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Escaping slavery; risking everything to save her family; leading a military raid; championing the cause of women’s suffrage; these are just a
handful
of the accomplishments of one of America’s most courageous heroes.
However, the app also assumes there are only a
handful
of directions to the destination.
It has the power to make those
handful
of directions the definitive direction to that destination.
And most domesticated animals are unable to survive without us – save for a
handful
of resourceful pigs, dogs, and feral housecats.
We see how a
handful
of patients responds to treatment in a clinical trial, and we bring drugs to a national market.
Before I started this TED process and climbed up on this stage, I had told literally a
handful
of people about it, because, like many a journalist, I am far more interested in learning about your stories than sharing much, if anything, about my own.
Now, keep in mind there are about 400 prisoners in US prisons who are classified as terrorists, and only a
handful
of them are in the CMUs.
When I first arrived in Beijing in 2002, the city planners showed us this image: a forest of several hundred skyscrapers to emerge in the central business district, except at that time, only a
handful
of them existed.
Barring a
handful
of outliers, there are only 32 geometric signs.
But then, there's that
handful
of words where things work differently.
Thank the ancestors of people in Copenhagen and Oslo for the fact that today we don't ask for a
handful
of pea-night instead of peanuts.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is one of a
handful
of ideas from quantum physics to expand into general pop culture.
A
handful
of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious trait: a menstrual cycle.
I've visited hundreds of marine locations, but there are a
handful
of seascapes that have touched me incredibly deeply.
On a continent where more than a
handful
of leaders have been in power longer than the majority of the populations has been alive, we are in desperate need of something new, something that works.
There will be a
handful
that ultimately lead to a job opportunity."
A very small
handful
of countries who had undertaken very reduced, short-term emission reduction commitments that were completely insufficient and furthermore, largely perceived as a burden.
And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be, to be sure they're not screwing up, not closing doors, not ruining their future, some hoped-for admission to a tiny
handful
of colleges that deny almost every applicant.
This is in fact an incredibly large number, because what we really need in order to pick up something early enough to do something about it, to do something meaningful about it, well, we need to pick up tumors that are a thousand cells in size, and ideally just a
handful
of cells in size.
Those leftover tumors, even if it's just a
handful
of cells, they will grow to recur the tumor, for the tumor to come back.
But I must say, there's a small
handful
of activists, very small, that go to great lengths to be constructive and collaborative.
I was doing two and three meetings a week for two and a half years, and so was Cathy and her staff and a
handful
of volunteers.
And what it tells you is that you can precisely tune their behavior just by making seemingly small changes to them, like adding or removing a
handful
of atoms, or twisting the material.
One of the common characteristics of all of these animals I've been talking to you about is that they did not appear to have received the memo that they need to behave according to the rules that we have derived from a
handful
of randomly selected animals that currently populate the vast majority of biomedical laboratories across the world.
Roughly fifteen days before fertilization can happen, the anterior pituitary gland secretes follicle stimulating hormone, FSH, which ripens a
handful
of follicles of the ovary that then release estrogen.
For a
handful
of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation, sleeplessness is a daily reality.
Because what we don't talk about is how the
handful
of people working at a
handful
of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today.
In the 16th century, European priests and explorers burned thousands of Maya books in the Americas, of which we only have a
handful
left.
So if 99.9 percent of the science on climate is empirical, scientific evidence, but it's competing almost equally with a
handful
of deniers, that is not the truth; that is the epitome of fake news.
Only a
handful.
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