"Tung was elected by a small circle and Li has ample influence, " says the lawmaker.
Making up just 0.017% of the population, this year's Election Committee forms a small circle indeed.
Later, the president has a working lunch with a small circle of cabinet members and advisers.
The outsiders found it easy to penetrate Little Rock's small circle of professionals.
But this is a fairly tightly held process in a relatively small circle.
The inventors were recognized only by their small circle of solid-state physicists.
In Paris, Cezanne found a small circle that understood him: the Impressionists.
By the mid-nineteen-eighties, Petraeus had become one of a small circle of post-Vietnam military officers who had developed an interest in counter-insurgency doctrine.
Insider trading rules were vague, and it was easy for a small circle of experts to sell a story and get others to bite.
Pro-establishment figures had welcomed the plan, but some pan-democrats condemned it for accepting a "small circle" nominating committee that would be responsible for approving candidates.
In visible light, all stars appear as points, only smeared out into a small circle by the atmosphere and by the optics of the telescope.
But his already small circle of close supporters is dwindling rapidly.
When you first turn on the screen on a Home-equipped phone, you see the time and a small circle at the bottom displaying your Facebook profile picture.
Mr. Todashev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev belonged to a small circle: ethnic Chechens on the Boston-area fighting circuit, the Tsarnaevs' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said Wednesday from his home in the Russian region of Dagestan.
After he moved to Paris, he socialized mostly with his family and, since he was a suspicious man who suffered from a mild but persistent persecution complex, with a small circle of trusted associates.
While Tiger Global has invested in tech startups for several years, many of the other players are new to Silicon Valley's scene and are spreading their bets beyond a small circle of hot social-networking companies.
The worst-case scenario is that this would leave the Palestinians with about 40% of the West Bank, cut into three unconnected enclaves: one between Jenin and Ramallah, one between Hebron and Bethlehem, and a small circle around Jericho.
Mr. Devillers and Mr. Heywood were part of a small circle of friends and advisers around Ms. Gu in the northeastern city of Dalian in the 1990s, when Mr. Bo was mayor there, according to several people who knew them all.
The truth is that neither the U.S. intelligence community, nor the International Atomic Energy Agency, nor anybody else outside a very small circle in Iran has certain knowledge about the current state of Irans nuclear-weapons program, or how far it is from producing one or more usable devices.
Early in the day, dozens of pro-democracy electors walked out of the vote proceedings, condemning the "small-circle" nature of the city's elections.
This small Jewish circle was affected in the early 1900s by a second wave of immigration that brought Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms (campaigns of repression) and, later, the Russian Revolution.
There will be the (by now customary) news coverage of long lines at Apple stores, also featuring a couple of geeks who have been lining up for weeks to be the first iPhone 5 users in their (likely small) circle of friends.
While supporters of the law danced in a small, celebratory circle, opponents took to the microphone venting their fury.
But because it is so small, the Circle regularly books singer-songwriters and indie talent that the bigger clubs pass up.
They can become overnight heroes, featured in the media, endowed with fame and celebrated among their small, closed circle either online or among fellow believers.
And although Im Dong-Hyun can barely read the big letters at the top of an optician's chart, he can hit that small, yellow circle time and time again.
After some two months networking in Tokyo, I am becoming acquainted with some of the individuals in this circle of small government, tax cutting, free market advocates and activists.
On Sunday afternoon the veterans and French and British dignatories attended a ceremony of remembrance at which 60 small ships formed a circle out at sea, while a Lancaster bomber flew over.
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