Sentences with phrase «of a handful of people as»

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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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.

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

As with other online applications, Web - based fax gives people the flexibility to use the service from anywhere, says Mike Pugh, senior vice president of marketing at a href = «http://www.j2global.com"> j2 Global Communications, which runs eFax, eFax Corporate and a handful of other Internet - based fax brands.

A lot of people still think of the pharmaceutical industry as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of brand - name drugs such as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to make up for all the misses.

The income - sprinkling change was among a handful of measures Ottawa insists will target wealthy people who use corporate structures purely as a way to reduce their taxes.

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 back, a handful of of people from small businesses also located downtown served free food and drink: A man with tattoo sleeves watched as two women sampled tea from a startup called Tealet, a nationally - ranked barista (yes, there are barista rankings), poured specialty coffee.

As with the ongoing «fake news» scandal in the political world (where the public largely remains awestruck at the discord), only a handful of people in the world perhaps know bitcoin's inner - workings enough to really understand the issue or evaluate proposed code.

As a matter of fact, most people that runs party planning business choose to run the business alone or at most with a handful of full — time employees just for the sole aim of reducing overhead, and maximizing profits.

As Mike Hearn said, Bitcoin became «a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.»

As a matter of fact, most people that runs event planning business choose to run the business alone or at most with a handful of full — time employees just for the sole aim of reducing overhead, and maximizing profits.

The first handful of presidents thought a lot about, as have many people since.

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.

I saw a handful of black people inside my church as proof that we were fine.

What we have here is a proposal that a small handful of learned people, presumably including Mr. Wieseltier, will serve as the custodians of the moral theory and sources of democratic governance.

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).

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

As guest speaker, I am greeted by a handful of persons as the congregation files out of the gleAs guest speaker, I am greeted by a handful of persons as the congregation files out of the gleas the congregation files out of the glen.

A handful of chiles together with other condiments such as curry leaves and a little ash from the hearth is waved over a person's head to create a shield against curses and bad spells..

taking what they read in the papers / internet as the gospel truth, when in fact only a handful of people really know what, s going on, who is to say we didn, t go for aubeymang and if we didn, t why?nobody takes into account things like the player, s desire to play for a certain club or manager etc....

The Englewood and Harrison districts have both seen a handful of people shot over the last two days, and there have been shootings as far south as the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood at the edge of the city to the Rogers Park neighborhood bordering Evanston.

Only a handful famous people bore Fleur as a name like St. Fleur of Beaulieu and Fleur East, to name a few.

'' If people are discarded at a young age, after a handful of years as a minister, then we lose everything they have learned.

I will support leadership anytime, I don't determine leadership... but let me reiterate the point, if I have gone ahead and answered the question the way some people, a handful of people, wanted me to answer today I would have been finished as a politician because it would have been assumed that I endorsed somebody, I am not about to endorse anybody until we have gone through the processes.»

On the other hand, if you're trying to reach a handful of influentials, such as, say, political activists in the mountain states in the West, you're going to get better results by focusing on the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

Just as term limits have the perverse effect of giving power to the lobby (if members are term - limited, lobbyists and a handful of long - term staff become the only institutional memory), cutting Congressional budgets will in practice create even more distance between Congressmembers and the people they represent.

«The result of this has been huge sections of the British media defended their friends in the so - called main parties and the offensive, idiotic statements made by this handful of people have been lifted up and presented to the Great British public as if they represent the view of this party, which they do not.

When Labour got back in in 1997, there was only one person in the cabinet (Margaret Beckett) who'd seen the inside of a red box before, plus only a handful of less senior ministers such as Michael Meacher and John Morris.

He can be sharply critical even of those closest to him, a mercurial person whose admiration is reserved for a handful of people, including both his father and former president Bill Clinton, whose politics Andrew came to see as more practical than his father's.

Trump has already nominated a handful of people to fill these slots, including former Governor of Texas Rick Perry, who has questioned the science underlying climate change, as energy secretary.

A New Jersey lawyer named Wayne Weiner, for instance, is one of only a handful of people who suffer from chronic cluster headaches, a rare malady in which the headaches strike as often as 10 to 12 times a day, requiring 10 to 12 doses of a triptan.

Paired with the photographs are essays by Miller, as well as a handful of essays written by people with very different connections to the space program.

Had it happened to someone else I might suggest a chance electrical anomaly and the law of large numbers as an explanation — with billions of people having billions of experiences every day, there's bound to be a handful of extremely unlikely events that stand out in their timing and meaning.

The population in question can be as big as a handful of people or, in the case of a pandemic, whole continents.

As scientists and as a society, we accept the low probability that a handful of people may become accidentally infected and even die doing necessary sciencAs scientists and as a society, we accept the low probability that a handful of people may become accidentally infected and even die doing necessary sciencas a society, we accept the low probability that a handful of people may become accidentally infected and even die doing necessary science.

It exposes the immune system to only a handful of bacterial proteins, and it may be that exposure to more — as occurred when people were inoculated with the whole - cell vaccine — is more powerful.

Rather than send a million emails in hope of a handful of responses, make a million articles that will be perceived as relevant enough by the search engines to get top billing for a handful of searches and by a person to click through and contribute ad revenue.

It's something I'm working on myself, as well as a handful of other people.

A handful of studies exist showing an insulin response from just sweet taste in healthy people, and some studies show a lot of variation in obese subjects, as well.

As I think I state pretty clearly in the article, omega 6 are healthy in very small doses — nothing like the high amounts people consume in the Standard American Diet or even on a few handfuls of nuts every day.

The average Primal person, who avoids grains and legumes, has an ounce, or a small handful of almonds as an afternoon snack (350 mg phytate) with a couple Brazil nuts (171 mg) for the selenium.

There are some people who look at calorie counting as a way to squeeze in another handful of M & Ms, knowing that it's within their calorie goals.

But on the other hand, there were a handful of women I met that were just as fun and encouraging in person as they appear on the internet!

As mentioned, Alena is getting to be a tween and with that comes the typical unkindness and gossip from a handful of unhappy, young people.

As a matter of fact, there are only a handful of website that have a proven track record of bringing together like - minded people from all over the world.

So sites like MatchSTD as well as a handful of others including MPwH (Meet People with H) from the Antopia Herpes Network, which has some 54,090 members, reduces that burden, not only creating an online dating service but a social community.

Whether you want to date a Christian, a vegetarian or a millionaire, there's probably a dating website out there for you, so it should come as no surprise that there are a handful of dating websites geared toward connecting people with the...

Only a handful of people are chosen as compatible matches.

The plot — absurd as it is that a handful of people would be alone and in charge of saving the world, or in an encounter between organizations named Section 20 and Office 39 — has enough twists and momentum to keep you eager to know what happens next.