Sentences with phrase «only tiny minorities»

I see only tiny minorities in this country as being truly «anti-innovation,» for instance.

Many say people beleive you should «never kick a man when he's down» - but I'd make an exception for Nick Clegg - a good dinosaur stomping seems entirely appropriate for someone who has systematically abused the democratic process to inflict policies that only a tiny minority of his own party support, let alone the electorate.

Because each probe will be cheap — Dubowsky estimates they can be mass - produced for $ 10 apiece — NASA could release 1,000 at a time and mimic the way trees scatter seeds: Only a tiny minority need to succeed.

But relativists make up only a tiny minority of theoretical physicists, and there is no country where they dominate the intellectual atmosphere of the field.

Norah Olembo is one of only a tiny minority of African women who have made it to a position of power.

There is no doubt that some people — but only a tiny minority — must avoid gluten.

False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear Marc Siegel; Wiley, $ 24.95 SARS, anthrax, and mad cow disease have in the past decade sickened and killed only a tiny minority of humanity.

But why force yourself to do something you don't enjoy (let's face it, only a tiny minority of gym - goers is able to actually enjoy their cardio sessions) when there are others, far more effective ways to burn off stubborn pockets of body fat and boost your muscle gains at the same time?

Only a tiny minority of people have a problem with grain allergies.

But only a tiny minority will get a shot at a better future.

Having emailed and spoken to thousands of investors over the years, I have come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority will ever succeed in managing their money even tolerably well.»

In an earlier post, you mentioned William Bernstein's conclusion that «only a tiny minority will ever succeed in managing their money even tolerably well.»

Of all the companies we look at on the stock market, only a tiny minority are considered high quality stocks by TSI Network standards.

By most estimates, only a tiny minority of student loan borrowers — as little as 1 % — graduate with more than $ 100,000 in debt.

Claim 2 Of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers of my acquaintance, only a tiny minority doubts Claim 2.

Only a tiny minority of cases enter stage 3 where there is the possibility of an adverse costs outcome.

Only a tiny minority of consumers (5 %) use quality marks and still less made use of price comparison websites (1 %).

In only a tiny minority of species do males care for infants even remotely as much as mothers do... The simplest answer is that... [people follow] the path of least resistance... the mother is more sensitive to infant needs than the father... And that's just the point.

Not exact matches

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

The only people giving this tiny minority group the time of day is atheists who really have nothing better to do than call a horse a horse.

With the exception of a tiny minority of vital and mature congregations, the local church standing alone in relation only to national headquarters is a dependent rather than a viable and interdependent entity.

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

Neglecting these «output» and «input» aspects of legitimacy and giving priority instead to a euronationalist justification of a European sovereignty in the making could also turn out to be detrimental to individual freedoms: the illusion of homogeneity it would produce could incite European citizens to support policies sold by political leaders as being in the interest of the European «community» or «people», but actually only serving a tiny minority.

Gout is one of the «diseases of kings» that used to affect only the 1 %, the tiny minority eating rich diets.

There is only a really tiny minority that cares about reading in the bathtub or on the beach, not enough to really drive meaningful sales.

It is strikes me as the height of arrogance to assume that while we fight for the interests of everyone, only a tiny but powerful minority stands opposed in the name of selfishness.

And if no - one is recording the adverse effects of vaccines effectively, then how can anyone say only a «tiny minority» have adverse reactions?