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There is no downside to it whatsoever. If you make one star out of it, you've come ahead. In a good season, they'll make a handful of stars. Despite what some hardcore fans might say, a card with five stars on it will do better business than card with zero stars on it, even if those zero stars are the best fighters in the world.

We thought we might find at least another handful of new species. It was amazing to get 27.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

The rain is coming down sideways. We've had a handful of tornadoes. We're still in the middle of this hurricane so we're not sending anyone out right now.

He was solid. When you only have three shots against you in one period, it can be hard on you mentally. I thought he gave us a chance to win. He stopped everything he should have stopped and he made a handful of good saves to keep us in the game.

He was a handful no matter whom it was (guarding him). I thought Jeff made him work a little bit harder. You have to give Vincent a lot of credit but you also have to give Jeff credit for wanting that (assignment).

He was a handful for us. We threw three or four different guys at him, and none of them did a great job. He did a great job of getting to the basket on us. He can be very active and very difficult to defend.

He can score from 3, he can score off the bounce, he can score in the post, he rebounds his own shot as well as anybody. He poses a lot of problems. There's only a handful of people that are playing the game in college that would ever be talked about in that same light.

He certainly has the talent. There was a handful of games this season where he's sparked us.

He is president of an organization that has 114 members of which a handful committed improper acts.

I suspect you would see a handful of clubs that can pay more and would pay more. But you would also see a lot of clubs not spending $100 million, like they now do.

It boils down to a handful of parents and teachers doing all the work ... a resource better used in the classroom than fundraising to go to Disneyland.

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.

I think what makes a strong team is being able to have a group of girls where maybe not one of them is going to lead the all-around every single meet, but having that handful of girls like we've had this year that can really push on in a single event every meet. That's what we've been doing.

I think it was a handful of individuals that can be found anywhere that did this.

I think this is maybe the best one, other than the original. It's heartfelt. And it was done on a shoestring budget with lots of young guys (on the crew) and a handful of new stars--all new faces. I think people are going to love it.

Lawyers make decisions based on what they think of me or a handful of other top managers of the firm. It's a personal business and personal relationships are critical.

I think there's a handful of guys that ended up being lucky in that way, ... Some guys who were free agents actually had to take a little bit of a hit but it just all depends on who's available and at what time. There was only a handful of defencemen in my situation so it made things a little easier for me, I guess.

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

I remember the night we saw him in Columbia as a freshman and thinking to myself that he was going to be a handful for the league over the next four years. That definitely turned out to be the case. He just presents so many challenges to a defense with his size, his speed and his feel of the game. He is also a player who had the respect of people around the Big 12 for the way he conducted himself. He is a person that the Missouri program and fans can be proud of in a lot of ways.

Our preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team. The possibilities, there are more than a handful right now. We haven't weighed in on any of them at this point, and we haven't ruled any of them out.

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Our goalie was just great. She made some great saves on a handful of chances.

Our first line is as good as any line in the state. They've played together for four years, and just phenomenal passing. It's tough to stop them once they get cranked up. We're a speed team. Every kid in our lineup can skate really well. Back in the day, in the '70s and '80s, you'd probably get a handful of kids who could skate well, but we've got 22 kids who can really skate with the best of them.

Out of the more than 200 (weather) reporting stations we have around the state, only a handful had any measurable precipitation. Three of the nine divisions are having their driest start since 1895. All of them are in the central part of the state.

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Other than a handful of games, we usually had a shot to win it at the end. That's called competing, and that's what our guys did. I'm really proud of the fact that they did that all year. They handled themselves like professionals.

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a stranglehold on the market can raise rates.

I think in a handful of instances it's just one play that's made the difference between 6-10 or 8-8 or 9-7 or whatever it might have been.

I think the team has a great deal of potential. But with only a handful of practices left this season, it will be tough for us to reach that potential this year. But again, I see a lot of good things in store for the team next year.

It is exciting. It is real meaningful if you are in Victory Lane with it. That is what we want to do. There are only a handful of cars that have that kind of meaning to it. Richard's car is one of them. But it isn't going to mean nearly as much unless you do something with it.

Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston Community Newspaper)-wide entertainment section Greater Houston Weekly in this office. That is an average of 150 pages each week! We do all that with just a handful of folks - who don't receive much in the way of money for their efforts.

That's unbelievable in itself. I don't see how that could ever happen. It's hard enough trying to play one season and play every game. Only a handful of people do that every year. Rarely do they do it over and over again.

That's what it's about. You're going to have a handful of opportunities to make plays and the team that makes them is going to prevail.

I was over the moon. I know it's just a job, but it's become one of a handful of filming experiences which has become somehow bigger and more important in my life.

Merchant banking remains an exceptional business for the handful of Wall Street firms that have remained in it. Unfortunately, the disclosure of merchant banking portfolio positions is weak, and forecasting these gains is at best challenging.

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

will be one of a handful that will dominate the world stage in the 21st century.

We haven't told him anything. We're in the process of staying in touch with his agent and it's a process that's probably not unlike maybe a lot of teams at this time with a handful of players that just haven't been signed yet, so there's really nothing there.

We had good life from start to finish, and we played very good defense with the exception of a handful of possessions. That allowed us to get out and get our running game going, and get some good looks in transition; and we shot the ball well tonight.

We have a handful of guys right there who are knocking on the door. How that plays out remains to be seen, but that will be something we will try to manage on a day-to-day or a week-to-week basis. We will certainly have some difficult decisions to make.

We have a handful of guys ready to step in,

We've had literally less than a handful of people express some concern about going.

Wagner is a handful to stop for most teams in our league. He's 6-foot-3, but his arms seem like they go forever, and he knows how to use them.

We have an announcement scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in which we are going to release some positive news about a handful of Michigan plants that we haven't previously announced.

We know that the pistol and holster are missing and we expect there may have been a handful of other things taken.

We'll probably just see a handful of westerners. It's much easier and cheaper to get to Nepal than Tibet.

We'll probably just see a handful of westerners, ... It's much easier and cheaper to get to Nepal than Tibet.

Typically, Wal-Mart is not a convenient store to shop, especially if you have want to dash to the store for a handful of products.

Today, there are only a handful of tiny countries who aren't basically starting on a track of an unbelievable growth in their need for using more oil.

We had expected 3,000-4,000 people, however, we think about 10,000 people came. A handful of South Asians like us who are in leadership positions were there, otherwise they are hard to find.

We'll go through the whole staff again tomorrow. I'm not thinking long term, right now. I'm thinking about trying to win that one tomorrow. It's going to be a handful in itself.

Unfortunately, the law has had precisely the effect we thought it would. A handful of overly aggressive individuals are using it as a defense for actions that appear to go beyond the pale of self-defense.

Unfortunately, right as it got to one, it was either spit some out or spit them all out because I didn't have any room in my mouth to swallow period. So I ended up spitting a handful out, which they did just count as one cookie. So I got nine, which thank goodness I beat Eric Kuhlman because last year he beat me. Even though I think kuhlman has a bit of a problem. He thinks i spit out two cookies. But i still stand by that it was just one cookie.

When they came back and scored, it squashed the momentum we had been building up. We had a handful of good scoring opportunities from numerous players, but we couldn't put it in the net.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

(Yao) is a big man and he's a handful for us. We tried three people on him and he is just a handful down here wrestling with him. He has really, really had a stretch of games the last couple of weeks where he has played well and been a force.

We don't intend to let a handful of rogues erode consumer confidence in Internet commerce or Internet auctions.

We didn't have an answer for Price. We're missing someone that can bang with him. He's a handful and a great player.

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

We only have a handful of errors and they've been made with nothing on the line.

With a $16 million purse, it's pretty damn important. Just a few years ago, we only had a handful of big races that paid big money that you really wanted to win. It was Daytona, the Charlotte 600; they threw Indianapolis in there and the Southern 500. They paid you a $1 million bonus if you won three of those races. Those are the ones you set your sights on when the season started. Now, everything pays $1 million, and that has diminished the value of some of our bigger races.

With a $16 million purse, it's pretty damn important, ... Just a few years ago, we only had a handful of big races that paid big money that you really wanted to win. It was Daytona, the Charlotte 600; they threw Indianapolis in there and the Southern 500. They paid you a $1 million bonus if you won three of those races. Those are the ones you set your sights on when the season started. Now, everything pays $1 million, and that has diminished the value of some of our bigger races.

We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process.

We put out feelers to see who might be interested in performing and the program just grew. What started out as a handful of pieces has grown into two full concerts.

This roller-coaster thing doesn't work. We had only a handful of guys who played to expectations and gave to the team.

There have been thousands of amendments proposed in Congress. Only a handful have been presented to the states.

You have to be very, very specific. You can't just buy a handful of tech stocks and think they'll do well. There will definitely be winners and losers.

The program is far less appealing and less effective if only a handful of airports offer it.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

There are hundreds and hundreds of women who are married to footballers, and we get to see a very small handful of them. They are all different individuals, and they choose the way they want to live their life or look, and I don't think it is really fair on anyone else to judge.

There are always going to be arguments for the handful of teams that don't make that cut. But there is certainly ample opportunity for them to make it.

there are a handful of us that are a bit older and might not get that chance again.

There are a handful of teams out there training to win this race, ... The rest of us are training to finish the race as best as we can.

There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

There are a handful of officers that have exercised their right to speak their mind, and certainly that's their right to do that.

There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

There are a handful of citizens who want to delay the decision until Mr. George comes back. But that would mean we won't be able to apply for Issue 2 money for Taylor Road in 2006 and, in my opinion, would delay the project by another 18 to 25 months.

There are a handful of American-born, Hispanic artists out there performing this (country) music, but like everything else in this business, the big stars are few and far between.

There are just a handful of applications that need to run native 64-bit, like the data base applications and security, which is significantly enhanced on 64-bit,

The players and coaches spend so much time and effort, you just want them to get it right. Regardless of whether you're on the good end of it or not. It could be a handful of plays during the season that can determine a championship.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

We've only practiced not even a handful of times yet. It's just nice seeing him back there. It's been a long time since we've played together, so it's nice to pick up where we left off.

Yes, we have heard about this, but it has only happened in limited pockets and is not a serious nationwide issue. In the total milk production and cattle across the country, there are only a handful of such cases.

We've had a handful of games where we've just had runners where they don't need to be. We've had some passed balls that have hurt us and we just can't seem to keep runners where they are.

We were one of a handful of chambers across the country that stepped up to offer this. We've always had good relations with the U.S. chamber.

We simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years. We leave to others the question of whether or not our research explains the biblical account.

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

What's happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded. The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

We don't think it's a partisan issue. A handful of people wanted to kill it for some reason, and the rest of democracy had to suffer.

We think that the combination of our marketing relationships with the Web services effort can help us recruit users from both ends of the spectrum. MSN and Comcast reach millions of users, and via Web services we can extend our reach from a handful of leading Web sites to million of pages.

We think it was a wise investment. He's still got an awful lot to learn but he was a real handful for them.

There have been just a handful of complaints.

We had polls ... showing us at zero and 1 (percent), and fighting for our very survival holding onto a handful of seats.