

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.

Though some patients don't develop symptoms until adulthood, in which case people can live with the disease for many years, when NPC arises in childhood, it is usually fatal within only a handful of years.

Well, for one, the residents of the top five cities have significantly lower rates, on average, of a handful of diseases (from diabetes to high cholesterol to depression) compared to people living in cities with low scores.

Off the top of my head, I can easily think of a handful of people in my life (all spiritual mentors) who began their spiritual quest after reading Paramahansa Yogananda's unforgettable life story, Autobiography of a Yogi.

I follow a handful of people on IG that live in NYC and it just looks so magical this time of year:)

Meeting new people stresses me out and I only have a handful of people in my life that I would call real friends.

Like Scrabble — life presents you with a handful of different options to the person next to you, and you work with them to come up with a completely different result to your neighbour.

There are only a handful of people, who have not tried at least one dating website in their life.

Hooper's style is by no means cutting edge, but does feature one of the best lines of the year... «I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.»

There is one really revealing line in The Danish Girl, spoken by childhood best friend Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts) at a train station, like a classic film noir goodbye: «I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.»

On the television side, a handful of performers and TV shows picked up double wins including Transparent (LGBTQ Show of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manuel Miranda).

This seemingly mundane highway backup turns into a seminal moment for a handful of Angelenos - people whose lives are in desperate need of a change.

As a former technological person myself, who'd participated in the early commercial phase of the computer revolution, I had long been fascinated by its predecessors: that handful of scientific entrepreneurs who, inspired by the Enlightenment and living though the American and French revolutions, had then gone on, on their own, to spearhead the Industrial Revolution that has transformed modern society.

In a medieval fantasy world where a handful of refugees from a Viking - like world now live in peace in a village of Shining Star people in the Great Turtle Lands, Greeta faces a dilemma.

National Life VT is one of a handful of mutual insurance companies that offers a wide array of different products, sure to meet the need of most people looking to get insured.

Micro-Food Pantry In the 1960s, living in Philadelphia — a city that was virtually the birthplace of the aquarium hobby in this country, thanks to people like William T. Innes and a handful of dedicated serious hobbyists — I could walk into any one of several mega-fish stores and buy live tubifex worms, daphnia, Cyclops, bloodworms (chironomid fly larvae) and, of course, brine shrimp.

They found a Half - Life 3 category paired with the names of a handful of veteran Half - Life series developers, suggesting that these are the people currently tracking bugs on development of Half - Life 3.

These games are worked on by handfuls of people, staying up late, eating more pizza than anyone should ever consume, and dedicating their lives to making something beautiful and new.

After selecting either easy, normal or expert it's just 100 lives and a handful of levels sometimes meticulously created by people you don't know.

It seems strange that in a time of such wealth in the world, only a handful of the millions of artists in the world are known by people outside the artworld and only a handful are able to make a living from only creating and selling their art.

For most of us, historic figures like Picasso are destined to forever live in that mythic realm, and there are only a handful of people still alive who knew those figures so intimately.

Essentially, my take is that legal design thinking is about making people's lives and experiences better, and the legal design summit overwhelmingly based this on a handful of key principles: (i) focus on the user (i.e. identify the user and focus on their needs), (ii) experiment (challenge the status quo), (iii) be intentional (understand organisational culture and values and align your actions to these).

A handful of companies now offer instant - approval term life insurance online for younger healthy people without requiring a medical exam.

They usually work with more life insurance companies — often 10 or more, instead of a handful your in - person agent might work with — meaning you have a way better chance of finding the best deal.

Second - to - die, or survivorship, life insurance is offered by a handful of insurers and is typically geared toward affluent people concerned about the potential for hefty estate taxes on what they leave behind.

National Life is one of a handful of mutual insurance companies that offers a wide array of different products, sure to meet the need of most people looking to get insured.

«Today we are announcing that more than 1 billion people now use Facebook Messenger every month, making Messenger one of only a handful of apps worldwide that touch so many lives,» Facebook said when the app clocked 1 billion users in July.

«Today we are announcing that more than 1 billion people now use Facebook Messenger every month, making Messenger one of only a handful of apps worldwide that touch so many lives.

If I told you, sure, you can try to run for President, but it's going to cost you millions of dollars and your life will be scrutinized, only a handful of people are seriously considering that route.

SOMETIMES PARENTS BRING A PERSON TO THE MEETING AS PART OF THE TEAM — I've been in meetings with the child's therapist, a friend of the family, a family advocate, and a handful of people that offered some other type of support in the child's lifOF THE TEAM — I've been in meetings with the child's therapist, a friend of the family, a family advocate, and a handful of people that offered some other type of support in the child's lifof the family, a family advocate, and a handful of people that offered some other type of support in the child's lifof people that offered some other type of support in the child's lifof support in the child's life.

This observation makes sense, given that only a handful of people lived in the small town of Montford when Wolfe was growing up.

This observation makes sense given that only a handful of people lived in the small town of Montford when Wofle was growing up.

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