Sentences with phrase «much of a handful»

As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.

Autocar also says that Volkswagen will look to a new type of front differential to keep the power boost from making the GTI too much of a handful.

It's that's too much of a handful, three phones have 5.2.

A little dog can be as much of a handful as any other dog.

- If your dog is too much of a handful for you to safely handle alone, please bring help.

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«This election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them «sixes at best,»» Oliver joked, alluding to a handful of Trump's scandals.

Since Google created Area 120 roughly two years ago, it has launched a handful of apps, but Enthoven knew she wouldn't learn as much about recruiting or scaling if she stayed within the tech giant.

Prior to the Napster revolution many years ago, when I was a young lad who was very much into music, I'd buy a handful of CDs a year.

OAS «will be one more handful of straw on the back of the camel that's going to be carrying a much, much heavier load, mainly because of health - care spending,» says William Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, a thinktank on the opposite end of the political spectrum from the CCPA.

There are a handful of half - literate posts from early 2003 in which Frind asks basic questions, like «I am interested in know how much money sites generate off advertising.»

But unless these announcements are 100 % marketing hype, they indicate that much more software power will be concentrated in fewer, albeit bigger, data centers owned and operated by just a handful of cloud computing giants.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

But looking at the data showed that when a new Twitter user signed up to follow a handful of accounts, that person was much more likely to stick around.

So there will be much interest in the handful of central bank speakers in the coming week, with particular focus on Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who will be at Harvard on Friday afternoon.

How much you wind up paying per click — or your cost per click — will vary greatly, based on the popularity of the keywords you select to associate with your ad, along with a handful of other factors.

You can select games, explore instruction manuals, and change a handful of settings about the console — that was pretty much it.

Other important factors include how much the industry is regulated, whether it is dominated by a handful of extremely large companies, and the steepness of the financial barrier to entry.

Pretty much everyone hates the proposal except the handful of companies that would directly benefit from it.

Add it all up and economists predict prices will rise by a handful of percentage points this year, although probably not as much as 2014's approximately 5 % gain.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

In fact, abortion turns out to be pretty much what we should have expected in 1972: a nasty but legal business in which a handful of failed doctors offer the clinical murder of babies as an expensive form of contraception.

Stupid, stupid people with blind hate towrds a religion are being led by fanaticism, because a HANDFUL of men, thats right a HANDFUL caused the destruction of the Twin Towers.For you people, I ask you to look in the mirror and see how much destruction your Government has done in YOUR name.

A handful of giant corporations, probably not much more than 40, manage the bulk of all.

The handful of earlier verses in the koran that speak of tolerance (when mohammad was weak and needed to rearm and resupply) are overwhelmed by an avalanche of later ones that carry a much different message of hate, punishment and DEATH.

Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

I've had the privilege of meeting and talking with Enns, (so hopefully I'll be able to include an interview in the series), and he is one of a handful of scholars and mentors who has helped me realize that much of my anxiety surrounding my reading of Scripture has to do with the expectations I place upon it.

Perhaps James is not so much a chain of thought, or beads on a string, as it is just a handful of pearls, dropped one by one into the hearer's mind.»

-- 2 handfuls of frozen berries (these keep it cool and are much cheaper than fresh berries, but fresh berries and a little ice work perfectly instead)(80g)

There are so many cross-contamination issues, and we have extra allergies to contend with... there are actually a handful of restaurants in our area that we do eat at, but they are all local specialty places, not large restaurant chains, so they wouldn't help you much.

I just threw in a couple handfuls of sugar, but really it's fruit so it doesn't need much!!

In fact, this crust has so much flavor on its own that I think it would make for a fantastic light meal simply drizzled with some good extra virgin olive oil, topped with a few sliced olives, a handful of fresh herbs and maybe a few pine nuts sprinkled on top.

With my trusty Panola All Purpose Marinade and a handful of shallots, green onions, garlic, ginger, allspice, orange juice, brown sugar, soy sauce and much more, I quickly grabbed my food processor and got to work.

1 handful of kale 1 celery stalk 1/2 ″ piece of ginger, peeled (less if you don't like so much spice) 1 apple 1 - 2 cups of coconut water, filtered water, or vegan milk

Squeeze handfuls of bread to remove as much excess water as possible and transfer to a bowl.

:D I can never really leave a recipe alone, so I added and changed up some things: 1 / 2c honey -LCB- fresh from a hive upstate -RCB-, a handful of oats, a couple dashes of ground ginger, 1/2 as much butter -LCB- unsalted -RCB-, with some walnut oil to compensate, and some extra burbon.

handfuls of: organic romaine lettuce chopped tomato a little chopped red onion (as little or as much as you like) vegan cheddar cheese (optional)(we didn't use any and they were great)

Of course, growing up eating Greek food, I'd had it a handful of times, but I didn't really fall in love with it until our trip to Greece last year where it graced pretty much every menu at every single restauranOf course, growing up eating Greek food, I'd had it a handful of times, but I didn't really fall in love with it until our trip to Greece last year where it graced pretty much every menu at every single restauranof times, but I didn't really fall in love with it until our trip to Greece last year where it graced pretty much every menu at every single restaurant.

I love raisins in pasta sauce, so much in fact that since I learned of it 5 or so years ago, nearly each time I make pasta for dinner (monthly at a minimum) it includes a healthy handful of raisins.

- Begin by grating the unpeeled gala apples using a box grater, and add them into a bowl; prepare two more small bowls, and take a handful of the grated apples, and squeeze as much of the juice out of them into one of the other bowls as possible; place the squeezed - out apples into the other bowl; repeat the process until all the grated apples have been squeezed of their juice, and set them aside for a moment.

I am just too much of a fan of eating them by the handful.

I'd much rather have a handful of these than an Almond Joy candy bar!

I'd much rather wake up to a handful of those than a cup of coffee any day.

I pretty much just start tossing in a handful of this and that.

With a can of basic tomato sauce, a dash of tomato paste and a handful of spices you can whip this sauce up in no time and it is so much better than purchasing the sauce already in the jar.

I usually do two handfuls — one handful being both of my hands holding as much spinach as they can:) and my smoothie is super green but there is also lots of it and it takes me good forty minutes to drink / eat..

Thanks to a heaping amount of rich cocoa powder and a few (very heavy and generous) handfuls of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks, I can pretty much guarantee that these will meet your chocolate quota for the day.

Inspired by the great success of my Cherry Almond Granola, and having run out (after much Greek - yogurt - breakfast & handfuls - for - snacks gobbling, plus a prezzie for Mum), it was time for a new granola.

YUM... i did nt do much measuring... just a handful of each, added some flaxseeds and a bit of applesauce to moisten instead of the OJ.

And a handful of toasted coconut or as much as you desire.

To the oil, I added the dill I picked up — prob 1/4 ounce, about as much flat - leafed parsely that I had on hand and a good handful of spinach with the tail end of my lemon - sea salt.