7 sentences with 'handful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word handful and other words derived from it.
• « Beginning around 9,500 BC, humans in a handful of regions of the world discovered agriculture, i.e., the deliberate cultivation of edible plants. People discovered that certain seeds could be planted and reliably cultivated. »
• « A handful of women writers did emerge in the course of the Middle Ages, but since there were almost no opportunities for women to learn Latin (with the major exception of the education given to some nuns), they were excluded from the world of medieval scholarship. »
• « Indeed, the whole idea of human "race" derives largely from the slave trade; biologically, "race" is nothing more than a handful of unimportant cosmetic differences between people, but thanks to the history of enslavement of Africans, Europeans of the early modern period led the charge in describing "race" as some sort of fundamental human category, with some races supposedly enjoying "natural" superiority. That assumption would obviously cast a perverse shadow on the present. »
• « Napoleon managed the huge empire he had created with his armies and trusted no one but his older brother and the handful of generals who had proved their worth during years of campaigning for him. »
• « In 19th century Europe, a handful of ideologies came to predominate: conservatism, nationalism, liberalism and socialism. »
• « Instead of a handful of super-rich expropriators, all could share in material comfort and freedom from scarcity, something that had never been possible before. That vision of revolution was a powerful one for the young Marx, who wrote that, given the inherent tendencies of capitalism, revolution was inevitable. »
• « The real purpose of King Leopold II of Belgium was personal enrichment for himself and a handful of cronies, and his methods of coercing African labour were atrocious: raids, whippings, hostages, destruction of villages and fields, and murder and mutilation. »