Sentences with phrase «of the few people around»

Franke can't make me feel better about climate change, but she's one of the few people around who gives me hope.»

The actress was one of the few people around the man when he went down, and attempted to help him up, before someone else phoned a doctor.»

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Yesterday, I wrote about the shady role of a few start - ups in the government's bid to gather more and more intelligence about people and businesses around the globe.

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

(Shoot, most of the time when we say, «I can't» to ourselves, we immediately start thinking of ways to get around it — that's why so few people achieve their personal and professional goals.)

Second, around 2 million fewer people would receive coverage through the subsidized «non-group,» or individual market — the focus of both Obamacare and the AHCA.

Most importantly, further eroding civil liberties is likely to fuel what I believe to be the underlying cause of the unrest that's popping up around the globe: a deep frustration with a system that is seeing the world's growing wealth increasingly controlled by fewer and fewer people.

Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

«The fact that [Silent Circle] is building something around what people intuitively want... I actually think that's probably one of the few sustainable models [in this industry],» Levchin says.

Page told TIME that he «sat in on and contributed to a few roundtable discussion [sic] with people from around the world» in the first nine months of 2013.

There are a lot of people around the world who work in finance, but few can be identified as financial experts.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Using Fleming's data, that means a very small percentage of muni investors holds around $ 1.5 trillion — a vast sum of money for so few people.

And then, create all of your content around those few fictitious people.

The executives» senior positions in Facebook made them some of the few people who could potentially turn around the social networking site's views toward user data.

initiative has been around for nearly two full years already, especially when considering very few people thought this project had any chance of success in the long run.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

There are not a few people who rely on cryptocurrencies, we have seen that over time they have added to the growing faith of the cryptoactive, empresarios, artistas, filántropos, gurús, entrepreneurs, artists, philanthropists, gurus, investors, politicians, economists, and many influential and recognized people around the world who consider that currencies like bitcoin and others have tremendous potential and many practical uses.

It is hard to imagine the Arnhem Bitcoincity initiative has been around for nearly two full years already, especially when considering very few people thought this project had any chance of success in the long run.

Yeah, I know a lot of people who were drowning in their own sp it and blood, that were then delivered a fatal stab wound, left hanging in the hot middle eastern sun for a few more hours, then treated with caustic herbs that are now walking around today...

«We do have people living the more totally organic life around here: aging hippies, home schoolers of a certain kind, a few professors, and others too.

You people realize you're basing your entire lives around a few scraps of ancient paper written by primitive people?

If we continue our individualistic trend of living longer while generating fewer replacements, then there just won't be enough young and productive people around to pay for the benefits of the old and unproductive ones.

Around 40 Church of England congregations will try out the electronic hand - held devices in response to concerns fewer people now carry coins and notes with them.

• A few people in an office in Rome have oversight of nearly 3,500 seminaries, 1,500 colleges and universities, and thousands upon thousands of Catholic schools with more than fifty million students around the world.

FWIW, I think it is perfectly reasonable to surmise that there was a person who went by the (Aramaic version of the) name «Jesus» who had some sort of ministry going for a few years around 30CE and who is in that sense and only that sense the «true» Jesus and therefore the founder of Christianity.

Deborah went to the Latymer Christian Centre and described how she is helping people find loved ones: «A few of my friends are going around different hospitals, that live in neighbouring areas, and taking a list of names of people who've been brought to A&E.

In a few weeks, several of us around the blogosphere are going to read and blog about a book which is creating an earthquake in the way people read and understand the Book of Revelation.

Then take a bit of time to click around and read other people's thoughts on the subject, leave a bit of comment love in your wake, make a few new connections, enjoy the community of people who are tapping away at their laptops in coffee houses and kitchens all around the world.

People with lots of neurotransmitters bumping around in their heads are not happier than people with few neurotransmiPeople with lots of neurotransmitters bumping around in their heads are not happier than people with few neurotransmipeople with few neurotransmitters.

Also: in my experience around a lot of people who are not Christians, very few would object to non-Christian, or non-believer.

I have run into a lot of dudes the past few years that carry around a theological arrogance... It's gross and it hurts people.

I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and hundreds of thousands of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.

Moreover, with religions that have been around for more than a few generations and have weathered more than a few schisms, the deeper you get into them the more you find that the way - out - wacky stuff at the beginning is of a piece with the insights that have kept people coming back to them over the years, and that those insights include vital truths not generally available elsewhere.

Sure, I don't know many fundamentalists personally, because I can't stand being around people who are judgmental, but I caught a few seconds of a church service on television once.

It is a few lines of a personal liability law:... «19if he (any person) gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

Half the people at a tea party rally get around on electric chairs, and few of them look like they're suffering from anything but a lack of will power when it comes to junk food.

Then please take a bit of time to click around and read other people's thoughts on the subject, leave a bit of comment love in your wake, make a few new connections, enjoy the community of people who are tapping away at their laptops in coffee houses and kitchens all around the world.

This is far from a comprehensive list — these are a few of the issues many people in churches around the world are dealing with, whether they admit it or not.

A few people around the world actually killed themselves because of this nutburger's rantings.

Christianity had been scattered around the world, but, except for a few remnants of old churches in the Near East and India, it is doubtful whether it had yet taken firm root among any non-European people.

What I'd rather do is tell you about the alternative, about just a few of the people who treat me and nearly everyone they encounter with respect, openness, and humble teachability, even as they carry around an armful of credentials.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

Then the participants are asked to take their several pictures into a previously arranged small group of six or seven persons — or fewer depending on the allotted time — and, using the go - around technique, share with each other what the pictures mean to them.

There is a variety of ways to get connected as a group — joining hands in the circle with eyes closed for a moment and then discussing what each person experienced; milling around, taking a brief time to hold the hands and look into the eyes of each member, repeating his name; talking in pairs for a few minutes about topics such as «What I hope for and fear in this group,» «What's most important to me right now,» «What I hope to become in the next year,» after which each person introduces his partner to the group, sharing what he has learned.

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

Most of what we call «saving the lost» is manipulation around getting people to agree to a few theological ideas.

As I have had a few days to reflect on what is happening in my life right now, I have gained a bit of perspective, and realized that the «crisis» I am going through is one that countless people go through every day in America and around the world.

I then focus on how good I feel compare to where I was a few years ago, and try to focus on the positives around that rather than getting frustrated and envious of other people.