Sentence examples for a handful of speakers from inspiring English sources

Only a handful of speakers acknowledged that Mr. Gribetz had actually worked diligently on his distribution plan.

Many of these were spoken by only a handful of speakers and, if they were not recorded before they became extinct, would be permanently inaccessible.

But a handful of speakers presented work very much within the new paradigm of plant intelligence, and they elicited strong reactions.

Kolbert chronicles Krauss's painstaking assembly of an Eyak dictionary, a project he began in 1963, when there were still a handful of speakers alive.

History is full of obscure languages known unto only a handful of speakers plus one PhD candidate, but Sogdian was not one of these.

"You can't talk about it," said Dr. Marion Nestle, the chairwoman of the New York University nutrition and food studies department, one of a handful of speakers who raised questions about the relationship of the food industry to consumption patterns.

Last season, his first with the Jets, Mangini brought in a handful of motivational speakers.

It was a little tough because I didn't speak a lot of French and there was only a handful of English speakers.

Tragically though, our language is now considered to be critically endangered: only a handful of fluent speakers remain, all of whom are elderly and are becoming increasingly frail.

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, he was among only a handful of Arabic speakers in the F.B.I., and he subsequently interrogated Al Qaeda prisoners.

The assembled housewives, pensioners and farmers listened politely to a handful of guest speakers, and then they fired off questions: How can you be sure that GM food is safe to eat? Aren't GM crops hurting the environment?