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Amid rising Islamist influence and shifting political allegiances among the handful of powerful families that dominate the Maldives’ economy and politics, finding reliable allies committed to – much less capable of – protecting democratic freedoms would prove a daunting challenge.

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With every handful of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.

There are fewer than a handful of palu left on this island.

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.

But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar.

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