Sentences with phrase «small corps»

There's no way the relatively small corps of American science journalists could adequately track goings - on in the much larger research community without input from those of us who can more closely monitor individual studies at individual institutions.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

The question is whether a small corps of candidates backed by a half - dozen vocal liberal leaders means there is widespread dissatisfaction among progressives for the son of liberal lion Mario Cuomo.

Teach for America has notified its partner districts that it is on track to train a smaller corps of teachers this year, possibly falling short of demand for its teachers by 25 percent.

Small coaching programs are often developed by academic researchers who do the coaching themselves or train a small corps of teachers to coach in a specific way.

The extent of exposure to these pollutants, some known to cause cancer, may never be known, but since the skies cleared and floods receded, a small corps of private air monitors have spread out into the neighborhoods near the spills and found that emissions likely reached dangerous levels - in some cases more dangerous than environmental regulators initially acknowledged.