Sentences with phrase «precious few»

There are precious few restrictions on the activities of former judges.

Only about one - quearter of the 20 members of the subcommittee appeared to be in attendance and only a precious few asked questions suggesting they even understood how modern federal sentencing works.

Other than a precious few members, it is not obvious that many even on this subcommittee care too much about this subject.

Except that in Backton, now that the morning rush moment was over, there were precious few cars and no whizzing at all, just the occasional sullen, neglectful crawl past.

A precious few scholars read judicial opinions from first word to last; and apparently no one is reading law review articles any longer.

Precious few firms utilize sales pipelines.

There are precious few that cater so perfectly to your own personal taste and cooking style.

But precious few have, since it's still not out yet.

And, if all 30 captive tigers are adopted, that $ 3 million could go a long way in preserving the precious few remaining tigers in the wild.

And we also know that, especially in a recession, state and local governments have precious few resources to help with electronics recycling.

Lots and lots of charlatans, lots and lots of pseudo-scientists, lots and lots of people who'd like for the world to think they are scientists, but like I say, precious few real scientists.

I haven't read one thing about a real scientist being involved in the cover - up, and precious few real scientists involved in the research.

When Oregon - based The Climate Trust (TCT) was tasked with identifying and securing offsets back in 1997, there were precious few to find.

When I called Nurse a liar in a previous comment, I wasn't talking about his scientific claims (of which there are precious few in the programme) but about his explanation of the purpose of the programme, which was completely at odds with the content.

There are precious few mails that form the heart of the argument.

However there are precious few sources of funding out there for sceptical research.

There are, so far, precious few details on how the EPA will handle this mandate.

There are precious few where laymen can come here to learn the science.

4) believe that selective, short - term statistics tell them everything, when any trader or investor, who is PUNISHED when he fails to correctly forecast oscillations in a complex system (unlike the cardinals of climatology), knows how impossible this is to forecast, beyond more than a precious few years.

There are precious few examples like this one, where a guy in a white hat actually wins in the end.

on the other hand there PRECIOUS FEW sites in the grid that follow the rules.

With precious few Piero della Francesca works in the world — only about twenty — to have seven paintings under one roof makes this a remarkable opportunity.

For someone not already long acquainted with the artist's practice, this retrospective, profuse as it is with examples, provides precious few opportunities to formulate a response.

Notorious for giving precious few throughout her career, we were fortunate enough to pin her down in a blunt and unmistakably Genzken-esque interview on why she doesn't play the media game, her love affair with New York City, and how former husband Gerhard Richter said her art is better than Andy Warhol's.

He also discussed those artists whom he considered his peers: They were «the precious few» because they had survived, having avoided the Vietnam War since they were too young to enlist or be drafted and who were determined to become professional artists.

In the context of this double loss, Terry's eloquent essay on the «precious few» was a revelation.

Realizing that I was unconsciously performing a series of value judgments on nearly - identical paintings was one of the precious few revelatory takeaways from Painter, 1957 — 1967.

Hobby Shop has precious few pieces from the late Chris Burden, but they tell a cohesive story — despite spanning nearly 30 years.

There are precious few singular words that are offensive on their own.

But even maxed out, each character will still only have a precious few — maybe 10 to 16 at most, and that's only for certain characters.

A world premier video showing Tony Hawk skating around the Woodland Hills Warehouse level from the original THPS was shown but since then precious few details have been released on what will actually be included in the game.

So precious few Fairuza Balk catladies.

Ishisoft's This Precious Land, is a truly unique beast, as it is one of those precious few games that despite being created under the limitations of a Ludum Dare competition managed to make it into one of our top ten lists.

One of the most inventive games of recent times appeared on precious few end - of - year lists.

Windows Phone's precious few exclusive Xbox - branded games often jump ship to other platforms — just look at Wordament and Kinectimals.

I'm one of the precious few who enjoyed the original Prey (Human Head Studios, 2006) a first - person shooter that had been in development for, incredibly, almost a decade.

Precious few of us have realized this — I know personally as Prometheus forced my family and hundreds of others out of our community with their ruthless expansion plans.

Those precious few seconds just before you launch into the snow; evaluating the drop, picturing yourself soaring through the air, grabbing, kicking and dominating.

They've had precious few successes on the Wii U, so this seems like an attempt at back to basics.

We've still got a few announcements up our sleeves and a precious few weeks left of initial bug fixing before the game is out of the gate and in your hands.

That over-reliance does mean this is a mentally more demanding game than the crash junctions in Burnout were, but then it takes a huge leap backwards with precious few junctions and not even being able to select a car.

There are precious few, if any, of those left.

P.S. I also spent my formative years wandering the corridors of the Liberty Tree Mall, blowing my precious few quarters in Aladdin's Castle.

And while the moment - to - moment gameplay is mostly solid, Never Die Alone has precious few ways to actually play.

There are precious few moments of inspiration in Lollipop Chainsaw.

There are precious few older games that stand the test of time and remain awesome in the modern age.

Whereas its predecessors were comprised of essentially linear levels (with precious few buildings open for exploration), Sniper Elite III (set in the African theater) takes a much more open approach to its level design, which is absolutely a good thing.

I am a huge Transformers fan and always have been, but there have been precious few games that have really done the property justice.

But there are precious few concrete suggestions for the year ahead, and the worry is that next - gen costs are likely to be even higher.

So, now I will do my best to build a picture of those precious few minutes with Mark and Chris and hope that through my vivid storytelling you, dear reader, will feel as privilege and enlightened as I did.