Going to Mars is not about realising the vision of a giant science-fiction spaceship, it is about sending a payload from Earth to Mars that is capable of supporting a small group of people, and then sending that or a comparable payload back.
But for the company, the project manager might actually be supporting an entire division, or might be nothing more than a person who is supporting a small group of assemblers.
He is a software developer working to support a small group of digital activists who distribute video of the protests to television and media companies outside of Syria.
But his donations to Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, Duke, Emory, Oxford and Cambridge support a small group of scholars with widely diverging views, men and women united only in their brilliance as students of Christianity.
The village also supported a small group of merchants, most of them of Chinese descent, who ran shops in the marketplace, including a pharmacy that sold a few modern medicines to supplement traditional folk cures of herbs and roots; a bicycle shop that also sold second-hand motor scooters; a hairdresser's; and a few small restaurants, which sold mainly noodles.
Several former I.R.P. military commanders were now ministers or senior officials in the Tajik coalition government in Dushanbe, and the I.R.P. did not want to appear to be breaking the ceasefire by continuing to support a small group of Uzbek dissidents.
At launch, Comma One will support a small group of specific vehicles, but over time the startup hopes to add compatibility with more models.
The theatre was supported by a small group of subscribers, many of them distinguished writers.
The NGOs are supported by a small group of electronics companies including Intel, Philips and a company we have worked with, HP.
The occupiers, supported by a small group of women, had comfortable sleeping arrangements, hot meals three times a day, daily morning press conferences and an organized "security" team keeping watch.
Under the pretext that they supported Santa Anna, a small group of Texians armed themselves and overthrew the commander of the garrison that was enforcing the new customs duties.
