Sentences with phrase «of a handful as»

Star man once again was Marko Arnautovic who has become more skilful and more of a handful as each week goes by — even if he should have done more to prevent the Chelsea goal.

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

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

«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.

It's something that we are seeing as a big growth vector for the future and we think we're one of a handful of companies that really have the scale to do it.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

Gill is one of just a handful of people who bet on politics full time, but he's part of a growing community of thousands who test their luck — or, as many maintain, skill — at guessing the outcomes of the ever - unpredictable administration of President Donald Trump.

Competition is fierce, as the field is dominated by a handful of corporate behemoths such as Stryker and Johnson & Johnson.

While many banks are using Ripple's blockchain software (known as XCurrent) to keep track of their transfers, only a handful are also using a product (known as XRapid) that integrates XRP.

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

She said employers» perception of Gen Y workers are lazy or entitled, as well as a tendency for employers to compete for a handful of graduates from select universities are larger problems for young workers.

Sometimes, it makes sense to only use a few frames in your GIF, such as when you want to show blinking lights or a handful of text slides.

As I see it, there's a handful of components that add up to the 30 to 40 percent factor rates on MCAs.

So far, only a handful of deaths have been formally confirmed, but when combined with suspected deaths, US media reported that the toll could be 30 so far — and still rising — as floodwaters recede in some areas and bodies are found.

On Wednesday, President Obama outlined a handful of proposals such as health - care exchanges, tax credits, and a public option — all of which could provide welcome relief to businesses coping with skyrocketing health insurance costs.

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.

He is open about relationships with employees, and has been involved in a handful of sexual harassment lawsuits from former employees alleging strange behaviour, such as strutting around in his underwear.

As one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authoritAs one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authoritas a health authority.

The card comes with a handful of other perks, many of which overlap with the Sapphire Preferred and Reserve, such as trip cancellation / interruption insurance, primary car rental loss / damage coverage, and various purchase protections.

Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.

One in a handful of CEO founders on the Fortune 500 lifer list, Smith famously conceptualized FedEx in a college term paper at Yale (he worked as a charter pilot on the weekends).

Last year, a handful of spots hit on topics such as immigration and diversity but took measured tones aimed at appealing to a broad range of viewers, Taylor said.

There are a handful of Canadian firms as well, including Calgary's Aqua Pure (TSX: AQV), which recently signed a $ 5 - million deal to provide water treatment services on a Select Energy site in the Permian basin in West Texas.

With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

It's easier if you're a startup with just a handful of customers, but as you ramp up, it becomes important to «make your millions of customers individually feel like they are one in a million,» as Leyden puts it.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Excel may still be useful for a handful of simple tasks, but you should no longer treat it as a critical component of your business.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

He says the frequency of his communication with the CEOs of Berkshire subsidiaries ranges from a handful of times a year — he averaged three calls a year with Benjamin Moore's CEO for a long time — to almost daily for a handful of key figures such as Berkshire's reinsurance chief, Ajit Jain.

Pentaband chips, which started arriving in a handful of devices in the second half of 2010, give manufacturers the option to add an extra frequency, such as AWS.

There are quite a few potential market movers this week, as investors will be watching out for a handful of corporate earnings reports — including some major players from the world's of tech and media — as well as U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen's two - day stint in front of D.C. lawmakers.

Indeed, about 90 % of the company's $ 5.3 million revenues (2012 figures) came from 120 different countries, but its primary customers are a handful of huge multinational printing equipment producers, like Cannon and Samsung, as well as some large distributors and dealers of printers in both the U.S. and Europe.

Those CVS «stores - within - a-store,» beginning with a handful of locations in North Carolina on Wednesday, will be rebranded as CVS / pharmacy and MinuteClinic locations.

Microsoft Ventures will take a «holistic approach,» as a three - channel, global support system for startups including a seed fund, a handful of accelerator programs and a community of local experts.

The Canadian government collects roughly $ 4 billion a year in tariff revenue, but only a handful of products such as cars, clothing and shoes generate a significant amount of money for the federal government.

She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

I talked to a handful of neckband headphone users on the street to try and get a sense of why they bought them, and time and again this was cited as a driving factor.

Second, as an animal product, the brush has an aroma to it when you use it the first handful of times.

The problem in both cases lies in seeing capitalism as embodied in a particular narrow set of practices, or in the behaviour of a handful of monolithic multinational corporations.

As such, Carrier can now use that $ 7 million to upgrade the plant, allowing it to fire all but a handful of those workers that Mr. Trump claimed he «saved.»

Grove is one of the small handful of people who created Silicon Valley as it is today.

As an entrepreneur, you are always doing a handful of things at once.

As a NATO member, Turkey would typically buy weapons interoperable with the defense alliance's weapons systems, but Ankara sought out new options after several NATO countries declined to renew their deployments of Patriot missile - defense systems in Turkey, leaving only a handful there.

In other words, instead of skipping a handful of payments or defaulting on a loan, contact your creditors and lenders as soon as a problem arises and negotiate some form of resolution that's within your financial means.

As one of the handful of women in prominent positions in the Canadian business landscape, do you get tired of representing women?

Her TriLinc Global Impact Fund, with individual investments as low as $ 2,000, is among only a handful of financial vehicles available to «retail» investors, the approximately 50 million U.S. households who don't qualify as high net - worth, or «accredited,» investors.

During the past few years, a handful of games have been released between January and April — but generally as a result of production snafus.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.