As a result, a cappella singing is once again growing, with a handful of internationally acclaimed groups ( The Idea Of North, Suade, Coco's Lunch, Akasa ), and a growing local scene.

In the earlier part of the Cenozoic, the world was dominated by the gastornid birds, terrestrial crocodiles like Pristichampsus, and a handful of primitive large mammal groups like uintatheres, mesonychids, and pantodonts.

As the name suggests these are roughly the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2, plus a handful of others that are alternating or sporadic or of odd characteristic.

Indigenous ethnic minorities in Denmark include a handful of groups:

By 1986, Moi had concentrated all the power-and most of its attendant economic benefits-into the hands of his Kalenjin tribe and of a handful of allies from minority groups.

The regime retained its characteristic traits: censorship, corporativeness, with a market economy dominated by a handful of economical groups, continuous surveillance and intimidation of several sectors of society through the use of a political police and techniques instilling fear ( such as arbitrary imprisonment, systematic political persecution and even assassination of anti-regime insurgents ).

Jihad Shomaly, in a report entitled Use of Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, published in 2004 for the Defence for Children International / Palestine Section, concludes the report by stating that a handful of children perceive martyrdom a way to strike a blow against those they hold responsible for their hopeless situation, and that they have been recruited by Palestinian paramilitary groups to carry out armed attacks.

Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the Lod airport massacre on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world.

The early fusions of industrial music and rock were practiced by a handful of post-punk groups, including Chrome, Killing Joke, Swans, Foetus and Big Black.

During the late 1800s, a handful of farms met an onrush of resort developers, church groups and town builders.

This was because only a handful of the states were truly powerful and wealthy enough for their rulers to be considered ' great ' monarchs ; the remaining were minor princely states, sometimes little more than towns or groups of villages.

Despite the request, Wannabe Fansubs and a handful of other fansubbing groups continued to produce fansubs of MFI anime series.

A handful of folk musicians are reviving the tradition of playing this instrument, among them Cass Meurig ( who also plays with the groups Fernhill and Pigyn Clust ), Bob Evans ( Bragod ), Dan Morris ( Cilmeri ) and Sedayne.

A handful of formally organized groups have come and gone.

The mainstream popularity of the Dutch roots revival was short-lived, but it continued in Friesland, where a handful of groups, starting with Irolt in the mid-1970s, sang in the West Frisian language.

They settled among the Mennonites and remained there until 1729, when all but a handful emigrated to America, in three separate groups from 1719 to 1733.

During breeding it is fairly territorial ; in winter, it roams the lands in groups of about a handful of birds, and sometimes in larger flocks of a dozen or more.

Apparently at least the wintering range has starkly contracted ; it appears that the handful of family or neighbor groups that are left retreat to remote habitat in southeastern Europe in winter.

The British Invasion knocked many black bands off the charts, with only a handful of groups, including The Mamas & the Papas and some Motown artists, maintaining a pop career.

A handful of the new hilltops, such as Sde Boaz, Ma ' ale Rehav ' am and Esh Kodesh are populated by both religious and non-religious Jews and there is a sense that they wish to serve as an example of religious tolerance in a society where the two groups often live apart from one another.

There are also several Bushmen groups represented by a handful of people.

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 ).

The Thimbu are one of the handful of nations and population groups which speak Xhosa in South Africa.

Currently, the major issues revolve around the content of any future settlement, with the leading groups demanding meaningful redress, not only for the handful of surviving " head tax " payers and widows / spouses, but first-generation sons / daughters who were direct victims.

Despite the title, it omitted a handful of articles due to problems clearing the rights on some book excerpts and text taken from recordings, such as Andy Griffith's " What It Was, Was Football.

For example, in Ontario a survey taken throughout the province might use a larger sampling fraction in the less populated north, since the disparity in population between north and south is so great that a sampling fraction based on the provincial sample as a whole might result in the collection of only a handful of data from the north.

American pioneers thought that “ a handful of violets taken into the farmhouse in the spring ensured prosperity, and to neglect this ceremony brought harm to baby chicks and ducklings .” On account of its place in American hearts, a game called “ Violet War ” also arose.

As the Astoria Country Club calls upon Mikey's father to sign over the deed to his property, Rosalita, the Walshes ' maid, discovers that Mikey's marble bag contains a large handful of jewels taken from the ship.

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

A handful of earth taken from the disputed piece of land is put between the contestants and they are required to touch it with their swords, each swearing that their claim is lawful.

In the ensuing fighting there, almost all of the Australians were killed, while a handful were taken prisoner.

Eric Fournier, a French diplomat who served as Butler's deputy at UNSCOM in 1998, told an Australian journalist, Christopher Kremmer, that the US bombing of Iraq in 1998 — which made the UNSCOM mission untenable — occurred " because Richard Butler reported that the Iraqis had not cooperated with inspections, even though more than three hundred had taken place in a few weeks and only a handful had been a problem.

The command of the handful of troops at Tiger Hill had been taken up by Captain Amer.

There are a handful of scenes throughout the series that suggest that The Man and BOB are allies ; this is also consistent with MIKE removing his arm, as typically this is an action taken when the appendage causes harm.

From this stock of sanchita karma, a handful is taken out to serve one lifetime and this handful of actions, which have begun to bear fruit and which will be exhausted only on their fruit being enjoyed and not otherwise, is known as prarabdha karma.

The Irish State was officially neutral during World War II, known within the Republic of Ireland as " The Emergency " although it is estimated that about 100, 000 men from Ireland took part on the side of the Allies, while a handful may have taken the part of their opponents.

Despite commercial success, the book was taken up by only a handful of schools, most of which are privately run and located in a comparatively small geographic area of Tokyo.

Jones claimed to have killed around 4000 Royalist or Confederate soldiers and taken 2517 prisoners, while losing only a handful himself.

Whereas once the village had 17 public houses and dozens of small shops, along with a gas works, it now has six pubs and only a handful of shops ( there are eight pubs if the parish is taken as a whole ).

In the end, Ransom's role as a saint or prophet is enhanced by his being taken alive into Heaven ( actually, back to Venus / Perelandra ), an honour reserved only to a very small handful of particularly deserving Biblical and mythical characters.

Today, only a scant handful of homes ( perhaps as few as six ) from the neighborhood's original residents survive, none in restored condition, and the area has been taken over by light industry and many low-income residences built in later years.

" Repeat To Fade " and " The World is Yours ", taken from the album, were released as singles and the band toured Europe and Japan with German bands Die Toten Hosen and The Donots as well as a handful of UK tours and festival slots including the first Download festival.

At the start of the war, they had just under 7, 000 rifles, a few machine guns and a handful of armoured cars taken from British garrisons ( who were under orders not to fire on IRA units ) as they evacuated the country.

Andrew L Urban, for Yahoo, wrote Encouraged by Crackerjack, perhaps I expected too much from Bad Eggs .... There are a handful of good laughs .. but the tone shifts, and shifts again., as if the storyline had taken control of the writing process, elbowing out the sense of humour.