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All but a handful stayed silent when government-backed hooligans attacked a Mumbai cinema showing "Fire", Bollywood's first stab at depicting lesbian romance, and persuaded cinema managers to stop screening it.

However, a handful stayed on in Harbin, surviving the Japanese occupation, the Chinese civil war, the Communist takeover, and Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.

None of the South-East Asian countries is prepared to let more than a handful stay permanently, and some, like Singapore, won't even let them stay on a temporary basis.

"A mere handful stayed in this business, but now, vaccines are seen as both economically and technologically interesting" he says.

"It was a handful to stay on top of the changing racetrack," Johnson said.

At the time, Mr. Pompeo also decided to withdraw most personnel from the embassy but asked a handful to stay and maintain ties with the Guaidó government.

The foreign ministry is known for its shrewd diplomats; during the Libyan conflict last year the Hungarian embassy in Tripoli was one of a handful to stay open and was representing some 50 states by the end.

Superdry's band of non-executives directors have also handed in their notice but "mindful of their responsibilities … as custodians of the business and to the broader stakeholders", a handful will stay on for a three-month handover at the Cheltenham based group, which employs 4,800 people.

As other American forces shipped out of Iraq, a handful of units stayed behind to help wind up the bases.

Only a handful of fans stayed to see Chris Simon score the winning goal against Wade Flaherty, on a power play, at 4 minutes 39 seconds.

The government started acquiring land in 1979, and set up a rehabilitation colony 6km away from Barkuta, but a handful of families stayed in their homes, campaigning for jobs in the mines in exchange for their lands, as officials had promised.