Sentences with phrase «what handful of people»

And yes, gambling with credit is a terrible idea no matter what a handful of people in a travel forum say.

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So when we looked at the model, we got excited about the idea of what we call «incidental insurance»: Using tech to seamlessly integrate insurance within a handful of moments when it's naturally necessary people to think about insurance.

But the handful of jobs it will create — it doesn't take many people to build or run a pipeline — pales in comparison to what Canada stands to gain.

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked «systemically important institutions» and «too big to fail» has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people.

What we have here is a proposal that a small handful of learned people, presumably including Mr. Wieseltier, will serve as the custodians of the moral theory and sources of democratic governance.

Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

Their meaning may vary from person to person, but watch this video of senior food editor Dawn Perry making garlicky spaghetti to see what we're talking about when we say handful, glug, thinly sliced, sprinkle, knob, splash, handful (again!)

«She's one of a handful of people with an incredible passion and a willingness to pursue a lifelong commitment under what can be pretty difficult circumstances.»

taking what they read in the papers / internet as the gospel truth, when in fact only a handful of people really know what, s going on, who is to say we didn, t go for aubeymang and if we didn, t why?nobody takes into account things like the player, s desire to play for a certain club or manager etc....

I swear to God, there are a handful of people on this site who have never had to make a decision more difficult than what brand of toilet paper to buy.

Now imagine if it weren't just that handful of awful people and instead, an entire internet's worth of awful people, and you have an idea of what Chrissy Teigen puts up with when she posts photos of daughter Luna.

A handful of people negotiated behind closed doors, being more candid with the lobbyists whose clients stuff their campaign coffers than with members of the press or the general public about what was going on.

«What I know is that 12 million people watch this programme and I reckon out of those people a handful are probably MPs and people in the Lords and it really is important, I think, that what MPs realise is that you need to go where people go and understand why they go there.&raWhat I know is that 12 million people watch this programme and I reckon out of those people a handful are probably MPs and people in the Lords and it really is important, I think, that what MPs realise is that you need to go where people go and understand why they go there.&rawhat MPs realise is that you need to go where people go and understand why they go there.»

Through introductions from friends — and even Instagram — I have connected with a handful of people who have also been through what I am going through, which is so helpful.

Other than a handful of currently - active athletes who have come to our facility for training, I can't think of a single person who, when asked what they're goals were, mentioned anything about strength.

The plot — absurd as it is that a handful of people would be alone and in charge of saving the world, or in an encounter between organizations named Section 20 and Office 39 — has enough twists and momentum to keep you eager to know what happens next.

Working your way down the list of schools within MPS, you'll see a variety: lots of what most people refer to as «traditional» public schools, some charters, language immersion, gifted & talented... and a handful of Montessori programs.

... considering that it wouldn't be just a small - handful of people making the request, but a whole bunch of people willing to pay the extra price more for what - would - then - be the hands - down ultimate 13.3 ″ eink e-reader.

So, here's the question I heard from a million (well, four) different people over the last handful of weeks: «Why are we punishing all the Harlequin lines for what is a breach by one part of Harlequin Enterprises?»

2) The fact that traditional publishers want to give authors «a handful» of books to sign does not mean that that is what the purpose of the event was or that people who were promised space for books and swag were not cheated or treated unfairly when some got it and some didn't.

And while there are strict guidelines for what companies are added, the final decision and timing of that decision depends on what's going through the heads of a handful of people employed by Dow Jones.

So if you want to see what only a handful of people...

Maybe I should have done that, who knows (at that point only a handful of people I did not know bought the game anyway), but I should have done a better job, researching what prices people would be willing to pay.

Ahmad stresses to me that Sony's relationships with indies «was never just about a handful of visible people — nothing could have happened without an enormous pulling together of the whole company,» but what devs both on - the - record and anecdotally tell me is that it is usually just a few people who ultimately get them through the door.

«There are only a handful of people who understand what I'm doing, so I'm certainly not changing the world.»

You can Google me to see what people have to say, but here are a handful of endorsements and articles I'm particularly proud of.

What the study's authors concluded was that men and women who eat at least 10 grams of nuts or peanuts per day — about half a handful — have a decreased risk of succumbing to several major causes of death compared to people who don't consume nuts or peanuts.

What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world's common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Thatcher and Reagan.

The first meeting in San Francisco, from that, an effort called the Never Again Tech Pledge was created, and so it was spearheaded by a handful of people starting off at that first meeting, and what that was about was resisting, or applying pressure from the bottom of these tech companies, so employees telling their management and telling the public that they would not work on a Muslim registry, or any kind of registry that was based on race, religion, national origin.

I often wonder why it appears that only a small handful of people are regularly engaged in real discussions about what is happening with privacy in Canada.

The mainstream religions are obviously afforded protections but what about cults or religions only followed by a handful of people or even a belief in protecting the environment or home schooling?

We also have our scholarship where a handful of people get what amounts to a stipend.

Although not necessarily the intent of the session, I came away with a better sense of appreciation for their hard work on what are relatively meagerly funded / staffed resources (and for most of these sites, they manage with often only a handful of people doing the hands - on work).

Second - to - die, or survivorship, life insurance is offered by a handful of insurers and is typically geared toward affluent people concerned about the potential for hefty estate taxes on what they leave behind.

When people think that the economy is going to take a turn for the worse, they've got a handful of options as far as what to do with their money is concerned.

Pathfinders» lead career choice specialist, Anthony Spadafore, is among only a handful of people in the world that can give you a highly precise sense of what career paths fit you in the human kingdom.

So I joined and connected with a handful of people I knew well, and I did what many of my executive job - seeking clients do.