So ... just a drop in the bucket for AB.
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No big whoop, another drop in the bucket of rumors.
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And even so, this is a drop in the bucket.
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Oliver's gesture, though, is only a drop in the bucket.
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"It's literally just a drop in the bucket," Boom said.
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The ostrich suit is only a drop in the bucket.
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If most states do, it's a drop in the bucket.
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For YouTube, $170 million is a drop in the bucket.
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"$6 billion is a drop in the bucket," Alexander said.
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"It is a drop in the bucket," Mr. Antico said.
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But in a way that's just a drop in the bucket.
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But $39.9 million is a drop in the bucket for Snap.
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So in so many ways it's a drop in the bucket.
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"It's a drop in the bucket," says director Brion Nuda Rosch.
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"Our 20,000 is just a drop in the bucket," he said.
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And that was just a drop in the bucket in comparison.
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But so far, it is just a drop in the bucket.
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The number of fraudulent votes was a drop in the bucket.
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"It's definitely not a drop in the bucket for me," he says.
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Each time a job is lost, it's a drop in the bucket.
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" Still, the report calls the exonerated cases a "drop in the bucket.
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To call it a drop in the bucket is probably an understatement.
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At $10K-a-night, the home is no drop in the bucket.
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"That is a drop in the bucket, as to need," he said.
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What money there is can seem like a drop in the bucket.
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For Bloomberg, though, the spot is a relative drop in the bucket.
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"For a multibillion dollar company, that's a drop in the bucket," he says.
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What I learned eventually is that that's just a drop in the bucket.
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"The proposals that are on the table are a drop in the bucket."
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Lendix is still a drop in the bucket compared to traditional bank loans.
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As researchers in July's paper indicated, that's just a drop in the bucket.
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That this content from Russian accounts was just a drop in the bucket.
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"That's a drop in the bucket, but at least it's something," says Catrambone.
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And realistically, $24 is a drop in the bucket after a $295 meal.
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But whatever new subscriptions that generates will be a drop in the bucket.
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"This is a drop in the bucket for what we need," Cuomo said.
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Tesla's sales are a drop in the bucket compared to major car producers.
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It's literally a drop in the bucket, it's an irrelevant company in that context.
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Still, it was a drop in the bucket of political spending around the country.
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It's still just a drop in the bucket when compared to its rival, though.
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Still, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Spotify's 30 million paying subscribers.
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Your extra thumb or heart would be embarrassingly ineffectual, a drop in the bucket.
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For the Defense Department, $18 billion is an almost literal drop in the bucket.
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So, too, are budget-cutting proposals that are barely a drop in the bucket.
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Compared to these giants, WeWork is just a "drop in the bucket," he said.
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A drop in the bucket, yes, but a pretty big drop by most standards.
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Higgins, the Morningstar analyst, said the Garuda cancellation is a drop in the bucket.
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"It's just a drop in the bucket compared to the global problem," said Hendryx.
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Yet by day's end, the avalanche was more like a drop in the bucket.
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By comparison, users of Amazon's and Microsoft's digital assistants are a drop in the bucket.
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Still, NASA's expenses have been a drop in the bucket compared to many other departments.
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"It's a drop in the bucket, frankly, compared with the damage they've done to journalism."
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The sum was a drop in the bucket compared with the revenue Alphabet hauls in.
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The names they managed to read were a drop in the bucket of Stalin's terror.
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Another $168 to watch Stranger Things in HDR may be a drop in the bucket.
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For larger cities, a $6 million annual revenue gain is a drop in the bucket.
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Twitter's answer was just a drop in the bucket; a PR pitch not a solution.
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"That is a drop in the bucket, as to need," Cuomo said of the bill.
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The rub against such an idea isn't just that it's a drop in the bucket.
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"The cost is a drop in the bucket compared to your total expenditure," she said.
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Starting at $4,295 for the basic package, the Tread is no drop in the bucket.
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But that's a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean of Trump's Facebook content.
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The main issue is that those 60 satellites are merely a drop in the bucket.
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As Wired pointed out, ads were just a drop in the bucket for Russia's troll campaign.
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But it's all just a drop in the bucket compared to your already heavily-surveilled lifestyle.
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The structured product Merrill Lynch sold is just a drop in the bucket, say industry observers.
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This might sound like a lot, but Solomonides says this is a drop in the bucket.
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Any potential gain for other retailers is "a drop in the bucket" compared to overall sales.
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Elizabeth Vargas noted that the group only represents a "drop in the bucket" of total victims.
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The company is too big to oversee, and this drop-in-the-bucket penalty confirms that.
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Spending from luxury shoppers isn't just another drop in the bucket for these second-tier retailers.
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It's a drop in the bucket, really, considering how long the country has been at this.
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Carlos Cascos: It's a drop in the bucket to a company like SpaceX or Elon Musk.
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In some ways, that's a drop in the bucket when compared with the larger philanthropic sector.
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Google's first-party hardware has always been a drop in the bucket of global smartphone sales.
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The deficit with Mexico is a drop in the bucket compared with the shortfall for China.
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This move is going to be unpopular, but it's sort of a drop in the bucket.
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"But this is a drop in the bucket of what people in Douma require," he said.
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Compared to Team Clinton's spending, the buys from pro-Trump groups are a drop in the bucket.
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New Hampshire is in fact a drop in the bucket of delegates needed to win the nominations.
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Each of these movies is merely a drop in the bucket of stories worth sharing and celebrating.
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But in the context of Apple, such a figure would be just a drop in the bucket.
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Still, that's all just a drop in the bucket compared to the 169.1 albums sold in 2017.
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"We're still a drop in the bucket," said Hans Münter, the head of the Danish Wine Association.
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But whatever Congress does about California's water would really be a drop in the bucket, Holyoke cautioned.
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In Washington, sadly, this amount is barely a drop in the bucket, but much bigger problems loom.
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That would make the plastics trapped in the Pacific Garbage Patch a proverbial drop in the bucket.
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That figure amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to annual expenditures of over $85033 trillion.
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Third, a billion in divestitures is a drop in the bucket to what conceivably might be necessary.
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Did you get the sense that Robson and Safechuck's experiences were just a drop in the bucket?
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Cuomo called that a "drop in the bucket" compared to the $15 billion he says is necessary.
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"The investment is a drop in the bucket for Amazon," said Michelle Krebs executive analyst at Autotrader.
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"There are so many problems right now, $1 billion is a drop in the bucket," Workman says.
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Buying an electric car is a drop in the bucket compared with raising fuel-efficiency standards sharply.
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Around 7,000 Kickstarter backers got a dev kit, so it's a drop in the bucket for the company.
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Last year, Facebook generated nearly $56 billion in revenue, so $300 million is a drop in the bucket.
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Alphabet proper probably doesn't care; $300 million is a drop in the bucket to the company's bottom line.
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Be smart: For Dollar Tree, which owns 15,000 stores across the country, that's a drop in the bucket.
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It's also a drop in the bucket compared to the 65,000MW of total generating capacity Shenhua has overall.
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That's a drop in the bucket for the amount of prep he expects Biden is doing this week.
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In some years, this may be sufficient, but in 2017, this is just a drop in the bucket.
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It's just a drop in the bucket for Apple, with its cash pile of more than $230 billion.
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But that revenue alone is a drop in the bucket in terms of the needs of the MTA.
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Even compared to the demand for heart transplants in the United States, it's a drop in the bucket.
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In case you're wondering ... Hood's making $2.3 million this season, so it's just a drop in the bucket.
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Google's bans were a drop in the bucket compared with the almost two million publishers that use AdSense.
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These 27 are "likely just a drop in the bucket" of all those affected, the group said Monday.
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These 2100 are "likely just a drop in the bucket" of all those affected, the group said Monday.
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"Local government is a powerful thing and that's the first drop in the bucket to affect change," Day explains.
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The Senate's health care bill included just a drop in the bucket -- $2 billion -- to tackle the opioid crisis.
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To call that a drop in the bucket is a massive understatement; it's a drop in the fucking ocean.
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But in a city where about 58,000 people are homeless, that can seem like a drop in the bucket.
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She called that "just a drop in the bucket" compared to what other more established organizations have surely collected.
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The story is why does it take so long to raise a drop in the bucket of a fund.
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That might be true, and $75 million is a proverbial drop in the bucket of a $55 billion contract.
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The funding the stimulus provides is only a "drop in the bucket" compared to the need, New York Gov.
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Of course, 800 copies are a drop in the bucket to Amazon and PRH—but not to independent booksellers.
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But compared to the estimated 290 million-plus smartphones Samsung sold last year, it's a drop in the bucket.
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Non-defense spending will be increased just $85033 million in the next fiscal year, a drop in the bucket.
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Thirty-three conviction integrity units is a drop in the bucket in a country with thousands of prosecutorial offices.
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But these investments are just a drop in the bucket of the social value that corporations create for us.
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Amazon's subsidy, however, is a drop in the bucket compared to the benefits bestowed on Chinese e-commerce players.
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For a company like AT&T with a net annual income of $29 billion, that's a drop in the bucket.
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Twenty million may sound like a drop in the bucket compared to Facebook's billions or even Snapchat's 173 million users.
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A cheap $50 battery replacement is a drop in the bucket compared to forking out $1,000 for a new iPhone.
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Miller says Koren sells just 120,000 Haggadahs a year, which amounts to a drop in the bucket for the publisher.
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The funding is also just a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed to help most biotech companies scale.
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But that's just a drop in the bucket compared with what Wall Street has reaped on the massively complex buyout.
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The fund obviously isn't looking to lose money, but $1 billion is a relative drop in the bucket for Apple.
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"That would be a drop in the bucket … but a meaningful change in the number of people uninsured," Levitt says.
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But that's a drop in the bucket compared with the number of refugees who've historically been able to return home.
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Activists for H.I.V. patients said 203,000 more recipients amounted to a drop in the bucket, compared with the overall need.
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It shouldn't be more than six figures though — a drop in the bucket for the most-expensive proxy fight ever.
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With a current estimated net worth of $35.9 billion, real estate is just a drop in the bucket for him.
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For a game that took me almost nine hours to finish, that was really just a drop in the bucket.
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In the $718 billion proposed defense spending for 2020, the MIA accounting budget may seem a drop in the bucket.
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For a company reporting billions of dollars in sales, that amounts to hardly more than a drop in the bucket.
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Meanwhile, cancellation would admittedly be a drop in the bucket in terms of fighting for the repeal of Trump's restrictions.
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But this is still a drop in the bucket compared to the huge numbers of people the feds lock up.
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That isn't chump change, but it's a drop in the bucket of the problem of actually trying to fight hunger.
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That's a relative drop in the bucket; Ohio alone now spends nearly a billion dollars annually on opioid-related initiatives.
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The actual reversal took less than 4,000 years -- a drop in the bucket when compared to Earth's timeline so far.
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A trust might cost up to a few thousand dollars, so this is more than a drop in the bucket.
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Critics said the efforts were just a relative drop in the bucket, given the overwhelming size of the tech giants.
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But of course it's a minuscule drop in the bucket compared to Chevron's investments in additional oil and gas resources.
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If that sounds like a drop in the bucket, why not go all-in and max out a Mac Pro?
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"People think that bill has done a lot of important things, when it's a drop in the bucket," Stone said.
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And I think the conventional theory out there is that the relationship is one of a drop in the bucket.
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As much as these jobs matter to the surrounding communities, they're also a drop in the bucket for the economy overall.
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This time around, it was all just a drop in the bucket of the absolute tsunami of coverage that Trump generated.
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That's a drop in the bucket for the largest hospital systems, raising questions about whether dominant organizations would follow the regulation.
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That is a pittance — a drop in the bucket of the $600 billion in annual military spending in the US alone.
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Despite that exciting progress, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what Ticketmaster's distributed commerce program will do this year.
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"The problems the automakers currently face are a drop in the bucket compared to what could be coming," LMC's Schuster said.
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That's a drop in the bucket of its total budget, but would be enough to buy a number of U.S. companies.
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There, all countries are paying their fair share—but that is a drop in the bucket compared to national defense budgets.
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Given the staggering amount of capital to build out OBOR, the $50 billion allocated is but a drop in the bucket.
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If Amazon ran a loss-making chain of cinemas, it would be but a little drop in the bucket for it.
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The amount is a drop in the bucket for Apple, which has a total cash pile of more than $230 billion.
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It's a drop in the bucket when you consider the growing need, as well as the funding allotted for other diseases.
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But that's just a drop in the bucket if they successfully refer someone to a clinic, earning ten or twenty grand.
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For now, Enel aims to produce around 500,000 panels a year, a drop in the bucket compared with its Chinese competitors.
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This is a drop in the bucket of the Treasury market, with inconsequential implications for the overall level of interest rates.
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It's really just one drop in the bucket of black blood that has been building up since the dawn of the republic.
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And an individual genetic variation linked to mental illness amounts to a tiny drop in the bucket when it comes to risk.
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But $229 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the $21.6 billion the DHS estimated the full wall would require.
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TV any competition: 13 games are just a drop in the bucket when you factor in the entire 162-game MLB season.
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Compared to The Hangover's $277 million, the $75 million haul of another 2009 film, Zombieland, seems like a drop in the bucket.
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That's a drop in the bucket when compared to a movie like Interstellar, which garnered over 46 million torrent downloads last year.
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Despite TikTok Lite's growth, 12 million+ downloads is only a drop in the bucket when it comes to TikTok's larger user base.
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That is a drop in the bucket (0.011 percent to be precise) compared to Wells Fargo's annual net income of $23 billion.
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That comes out to about 1 million people, which is a drop in the bucket of Facebook's 2.19 billion active monthly users.
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The investments represent just a drop in the bucket of the oil producers' businesses, but they're nonetheless happening despite President Trump's agenda.
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Yes, but: $1 billion over three years is a drop in the bucket for Medicare, which spends more than $646 billion annually.
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Now, to some this campaign may sound like a drop in the bucket compared to the behemoth task of achieving pay equality.
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That is a drop in the bucket for Alphabet: it generated $75 billion in revenues and $16.3 billion in profits last year.
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The demand for these funds comes after a long drought, and remains a mere drop in the bucket within the fund world.
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Why should the IOC give up all this stuff when hockey is just a drop in the bucket for the Olympics anyway?
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But for Bloomberg, whose estimated net worth comes in at $52.4 billion, the purchase is just a small drop in the bucket.
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Sanders and Buttigieg are ahead in the delegate count right now, but Iowa and New Hampshire are a drop in the bucket.
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Instead, we get a new, flashy billionaire fund—just a drop in the bucket for Bezos—as Amazon continues business as usual.
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A few hundred thousand dollars is literally a drop in the bucket and we're lucky to have private health insurance and Medicaid.
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Rebuild by Design's $270bn is a drop in the bucket compared with the $60bn which Congress earmarked for post-Sandy recovery efforts.
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"I'm sorry, but $12 million is a drop in the bucket for ExxonMobil and doesn't teach them anything about accountability," she said.
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For America's growing $20.7 trillion economy, a potential loss of $130 billion of its exports to China is a drop in the bucket.
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The company said it was able to move 605 tons of furniture in 2014, a drop in the bucket, but it's a start.
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It's a drop in the bucket in Facebook terms: Since May, advertisers have spent more than $353 million on political ads on Facebook.
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Ultimately, the $200 billion spent on vaccinations will be just a drop in the bucket compared to the overall cost of environmental damage.
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The amount may be a drop in the bucket, but it's a signal that governments won't always let this type of behavior fly.
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But for a corporation as massive as Facebook, it represents only around three month's worth of profit, a proverbial drop in the bucket.
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Ad buys like Blind's, he told BuzzFeed News, differ from the typical, preplanned campaigns Mashable runs; they're a relative drop in the bucket.
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In terms of revenue, hedge fund carry is a drop in the bucket compared to something like real estate, or even private equity.
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This is just a drop in the bucket to cover the tab that has accumulated as a result of Puerto Rico's government mismanagement.
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These states represent a drop in the bucket compared to Texas's $1.6 trillion, 12.5 million-job economy, a size approaching that of Canada.
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"Yes, a $15 billion spending reduction is a drop in the bucket compared to a $15 trillion debt," Lee said in a statement.
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Consumers pay, but the costs are a drop in the bucket compared to $14 trillion in annual consumption spending in the United States.
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Kolfage's $22 million would be a drop in the bucket for the administration's projected costs, expected to run to multiple billions of dollars.
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In comparison to a $1 trillion deficit and a $85033 billion projected interest payment, that reduction would be a drop in the bucket.
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However, that's just a drop in the bucket versus the average daily trading volume of $70 billion on the 'A' shares these days.
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But with fewer than 700 credit unions and banks across the country doing this important work, it's just a drop in the bucket.
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Video: NASA/YouTube In fact, the last such event was just 2.6 million years ago, a drop in the bucket on evolutionary timescales.
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Even when BioShock, Borderlands, and other games were taking off, they were a drop in the bucket compared to anything Rockstar Games produced.
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But so far, those effort have been a drop in the bucket in the overall ebb and flow of the global oil market.
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Further, Google is currently worth about $840 billion — $150 million is 0.00018 percent of that number, a PR-friendly drop in the bucket.
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"It's a small workforce, we're just talking about a few dozen new union members, so it's a drop in the bucket," he continued.
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That's $24 million per day, so paying $30 million for these court-mandated ads is "a drop in the bucket" for them, Koval says.
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"Compared to all the other assets, especially things like gold, stocks, real estate, $16 billion is just a drop in the bucket," he noted.
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The $35,000 funding goal is just a drop in the bucket of what will be needed to care for a horse and train it.
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A drop in the bucket of the $6.5 million raised by Trump for America, but its presence in the bucket displeased and confused Affleck.
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It's a drop in the bucket compared with what it'll cost to undo the damage to the water system and people's health: $1.5 billion!
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The number of the IPs blocked was a drop in the bucket for the app, as the move was mostly intended as a warning.
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But these sophisticated aid deliveries are barely a drop in the bucket for a city -- and a country -- reeling from three years of war.
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That's just a drop in the bucket: He's previously spent $62,26 of campaign money on oral surgery, video games, resort vacations and jewelry buys.
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But of course 10,000 new housing units is a drop in the bucket for Silicon Valley as a whole, with around 3 million people.
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Basically, what wealthy colleges end up spending on low-income students is a drop in the bucket compared with what they could be doing.
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Stimulus will be a 'tiny little drop' in the bucket Ryan Greene says he needs the government's help, but it won't go far enough.
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Bitcoin fans will tell you that this is a drop in the bucket compared with how much the dollar is used to buy drugs.
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For now, the soils initiative is funded with just $7.5 million, a drop in the bucket for a state with more than 76,153 farms.
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Spotify's planned spending of between $400 million and $500 million is jaw-dropping, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to other mediums.
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But those single digit declines were just a drop in the bucket, considering in 2017 ripple soared 35,000 percent and bitcoin rose 1,500 percent.
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To be sure, Ecuador's output is a "drop in the bucket," said Greg Priddy, director of global energy and natural resources at Eurasia Group.
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Before progressives take much hope from these recent events, it's important to remember that the three failed nominations are a drop in the bucket.
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But even Amazon's projected ad revenue is a relative drop in the bucket compared to the massive duopoly Facebook and Google hold on the market.
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I know this incident is a drop in the bucket of trauma Black folk have endured since Day 1 America, and you all have stories.
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In total, we're told it set Tekashi back around $35,000 -- a drop in the bucket, especially considering how "Dummy Boy" has blown up since then.
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But with housing prices continuing to soar and multiple tech companies going public, $1 billion could end up being only a drop in the bucket.
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Union president Bob McDevitt blasted Icahn, calling the cost of restoring full health care "a drop in the bucket" that the billionaire can easily afford.
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The company spend $140 billion over the last five years in wireless infrastructure, so $6 billion will be a drop in the bucket, said Nail.
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And while $500 a head would be a drop in the bucket for Amazon, the company clearly understands its leverage as the city's largest employer.
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And while the price tag is nothing to joke about — $4,999 to start — it's a drop in the bucket for the medical and professional industries.
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The $78,333 check is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of millions that Zinke said the department needs for the battlefield maintenance.
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With 2.2 million Americans behind bars, the commutations Obama has granted are a drop in the bucket, especially when compared to those who've been denied.
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Yes but: This is a drop in the bucket compared to BP's nearly $2 billion net profit it disclosed as its most recent quarterly earnings.
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In the wake of Bob Nimmo, Harry Walters' lack of combat experience was a drop in the bucket, and veterans' advocates widely supported his nomination.
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Not only are there few farmers who operate on such a small amount of land, but the payout is essentially a drop in the bucket.
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But even that, he argued, would be a drop in the bucket, relative to the $4 trillion the U.S. is expected to spend this year.
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But more importantly, turbines are a drop in the bucket when it comes to the human-related causes of bird deaths, context Zinke didn't provide.
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First launched in 221, it has supported 226 projects to date, raising $800,000 — a drop in the bucket, but better than no bucket at all.
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But that's a drop in the bucket in Washington, a mere 0.02% of President Trump's proposed $4.8 trillion federal budget for the current fiscal year.
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Hu You Xue runs one of less than 10 shops selling it in Hangzhou, a drop in the bucket for its population of eight million.
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That's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the developed world, certainly relative to the US with its more than 153,000 cases.
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My struggle to conceive lasted less than a year, which is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what many other women go through.
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It isn't known how much of an impact these actions actually have on a song's chart position, but it's likely a drop in the bucket.
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Sure, 65 units is a drop in the bucket, when you consider the vast overhaul Santa Fe needs in terms of its urban growth patterns.
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To be sure, paid parental leave would be a drop in the bucket compared to annual Social Security expenditures at less than one percent annually.
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"I think it's only a drop in the bucket," said Nina Jankowicz, an expert on Russian disinformation at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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The sum would have been a drop in the bucket for America and the billionaire President, who requested $639 billion in defense spending for 2018.
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Canadian sales are "a drop in the bucket," and while skim milk exports grew fast, that growth cannot continue because Canada's system restricts production, Mussell said.
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Even these parking investments are a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $80 billion invested in autonomous vehicles in just the past three years.
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He said he has to "zealously" represent his client and the appearances he's done are an "eye drop" in the bucket of negative press against Butina.
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The $600,000 paid to Cohen is a drop in the bucket for AT&T, which spent $16.78 million in lobbying last year, according to federal disclosures.
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I know that some women share their joy, but it seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the sea of negativity I find online.
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The settlement is a drop in the bucket for Instacart, which just closed a new $400 million investment that values the startup at around $3 billion.
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It's worth noting that 93 cases is a drop in the bucket compared with the 20143,584 unrestricted sexual assault reports that were filed just in 2014.
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" New York City, specifically, Cuomo said, will only receive $1.3 billion in the stimulus deal, which he called "a drop in the bucket, as to need.
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Still, the digital content division is a drop in the bucket for Verizon's overall business: The company has a market value of more than $230 billion.
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He argues the health benefits and pay are a drop in the bucket for the NFL, which he said in 2017 generated $14 billion in revenue.
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At the same time, we write about and recommend products worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars, so this app is a comparative drop in the bucket.
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One could see that as an indication that people are better informed than we think, and maybe a false story is just a drop in the bucket.
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According to Siena College's website, printing the hand took 30 hours, which was just a drop in the bucket compared to the arduous six-month design process.
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"That is a drop in the bucket of what we should be spending on making sure that people are protected and ready for these things," Phoenix says.
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Despite the good reviews by early adopters, myRAs are a drop in the bucket compared to the $4013 trillion invested in private employer-sponsored 401(k) plans.
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That's just a drop in the bucket compared to 2015, when the worst bird flu outbreak in US history left some 50 million chickens and turkeys dead.
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Even if you could raise your testosterone levels by 10, 20, or 30 percent, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what you're getting from drugs.
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For Microsoft, the Confluent stake remains such a tiny drop in the bucket, even after multiplying by many times, that the company has never discussed it publicly.
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And, while that would bring in significant revenue (over $500,000), it's a drop in the bucket as far as Simon & Schuster and more importantly CBS are concerned.
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If any of these claims are valid(ish), it's that pink salt may have more minerals than purified white salt—but it's a drop in the bucket.
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That's still a drop in the bucket compared to global volume players like GM, Toyota, and Volkswagen — but then again, Tesla doesn't yet have a volume car.
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Again, the general framework here from the tech companies: The content from Russian accounts was a drop in the bucket, but we are taking it seriously nonetheless.
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Forty deaths is, of course, a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who die each year in this country from smoking traditional cigarettes.
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But that sum may be a drop in the bucket compared to what chief financial officers of corporations are fearing that hackers may demand in the future.
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While 150 stores may seem like a drop in the bucket for a sprawling company like Starbucks, that is three times the number it usually closes annually.
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Every noise, every inhale of smoggy air, every medical bill—everything that would normally be another drop in the bucket now meant hours of pain and frustration.
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But be that as it may, the point is that a $1 billion reduction in the bilateral relationship with China would be a drop in the bucket.
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Be smart: To some extent, this fine may be just a drop in the bucket for Google, but it will likely serve as a deterrent to others.
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An $800,000 settlement sounds a lot of money, but it's a drop in the bucket for Oregon, which brings in $196 million in athletics revenue per year.
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Taking an action that'll solve a problem forever is more exciting to a lot of people than taking an action that's a drop in the bucket. Exactly.
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Taken together, Amazon's environmental promises are a start, but only a drop in the bucket of what experts say may be needed to address the climate crisis.
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"Twenty million dollars is a drop in the bucket for the $1 billion that they've raised," Brian Schettler, senior managing director of Boeing HorizonX Ventures, told CNBC.
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But for those of us who have only ever flown coach, let's be real: It's barely a drop in the bucket compared to all the other amenities.
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Ultimately, however, governments and major corporations need to be held responsible, as our individual consumer choices are just a drop in the bucket of their waste creation.
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YouTube's Kaplamino bought 50 fidget spinners—a mere drop in the bucket—to make this Rube Goldberg machine that represents the only interesting use for the finger toys.
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Of course, that would barely be a drop in the bucket for SoftBank's $98 billion Vision Fund, which has been upending venture capital investing with its mammoth deals.
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Though Democrats and many policy experts say $8 billion is a drop in the bucket of the cash needed to fund high risk pools, Upton's decision was crucial.
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"This settlement is just a drop in the bucket of what Equifax's disregard for privacy could cost American families," Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown said in a statement.
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Perhaps when you wear drop-dead gorgeous dresses every single day of the week, one flub, even one of this magnitude, is just another drop in the bucket.
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It may seem that the number of COFA migrants are but a drop in the bucket compared to the issue of immigration to the U.S. as a whole.
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That's simultaneously a big increase — a 43 percent jump — and a drop in the bucket, compared with the expansion in the pool of immigrants made vulnerable to deportation.
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Iceland's much smaller walrus population would have been a drop in the bucket by comparison, but the ivory trade would still have put pressure on Iceland's small population.
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But the point is, a $100,000 ad buy on Facebook may be a drop in the bucket in terms of Facebook's overall revenue, but can still be effective.
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Henry Biner, an executive at the Boston-based P/E Investments, felt that the "horrendous" killing was only a drop in the bucket to wider Middle Eastern violence.
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The group also has managed to get a small amount of aid inside the country, which Graham called "a drop in the bucket" compared to what is needed.
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With such luxury afforded in owning a superyacht comes an exorbitantly high price tag, though it's likely a drop in the bucket for those seeking to own one.
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News+ revenue will be a drop in the bucket of iPhone sales, and Apple could at any time decide it's not thirsty any more and let News+ rot.
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" Its authors noted that $2 trillion may, "in retrospect, look like a drop in the bucket for a Washington that's suddenly eager to approve gobs of new spending.
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The payout is a drop in the bucket for Facebook, which paid a $5 billion fine to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations last year.
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"Halting this $350 million sale is a positive start, but it is only a drop in the bucket of the administration's total support," he said in a statement.
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That funding would be a drop in the bucket in terms of federal higher education spending, but it would facilitate stronger evaluations and help inform broader policy reforms.
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The financial support Jordan and Lebanon need to remain economically viable is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost if either one descended into civil strife.
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Compared to that, the $7 million Facebook is offering in matching funds, or even the $250 million donated overall last year, is just a drop in the bucket.
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Still, North Dakota's total of 13,764 jobs in the culture sector in 2014 are a drop in the bucket compared to California's 674,865 — the most of any state.
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Still, the group is small: The sisters estimated that there are currently 60 active members, a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands of women in the industry.
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While Lawson stood to gain from the increased backing, one investor said that for Mitsubishi, the investment would be a drop in the bucket relative to its massive portfolio.
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So while your presence might amount to a drop in the bucket, crowded town hall events and especially pointed questions or meaningful interactions have snowballed into much larger stories.
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"I know this incident is a drop in the bucket of trauma Black folk have endured since Day 1 America, and you all have stories," she wrote on Facebook.
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But that's a drop in the bucket when the median cost of building an affordable unit is nearly $400,000 in San Francisco, according to the US Government Accountability Office.
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Jeff Bezos is the new king of Hollywood real estate after scooping up David Geffen's Beverly Hills estate for a drop in the bucket -- to him, anyway -- $28.25 million.
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In September, the FTC hit Google with a $173 million fine over YouTube's children's privacy violations — but it was a drop in the bucket for the multibillion dollar company.
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Last year, its underseas cable business generated $17 million in net profit, according to Huawei's annual report — a drop in the bucket of its $8.6 billion in net profit.
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Flattening one to a pulp with a giant hydraulic press is a drop in the bucket, but an important first step towards putting an end to this annoying fad.
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The $54 million may seem like a drop in the bucket when it comes to defense expenditures, but it highlights the need for more oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Lomas admits that his 216 words are just a drop in the bucket; he's still updating his list, which is available online, and is welcoming suggestions from the public.
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"It's a small drop in the bucket compared to the working population," said Michael Landsberg, CPA and member of the American Institute of CPAs' personal financial planning executive committee.
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You go there and you see how much art there is there, and you realize that your art that you slaved over is just a drop in the bucket.
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But $2.25 billion a year, allocated only to states that get … waivers to establish invisible high risk pools or reinsurance programs, would only be a drop in the bucket.
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Some critics argue that increased private donations would be just a drop in the bucket for public schools and wouldn't change the trajectory of a school district in trouble.
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However, while the police presence was strong, they were a drop in the bucket compared to the silent attendees who held hands, hugged, and said few, if any, words.
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Comparing U.S. and international equity performance since the global financial crisis, it is clear that the recent move up in international is still only a drop in the bucket.
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There are other companies doing innovative things, and they are definitely gaining traction — but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the mortgage market.
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"But if you take away the health care through the expansion of Medicaid, through the Affordable Care Act, it's a drop in the bucket to replace that," she said.
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He added that the amount lost shouldn't ruin Christmas—while unfortunate, it's a drop in the bucket for DreiMeister, who go through about 400 tons of chocolate per year.
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A thousand dollars to the clients they're bilking is a drop in the bucket, an amount so trivial they can afford to chalk it up as a fun mistake.
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Even taken at face value, the number of jobs for which the president-elect has taken credit represents a tiny drop in the bucket of American manufacturing job loss.
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Not only was the fine a drop in the bucket to Facebook, but the settlement did nothing to change the business practices that led to the Cambridge Analytica breach.
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It seemed like such a drop in the bucket, but I decided to call my student loan provider to see how much of a difference it would really make.
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US cyber operations against specific Russian targets are a drop in the bucket when compared to the information warfare campaign that Russia has and is engaging in against Americans.
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We're funding drug-interdiction efforts that, beyond capturing drop-in-the-bucket amounts of drugs, primarily cause human rights abuses and add to our ineffective, corrupt prison-industrial complex.
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So many users engage with tweets on the platform on any given day, that all the retweets and favorites that Trump gets are really just a drop in the bucket.
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"Twenty-five basis points is a drop in the bucket," Dimon said in an interview with Carlyle Group co-CEO David Rubenstein on Monday at The Economic Club of Washington.
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It might sound like a drop in the bucket in the context of a national budget, but when you look closer, it is money that could make a huge difference.
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The bottom line: Compared to what it would take to shield them from huge premium increases, that's "a drop in the bucket," Matthew Fiedler of the Brookings Institution told me.
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Many health experts have noted that the cost of covering these people wouldn't be cheap, but it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the ACA's overall costs.
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But for-profit colleges are just a drop in the bucket and they were always a more safe target than traditional universities with powerful donors and plenty of political backers.
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Yet this is just a drop in the bucket, and big challenges persist, not least the continued unequal division of land - a key reason why FARC first took up arms.
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Some critics have claimed the amount of the fine is not significant enough to punish a company like Facebook, though $5 billion is far from a drop in the bucket.
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It has also taken on $1.4 billion of corporate indebtedness (a daunting sum for a startup to be sure, but a drop in the bucket compared to its lease liabilities).
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Five years ago, the U.S. exported just 21973,274 barrels of oil per day, a relative drop in the bucket compared to the roughly 22015 million daily barrels the U.S. consumes.
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Then again, $115 was a drop in the bucket next to the thousands of dollars I'd already spent on classes, private lessons, and space rentals since starting my circus hobby.
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That's just a drop in the bucket for Perry and her team, but the effect the verdict could have on the music industry going forward already seems to be emerging.
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"In the context of the airlines' total revenue, this is a drop in the bucket," said Samuel Engel, a senior vice president and lead of the aviation practice at ICF.
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While it is promising that the government has finally abandoned the fiction that such disasters can be managed by state governments alone, this is just a drop in the bucket.
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Professional-grade netting would be relatively cheap -- at $303,000 to $12,000 per 60 feet, or as the authors wrote, "a drop in the bucket" -- for a $10 billion a year industry.
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In our current state of campaign financing, that amount is a drop in the bucket for presidential hopefuls, but some candidates have attempted to find other ways to pay their fee.
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The ETF has drawn $40 million in investor assets so far - decent for a new product but still only a drop in the bucket of the $4 trillion in ETFs globally.
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Officials said this week that Facebook would face a £500,000 fine from the UK over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it was a drop in the bucket for the massive company.
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That amounts to a drop in the bucket when, by most estimates, the agency would have to spend at least $820 million each year just to keep the backlog from growing.
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Paul put $100,000 on the line behind his claim — which is, admittedly, a drop in the bucket for a guy who brought in an estimated $14.5 million in a single year.
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In the grand scheme of things, even the best attitude, the most resilient state of mind, the mindsets most oriented toward growth, are a drop in the bucket against structural barriers.
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The E.U. has now fined Google $230 billion, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the company's $19737 billion in annual revenue, and its shares rose 250 percent yesterday.
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And interventions like bar code scanning are a drop in the bucket when it comes to preventable medical mistakes, which are now the third-leading cause of death in the country.
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"The global, as well as national, funding going to support the poorest and most vulnerable households and communities is just a drop in the bucket compared with the need," said Huq.
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"Even if you have a $2000,210 a year to give, it can feel like a drop in the bucket compared to what Bill Gates or Mike Bloomberg is giving," he added.
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For a city used to receiving 820 million litres of water every day, this may be a drop in the bucket but it is help that the residents of Chennai desperately need.
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A major challenge for judging Trump's proposal is that most of those steps amount to a drop in the bucket -- less than $1 billion -- compared to the proposed cost of the wall.
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In 2012, Google paid a record-setting $22.5 million to settle with the FTC over its own privacy infractions, an amount that is hardly a drop in the bucket by today's terms.
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To be living in this political climate that's awful, and then to see the hopefulness of this situation... A lot of times you feel like, Oh it's a drop in the bucket.
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This financing is still a drop in the bucket of overall campaign finance: spending tied to influencing the federal elections in 2016 totaled $6.4bn, more than one hundred times the NRA's contribution.
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Yes, but: Stretch will argue that the reach of the Russian campaign was a relative drop in the bucket compared to the large amount of content posted to Facebook during that period.
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"This is important for trophy hunting, but trophy hunting is a drop in the bucket," when compared with the larger threats that lions face, said Luke Hunter, president of conservation charity Panthera.
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I remember being a young professional saddled with student loan debt and feeling like I would stretch myself to make a $100 donation, and it would be a drop in the bucket.
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It's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall PC market (around 15 percent by the company's estimates), but these people are influencers, a title that extends beyond just their output.
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Local groups that are engaged with the issue have also raised concerns over Silicon Valley's response, saying the contributions are a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of the crisis.
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According to information Michigan State Police provided to us, Michigan grants about 2,500 a year — but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of criminal convictions there each year.
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Estimating that Egypt had received around $850 billion in loans, investments and grants between 1974 and 2010, Farouk said the proposed aid package over 10 years was a drop in the bucket.
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TSA, for instance, has scraped together some money for its unpaid employees, but it's a drop in the bucket — one day of missed pay out of almost 30, plus a $500 bonus.
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The Bank of England estimated earlier this week that $5 billion has left investment funds in Hong Kong since the unrest started this spring, but that's still a drop in the bucket.
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Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat, said the money was "a drop in the bucket that would not come close to making up for the damage" done by the Republican healthcare bill.
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"He was, in the great scheme of things, a drop in the bucket," said Ron Cohen, CEO of biotech company Acorda Therapeutics and past chair of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization industry group.
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We make enough money that we don't qualify for any subsidies, but not enough money where spending thousands of dollars a month on health insurance is some insignificant drop in the bucket.
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David Lamir, an official in the inspector general's Boston office, said the $1.5 billion figure represented a "drop in the bucket" of the true costs to Medicare from medical products that malfunction.
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While that would of course count as a "vast fortune" for any individual, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the total U.S. government's budget, which routinely totals in the trillions.
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Still, it's a small drop in the bucket compared with the $8 billion rival Netflix is planning to spend on content in 2018, around 25 percent of which currently goes to funding originals.
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And we've never been able to push the price up through either the production side or the trafficking side, because it's a drop in the bucket of the real wealth that's built in.
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Ms Jones says she would happily double the number of trainees at the site, but that would still be a drop in the bucket when half a million children leave school each year.
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A DHS official, who declined to be identified, said the number of sponsors arrested was a "drop in the bucket" compared to the tens of thousands of arrests by immigration authorities each year.
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That is such a monumental goal that Biosphere 2 is only a drop in the bucket of everything that must be understood, but Biosphere 2 is a very important drop in that bucket.
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The investment, while jaw-dropping, is a drop in the bucket for SoftBank, which is busily working to close its Vision Fund with $100 billion and aggressively committing its capital in the meantime.
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Although cryptocurrencies are a drop in the bucket compared with mortgage assets, the pattern is similar — exotic instruments that promise higher returns but are poorly understood even by those who trade in them.
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Samsung will rebound and it'll continue to sell tons and tons of phones; 2.5 million shipped Note7s was just a drop in the bucket a company that shipped 324.8 million phones in 2015.
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The range of zero-emissions vehicles on offer will expand significantly in the coming years, but sales targets are still just a "drop in the bucket" of the total market, according to Barclays.
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To call the company's efforts a drop in the bucket is an understatement, but the processes it's developing to make these plastics useable again are a notable step towards cleaning up our oceans.
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While the amounts are a drop in the bucket of the overall industry, analysts said defaults were set to grow this year and beyond as China's central bank tightened up on monetary policy.
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But $17 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions of dollars Puerto Rico needs to straighten out its debt crisis, fix its power grid, and begin to grow again.
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The cost of keeping SNAP funded and taking care of workers who don't make enough to support themselves or their families is a drop in the bucket compared to this huge tax giveaway.
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The amount of oil that the U.S. could add to the strategic reserve would be "a drop in the bucket" compared to the flood of supply hitting the market, one industry representative said.
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He warned that the $3.8 billion in the bill for his state was a "drop in the bucket" for a budget shortfall the state faced that could be as large as $15 billion.
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In spite of some large investments, it still feels like a drop in the bucket of the company's overall footprint, expanding the robots' locations from two to 12 sites in the coming year.
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In its emphasis on design R&D, Nature calls attention to one type of environmentalist agency exercised between the extremes of drop-in-the-bucket personal choice and out-of-reach systemic overhaul.
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"You can make a very well-done independent black movie for three million bucks, and that's a drop in the bucket for what some of these black stars make per movie," said Waithe.
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While the final selling price has not been made available, the 32-year-old has made nearly $100 million during his long career ... so yeah, just a drop in the bucket for Jones.
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That's a drop in the bucket, seeing as the tech companies that took part in the protest reach billions of users every day — but the event's planners stress that they've touched a nerve.
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While half a billion dollars to effectively beg for forgiveness (and business) is a jaw-dropping amount of money, it's really just a drop in the bucket for a company valued at $72 billion.
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I must first praise Smith, even though I get that the $40 million his gift will cost his family is but a drop in the bucket of his estimated $4.5 billion of personal wealth.
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The people on the caravan — 1,300 to 2327,2216 Central Americans — were a drop in the bucket compared to the more than 2205,21 people arrested at the US southwest border in March and April alone.
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That's a good start, donors said, but they know it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the deep coffers and political connections of anti-Muslim movements that specialize in squashing Muslim organizing.
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EPIC takes issue not just with the relatively low size of the fine, which, while the biggest ever for a tech company, is barely a drop in the bucket for the $571 billion company.
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It's unclear what exactly that innovation is, or why exactly Google is so eager to buy it, although $40 million is a drop in the bucket for Google when it comes to acquisition costs.
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But even if it's just a drop in the bucket, the fraud could erode the veracity of the widely respected Billboard chart metrics, especially since the fan campaigns appear to be getting more sophisticated.
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The Expanse is only a drop in the bucket — a recent study suggests that while television has a reputation as a more diversity-friendly medium than film, it's still largely skewed male and white.
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And while it's true that 65,000 Syria refugees would be an increase by American standards, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 1 million refugees who settled in Germany last year.
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The $50 million settlement is a drop in the bucket for a bank that earned a profit of $5.6 billion last quarter, but the bank is reeling from a scandal over its sales tactics.
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By contrast, Pawar, a Chicago alderman who entered the race in January, raised just $828,000 in total — a respectable amount in most elections but just a drop in the bucket in the Illinois race.
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One million units sold in roughly three months is a respectable number — it may be a drop in the bucket for Samsung's overall smartphone sales, but those other phones don't cost two thousand bucks.
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Though out of reach for mere-mortal home buyers, the price of this apartment was a drop in the bucket when compared with the cost of some of the artwork in Mr. Liu's portfolio.
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Utah's searches are just a drop in the bucket compared to the more than 85033,000 facial-recognition searches the FBI conducted of federal and local databases, including state DMV databases, between 2011 and 2019.
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That is a drop in the bucket for the Warren campaign, which entered October with $25.7 million in cash on hand, more than any Democratic campaign aside from that of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Here's where each company stands: Twitter won the coveted deal to stream 10 games last year for 10 million dollars, a drop in the bucket compared to the streaming rights major networks have to pay.
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Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber have plunked down millions of dollars -- which for them is a drop in the bucket -- for an amazing pad in 90210 ... and they bought it from a famous singer/songwriter.
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Still, the 2,700-case-increase remains a drop in the bucket compared to the backlog in the immigration courts, which are separate from the broader criminal justice and civil law system and have different rules.
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Aside from having nothing to do with the passage of the tax bill, this level of spending—$1,000 bonuses, for example—are a drop in the bucket, compared to the windfall these corporations can expect.
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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that eliminating it would generate $17 billion over 10 years, a drop in the bucket given that Republicans have been trying to close a budget gap in the trillions.
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One research firm estimated YouTube's revenue from children's media could be between $500 million and $750 million per year — a giant sum of money, but still a drop in the bucket of YouTube's total earnings.
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So far, the number of people officially on strike is just 359 (the group has a live counter), which is a drop in the bucket when you consider that 44 million Americans hold such debt.
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It may seem like air conditioning would just be a drop in the bucket compared to the energy consumption of things like cars and air travel, but it contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions.
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The news agency estimates that these machines could remove some 1,300 positions in Amazon's warehouses in the US. But that's a drop in the bucket compared to the 196,000 jobs US employers added in March alone.
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We're told AD is renting the place for around $50k a month ... but the guy's in the middle of a 5-year, $127 million contract ... so it's a drop in the bucket for the All-Star.
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And while that's hardly a drop in the bucket, when you consider the city's high-priced real estate, it's not surprising — a three-bedroom rental in San Francisco can easy run you over $10K per month.
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"That is a drop in the bucket for the amount they are going to be walking away with," said Ms. Sica, noting that as a nonprofit entity, the Witnesses do not pay taxes on their properties.
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My personal lightsaber unicorn was a high-end version of Luke Skywalker's weapon from The Empire Strikes Back, but that's just a drop in the bucket when looking at what the community offers as a whole.
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The FCC is reviewing it's proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co. Real talk: Sinclair's offer amounts to $9 million, a drop in the bucket for the broadcaster that's likely about to get much larger.
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Last year, Harris County, which includes Houston, passed a $2.5 billion flood control bond—a mere drop in the bucket toward the $30 billion estimated to be needed just to protect against a 100-year flood.
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After eight months of work, the group has archived nearly 22 terabytes of Instagram posts—nothing to bat an eye at, but a mere drop in the bucket of the total collection of all Instagram posts.
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The case likely will not result in significant monetary penalties for the companies in question; even if fines and damages totaled tens of millions it would be a drop in the bucket for the tech giants.
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In total, the AP's estimate of $3.76 billion over 12 years — around $310 million a year — is a drop in the bucket for the state's economy, which is valued at more than $500 billion a year.
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Five and a half million jobs get reallocated over the next five years — it sounds like a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall level of change happening in the economy.
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This may sound like a lot of taxpayer money, but it is a drop in the bucket compared with the $658 billion for fighter jets, ships, helicopters and troops approved by the House in late July.
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Congress has approved $21625 billion in new spending over the next two years to combat opioid abuse and bolster mental health services, but some say that is a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed.
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But if you take even a second to think about the amount of money that changes hands in these deals, it's hard to believe that donations to the Clinton Foundation were even a drop in the bucket.
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Depending on the details, the pending changes to the House bill are either a drop in the bucket relative to its serious problems for people with pre-existing conditions or a further step in the wrong direction.
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The $5 billion being offered by Maryland, for example, would be a drop in the bucket for the world's largest online retailer, which reported its highest profit ever (almost $2 billion) in the last quarter of 2017.
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In addition, China is Pakistan's largest trading partner and allows Pakistan special trade preferences through a free-trade agreement signed in 2006, though the volume of trade with Pakistan remains a drop in the bucket for Beijing.
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With sellout shows galore, it's no doubt a drop in the bucket for BB, who btw should probably also earn an award (or get a grill) for producing the funny-ass "Gucci Flip Flops" music video. Congrats!!
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Director Brian De Palma's intriguing but seriously flawed thriller, meanwhile, focused on shadowy forces exploiting teens with psychic abilities, including one (Amy Irving) whose wide-eyed spells made Eleven's nosebleeds look like the proverbial drop in the bucket.
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"Our banks are now so big with so much capital that the numbers being thrown around out of Europe's ailing financial sector, as large as they are, seem like a drop in the bucket over here," Cramer explained.
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"Look at the entertainment market much more broadly defined ... Disney+ is a drop in the bucket," Mark told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street, " adding that the bundling of streaming services isn't going to go away any time soon.
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Be smart: Many of the lower-carbon investments made by oil and gas companies are real, let's be clear, but they're also a drop in the bucket compared to the investments made in their traditional fossil-fuel products.
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"Although a million meals was a huge milestone for us, we also know it's a drop in the bucket and we are eager to keep helping the best we can," says George, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The Obama-era fuel efficiency standards are only a drop in the bucket when it comes to carbon reduction, so the NHTSA remarkably argues that we should disregard the horrible outcomes it has outlined and eliminate those standards.
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Together they accounted for some two billion calls, which in the context of the five billion made every month may seem to be a drop in the bucket, but at this point even a slight reduction is welcome.
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Brexit hard-liners are pointing to the 470 people who illegally crossed the English Channel by boat last year, a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of thousands of arrivals to Europe in 2015 and 2016.
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While the stock market had a banner year — with the S&P 500 posting roughly a 21625 percent gain — it is a drop in the bucket when compared to the wealth created by bitcoin and its cryptocurrency compatriots.
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Gillibrand's tax credit increase would be significant, but in many areas with a high cost of living, even $6,000 per child is still a drop in the bucket when it comes to the annual cost of child care.
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Despite this, distilled spirits are using an amount of crop that is a drop in the bucket compared to the agricultural industry as a whole, said Jeff Born, a professor of finance at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
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All of this amounts to little more than a bit of Kabuki theater, as $1.3 million is a drop in the bucket for Uber and its war chest and Uber drivers still won't park while waiting for a fare.
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Partly that's because a few more months of comments are a drop in the bucket for a dataset of this size, though Reddit also hasn't done any major overhaul of their comment sorting algorithm that we've been privy to.
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Softbank has pledged to create 50,000 U.S. jobs and invest $50 billion in the U.S. Apple's investment is a drop in the bucket for the company, which currently sits on more than $215 billion in cash and other investments.
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Still, if the law does stand, there is also a chance that companies will just pay the fine and move on — a few hundred thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket for a lot of companies, particularly Apple.
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However, that is only a drop in the bucket of the trillions of dollars that will be needed over the coming decades to meet the infrastructure needs that are essential to a successful transition to a low-carbon economy.
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The Arnold Foundation's influence and funding is "still a drop in the bucket compared to the resources of the pharmaceutical industry to preserve the status quo," said Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at Oregon Health and Science University.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, slammed it as "terrible" for the state, saying the $3.8 billion it would receive was "a drop in the bucket" given how hard New Yorkers had been hit by the virus.
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The price tag on the wall, estimated to be in the neighborhood of $15 to $25 billion, is a drop in the bucket when compared to the annual cost of illegal immigration, estimated at roughly $116 billion per year.
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But considering last week's 1 percent gain by the Dow Jones industrial average, which featured a 323-point surge Wednesday, and the nearly 5.5 percent year-to-date run, any modest declines would be a drop in the bucket.
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According to those reports, Washington is now expected to save $150 million on NATO's administration and some military exercises — a drop in the bucket compared to costs of financing the U.S. bases and military operations on the European continent.
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"I'm sick and tired of seeing people on both sides of the aisle grandstanding around this issue, which is less than a drop in the bucket for the American people in terms of our budget," said the New York Democrat.
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The Portland-based Willamette Week argues that (with an admittedly "rough calculation") that such a tax would likely only raise about $2 million per year—a drop in the bucket for lawmakers hoping to rectify the state's 1.8 billion budget gap.
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"In other words, I do not feel as though our efforts are much more than a drop in the bucket but I do think that we are adding to a larger effort to contextualize this information and actual news," she added.
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The revenue is just a drop in the bucket compared to the entrenched $15 billion mattress industry, but it shows the dent Purple and other bed-in-a-box startups like Casper and Tuft and Needle are starting to make.
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At the time, a spokesperson for the foundation told the Seattle Globalist the $2.2 million private prison investment was a drop in the bucket compared to the $25 billion the charity had spent helping others in its last 15 years.
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And its global turnover is a drop in the bucket in China, where Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent dominate the world's biggest mobile payments market - with an estimated $1 trillion worth of mobile transactions last year, according to iResearch data.
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The move is seen as an important symbolic one, even though the roughly $22 billion in capital inflows expected to go into A shares is seen as a drop in the bucket compared to the size of China's domestic market.
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But no matter how persuasive S&P and Moody's are, their ability to get tax hikes passed in Illinois or anywhere else in America amount to just a drop in the bucket compared to our massive federal and state entitlement debts.
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Pelosi emphasized that the number of sensitive emails are a drop in the bucket relative to those scrutinized by federal investigators — 110 of the roughly 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department were classified, according to the FBI.
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"Our banks are now so big with so much capital that the numbers being thrown around out of Europe's ailing financial sector, as large as they are, seem like a drop in the bucket over here," the "Mad Money " host explained.
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It exists, sure, but the reality is that it provides only a drop in the bucket when it comes to meeting the needs of its inhabitant—which is why ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft thrived, and were so damn handy.
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Exxon's contributions to the AGU of $620,000 from 2001-2015 make up just a tenth of one percent of the organization's operating budget, a drop in the bucket compared to the damage done to AGU by its association with Exxon.
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That's a drop in the bucket compared with the 5,000 private sector jobs Obama created daily -- if the total were averaged over his years in office -- 47% of which were in the "high wage" category, and none of which involved threatening tweets.
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It might have triggered cries of government meddling to save an uncompetitive plant from the likes of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page and complaints that it was a drop in the bucket and was impractical on a national scale from Democrats.
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Those numbers may seem enormous but they're a drop in the bucket when you consider that the second-ranked male CEO, Leslie Moonves of CBS, had total compensation of over $68 million, and Robert Iger of Walt Disney took in nearly $41 million.
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"If you look at the money going into R&D in health care, it is a drop in the bucket," said Tom Heyman, president of Johnson & Johnson Innovation — JJDC, the oldest corporate venture fund in the life sciences industry, launched 45 years ago.
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The number of migrants in this elite category is a drop in the bucket compared with the 22015,83 mostly sub-Saharan Africans who risked the treacherous crossing from Libya and Egypt to Sicily last year, dying by the hundreds nearly every week.
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But with 4.5 trillion euros of assets on its balance sheet, some policymakers argue that new purchases would be only a drop in the bucket and that the ECB should broaden its focus to all policy instruments, dropping its emphasis on bond buys.
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Considering the publicity and legal muscle behind the complaint, this is nothing more than a nuisance to Sony Universal, Columbia Records, and Beyoncé's hired hive who might elect to settle what essentially amounts to a drop in the bucket to make it go away.
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This has been a key argument from Facebook, Twitter and Google during this whole process: Content from Russian-controlled accounts was just a drop in the bucket compared to all of the other ads and posts people could have seen on their respective services.
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The move could jeopardize its relationship with customers like Camping World, which sells these kinds of guns and also spends about a million dollars a year with Salesforce — though that's just a drop in the bucket compared to Salesforce's $13 billion in annual revenue.
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Similarly, Congress's recent stop-gap — agreeing to shift $34 million to help TSA hire and train 768 new officers and to pay overtime for current screeners — is just a drop in the bucket and won't make a major impact on the long delays this summer.
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The money I earned as a journalist was barely a drop in the bucket compared to what my husband brought in, but I felt lucky to be doing what I loved, and it never occurred to me that I might one day be supporting myself.
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The $30 million the octogenarian casino billionaire is spending on the midterms may sound like a lot, but it's actually a drop in the bucket compared to what Adelson's heirs will gain thanks to the estate tax cut provisions of Trump tax bill alone.
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"Aside from the fine—which is really a drop in the bucket for the billion-dollar behemoth—AT&T must also make changes and enhancements to its systems to mitigate and soften the blow of future outages, as well as "regularly file compliance reports with the FCC.
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"The public disclosure of Purdue's sinister actions is a drop in the bucket compared to the evidence generated in this litigation, demonstrating precisely how J&J—a 'family company'—acted as the kingpin behind this Public Health Emergency," Oklahoma's attorneys wrote in a February court filing.
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The $150,000 cost of this program is a mere drop in the bucket when weighed against the $6.7B budget at the DoD for digital security, but we need to ensure that, like all federal funding, the payouts don't go to convicted sex offenders or other felons.
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West Virginia's version of Paul LePage has asked his buddy, the president, to bail out Eastern coal to the tune of $4.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports: "In the scope of things, that would be a drop in the bucket to protect ourselves," Mr. Justice said.
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The new revenue that would come in as a result of eliminating the loophole — assuming Republicans go along with doing so, which is far from clear — would be a drop in the bucket compared to the massive tax cut he proposes, which wildly advantages the wealthy.
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Nycha is waiting for an infusion of at least $2 billion in city funds as part of the consent decree, although even that might be a drop in the bucket next to the estimated $32 billion in unmet capital needs in the system's 325 housing developments.
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But Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, another state hit by the opioid crisis, said the additional money was "a drop in the bucket that would not come close to making up for the damage" that could be done by the bill's cuts in Medicaid.
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Ending the two funding agencies would free up their respective annual budgets, slightly less than $150 million each in recent years, a drop in the bucket in Trump's proposed $4.83 trillion federal budget for next year — which also calls for a $54-billion increase in military spending.
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Not because he chose to, of course, but because in the midst of writing his absolutely garbage second novel (he gets hilariously exhausted after writing 7,000 words for the intro — a drop in the bucket), his sisters mailed their father's ashes to him and insisted he have a funeral.
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This marks yet another drop in the bucket of Disney's breathless sweep of TV and movie ownership, which now includes, but is not limited to: ABC, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, Touchstone Pictures, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and now, Hulu.
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Capital One said it will offer free credit monitoring for affected customers, and it's likely the company will cover some costs of the investigation and address any vulnerabilities it finds, but this will be a drop in the bucket for a company with $103 billion of annual revenue.
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So it's impossible to tell how much money the company has made from the shipments they've delivered with these trucks, and it's likely it'd be a drop in the bucket compared to how much Uber has spent and will continue to spend on developing, retrofitting and owning the trucks.
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Trump's tax bill increased the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000, a mere drop in the bucket for families often paying ten times that for a year of infant care and since it is a non-refundable credit, only applies to those with higher incomes anyway. ADVERTISEMENT
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"For the uber-wealthy, a $5 million change in the exemption doesn't really make a difference," Ms. Langa said, adding: "It's a huge thing for people in the $10 million to $20 million range, but if you're in the $200 million range, it's a drop in the bucket."
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And while the length of his drive was amazing given the condition of the roads and the primitive machine he drove, his mileage is a mere drop in the bucket compared with that of Emil and Liliana Schmid, who hold the Guinness World Record for the longest driven journey.
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Bezos told attendees at the 33rd Space Symposium that he sells around $1 billion worth of Amazon stock every year to help fund Blue Origin, which is a relative drop in the bucket compared to the $73.54 billion value of his total holdings as of the close of trading Wednesday.
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It's hard to argue against the cultural omnipresence of Mickey Mouse and Star Wars, of Friends and Superman, especially when Netflix's biggest pop culture icon is probably Stranger Things, a huge series but a drop in the bucket compared to, say, Game of Thrones (whose rights are controlled by WarnerMedia's HBO).
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"They set up this process to squeeze as much money as they can out of these various localities, and New York fell for it," Gianaris said, framing the 25,000 jobs over 10 years as a drop in the bucket compared with the 90,000 jobs created in the city each year.
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Secure facilities: Cidon said it would cost a nuclear facility, depending on its size, anywhere from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure its network, what he calls "a drop in the bucket" compared to the potential consequences of leaving this critical infrastructure unsecured.
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He faces another sentencing next week in Washington, D.C. (Update: Manafort was sentenced to an additional 643 months in prison Wednesday.) In the world of presidential campaign fundraising, where millions of dollars are often raised and spent in a matter of weeks, $633,623 can seem like a drop in the bucket.
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The individual efforts are a drop in the bucket compared to the truly massive quantities required to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, but the people behind them hope that collectively they can make a difference — at least until companies that make the gear can begin flooding the market with a new supply.
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John Barry, a former member of the authority that led that charge, said on Thursday that he was glad to see Freeport-McMoRan's willingness to reach a settlement, but that it was a drop in the bucket compared with the impact of other companies that have larger operations in the state.
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BlackRock's Rick Rieder, the global chief investment officer of fixed income, said the $10 billion initial step is "a drop in the bucket" but the impact of the program will change a year from now when the Fed's balance sheet reduction is much larger and that could help send yields higher.
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OneSpace may cost significantly less than SpaceX and it has aspirations of becoming the largest small-satellite launch companies in the world, but according to the Verge, OS-X is only capable of carrying 220 pounds into orbit—a drop in the bucket compared to the Falcon 9's 50,000+ pound capacity.
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This week it also said that it would set aside $3 billion for a fine it's being charged by the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. over how it mishandled user privacy — unfortunately, just a drop in the bucket for a company that reported more than $15 billion in revenues this past quarter.
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Offering some back-of-the-envelope calculations to support the idea, Ms. Dee said that even if 10 percent of the galleries in the fair — meaning five or six of them — were each asked to pay an extra $10,000 for their stand, that would be "a drop in the bucket" for them.
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A few million bucks may seem like a drop in the bucket among the herds of unicorns we track here at TechCrunch, but on the other hand it may seem cheap when the studies and events being funded come to fruition and result in the kind of productive dialogue this fast-moving field needs.
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"All of it seems like a drop in the bucket, but if everyone becomes a little bit of an activist a couple of times a year, it makes you feel like a citizen of this world, a citizen of America, who is trying to advocate for change and guidelines and safety," Segwick, 52, tells PEOPLE.
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Experts are in wide agreement that the limited cases of voter fraud that do exist don't swing national elections, because the few hundred or so cases that allegedly occur amount to a drop in the bucket in elections in which tens of millions of votes — and sometimes more than 260.8 million ballots — are cast.
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"We're still talking about a currency whose total market capitalization is only about $250 billion, which is, surprisingly, still just a drop in the bucket of the global economy and the kind of money we see people moving across borders," said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, a nonprofit focused on policy issues related to cryptocurrencies.
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Theranos Offers More Worthless Stock to Investors Who Pinky Swear Not to SueThe Wall Street Journal has yet another essential report from inside the meltdown of biomedical…Read more ReadFor a company that is believed to have raised $800 million, the $4.65 million settlement with Arizona's Attorney General Mark Brnovich might seem like a drop in the bucket.
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And, of course: "Men Who Are Very Upset with Me." This was my first experience with being called a "feminazi" and an "oppressive SJW" unironically (though of course this is a drop in the bucket compared to the flood of hate mail by which many women, particularly women of color, in online spaces are deluged every single day).
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That couple hundred thousand people is a drop in the bucket compared to the global population or the population of any country, but when you have them all together, they can communicate, they can coordinate their actions, and they can travel to see each other and do things together, and then it becomes a real problem.
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That creates likeliness that you can move on antitrust; a number of my colleagues on the Republican side have talked to me about that idea of increasing the fees on the mega mergers, that's not on the taxpayers' backs, drop in the bucket for them, so you can beef up the agencies, so they can better do these investigations.
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All of this and more, has been designed to make the product more attractive to IT. While 200,000 might sound like a big number when it comes to business customers, compared to the 500 million consumer ones, it's a drop in the bucket, and announcements like today's are part of an ongoing effort to continue to build their business presence.
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The Government Says It Wasted Millions of Dollars Dressing the Afghan Army in Proprietary CamouflageThe price tag for the never-ending, but occasionally paused, war in Afghanistan is well north of a…Read more ReadTo allow another few thousand Americans to serve their country in a military the president wants to grow is a few-million-dollars drop in the bucket.
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One common response to the news that a Kremlin-linked online operation in Russia bought $240,2000 worth of Facebook ads during the 2200 election campaign has been that the money is a drop in the bucket relative to the more than $1003 billion spent on ads during the cycle, or the $2100 billion in revenue earned by Facebook last year.
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Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat of New Hampshire, another opioid-ravaged state, dismissed $45 billion as "a drop in the bucket that would not come close to making up for the damage" that would be inflicted by the broader cuts to federal Medicaid spending in the bill, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would amount to $772 billion by 2026.
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After all, you might be perfectly happy with the setup you have and you don't want to spend money on something without getting all of its benefits until you buy a new TV. Another important point is that the extra $20-40 that separates 1080p streamers from some of their 4K counterparts isn't a drop in the bucket for plenty of people.
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While noting that the money is only a drop in the bucket in terms of helping those harmed by the epidemic, former Obama administration "drug czar" and now executive director of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, Michael Botticelli said that the funding of harm reduction and recovery support could be "an important sign" of what's to come in the overall settlement.
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It makes sense that it hasn't been easy for the Academy to find someone for the job—it only pays a paltry six-figure sum (likely a drop in the bucket for those who host), and the host is bound to come under fire for their own personal failures, as well as the failures of the broadcast, which in itself is an inherently vapid and self-congratulatory event.
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That might be seen as a drop in the bucket compared to larger and more carbon-intensive industries—one recent United Nations estimate said worldwide air travel produced 900 million tons of C02 in 2018—but critics say that the film and TV industry, which is full of outspoken progressives concerned about climate change, are producing an unacceptable amount of waste that doesn't jibe with the perception of the business.
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Mass shootings in America are a scandal, but the number of gun-related homicides (a little over 12,000 in 2015) would have excited little notice amid the hardship of the immediate post-war world; 6,000 people died and a further 15,000 were injured in communal riots in Calcutta in just three days in the summer of 1946, itself a drop in the bucket compared with the bloodletting of the Chinese civil war.
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" The New York Times recently revealed that "the biggest disaster in the history of the music business" already happened, and nobody knew; in 2008, a fire at Universal Studios claimed hundreds of thousands of master recordings, a vast anthology including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Elton John, Sonic Youth, Eminem–just a drop in the bucket–and possibly worse, "tens of thousands of gospel, blues, jazz, country, soul, disco, pop, easy listening, classical, comedy and spoken-word records that may now exist only as written entries in discographies.
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" Giving away the money to struggling grads like Pilon is only part of the mission, Torpey says, though it's an important part: "We gave almost half a million dollars in the first season, and no one has called to yell at me, so I assume that's OK. " In his mind, the show is only successful if it helps raise awareness of and put faces to the crisis: "Even if we do this show for years and years and years, it will always be a drop in the bucket compared to the 45 million people out there with student debt.
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