Over a fistful of dollars

Only a few people understood me.

A bunch of people thrust their way toward the rear exit.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

A handful of States remain outside the realm of the Convention.

It needs only one gang of politicians.

Everywhere I look, it's just a bunch of dead ends.

Oil benefits a handful of princes.

But the remaining people are honest and will not sell their country for a few dinars (Kuwaiti currency).

The knowledge and use of those resources cannot be concentrated in the hands of the few.

Efforts by just a handful of major players will not be sufficient to keep the world safe.

What I'd like to do now is share with you a very special handful of secrets from that collection, starting with this one.

Scarcity of parchment required all decision making to be concentrated in a court consisting of a handful of people.

Unfortunately, there were some in Tajikistan who didn t like having a bunch of Uzbeks living in their country.

Changes in society, Marx argued, are not achieved overnight through the efforts and will power of a handful of men.

Thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters have deserted. A rebel army has dwindled to a fanatical few.

And I will start with a brief taster of what I ve been about a handful of films nothing much, two feature films and a handful of short films.

When I started in 2006, there were just a handful of bloggers writing about Morocco in English.

Clearly, trust funds with one off contributions by a few donors are not adequate.

So, in true web fashion they put together a poll where they had a bunch of very erudite, very thoughtful, cultured names.

And these people, a handful of people, have been working for 20 years, looking for particles that may or may not exist.

When I first started blogging, back in June 2005, there were only a handful of blogs out there .

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Their beauty lies not in wearing skimpy swimsuits or wearing make up and parading in front of men as cows lined up for slaughter To choose a Ms Flamingo to represent Vanuatu is a blatant abuse of a woman's body.

General de Gaulle once said There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

More disturbing for international calm, a handful of non nuclear signatories have secretly flouted the agreement.

Changes cannot be partial or superficial and must not merely satisfy the hegemonistic ambitions of a few.

It will, however, take more than a handful of Foreign Ministers showing up this week at the Conference on Disarmament to effect a real change.

Indeed, a handful of its members now seem eager to subordinate their national interests and the interests of ASEAN to those of China.

It shows clearly that the desire for political choice is not confined to a few fortunate countries, mostly in the Western world.

And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket that I had been carrying around for weeks, hoping for just this interaction and, you know, they were pebbles but he grabbed them out of my hand.

Maybe I can get just a few dollars from this last tree which will keep us going a little bit longer, and then we'll pray that something will happen to save us from the inevitable end.

As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a handful of extra votes in the Senate.

Grasping a handful of dirt from a riverbank does leave one s hand more oily than tarred, and the greasy dirt is somewhat sandy.

Except for a handful of small countries that benefited from natural resource bonanzas, all of the successful economies of the last six decades owe their growth to rapid industrialization.

In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a handful of votes more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.

We believe that all countries and nations are entitled to technological and scientific advancement in all fields, and particularly to the peaceful technology to produce nuclear fuel.

Egyptian bloggers Fantasia's World, Dalia Ziada, Asser Yasser, Heba Najeeb are all women who have been featured on Global Voices for standing up for their rights, as have those blogging sinster spinsters , who refuse to consider themselves outcasts. Eman Hashim from Egypt and Eman Al Nafjan from Saudi Arabia are among the ranks of Arab women who stomp in protest at the notion that women are not able to think for themselves.

The rankings will no doubt vary from year to year. But we have to conclude that in 2013 a handful of philosophers were particularly influential in the world of ideas.

MP Hassan Nashat al Kassas said, referring to the April 6 Youth Movement who recently held two protesters in Cairo where police violently beat them and arrested many, that they are not youth activists, they are a bunch of idlers.

Hong Kong's government felt it could ignore public opinion and push the bill through with a large majority of the functional members, plus a handful of directly elected pro government legislators.

Most would agree that a crisis exists if just some of these misery indices are present. But, while Europe is widely perceived to be in the grip of crisis, only a handful of them are present, and in only a few eurozone countries.

In the 1990 s and 2000 s, internationalization promised to produce a new landscape, in which a small handful of banks would once again divide up a single global market.