Sentences with phrase «of the handful of people who»

Eric Steel's documentary explores the lives of a handful of people who committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

And, even though I'm only one of a handful of people who voted for it, it should have been an All - Star.

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Although, I must admit, I was one of the handful of people who enjoyed the first game.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Current securities law dictates that an entrepreneur can only equity crowdfund, or raise money from a group of people by selling portions of his or her company to individuals who meet a handful of specifications deeming them sufficiently wealthy.

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

I have seen the reaction of the few handfuls of people who have tested Babl so far, and many of them have found it addictive.

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.

Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google.

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.

«There are probably a handful of people, five to seven people, who if they just picked up and went, you would see that in the revenue stream,» said Kevin Sullivan, the state's revenue services commissioner.

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.

Please do nt let yourself be influenced solely by one or even a handful of people who claim to be «born again.»

If there were, we would all accept and believe it, whereas the only people in the world that I have ever met who actually do believe it are a handful of process theologians!

Our group, though small, is amazingly diverse, including homeless men and women, university and seminary students, people whose addictions are still active and others who are in recovery, young professionals and social workers, a mix of ethnicities and even a handful of «normal» folks.

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).

If you want to organize a lay reading ministry, remember Gideon, who started with a handful of people.

Worse yet, if you combine this principle with capitalism, property rights, and rent - seeking, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer until one day there is barely more than a handful of people who can even afford to volunteer or donate anything.

Membership in all but a handful of congregations today is relatively casual, making few demands of persons who indicate interest in a congregation.

The handful of folks who replied helped fortify a thought I had been having: I am not a «religious» person at all.

But they have begun to talk to each other and to discover that there are a handful of people here and there who one day may all contribute to a common theological style.

Most people who care about higher education have a handful of similar stories, projecting a dismal forecast for the liberal arts.

However, 1) by no means is the entire faith «bad» or «wrong» because a handful of people abuse the religion, and 2) arguably, «Christian hypocrites» are not really Christians at all (in the Gospels, for example, the Pharisees, extremely religious Jews who took extreme measures to follow all of Moses» 613 laws, proved to be Jesus» «enemies», because they did not love other people.)

The handful of religious zealots that do foolish things are far outnumbered by people who are inspired by their Faith.

And a good handful of people - who - might - have - been - models doing things like eating gluten - free baguette sandwiches and sipping turmeric lattes while bitching out their probably - assistants - hopefully - not - mothers.

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.

Ozil right now is displaying the sort of attitude that the whole Football Club should show, there are only a handful of people at Afc who has the want to win every game attitude.

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 hope this isn't a shot at people like me and our understandable frustrations with the handful of commenters here who are total morons.

People may also grow tired working with you or you have a handful of colleagues who will never disagree with you due to favouritism.

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.

Kikuyu is a the largest ethnic group in Kenya and therefore, a handful of people who watched the video noticed.

Probably not feasible for most of us, but we do have a handful of small people, furniture and animals who could inhabit a box, via Busy Being Fabulous

which makes sense to people who don't understand statistics (if HB accounts for only 0.5 % of births and other cooling centres see only a handful of cases a year, they SHOULD N'T see any HBs.

You are one of a small handful of people here who have actually been helpful.

I find it both mildly disturbing and amusing that you think that the entire beef eating population, some of whom have died after eating pink slime by the way, should somehow feel bad for a handful of people who had no problem at all whatsoever pushing such a disgusting product onto an unsuspecting populace.

I'm very skeptical of most of the public voices who are loudly in favor of budget cuts now, because too many of them were the same people praising the Bush tax cuts that blew the deficit through the roof (nice work that, turning surplus into record - setting deficit in just a handful of years).

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

Hall of Fame running - back Thurman Thomas is set to deliver swag and tickets to the football team's official draft party to a handful of people who use the app today.

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».

Actually, he said, the entire street was shut down and the handful of people who came into contact with the powder — including WFP political director Bill Lipton — had to be decontaminated.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) was one of just a handful of mostly liberal members who voted against Obama's deal because it also extends tax cuts for people with incomes over $ 250,000.

They said it would apply to no more than a handful of people who are deemed to present a serious terror threat.

Albany County Republican Chairman John A. Graziano said Carey, who made his announcement unaccompanied, is among a handful or so of people who have asked the party for its support.

The then 23 - year - old Oxford PPE graduate was one of a handful of people at the FT who were sceptical about British membership of the ERM.

«There are just a small handful of people who have the privilege of leading this state for over a decade.»

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

We should better ensure that a new agenda will be pursued whereby every member will have the opportunity to vote in the primary so that it will be more representative of the thinking of party members which ordinarily it supposed to be than when you have a handful of people who turned opportunists overnight and could not see any objective than maximising their returns.»