Sentences with phrase «story of a handful»

This series of «Letters To Dad» is intended to tell the stories of a handful of homeless / runaway teens, including why they are on the street, what life is like there, how they are surviving, and what is happening and will happen to many of them.

It's a story of a handful of young scientists with bold ideas that will forever change the way you see nature.

«Come What May» tells the intimate story of a handful of villagers (August Diehl, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Alice Isaaz and Matthew Rhys) as they abandon their town to head for the coast, where they hope to be safe from the invasion.

We have captured the stories of a handful here.

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Dead Space Extraction tells the story of a handful of space colonists desperately struggling to escape from a horrific infection on the Aegis VII mining colony deep in the furthest regions of space.

But then, Judge Shepherd argues that abortion should be reconsidered given the stories of a handful of women who have had abortions, some of whom later regretted them.

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Developing story ideas for your blog is a lot like coming up with a business idea: You're bound to come up with a handful of duds that have a few gems sprinkled between.

A handful of people will undoubtedly help keep that story alive when talking about the importance of listening on social media.

Kenneth Carleton Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., is a true American success story: a self - made millionaire, and one of a handful of African - Americans leading the largest U.S. companies.

Resisting the urge to post this story on Twitter, my friend settled for sharing this story with a handful of acquaintances on Facebook.

Then wrangle up a handful of apps — including yours, of course — that'd be appropriate for this story.

This could be writing a handful of short stories, or painting on canvases in your living room, or writing songs, or knitting sweaters, or perfecting a handful of recipes, or volunteering for a cause you care about.

For the handful of Snapchat stars Business Insider talked to, Instagram's copycat Stories product looks so far like a big, potentially lucrative opportunity that they can't wait to start toying with.

The story begins 30 years ago, with Jack Stack and a handful of colleagues at what was then called Springfield ReManufacturing Corp., or SRC.

If you're like most shoppers, you probably have a handful of horror stories.

Then, reach out to a handful of journalists and / or publications that you can see really valuing your story.

When Jordan Bishop is not writing personal or company profiles, he contributes insights about the misunderstood to publications like Forbes, never - before - told travel narratives to a handful of in - flight magazines and enables international clients to tell transformative stories as a principal at STORIED Agency.

I have testimony after testimony from thousands of followers who almost daily share their stories of redemption by forging just a handful of Keystone Rich Habits.

The first Christians were never systematically persecuted by the Romans, and most martyrdom stories - with the exception of a handful such as Perpetua's - were exaggerated and invented, several scholars and historians say.

Think of The End of the Affair and A Handful of Dust: both stories about adultery, and both Catholic stories about adultery.

The first Christians were never systematically persecuted by the Romans, and most martyrdom stories — with the exception of a handful such as Perpetua's — were exaggerated and invented

These are only a few of the handful of stories emerging from Pakistan, the third most dangerous place in the world for women.

My mama tells the story that when I was a gangly four - year - old kid, they hauled my kid brother and sister and I, down to a panhandle town named Hereford, Texas, for a handful of months, and my dad sharecropped cotton with this farmer west of town.

Toward the end of the story, it is allowed that the American academy is liberal and that protests against liberal excesses come from only a handful of individuals.

Most people who care about higher education have a handful of similar stories, projecting a dismal forecast for the liberal arts.

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?

The story I have heard is that burnt ends originated at Arthur Bryant» s where you could just grab a handful of the wonderful trimmings from the counter under the meat slicer.

I'm not sure if you studied how to make pho broth or if you had a family member teach you, but when I was researching pho (only a handful of blogs), you were the only one who roasted / charred the veggies — outside of an Vietnamese woman telling her story and listing her recipe ALSO roasting her veggies.

I sat down with the club captain, who was gobbling handfuls of peanuts and telling stories at the same time.

And although the boss is yet to comment on any speculation linking his side with a move, it is clear that something is in the running, with a handful of media outlets reporting this story.

However, there is a handful of other stories worth noting.

It is a wonderfully (if somewhat uncomfortably) intimate thing, to stand a few feet from a handful of people, look them in the eye and tell them a story.

(Repeats for wider coding, story unchanged) SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb, March 30 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

Years ago, baby showers were quite formal affairs where only a handful of women came together to give gifts and share horror stories about their birth experiences.

I had been shown the horror story Second Impact Syndrome videos of the football players who swallowed handfuls of ibuprofen to make it through games and then were tackled and never got back up.

A handful of mommas have been begging for my tandem nursing story... keep an eye out for that.

That list includes «The Opt - Out Revolution» by Lisa Belkin, a 2003 Times Magazine cover story that looked at a handful of Princeton grads who (unlike most of their peers) left demanding jobs to stay at home with their children; Caitlin Flanagan's gloating potshots at working moms, especially «How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement» in the Atlantic in March 2004 and «To Hell with All That» in the New Yorker in July 2004; and an article on the New York Times's front page on Sept. 20, 2005, that repeated that many women at elite colleges were opting for motherhood over careers.

It's no coincidence that the handful of stories that covered electronic advocacy more broadly were the ones most picked up by other blogs — they didn't just follow what was being written elsewhere.

A Google search turned up a handful of references to her CB fandom, for instance this CBS Evening News story summary and an acount of a campaign trip that included an airport meeting with a local CB enthusiasts» club.

Phoenicia, NY — When Hurricane Irene struck the Hudson Valley, the media rushed to cover the story from the «devastation angle» — a handful of locals in the Ulster County hamlet of Phoenicia are trying to get the word out that their little town has NOT reportedly been «swept away» — Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports.

Seven attorneys who worked for Perez Williams declined comment for this story or did not return messages, as did a handful of administration officials.

The first mentions of AIDS came in a May 1981 story by Lawrence Mass in the New York Native, an LGBT publication, followed quickly by a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and then, on July 3 of that year, a story in the New York Times that concerned what was then a handful of cases.

A president who sees the two sides to every story has to engage with more than a handful of loyal serfs.

It's only the latest story in a statehouse where a handful of lawmakers feel they can get away with anything — be it frat house behavior and sexual harassment, bribery, or misuse of member items.

See this story, which says that because a handful of signers also signed for a spouse or for an adult child, the State Election Read more»

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Stuart tells the story of an applicant with a fantastic resume who followed up «a handful of times,» even traveling to San Francisco and meeting Stuart in person for an informational interview.

Success stories like these explain why psychedelics never lost their appeal for Grob and a handful of other academic scientists.

FROM the search for an iridescent butterfly the colour of a summer sky and as big as a big man's hand, swarms of red and black Monarchs filling the trees in a Californian grove, to a scant handful of butterflies clinging to a hanged man, you will understand that John Murray's short stories are visual and visceral.