Sentences with phrase «rather than a handful»

That would focus attention on the Leader's support rather than a handful of opponents.

Its new mission was to become an incubator for, as the jargon would have it, «the next generation of disruptive inventors and professional thought leaders across a multitude of global industries» rather than a handful of painters, sculptors, photographers, and conceptual artists.

Two months later, in Nature, June 2012, Maslin and Austin stated, in part: «Dan Rowlands of the University of Oxford, UK, and his colleagues have run one complex model through thousands of simulations, rather than the handful of runs that can usually be managed with available computing time.

At First Allied Securities, the due diligence process has expanded to include a robust checklist of items, as well as a multi-person investment committee rather than a handful of decision makers, Laflamme says.

Not exact matches

She says too many of today's young aspiring entrepreneurs are fixated on founding unicorn startups, focusing on the handful of fabulously successful examples rather than the many, many more that don't make it.

In my observation however, there is a greater appeal among startups with a handful of employees rather than self - employed and freelancing professionals.

Meanwhile, a handful of networks whose business models rely on subscriptions rather than advertising amass all the most - talked - about shows on television.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Yet only a handful of products have come to market that feature flexible displays, and those have the displays mounted in a rigid holder, rather than free for the user to bend.

Still, she sent the link to a handful of investors Social Capital had worked with, asking them to share it with companies that might be interested in having their businesses evaluated by software rather than people.

Further, their portfolio building interface allows investors to take more appropriate risk, rather than just buy a handful of securities.

Rather than talk about a handful of verses, I think it might be more helpful to talk about seven themes that reflect the open view.

I added a handful of spinach and used Nutriblast Superboost powder (a blend of hemp, goji, cacao & maca) rather than just maca, and OMG.

I'd much rather have a handful of these than an Almond Joy candy bar!

I'd much rather wake up to a handful of those than a cup of coffee any day.

Inspired by «Manus x Machina» could a drinks brand embrace the fact that their product is made by passionate engineers with ultra high tech technology, rather than bearded brewers in check shirts sniffing a handful of hops.

I will probably eat them by the handful as a snack rather than as a cereal as I don't drink milk and don't like almond milk.

I have found this to be especially crucial when working from home (due to frequent grazing) and now having a mini person, simply because I am not always interested in making myself lunch and would rather eat another few handfuls of trail mix and a piece of toast than make a mess and wash dishes.

Rather than throw a handful on top of some not fully in season lettuce leaves, I decided to create a wheat berry centered salad that celebrate some of my favorite flavors of summer — tomatoes, cukes, and herbs.

This isn't the case for every G League squad — a handful are affiliated with a specific team, but operate via a hybrid relationship rather than direct ownership.

Haas» second season in F1 didn't quite reach the heights of their debut year which saw a handful of top six finishes and served as a campaign in which the team firmly established itself as a key player in the midfield rather than a new squad just there to make up the numbers, something we have been accustomed to with other new teams in recent years.

Rather than rightfully punish the act and counsel the striker, these entities and a handful of writers supported him on the basis that he's good at putting the ball in the back of the net.

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

The Hammers appeared incapable of stringing more than a handful of passes together and all too often it was side to side rather than forward and with purpose.

Parcel a handful of snacks rather than you bring along a big snack item, and don't forget to include one of these in your bag: dried - yogurt drops, yellow box Cheerios, Edamame, mango strips, or other cereal bars.

Despite the high percentage of traffic that goes to the top handful of websites, the internet is still a medium of niches rather than a mass medium.

Though the original email suggested that Romney and Republican elites were the target (it included lines like «we need a bold Reagan conservative to debate Obama» and «this campaign is going to continue to rely on millions of patriots from across the country rather than just a handful of wealthy donors and bundlers»), a subsequent message focused on the incumbent:

He was one of a handful of Republicans who broke ranks with his caucus rather than risk a government shutdown in a failed effort to defund Obamacare.

Once researchers have a handful of detections, then LIGO and other similar facilities become just another astronomical tool, but one that is sensitive to changes in gravity rather than light.

These men and women also allow flexibility, often giving a little bit of money to a lot of different companies rather than going all in on a handful of companies as many big firms do.

Checkpoint inhibitors already produce unprecedented rates of long - term remission for a handful of hard - to - treat cancers, but their potential is even greater: Because such drugs modify the body's response to cancer, rather than the cancer itself, they could theoretically be effective against almost any kind of malignancy.

However, to date, only a handful of metabolites principally produced by microbiota — rather than the host organism itself — have been identified.

Rather than waiting decades to see the effect of a gradual rise in CO2, a handful of studies have immersed stands of trees in a continuous bath of extra CO2, several hundred parts per million above ambient levels of about 400 parts per million.

The straightforward solution to this problem is for online dating sites to provide singles with the profiles of only a handful of potential partners rather than the hundreds or thousands of profiles that many sites provide.

Rather than send a million emails in hope of a handful of responses, make a million articles that will be perceived as relevant enough by the search engines to get top billing for a handful of searches and by a person to click through and contribute ad revenue.

Rather than baking the shells with the crumbs on top (which can make them soggy), toast the breadcrumbs separately, and toss a handful over each serving right before you put it on the table.

So rather than eating an apple or a cookie on its own, combine it with a handful of nuts or a piece of cheddar cheese.

We also like to include liberal parsley garnishes with all of our meals (think small handful rather than sprig).

I SUPPOSE I'd rather have a clear face than unlimited handfuls of cashews, but... dang!

If you eat your nuts like you had to gather and shell them yourself — rather than gorging on them by the handful — you won't be able to consume a significant amount of phytic acid.

«This is an unbiased approach to combining the maximum possible data and comparing a large number of drugs rather than one versus a select handful, so there's much more confidence in these findings,» says Dr. Parikh.

The garlic flavor came through perfectly and the whole wheat pita substitution gave the overall chip a solid crunch that was completely satisfying, making it easy to stop at just a small handful rather than devouring the entire bowl before halftime!

I'd much rather have a handful of simple knits than trendy blouses I hardly wear.

I'd rather get one piece I really love than a handful of pieces I feel «just okay» about.

More than the past handful of years, the news has spread rather quickly in regards for the fantastic amount of good results that a majority of Christians registering on these websites have been in a position to benefit from.

Our wide selection means that you can find Greek matches that truly share the traits that are most important to you, rather than being forced to pick from just a handful of Greek singles you might find on some other sites.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

So there are a handful of promising ideas in a movie that, to its detriment, is excessive in ways that are exhausting rather than exciting.

The key problem is the decidedly dull script, which throws up a handful of decent ideas, but fails to do anything interesting with them — one of the characters is obviously meant to represent the misogynistic attitudes behind the Gamergate controversy, but the film is content just to push that to its extreme and turn him into a full - on murderous scumbag, rather than explore it in any depth.

In the end it is even less than a Reader's Digest - like synopsis as it simply skips over entire episodes and rather focuses on events from a handful of episodes from the beginning and end of the season in question.