Sentences with phrase «of a handful of people on»

So Chandler is one of the handful of people on the planet whose bathtub is big enough to baptise Justin Bieber.

And on election night, Conlin was one of a handful of people on the stage with Schneiderman when he delivered his victory speech.

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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.

A handful of people will undoubtedly help keep that story alive when talking about the importance of listening on social media.

Instead, I have focused my energy on trusting my own plan, one that includes input from a small handful of people, and executing this plan consistently.

An even bigger loss, Jill and I have found, comes from the potential of customer advocates who aren't uncovered and nurtured because you're constantly relying on the same handful of people.

In the short - but - punchy talk that was recently recommended on both the blogs of both top VC Brad Feld and prominent angel investor Joanne Wilson, Forman offers a handful of tips to companies that want to both make themselves appealing to that vast pool of talent that actually wants a life outside work, and get up to date on cutting - edge people management practices, including:

On a rainy afternoon in October, a handful of people hang out at the ING Direct café across from Toronto's Eaton Centre.

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.

JPMorgan drew up plans in 2012 to focus on middle - market banking and now has about 50 people in the investment bank dedicated to this group of clients, having hired local, senior, experienced bankers in a handful of regional centers over the past three or four years.

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

Earlier this month, the People's Bank of China, in conjunction with a handful of government agencies, announced a ban on ICOs (token offerings).

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

Thousands of people are trying to sell their goods, services and ideas on the internet, but only a handful of them actually find success in it.

Some people have a handful of credit cards and carry balances on all of them.

«Typically, a channel is going to have a handful of people on it,» said Moore.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

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.

Everything on the planet but a handful of people and some animals.

Note in OT few people walked with God (Abraham, Moses, Enoch, Noah, the prophets and a handful of others) and the rest had the law on their back.

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).

We know from Abraham's appeal on behalf of Sodom and Gomorra that God will spare a whole city of sinners for the sake of a handful of righteous people.

It seems that, during the economic boom preceeding the bust, more than a handful of Irish people, like many noveau riche upper middleclass Americans, began spending some of their disposable incomes on imported exotic reptiles.

I don't think only a «handful» of religious people, for example, make irrational decisions based on faith.

You are accusing a group of millions of people of horrible things based on the (dubiously demonstrated) actions of a handful of people.

In a single verse (2:11), in a little handful of common words familiar even to a child, all that is essential is said and all of human emotion accompanying the action is eloquently implied: When Moses was grown, he went out to «his people» (lest there be any misunderstanding, the word is literally «his brothers») and he «looked on their burdens.»

It is only recently that other scientists started making progress on the idea that a multiverse could exist but we are only talking about a handful of people here.

I repeat meals far more often than I used to and I take a handful of shortcuts but I am still fumbling through my days with the wee people at my feet (or on my hip and in the cupboards, more specifically).

You just heat grass fed butter in a pan, when its melted put a handful of corn per person in and put the lid on tossing until poped.

On the other hand, even in New York City I can honestly say that I only saw people selling jackfruit perhaps a handful of times.

«A handful of organic soil contains more living organisms than there are people on this planet.»

This recipe can easily feed 8 people and only has a handful of ingredients that you probably already have on hand.

That said, I have a handful of recipes that I do fall back on when family parties come up or we have people coming in to visit OR on the rare occasion when I just need a quick dinner and there's nothing already made in the fridge.

You're also going to ask the one friend who you know will show up on time to bring a bag of potato chips and a bag of pretzels to go with the kimchi dip, the one friend who you know is going to show up late and feel guilty about it to bring one of those little cases of clementines, and ask a handful of random, reasonably responsible people to bring bars of chocolate, dealers choice.

Cazorla and Ozil are better out wide and before people criticise me, Cazorla has played on the left for 10 years and Ozil played on the right in a handful of games at Madrid and at the World Cup.

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....

I swear to God, there are a handful of people on this site who have never had to make a decision more difficult than what brand of toilet paper to buy.

With the Tinkerman famously not being much of a tinker after all in a campaign where he only made a handful of changes to his starting line - up, many people attributed Leicester City's success last year to the luck they had on the treatment table, which made it all the more unfathomable.

I am going into this new year feeling great and I have to thank a handful of people for being there with me on my down turns and for my new blog support system!

There are a handful of times people feel justified to freely comment on your lifestyle choices — when you're pregnant or announce your decision to remain child - free; when you're a working mom or a stay - at - home mom; and when you get divorced.

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 directlOn 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 directlon the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

I had a Google Wave, for example, and I didn't use it not because I didn't like it's features and functionality but because there were only a handful of other people I knew on it.

This exercise turned out to be hard, with only a handful of people out of hundreds asked filling out all five categories on their own.

Their blog was read by maybe 30 people on an average day, but among that tiny audience was a handful of more prominent writers, and the videos of past Sotomayor speeches they unearthed began to climb their way up the media food chain.

Those Eurosceptics are the handful of people who now run the country, the rebels on Europe who harassed successive Tory party leaders and who now bully those who question «the will of the people».

Jay seems unimpressed by the idea that upholding these ethical principles would rest on such a small handful of people.

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy: «A few people, a handful of activists, have insisted that it isn't enough simply to celebrate the beliefs of minority communities; they want to disown the traditions and heritage of the majority, including the Christian faith and the English language.

Dopp claims that he requested info on Bruno's travels at the behest of curious members of the press, and that a handful of other people were involved in the plot.

Bangladesh has been under intense pressure after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities for which only a handful of people have been convicted.

A handful of people negotiated behind closed doors, being more candid with the lobbyists whose clients stuff their campaign coffers than with members of the press or the general public about what was going on.