Sentences with phrase «number of folks in»

I was astounded at the number of folks in the Guardian comments section who brought up the straw man argument regarding going into a university and taking a desk — because they, the tax payers, own it.

Even though a number of folks in traditional publishing have tried to convince us that there is little difference in the price of producing an e-book and a print version of the book, I know differently.

Then, as there are a large number of folks in the US who buy used cars, I reckon this question should be fine here.

«I've met with a number of folks in the community over the last few weeks and think we've found a lot of common ground.

Not exact matches

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»

The current economic climate has led some folks to explore investing in franchise businesses, and significant numbers of them are willing to dip into personal or retirement savings to make the move.

Blanca Castillo, Port Equipment Service, all those folks Tanner Collins is keeping tabs on — in them the SBA has nurtured a new class of entrepreneurs where it might not otherwise exist, sustaining America in a way raw numbers don't illuminate.

Now, we've always had a small number of very powerful players — what we're saying in the book is there's a very high likelihood that it could be a different set of players if the traditional industry folks don't move quickly.

One option to make sure folks don't sip too much is to issue drink tickets, says Nina B. Ries, principal of Ries Law Group in Santa Monica Calif., «A good cap on the number of tickets might be one drink ticket per hour of the party.»

For any individual who signs up, there will be a bit of luck involved; the size of a pool will depend on the number of folks who sign up — and if more folks have trouble conceiving in a particular pool, there will be less money available to split among them at the end of the period.

Google's recent 2016 Food Trends Report declared a «pasta comeback,» suggested by the rise in number of folks searching for «rigatoni» and «linguine» recipes on the internet.

Porritt joins a number of folks with automotive experience who Apple hired in recent months, including engineers from Mercedes.

Technology and data can play an invaluable role in enhancing your business, and the benefits are there for the taking, but don't lose sight of the folks behind the numbers.

In fact, some of the folks I work with who have millions stashed away spend less than $ 82,770 number each year.

The number of these folks who want jobs is down 600,000 in the past year, despite a 332,000 rise last month.

In like manner, we do know there are a number of folks more than well aware of the odds presented by the casino gambling experience.

American music folk just make me think no class in general, be it Gaga or any number of other characters.

The number of hungry folk coming to our church door is rising, and the food pantry boxes in this and other parishes can't keep up.

Perhaps the good folks at the AHA missed this poll from 2013, which showed that less than 4 in 10 Americans believe that homosexuality is sin, and the number of Americans who think that homosexuality is sinful continues to drop.

Surely an unplanned blunder on Newsweek's part, but a blunder nonetheless (perhaps worse in the long run exactly because it was unconscious and indicates not deliberate discrimination but a naive lack of sensitivity) A balance of exceptional model elders with equal numbers of average everyday folk would provide a more accurate picture of the aging as they really are, with their very human combinations of merits and faults.

Eugene's small number of Christians (it has the fewest churches for a city its size in America) know the church, as do the colorful assortment of folks who stop by for pizza, coffee, books or conversation.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

We've seen our Sunday numbers grow quite dramatically with older folk coming and playing a real part in the life of our church.

While the Nazi party and the various ethnic cleansings in Armenia, the Balkans, and Africa were not really based upon atheism (thus making his argument that atheism has killed more folks than organized religion a bit shaky), ALL of the instances he mentions are bona - fide examples of almost incomprehensibly large numbers of deaths, NONE of which can be blamed, even remotely, on «organized religion.»

I know that souls are being won to Christ everyday... and in that number we can count GLBTQ folk who have said enough to the lies of Satan and rejected outright his urge to fornicate and sin.

Knowing how the Bible paints a picture of a God who is on the side of the poor, I really admire any number of folks who, like my friend David, cast their own lot in with those in need.

As we have seen with some 81 percent of evangelical Christians (including a number of black clergy) supporting one of the most racist presidential campaigns we have seen in modern history, much of American Christianity continues to specialize in leaving the minds of black folk in the bondage of the sunken place.

Every Grain of Rice — authentic Chinese home - cooking Breakfast for Dinner — sweet and savory breakfast combinations re-purposed for dinnertime The Little Paris Kitchen — classic French cooking made simple enough for every day by TV star Rachel Khoo Sicilia in Cucina — gorgeous, dual - language cookbook focused on the regional flavors of Sicily Venezia in Cucina — sister book to Sicilia in Cucina, but focused on Venice Vegetable Literacy — highly informative vegetable cookbook / encyclopedia, a great resource for enthusiastic kitchen gardeners The Chef's Collaborative — creative recipes from a number of chefs celebrating local, seasonal produce Home Made Summer — a sequel to Home Made and Home Made Winter, packed with simple, summery recipes that make the most of the season's bounty Try This At Home — a fun introduction to molecular gastronomy techniques through the ever creative eyes of Top - Chef Winner Richard Blais Cooking with Flowers — full of sweet recipes that can be made from the flowers in your neighborhood, like lilacs, marigolds, and daylilies Vegetarian Everyday — healthy, creative recipes from the couple behind Green Kitchen Stories The Southern Vegetarian — favorite Southern comfort food classics turned vegetarian by the folks at The Chubby Vegetarian Le Pain Quotidien — simple soups, salads, breads, and desserts from the well - loved Belgian chain Live Fire — ambitious live - fire cooking projects that range from roasting an entire lamb on an iron cross to stuffing burgers with blue cheese to throw on your grill True Brews — a great, accessible introduction to brewing your own soda, kombucha, kefir, cider, beer, mead, sake, and fruit wine Le Petit Paris — a cute little book of classic sweet and savory French dishes, miniaturized for your next cocktail party Wild Rosemary & Lemon Cake — regional Italian cookbook focused on the flavors of the Amalfi coast Vedge — creative, playful vegan recipes from Philadelphia's popular restaurant of the same Full of Flavor — a whimsical cookbook that builds intense flavor around 18 key ingredients Le Pigeon — ambitious but amazing recipes for cooking meat of all sorts, from lamb tongue to eel to bison Pickles, Pigs, and Whiskey — a journey through Southern food in many forms, from home pickling and meat curing to making a perfect gumbo Jenny McCoy's Desserts for Every Season — gorgeous, unique desserts that make the most of each season's best fruits, nuts, and vegetables Winter Cocktails — warm toddies, creamy eggnogs, festive punches, and everything else you need to get you through the colder months Bountiful — produce - heavy, garden - inspired recipe from Diane and Todd of White on Rice Couple Melt — macaroni and cheese taken to extremes you would never have thought of, in the best way possible The Craft Beer Cookbook — all your favorite comfort food recipes infused with the flavors of craft beers, from beer expert Jackie of The Beeroness

I'm sure some folks might disagree in my assessment because of Ford's athleticism and bench press numbers, if nothing else, and that's fine.

Last week, even in the face of those ugly - duckling numbers, everyone with a stake in the USFL — from Simmons to the owners to the players to the folks at ABC and ESPN — everyone claimed that none of those numbers were as catastrophic as they seemed.

Last year, I'll remind folks, we had only ONE bona - fide prime time game, a MNF affair against the Cowboys in Week 3 — which we lost, and rather lopsidedly at that, despite pretty much historically owning the» Boys the last number of years.

The general public is already skeptical of him based on his background: he's a numbers guy, which some folks still see as being in opposition to the scout guys (which is inane by the way).

In theory, this plus news that the Kings and Cavs are «far apart» on a George Hill trade could end up with Channing Frye playing more minutes, something a number of smart folks have called for.

We have had the delight of helping a huge number of families make their getaways and trips significantly more pleasant for the entire family by giving civilities, for example, baby gear rentals in South Carolina, stroller rentals in South Carolina, crib rental in South Carolina and now folks can even lease a car seat and every other baby equipment on rental in South Carolina.

As Jane Merrick says, «It's the buses, stupid,» — in other words, folk are more likely to care about the number 508 from Leeds to Halifax today than HS2 a couple of decades hence.

Americans are typically distrustful of their government as a whole, and the people who wrote the Constitution definitely numbered in this crowd (many being the folks who rebelled against British rule).

There are currently a number of Amish folks sitting in jail for terrorizing / attacking other Amish and cutting off men's beards and women's hair.

A fair number of folks I'm talking to in economic development circles aren't entirely sold on Andrew Cuomo's plan to spend $ 1 billion to jump start the Buffalo economy.

Actually, and in spite of what folk etymology might suggest, the word meritocracy is usually used to describe a system in which the «best» get promoted to positions of powers, not a system where a selected number of able people vote as a political body.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, told the Arizona Republic this past weekend that a number of folks have been urging him to seek the presidency again in 2016.

Cameron thus perfectly captured the mood of hard - working folk despairing not only of the layabouts and benefit cheats whose numbers have swelled in the twelve years since Tony Blair swept to power promising to dramatically reduce them, but also of Labour's prowess for luring conscientious citizens into the welfare trap.

Farias attributes her loss in the South Bronx district to a number of advantages benefitting Diaz, Sr. «Name recognition, having a similar name as our borough president for example, these are things that definitely played a large role in the folks that came out and either weren't touched enough or came out to vote and didn't get enough information on anyone in the race,» said Farias, in reference to Diaz, Sr.'s son, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

«I don't think that this population, given the explosion in the number of millionaires since the tax has been in place and the level of income that these folks have, that this would be a good time to provide a $ 3.7 billion tax cut to the wealthiest,» Deutsch testified at a budget hearing on Tuesday.

The Labour surge in Leeds NE was probably due to remain voting folk in areas like Roundhay, and the large number of young professionals in Chapel Allerton going for Labour.

These examples show the power of probabilistic thinking to override our intuitive sense of numbers, or what I call «folk numeracy,» in parallel with my previous columns on «folk science» (August 2006) and «folk medicine» (August 2008) and with my book on «folk economics» (The Mind of the Market).

Also, a 2006 study in American Sociological Review found that the average person now has a smaller number of people in whom they could confide than folks typically did 20 years ago.

Fact is, I know a number of folks that eat a whole foods diet including cod liver oil, never eat white bread and even go so far as to make their own whole wheat bread with fresh flour and they are still having cavity problems in the family.

We see this time and time again listed in the forums; dairy just seems to cause major stalls in fat loss for a good number of folks.

Number one is that observations about our ancestors in hunter - gatherer diets show that approximate ratio in most folks: the 20 % carbs, 65 % fat, 15 % proteins granted there are some populations like the Katabans and the Pacific islanders and people like that who gets 60, 70, 80 % carbohydrate but most of them are handling that diet quite well because of their genetic propensity, increased activity of a lot of the enzymes responsible for digesting and assimilating carbohydrates probably better insulin sensitivity and pancreatic production of insulin as well but in most folks we see that this type of diet from just an observational standpoint and an ancestral standpoint works well.

I work with a lot of different folks in my holistic health coaching business and the number one barrier I hear from my clients that prevents them from reaching their health goals is a lack of planning and time.