Sentences with phrase «one of a handful»

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

It's something that we are seeing as a big growth vector for the future and we think we're one of a handful of companies that really have the scale to do it.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

Moon Express is one of a handful of teams from around the world competing for the $ 30 million Lunar X Prize, a competition organized by the X Prize Foundation and sponsored by Google.

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

As one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authority.

Genesis International is one of a handful of businesses that is overseen by Omani entrepreneur Qais Al Khonji, a businessman who is well known in his country for helping citizens overcome the hardships of starting their own businesses.

There you'll find one of the handful of Le Château concept stores the company has opened in recent years.

The German government canceled the visas of a handful of people believed to belong to the group's leadership.

The new Pasadena store will be one of a handful of the brand's 8,500 U.S. locations that will test the new name during the coming year.

Panoskaltsis - Mortari was one of a handful of biologists Cabrera reached out to for testing.

Kenneth Carleton Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., is a true American success story: a self - made millionaire, and one of a handful of African - Americans leading the largest U.S. companies.

Veteran goers tried and failed to depict the magnitude of the operation: 3,300 companies under one roof battling for the attention of a handful of retailers.

This area still consists of more modest sized homes than the over-the-top mansions, suggesting the wealth of a handful of households is so abundant that it is pulling up the overall average.

Square shares the same building Uber in San Francisco and Friar is one of a handful of high - powered C - level female executives within the tech world.

Gates is one of a handful of limited partners who have put a collective $ 181 million into Aspect's just - announced fund, the firm's second.

The problem in both cases lies in seeing capitalism as embodied in a particular narrow set of practices, or in the behaviour of a handful of monolithic multinational corporations.

Charlie Palmer is one of a handful of examples of dining bipartisanship on this list.

As one of the handful of women in prominent positions in the Canadian business landscape, do you get tired of representing women?

Roku also has the backing of a handful of major players in both media and tech, with nearly $ 210 million in reported funding so far from a list of investors that includes News Corp, Viacom, 21st Century Fox, and Netflix.

In 2011, Skelton went to combat again, leading an infantry company in Afghanistan, as one of a handful of severely wounded combat veterans who had returned to the front lines.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

San Francisco is already one of a handful of markets where Airbnb guests pay the same 14 percent «transient occupancy tax» they would if they were staying at a hotel.

In January — at about the same time states began filing civil demands — the first of a handful of potential class - action lawsuits that were national in scope were filed.

They get a real - time report card every day from BizRate, one of a handful of services that survey the customers of online businesses.

Andrew Ekonomou, 69, is one of a handful of lawyers assisting Jay Sekulow, the main attorney representing Trump in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Today's lifting of the ban on general solicitation, item 201 (a), was one part of a handful of measures included in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, known as the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April last year.

The lifting of the ban on general solicitation was just one of a handful of measures included in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April last year.

Atlassian, bootstrapped by its founders and co-chief executives Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon - Brookes, using a $ 10,000 credit card advance, is one of a handful of young companies that operate in the cloud and online marketplace for workplace collaboration tools.

Amazon already collects state sales taxes on products it sells directly, but the company does not collect state sales taxes for its third - party platform outside of a handful of states.

GE was also one of a handful of companies involved in computing in the early 60s, continuing their evolution as a business.

Goldman is one of a handful of financial organizations to offer Bitcoin Futures for selected clients.

At present two banks in different countries have to use one of a handful of large «correspondent banks» to transfer money between them.

Bloomberg noted that SoundHound is one of a handful of companies that build AI technology from scratch that can listen to and interpret sound.

A supporter of a handful of protesters from the activist group the Raging Nannies who gathered outside of Facebook to demand greater data protection, Electronic Frontier Foundation Organizer Nathan Sheard, also raised concerns, «Facebook has a responsibility to its users.»

One of a handful of exceptions to that assumption, however, is concern over the rate sensitivity of low volatility «smart beta» funds.

This method consists of a handful of very specific price action entry triggers that can provide you with a high - probability entry into the market.

Canadian businesses can also follow the lead of a handful of pioneer companies that have already decided to take steps to invest in countries along the Belt and Road route.

Nouriel Roubini, one of a handful of economists said to have foreseen the financial crisis, counts 10 things that could cause trouble, if they aren't doing so already, including the bursting of asset - price bubbles, unusually weak business investment, and extreme income inequality.

Nicklaus Children's Hospital will be one of a handful in the country to offer a fast turn - around on genome sequencing that can be a key to saving infants with rare and hard - to - diagnose genetic disorders.

Hundreds of activists gathered to call for the release of a handful of refugees and immigrants who are being detained at the airport, as customs officials seek more clarification from the White House as to the extend of the ban.

He wasn't too fazed, and he made it through, one of a handful among the hundreds who applied each year.

Johnny Steindorff launched Focus Investments in 2014, one of a handful of crypto funds in existence at the time.

Adapt, which is based in Dublin, but operates out of Radnor, Pennsylvania, is one of a handful of companies that in recent years have introduced products delivering naloxone, a decades - old drug that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, in Narcan spray.

Zoho is one of a handful of vendors that lists a free version on their website.

The recent divergence between the two highlights that volume outside of a handful of these financial stocks continues to contract.

He is one of a handful of nominated Wildrose candidates to forfeit their candidacies following the mass floor crossing on Dec. 17, 2014.

Nuuvera has an Italian import license, a GMP - certified facility in Malta, and is one of a handful of companies competing for a German cultivation license.

China's communist - era stock market dates to 1990, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange began trading shares of a handful of state - owned companies in a crowded hotel room.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.