Jefferson County is one of only a handful of counties in the Florida Panhandle that politically favors the Democratic Party.

Seward is one of the most politically liberal neighborhoods in Minneapolis, with usually only a handful of votes in each precinct cast for Republicans.

Toodyay is connected to Perth by railways and a handful of major roads.

# Oilimport and distribution ( claimed by Armenian opposition parties to belonging to a handful of government-linked individuals, one of which-" Mika Limited "-is owned by Mikhail Baghdasarian, while the other-" Flash "-is owned by Barsegh Beglarian, a " prominent representative of the Karabakh clan ")

In a handful of documented cases, individuals attempting breatharian fasting have died, and among the claims investigated by the Indian Rationalist Association, all were found to be fraudulent.

And the severity of the blow is greatly aggravated in moral effect by the fact that it is dealt only to a handful of individuals.

A species may become functionally extinct when only a handful of individuals survive, which cannot reproduce due to poor health, age, sparse distribution over a large range, a lack of individuals of both sexes ( in sexually reproducing species ), or other reasons.

With very few exceptions, all the newspapers in the U. S. are privately owned, either by large chains such as Gannett or McClatchy, which own dozens or even hundreds of newspapers ; by small chains that own a handful of papers ; or in a situation that is increasingly rare, by individuals or families.

There are, however, a handful of individuals who have frequently taken a greater leadership role with various teams more often than others.

He received 15 percent of the vote and became one of only a handful of individuals in the history of the United States to run for a federal office from prison.

Over the course of the day, Czerniaków was able to obtain exemptions for a handful of individuals, including sanitation workers, husbands of women working in factories, and some vocational students.

The latter likely grew out of lodging arrangements for single individuals ( who, in workhouses, were considered disruptive or ungovernable ) then there were a few catering each for only a handful of people, then they gradually expanded ( e. g. 16 in London in 1774, and 40 by 1819 ).

A mating pair required a very large area of untouched mature forest to survive, approximately ; outside the breeding season, the birds apparently formed small groups of a handful to a dozen individuals and moved about a wider area, apparently in response to availability of food ( Lammertink et al., 1996 ).

Ceding the " Tales of the Green Lantern Corps " backup features to various other individuals from # 181, and with a handful of fill-in issues ( primarily by Gil Kane ), Gibbons last issue with Len Wein was issue # 186 ( March 1985 ).

Some are small examples relating to meals had by a handful of individuals, others are many metres in length and width and represent centuries of shell deposition.

He remains one of only a handful of individuals to have won each of these awards.

Headhunters are also used to recruit very specialized individuals ; for example, in some fields, such as emerging scientific research areas, there may only be a handful of top-level professionals who are active in the field.

* There have been a handful of published reports describing individuals with severe hypokalemia related to chronic extreme consumption ( 4-10 L / day ) of colas.

Kirk " laid out a post-World War II program for conservatives by warning them, ' A handful of individuals, some of them quite unused to moral responsibilities on such a scale, made it their business to extirpate the populations of Nagasaki and Hiroshima ; we must make it our business to curtail the possibility of such snap decisions.

is not, therefore, a corporate body in a mundane sense-it is controlled by inner-plane contacts focused today through a handful of individuals channelling currents outside the circles of time and space.

* And what I know -- which sometimes creates a deep longing in me -- is that if Christians made up their minds to it, millions of voices -- millions, I say -- throughout the world would be added to the appeal of a handful of isolated individuals who, without any sort of affiliation, today intercede almost everywhere and ceaselessly for children and men.

Up to the early 20th century there are only a handful of documented encounters with Jangil individuals.

Typically, sommeliers choose to become Master Sommelier, but a handful of individuals have achieved both qualifications.

In areas such as Lake Argyle and Katherine Gorge there exist a handful of confirmed individuals.

Australian Fair Trading Minister Margaret Keech has also called Neo-Tech a group of " con-artists ", for claiming to select " a small handful of ' special ' individuals " to receive " secret wisdom of ages ", and then asking the individuals to pay money to obtain these " secrets ".

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).

Recently, tests have been developed to detect mutation for a handful of more complex conditions such as breast, ovarian, and colon cancers.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists – over 50 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999.

Humans are the only primate species that have undergone significant hair loss and of the approximately 5000 extant species of mammal, only a handful are effectively hairless.

There have been a handful of IBM cases — about 15 or so — that have shown clear evidence of a virus called HTLV-1.

Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3. 8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900, 000 years, " a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka.

TfL plans that by 2020 there should be a network of over 100 fully accessible stations, consisting of those recently built or rebuilt, and a handful of suburban stations that happen to have level access, along with selected ' key stations ', which will be rebuilt.

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.

Given that the cost of replacing an executive can run over 100 % of his or her annual salary, any investment of time and energy in re-recruitment will likely pay for itself many times over if it helps a business retain just a handful of key players that would have otherwise left.

While many former motel chains have become hotel chains and some have entirely left the low-end of the market, a handful of national franchise brands ( Econo Lodge, Thriftlodge, Knights Inn ) remain available to owners of existing motels with the original drive-up-to-room motor court architecture.

If you have a number to harden, set water and alum over the fire ; and while it is boiling put in a handful of quills, the barrels only, for a minute, and then lay them by.

Since the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962, more than 10, 000 analogs have been synthesized, but only a handful have found their way into clinical practice.

Rosemary essential oil may have epileptogenic properties, as a handful of case reports over the past century have linked its use with seizures in otherwise healthy adults or children.

With the growing availability of satellite television channels or terrestrial digital subchannels, combined with a growing body of available post-syndication programming, a handful of specialty channels have been built solely or primarily to run former network programming which otherwise would no longer be in syndication.

In a current edition of Matheson's The Shrinking Man, King is quoted: " A horror story if there ever was one ... a great adventure story — it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.

However, only a handful of episodes later in " Sub Rosa ", we see that neither Beverly or Jean-Luc has been able to let go of those feelings and they are back to where they started, trying to pretend the feelings don't exist and that they have no problem being " just friends " with one another.

Senegal is one of only a handful of countries to have a near-enclave within its borders — the small nation of The Gambia in the interior, which has a 740 km border with Senegal.

Although most lodges throughout the English-speaking world do not confer the Scottish Rite versions of the first three degrees, there are a handful of lodges in New Orleans and in several other major cities that have traditionally conferred the Scottish Rite version of these degrees.