Sentences with phrase «millions of needles»

I remember getting that first scary box filled with medications I had never heard of and millions of needles.

Not exact matches

I'm moving the needle forward in a business that's helping millions of people.

The company's reputation as one of the best places to work brings in millions of job applicants a year, yet the company has hardly moved the diversity needle.

If it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than a rich man into heaven then it must be easier to get 200 million camels through the eye of a needle than for the Mittster to make it upstairs.

Gilberto in Rhode Island claims to have put a million dollars into each of his needle - pocked arms, at the rate of three fifty - bag «bricks» of heroin a day.

Science in the Obama years tilted the needle towards applied research — from the launch of the ambitious Precision Medicine Initiative to sequence the genomes of one million people, to the creation of a string of institutes to foster robotics and other innovative manufacturing technologies in partnership with private industry.

There are only 76 needle exchanges in the US — all set up with private money — serving perhaps 10 per cent of its estimated 1 to 2 million intravenous drug users.

The researchers behind the study, from the University of São Paulo, say their new findings could help improve dental procedures and bring relief to millions of people who are scared of needles.

Not unlike looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack, a team of Michigan State University researchers have found a gene that could be key to the development of stem cells — cells that can potentially save millions of lives by morphing into practically any cell in the body.

He's had over 2500 patients and upwards of 40,000 consultations (that would be over 3/4 million acupuncture needles, but who's counting).

Dave Asprey: We can indeed and you've given listeners several really good ideas here, and hopefully we move the needle for millions of people with this conversation.

When it comes to effective dating, it's not simply a case of hurling millions of options at you and hoping you'll find the needle in the haystack.

With much of the film unscored (perhaps Happy Madison scaled back its usually plentiful needle drops to keep the cast - heavy budget at a still mind - blowing $ 80 million), you can hear a pin drop during numerous moments where laughter is anticipated but not earned.

And that game has had plenty of its own problems holding onto subscribers since its 2010 high of 12 million — at least until Warlords of Draenor made the needle jump back up again.

As CREDO's report said of the 2013 results: «Moving the needle for 2 million students is no small feat.»

«I thought if we could put the very best curriculum on television, we could move the needle with millions of kids at a time,...

Education secretary Arne Duncan has said that if the nation could turn around 1,000 schools annually for five years, «We could really move the needle, lift the bottom and change the lives of tens of millions of underserved children.»

«We could really move the needle, lift the bottom and change the lives of tens of millions of underserved children,» Duncan said in 2009.

Not because I'm losing sales but because I'd be a needle in a stack of other millions of other needles.

In knitting there are ancient possibilities; the earth is enriched with the dust of the millions of knitters who have held wool and needles since the beginning of sheep.

It hits you with millions of dusty needles, crawling away at skin that's been hardened by years of this.

The number of Christmas trees sold in the state has fallen in the last few years, from a recent high of 32.8 million in 2005 to this year's projected 28 - 30 million; sales of fake trees, on the other hand, have been brisk - and, unlike real ones, can be reused (it also helps that you avoid dealing with brittle, shedding needles).

AI can be used to detect incongruous payments among many millions of transactions — a needle in a haystack for mere mortals.

Such a needle on the chart could be observed in the beginning of November 2015 (it reached $ 335 million daily) when the Chinese government vetoed foreign Yuan investment and banned Chinese citizens from investing more than $ 50,000 in foreign projects.

My waking hours, I felt as if I had millions of tiny needles pricking me.