Sentences with phrase «of the few people in»

On Wednesday's hearing, he said that he made that decision because he was one of the few people in the Obama administration who had access to the leaked classified information.

He bought a Blackberry and at the time Wills was one of the few people in his circle to have one.

Frazier went straight from Penn State to Harvard Law School, where he says he was one of the few people in his class who had gone to a state university (as opposed to an Ivy League university or one of the more elite private colleges.)

But that also pales in comparison to earning the trust and respect of the few people in your life who truly matter.

Not to mention, characterizing an entire state based on the actions of a few people in one local church is a bit ridiculous.

I know of a few people in my life who love Christ and want to abstain from sin, but they are struggling with sexual sin or sinful desires.

I'm one of the few people in Israel to come out and say frankly it IS a bad deal, not just «I have a few reservations» about it.

«Dennis Vacco is one of the few people in Western New York qualified to represent me in a federal white collar kind of investigation.

«Ralph is one of the few people in the world who do this,» he says.

► Vandi Verma «is one of the few people in the world who is qualified to drive a vehicle on Mars.»

Françoise Sironi is one of the few people in the world to treat perpetrators of atrocities.

He's one of the few people in the fitness world who has unique ideas on training, and is able to back them with proof.

I know I'm in the minority on this one and I'm one of the few people in our society who don't use one.

I may be one of the few people in the world who truly loves Winter.

I'm a gym rat and like to keep myself fit and sexy;-D Lol... I'm one of the few people in the world who doesn't have a tattoo;...

And then, on top of that, I am no particular Will Ferrell fan, as I am one of the few people in my circle of friends who did not like Anchorman (though I loved Elf and Stranger Than Fiction, which are admittedly atypical of his usual vulgar output).

when in real life she is Christine Taylor and one of the few people in the film who was actually a model.

After all, she's one of the few people in the U.S. who understood the language of the unseen conspirators.

Feeling just a bit sheepish about being one of the few people in the throng who hadn't already seen this film, I went last evening (with Fordham research director Amber Winkler) to the big Paramount / Viacom - sponsored Washington premiere of Waiting for «Superman» — the much - discussed new education movie.

An executive is one of the few people in a position to challenge ingrained company behavior.

They are clearly capable of discerning their own likes and dislikes without the segregation to the tastes and likes of a few people in high places.

So long as it is not diluting the shares and inflating the percentage of a few people in charge it may be legal.

Case in point is that I am one of the few people in the neighborhood who does not urinate on other people's homes.

We really love being between Downtown Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, and we're probably some of the few people in the city who can say we're lucky to have an awesome landlord.

Unlike the forties, though, now the city's Mayor is one of the few people in San Francisco public office still holding hands with PG&E.; Eight of eleven San Francisco supervisors support a move towards public power, as does the San Francisco Democratic Party and a number of environmental groups.

To the contrary, I pretty much gave up on using Google + a short time after I wrote that post in June 2011 (my last Google + post is dated Aug. 17, 2011), and as far as I can tell, most of the few people in the legal world with whom I ever communicated on Google + also moved on.

Kyla is one of few people in British Columbia who can decipher police Breathalyzer records for the Alco - Sensor ASDs and the Intox EC / IR II.

Monnet was one of the few people in modern politics who really deserve the label «genius».

Not exact matches

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

And who cares if a couple of people think I'm being an attention whore for talking about this in such a real way if it actually does help change a few minds?

The long and short of it is that fewer people are willing to pay a premium for lots of channels they never watch in return for a few — HBO and ESPN — that they love.

We will dig into all of this with some of the smartest people on the planet at our 2nd annual Fortune Brainstorm Health conference in just a few weeks.

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.

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

For comparison, one round - trip flight across the country flying coach uses up three - quarters of one person's annual allotment in a few hours (source):

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

Kraft says it sold over 50 million boxes of the new recipe, which began to hit retail shelves in December, with very few people noticing the change.

People in manufacturing design installation and sales to mention but a few of the possibilities of a fully fledged Solar industry that Australia could embrace and possibly lead the way for the world to follow?

Unfortunately, few finance ministers are brave enough to talk plainly about what people actually pay in taxes and receive in government transfers or what they think is a «fair» distribution of the tax / transfer burden we all share.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

On her site, Fobes uses the example of a person who drives an old clunker or even takes the bus for a few years, so as to be able to afford to pay for a new car in cash.

The significance of low birth rates, of course, is that there are fewer persons in the workforce to support the growing ranks of retirees.

This is incredibly difficult, especially in an industry that very few people grow up dreaming of working in (not a lot of web developers that always wanted to build a quilting website), but the value of a leadership team can be judged by their ability to attract and keep the right talent.

The answer lies partly in PICI's collaboration model — and partly in Parker, who has immersed himself in cancer science in the way that few of his fellow philanthropists can match, according to some of the most prominent people in the field, inside PICI and out of it.

Then West began noticing that people remembered her specifically because she was one of the few black females in the field, and she says she started to revel in her unique status.

If you're one of the few guys in a city who owns a Harley, people are going to see that as a status symbol.