Sentences with phrase «small number of people around»

Not exact matches

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

A small number of farmers grow the food that feeds a nation and many other people around the world.

Indeed, when speaking to members around the country, that issue was seen as naval - gazing, relevant to a small number of people in the Westminster village who were aggrieved that their man didn't get the job.

Cameron even oversaw the use of a small table, which world leaders crammed around, in a bid to restrict the number of people in the room.

The numbers are interesting because several sources tell me that people around Cuomo are privately worried about turnout - not out of fear he'll lose, but out of fear he'll have a smaller mandate than the polls suggest, and enter office which a much smaller mandate than he was expected to have.

Johnson and Spagat expected that the success of the attacks, measured in the number of people killed, would cluster around a certain figure: There would be a few small attacks and a few large ones as outliers on either end, but most attacks would pile up in the middle.

Some serious outbreaks have occurred around the world in recent years leaving people hospititalised or even, in a very small number of cases, dead.

With first radio and then television, both passive receivers, becoming ubiquitous presences in people's homes, culture was united in the limited number of options available, and thus coalesced around a comparatively small number of widely shared cultural reference points.

Well, back in November of 2007, a number of vendors were pushing small, ritzy, high - priced mobile systems to consumers — systems that would be small enough to carry around with them, but have keyboards so that people could type in more than a couple of words comfortably.

While we feel it would be best if these dogs were no longer produced, we also believe that these dogs will always be around (but hopefully in smaller numbers), and feel it is important that there be accurate information and resources available to the people who find themselves and their dogs in need of it.

While a small number of regular sized cars do populate the island, most people choose bicycles, scooters, and yes, golf carts to get around.

Obviously, there's going to be a smaller pool of players available for games like the 3DS titles, which severely limits the number of people who can go around catching Pokemon and attempting to hit that goal.

The city is small enough to walk and cycle around, and significant numbers of people do.

There was of course a very small number of people — say around [Alfred] Stieglitz and people like that — that were doing some stuff that they thought connected them to the avant - garde in Europe.

Since urban areas are only a small percent of the earth surface - somewhere around 1 % one could use a smaller number of people - say 1/10 the number and 1 / 10th the gasoline consumption -.76 billion people and 10 gallon per day.

A small number of people are killed in grilling accidents — only around 10 a year — but you should have life insurance anyway!

Yet, «General Comment 7» of the UN CRC, to which Canada is a signatory, reminds us that «early childhood is a critical period for realizing children's rights» (2005: p. 3)... «survival, well - being and development are dependent on and built around close relationships... normally with a small number of key people, most often parents, members of the extended family and peers, as well as caregivers and other early childhood professionals» (2005: p. 4).