Wytheville is also known for a handful of UFO sightings in the late 1980s and early 90's as documented on Unsolved Mysteries.

Though rarely encountered because of its oceanic habitat, a handful of documented attacks on humans were apparently caused by cookiecutter sharks.

A mere handful of incidents are documented:

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

McDonald discussed in detail a handful of well documented UFO cases which seemed, he thought, to defy interpretation by conventional science.

Only a handful of cases of such behaviour have been documented, nearly all in France in the late nineteenth century.

Apart from a handful of cases, these designations are not currently in use.

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

Only a handful of Chiefs had signed treaties of cession, and in some of those cases it is doubtful whether they had understood the terms.

A handful of very skilled private detectives / investigators work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and criminal defense cases.

There is some evidence for vowel harmony according to vowel height or ATR in the prefix i < sub > 3 </ sub >/ e-in inscriptions from pre-Sargonic Lagash ( the specifics of the pattern have led a handful of scholars to postulate not only an / o / phoneme, but even an and, most recently, an ) Many cases of partial or complete assimilation of the vowel of certain prefixes and suffixes to one in the adjacent syllable are reflected in writing in some of the later periods, and there is a noticeable though not absolute tendency for disyllabic stems to have the same vowel in both syllables.

Northwest Caucasian languages have rather simple noun systems, manifesting only a handful of cases at the most, coupled with highly agglutinative verbal systems so complex that virtually the entire syntactic structure of the sentence is contained within the verb.

Amarillo civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn began investigating the Tulia defendants ' cases, along with civil rights organizations and a handful of attorneys from firms around the country.

Federal courts can sometimes hear cases arising under state law pursuant to diversity jurisdiction, state courts can decide certain matters involving federal law, and a handful of federal claims are primarily reserved by federal statute to the state courts ( for example, those arising from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ).

However, the Court's opinion remains significant both for being the first instance of the Supreme Court applying the strict scrutiny standard to racial discrimination by the government and for being one of only a handful of cases in which the Court held that the government met that standard.

This effectively reduced playback of a DTS disc on a non-DTS equipped system to mono audio — or in a handful of cases, no film soundtrack at all.

Second, Cromwell gave a huge degree of freedom to his parliaments, although royalists were barred from sitting in all but a handful of cases.

There have been a handful of cases of FSOs on Consular Assignments selling visas for a price.

The Wall Street Journal reported in November 2008, during a period of market turbulence, that some lightly traded ETFs frequently had deviations of 5 % or more, exceeding 10 % in a handful of cases, although even for these niche ETFs, the average deviation was only a little more than 1 %.

Only a handful of previous cases are known.

The debate centered around the question of which was more important, a handful of individual cases or a large randomized control trial.

Ian Stevenson, a parapsychologist and psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, claimed there were just a handful of suggestive cases.

The State argued that the technique has been tested in the lab with fewer than 200 persons and has been used in the field in only a handful of cases.

A handful of SmithBooks stores continue to operate as of late 2008, but even in these cases staff uniforms and shopping bags bear the " Coles " name.

In cases where they are " A " or " B " generation, it is usually because they have been recently outcrossed to another domestic breed to improve specific cosmetic traits, but the cats are nonetheless more than four generations beyond the handful of nondomestic ancestors.

In the late 1990s, the studio revived the use of plastic cases for a handful of releases from Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.

The next section shows a handful of cartoons that his editors rejected ( or, in a few cases, that he never even bothered submitting ), usually because they were considered in poor taste.

In some cases, a production company can be run by only a handful of people.

# 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 ")

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.

A handful of politically connected individuals have grown enormously wealthy as a result.

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.

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 ".