Sentences with phrase «relatively small number of people»

Similar to the mission of many blockchain startups, Everipedia set out to eliminate the bureaucracy the startups» founders thought allowed a relatively small number of people to be gatekeepers on Wikipedia.

These are just a small number of selections based on my following of a relatively small number of people (25 at the moment) and without looking at its «Sparks» topical news feeds.

All this effort and outlay never made sense for a relatively small number of people.

To build a clean power station involves convincing a relatively small number of people.

The Global Witness report concluded that despite forestry reforms initiated by the prime minister himself, large - scale illegal logging operations were the preserve of a relatively small number of people who were relatives or friends of the prime minister or other senior officials.

«Although it was only a relatively small number of people affected, we are also grateful to those passengers who were delayed this morning for their patience and understanding.»

All means of becoming rich inherently depend on only a relatively small number of people doing them successfully.

The 1920's weren't really «roaring,» except for a relatively small number of people, and the 1950's were not as dull and conformist as legend has it.

Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an argument to be made for dramatizing the story with expensive production values and well - known actors portraying the characters.

«It's a relatively small number of people.

«They are not going to use names because it's a relatively small number of people involved.

The most dangerous and virulent pathogens, like the Ebola virus, kill their victims too quickly, so an infected person is able to spread the disease to only a relatively small number of people before succumbing.

The researchers note that a limitation of the study is the relatively small number of people on which xenodiagnosis was attempted.

It appears that a relatively small number of people watched the lone debate in the election for New York City Comptroller, which occurred on Tuesday, October 17 between incumbent Democrat Scott Stringer and his Republican challenger, Michel Faulkner.

My guess is that a relatively small number of the people who cast a ballot for New York state comptroller or Texas railroad commissioner can accurately describe what the powers of those offices are.

«For 10 years the vast majority of people have seen no increase in their standard of living at all, while a relatively small number of people have become incredibly rich.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

The three BW authors (Benjamin Elgin, Doni Bloomfield, and Caroline Chen) take us inside the aggressive — and, at times, even combative — sales practices that helped turn a drug that treats a relatively small number of people into a blockbuster.

«We would not do this again,» says SerNet Chief Executive Johannes Loxen of the branding blitz, which he says was overkill because a relatively small number of people were affected by Badlock.

Not everyone wants to go — in fact, I think a relatively small number of people from Earth want to go — but enough would want to go, and who could afford the trip, that would happen.

With so many niches (cable channels, media sites, blogs, social sites), many reaching relatively small numbers of people, how do you tailor a message to reach either 1) a broad swath of the population, or 2) just the people who'll respond to it?

The reliably high percentage of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.

Not exact matches

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

Thousands of innocent people suffered, and families lost their livelihoods, as a result of the actions of a relatively small number of rogue employees.

Crowdfunding generally refers to a financing method in which money is raised through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people.

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.

I have problems with Franklin because he groups all people who are Muslim with the actions of a relatively small number of individuals who were Muslim and terrorists.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

«Also I'm associated in the media and public with a number of people who have been accused, and in some cases pleaded guilty, to child abuse in a relatively small school within the same time.»

The amount of subsequent research conducted on religious television in America has been relatively small in comparison to the large number of people and agencies which have been producing religious programs over the past 35 years.

During the pontificate of former deacon Damasus, Ambrosiaster wrote a little tract On the Arrogance of the Roman Deacons.l6 Besides the propitious factor of the relatively small number of deacons, mention also should be made of their close association with people in their everyday necessities as a common consideration in their election to the episcopate.

The AARP Sex, Romance and Relationships Survey on the sexuality of people 45 and older found that extramarital affairs happen for only a relatively small number of couples.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

Because although a huge budget it's made of relatively small payments to a substantial number of people.

They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.

David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and professor of medicine and of biomedical ethics, said those concerns resonate beyond treating SMA patients, who represent a relatively small group of people, because competition is fierce for resources to treat patients with any number of illnesses for which new and more expensive treatments are emerging.

Although this doesn't promise to restore normal vision, «a remarkable amount of information can be conveyed in a relatively small number of pixels,» he says, that would allow people to perhaps identify simple objects and even recognize faces.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

IT HAS been called the demographic sweet spot — a huge working - age population supporting a relatively small number of old and young people — and it has helped power China's economic explosion.

Although the numbers of people affected by these illnesses are relatively small, the specialist nature of their care and the risk of severe complications adds up to a significant cost - burden for their treatment.

The number of people living with Huntington's is relatively small.

With this strategy, teachers can raise money for a wide variety of projects by collecting relatively small amounts of money from a large number of people, usually leveraging the help of a website designed for the purpose.

If I know for sure that my efforts can make a concrete difference in the lives of the relatively small number of kids, teachers, and parents I interact with every day, why divert a single ounce of energy to reaching out to lawmakers who seem more intent on bickering with each other than listening to the people they represent?

Although this is a relatively standard number for the industry, it excludes people for whom smaller amounts of debt might be equally devastating.

But the number of people who have these types of smart devices connected to a network in their homes is still relatively small.

He said he expects the potential change to make it easier for a relatively small number of self - employed people to get a mortgage, and they will likely have to pay higher interest rates.

In reality, they don't affect a huge number of people, and when they do the charges are relatively small.

However, relatively few have held their recognition with a very small number remembered as being great (Chrono Trigger, FF6, etc) and instead people gravitate towards series instead of individual games.

The game also emerged as a reference point in online discussions about the relatively small number of quality first - person perspective platforming games.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.