Sentences with phrase «relative handful»

A relative handful of these were slow enough to be trapped inside a special force field that kept them from touching «normal» matter and vanishing in a blink of light.

It's a big deal, because there are only a relative handful of franchise brands at Disney.

The consensus on these two is evinced by countless research papers dedicated to monetary policy strategy and implementation in the past quarter - century, compared with a relative handful on the design of countercyclical fiscal policy.

All the while, these firms have proved immensely profitable for a relative handful of venture capitalists, founders and IPO participants.

But only a relative handful ever adds to their number.

Having a common enemy in a relative handful of Roman theologians and traditionalist bishops did not unite the council into a single and shared progressive intention.

NFL rosters are annually comprised of nearly 2,000 players, but only a relative handful this season sprung forward with overt involvement.

With Diego Valeri out of the lineup after his red card against San Jose and Darlington Nagbe pushed into a wider position, the Timbers struggled mightily to hold possession and were only able to break out a relative handful of times.

The logic makes sense — Promoted Tweets are a new feature and essentially still experimental, so only a relative handful of trial clients are using them — but campaigns are nonetheless feeling a little disappointed.

And it's turned into a fight over more than «just» a couple of billion dollors; Defense Secretary Gates and President Obama seem to view funding more of the stealthy air - superiority fighters as a test of their resolve to bring Pentagon - style pork - barrel spending under control, and a Senate vote to route enough dollars in the defense appropriation bill to build a relative handful of additional F - 22s could well bring the president to exercise his first veto.

Virtual worlds may take off one day, but they're still a playground / workspace for a relative handful of enthusiasts, not an effective environment for mass marketing.

The bulk of this windfall would go to a relative handful (fewer than 200) of the very wealthiest estates valued at over $ 10 million each.

More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from HIV infection, and more than a million currently live with the virus, but a relative handful of people infected with HIV never get treatment for it and never get sick from it.

Research shows that in many disciplines, only a relative handful of programs in each field produce a large proportion of the Ph.D. recipients eventually hired for tenure - track positions.

«That is welcome news to the community of scientists who have been deeply involved in NIH - funded diversity programs that serve a relative handful of students each year,» Mervis wrote.

Federal agencies now fund only a relative handful of projects in this area, the official added, and most local districts don't have the money to purchase those found to be effective.

A relative handful (4 %) joined the government.»

But a relative handful of so - called fat cats still exist.

Health Impact News readers and a relative handful of knowledgeable consumers already know this.

In the study, the relative handful of smoking scenes in G - or PG - rated movies didn't appear to influence a child's likelihood of trying cigarettes.

Before long Gandhi is in India, a nation of hundreds of millions, ruled by a relative handful of British.

Humans are affected because if they do not have one of the relative handful of jobs involved with the catching and processing of the fish (which are all shipped off to Europe without anything beneficial in return), then they must turn to prostitution, find some other way to survive or starve.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

What if we were to expand the concept of PE to include yoga, dance, and martial arts throughout the country, not just in a relative handful of schools and school districts?

In 1970 — 71, there were only a relative handful of federal student aid programs, and total aid, including loans, amounted to just $ 16.5 billion in 2015 dollars.

Therefore, it is unlikely that substantial educational or social services for Haitian immigrants existed in all but a relative handful of schools.

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

Only a relative handful of charter operators nationally are attempting to deliver a classical liberal arts curriculum amid a rigorous academic culture, combined with a full athletic and co-curricular program.

Volkswagen is expected to soon provide federal regulators with a proposed fix for a relative handful of four - cylinder turbodiesel engines determined to be skirting EPA emissions standards.

You'll be blown away by the sound you get from a relative handful of speakers (10 vs. the base model's seven).

There are only a relative handful of Audi dealers who can supply and service e-tron models — 34 in total.

While some may believe that the cars of yesteryear were superior to today's high tech, lifesaving and safety feature - loaded vehicles, given the choice of a car of the past with one of today, it's difficult to believe that more than a relative handful would chose the former.

Right now, the relative ease of digital publishing — not yet the equivalent of blogging, but getting closer every week — and the exceptional successes of a relative handful of authors masks the larger challenges ahead for authors and publishers alike, regardless of their business model: discoverability.

Waid laid out his mission statement on the welcome page: «THRILLBENT was created because John Rogers and I believe strongly that comics can and will be a thriving mass medium in the digital age if - IF - they're created for modern media devices and not exclusively for printed pamphlets that are overpriced, uninviting to new readers, and abominably distributed in only a relative handful of storefronts nationwide.»

In addition, even though publishing contract terms (including advances, royalties, and rights) are simply awful for 99 % of authors, a relative handful of Big Name Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with Big Publishing.

With only a relative handful of pages left on the calendar, The A.V. Club has released its picks for the year's 20 best mainstream and superhero comics, prefaced with a...

(NB, not all retailers are designed this way — but the majority of bricks and mortar retailers in particular, are... especially the big box stores such as Costco who take huge positions on a relative handful of titles).

A quick check of 38 Florida newspapers reveals a relative handful.

During the last five years, as its audience has grown from a relative handful of curious neighbors to over 100,000 visitors annually, the museum has developed a program of 15 to 20 exhibitions a year.

Bring together the relative handful of countries responsible for the most emissions (past and immediate future), lock them in a room, subject them to Tiny Tim recordings, and don't open the door until they come out with serious commitments that bind participants to deep emissions reductions.

26 to 1 may approximate the ratio of advertising agency VP's volunteering their expensive services to promote UNEP, and hence their own services, in media their cool customers patronize to the relative handful of dunderheads being paid to write copy that plays to The Base.

What would make more sense: put up a wind or tidal farm to power a relative handful of first world households so they can watch their plasma TVs?

A partial exception might be the relative handful of economists like Nordhaus who do analysis of mitigation policy and related issues.