Portion in sentence

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Robert Kennedy once said that "few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events."

He doesn't lose the water right, he just chooses to apply that right, or some portion of it, to the stream, instead of to the land.

I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.

So why can't we say with confidence whether or not a significant portion of a continent-scale ice sheet will or will not collapse?

That also constitutes the entertainment portion of this talk, so I hope you enjoyed it.

I've been the track share for the medicine portion of a new institution called Singularity University, based in Silicon Valley.

Our little portion of oneness is given a name, is told all kinds of things about itself, and these details, opinions and ideas become facts, which go towards building ourselves, our identity.

However, what occurred to me was human-caused destruction, which was not only causing a significant portion of the destruction, but actually it was accelerating.

To give you an idea of what a spider silk protein looks like, this is a dragline silk protein, it's just a portion of it, from the black widow spider.

Here you're looking at a sciatic nerve of a mouse, and you can see that that big, fat portion you can see very easily.

That white portion there is easy to see.

So she gets to now focus on the picking and packing portion of her job.

I've asked that question all across the country, and everywhere I ask it, no matter where, there's a huge portion of the audience that won't put up their hand.

How large is that one portion of a mine?

A metaphor will serve here: Where elite mathematicians and statisticians and theorists often serve as architects in the expanding realm of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way.

So, what I'm trying to say is, what we are finding in our research is, that if products for end users is the visible tip of the innovation iceberg, India is well represented in the invisible, large, submerged portion of the innovation iceberg.

In the forests, when trees realize through their roots that another tree is sick, they will send a portion of their nutrients to that tree to help them to heal.

There were a lot of risks involved that they talked about during the informed consent portion.

So there are some pathological liars, but they make up a tiny portion of the population.

Last year, they took control over a portion of southern Yemen, and ran it, Taliban-style.

It's specialized to generate the enormous power required for flight, and it fills the middle portion of the fly, so when a fly hits your windshield, it's basically the power muscle that you're looking at.

EM: We're actually, we've been making some good progress recently with something we call the Grasshopper Test Project, where we're testing the vertical landing portion of the flight, the sort of terminal portion which is quite tricky.

When Al Gore was Vice President, his team had an idea for deregulating a significant portion of the telecommunications industry.

That's the humans and livestock and pets portion.

That's the wild nature portion.

And if this happens, an inland sea would fill a good portion of the Mississippi Valley.

This sounds like a good theory, but I could talk for a long time, tell you lots of things, and a portion of them may be true, but I think it's better if I tried to show that to you here live.

The Amazon was so dry in 2010 that even the main stem of the Amazon river itself dried up partially, as you see in the photo in the lower portion of the slide.

So obviously, we have a Q&A portion of our program, and people line up to mics to ask questions.

We told the participants they could keep these 10 dollars for themselves, or they could share a portion of it, if they wanted to, with a stranger, who's totally anonymous.

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