"The joy of being a drop in the ocean is that you can choose your drop in the ocean," jokes one foreign veteran.
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These crimes, although serious, are a drop in the ocean.
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Waves, it turns out, are no drop in the ocean.
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I'm just a drop in the ocean, barely making a wave.
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That's a drop in the ocean in Shanghai, let alone China.
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The Mac malware is still a drop in the ocean in comparison.
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Set against the waste, gleaners' efforts seem a drop in the ocean.
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LOOK 10 MILION IS GREAT, BUT STILL JUST A DROP IN THE OCEAN.
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This is just a drop in the ocean for brown and black people.
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It is a warm gesture, but it is a drop in the ocean.
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Currency-hedged ETFs are relative newcomers and still just a drop in the ocean.
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With the country's population currently around 1.35 million, it's a drop in the ocean.
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"It is like a drop in the ocean," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The removals are a drop in the ocean to the wider threats that Twitter faces.
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That helps, but it's also something of a drop in the ocean of broader coverage.
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Methadone clinics have recently opened in Mombasa, but "that's just a drop in the ocean".
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Compared to these figures, the flow of jobs outsourced is a drop in the ocean.
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Our effort was a drop in the ocean, but at least we felt we'd done something.
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Which is still a tiny drop in the ocean of content distributed daily on its platform.
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That's a drop in the ocean to the $383 billion paid out in legitimate tax returns.
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"[This] is a drop in the ocean for a country of 25 million people," Matzegora said.
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Although for a platform with two billion users globally that's clearly a drop in the ocean.
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"One hundred years in the context of history is a drop in the ocean," she said.
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But it's a drop in the ocean compared to the reality of who truly holds cryptocurrency.
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DROP IN THE OCEAN State sales will have limited impact on prices overall, said Miranda Zhou, an analyst at Euromonitor, with total reserve volumes sold in recent weeks just a "drop in the ocean" in a country that eats about 40 million tonnes of pork a year.
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But Sri Lanka has only about 6 million Facebook users — a drop in the ocean to Facebook.
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Previously, the maximum fine was set at £500,000 — a drop in the ocean to some major companies.
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But these exits are a drop in the ocean compared with the $2.9 trillion the industry manages.
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Against those numbers, even 200,000 tons of emergency meat can seem like a drop in the ocean.
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However, some analysts argue that the damage these nations are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
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That's a drop in the ocean to the millions who endure twice, or even three times as long.
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A billion dollars is now a drop in the ocean: equivalent to just 0.3% of Berkshire's market capitalisation.
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" • Quotation of the day "One hundred years in the context of history is a drop in the ocean.
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"This is a drop in the ocean as to what can be done by the government," they said.
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"This will be a drop in the ocean compared to the economic problems of the past year," he says.
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Still, such payments to the grassroots represent only a drop in the ocean of money splashing around professional football.
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"What (investors) have allocated so far is still a drop in the ocean," said Ndemo, the former government technocrat.
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Unfortunately, 8 million people going offline for some of the big international networks is a drop in the ocean.
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Still, that $37,000 is a drop in the ocean to some of the other successful scam artists out there.
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For the organization that ran the school, A Drop in the Ocean, it seemed their welcome had run out.
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The only people they see are these monsters in the news who are just a drop in the ocean.
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To Fosun, the $60 million asking price set by Wolves's owner, Steve Morgan, was a drop in the ocean.
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Five thousand was a drop in the ocean to what I probably spent on crack cocaine in 280 months.
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But such resettlement programs are a drop in the ocean, Grandi said, and they are at risk of drying up.
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Mehrotra and Harikumar are merely a drop in the ocean of 14 million swipes that Tinder India reports each day.
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It was a drop in the ocean compared to the visibility that comes when something like the #MeToo movement takes off.
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Though the effort, creativity, and uh, rule-bending here is impressive, these streams are likely just a drop in the ocean.
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Uber's recent experiences in Nigeria are a drop in the ocean of challenges we navigate daily across Africa, that's the reality.
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Its augmented reality and camera glasses made just over $8 million, a drop in the ocean of its $150 million revenue.
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On July 27th Mr Ramljak began paying off debts to small suppliers, a drop in the ocean of what is owed.
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Ambler says the people they are serving are only "a drop in the ocean" compared to the thousands who need aid.
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For an individual worker, it doesn't matter how small of a drop in the ocean her job is if it's saved.
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"This is only a drop in the ocean, but it is the first time that we have done this," she said.
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And a wider break up of the European Union would make Brexit's sinkhole of uncertainty seem like a drop in the ocean.
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"My anxiety is not a drop in the ocean compared to how I feel about the people who got killed," he said.
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"The arms trade on the dark web is a drop in the ocean compared to the legal trade of arms worldwide," Persi Paoli said.
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I try to contribute what I can with my freelancing and part-time jobs but it feels like a drop in the ocean sometimes.
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Still, it's a drop in the ocean for single-day sales when compared to Alibaba's $210 billion in sales during Singles Day this year.
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This may seem like a drop in the ocean compared to the established education and training programs run by Western tech companies in the region.
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Uber has raised multiple billions of dollars from investors, so $10 million — or even the full $25 million — is just a drop in the ocean.
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And it is still a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of Brexit so far for the UK -- now £130 billion and counting.
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This may sound like a lot, but it's just a drop in the ocean of the Monero network's total hashrate: Around 500 million hashes per second.
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And waste oil is a drop in the ocean of the raw materials that would be required for biofuels to make a dent in CO2 emissions.
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We commend the Trump administration on the recent decision to sanction the supreme court justices; but this really is just a drop in the ocean. Sens.
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Avaaz suggests its findings are just a drop in the ocean of hate speech that it says is drowning Assam via Facebook and other social media.
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A net total of 216,22017 millionaires migrated to the United States last year, but they represent a drop in the ocean of five million American millionaires.
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This storefront feels like a drop in the ocean when you consider that, in Canada, $31 billion dollars worth of food goes to waste every year.
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The plant should churn out 1.2 million phones a year - a drop in the ocean compared to last year's worldwide smartphone market shipments of almost 1.5 billion.
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Granted, it may make me a sinful one, but if that's the case, it's just a drop in the ocean that God will sift through one day.
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As upsetting as this is, and as guilty as I feel when it happens, I remind myself it's just a drop in the ocean of their life.
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"China is an enormous market," Wiese said, describing the New Look's store expansion plan as a "drop in the ocean" given the size of the Chinese population.
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Although for a platform that has close to two billion users a few thousand extra moderators really are a drop in the ocean of content it is generating.
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But "refugee lens" investing is still a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the wider investment industry, worth $76 trillion in 2018, according to Boston Consulting Group.
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But AlphaTankers' Andrew Wilson called this a "drop in the ocean", given there are about 290,20203 vessels in the global fleet, of which about 22020,235 ply international routes.
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The moves affect about 11 percent of its $275 billion active stock fund business but are a drop in the ocean for the company, the world's largest asset manager.
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The leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn rejected the claim that austerity was over, describing the budget as a "drop in the ocean for adult and child social" care.
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That's a drop in the ocean to more than $3 billion in revenue in the year since, according to quarterly earnings filings — or more than $500 million in profits.
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This is a big investment for a small company, but it's a drop in the ocean considering the challenge at hand, the politicians and industries we are up against.
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The decision to target $3 billion in U.S. imports is significant, but it's widely seen as a drop in the ocean given the size of the bilateral trading relationship.
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So when DACA oppositionists argue that roughly 22019,000 in-work DACA recipients are doing American jobs, it will become but a drop in the ocean in the near future.
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As for the integrity of our elections, while illegal voters are a drop in the ocean, the big thing is Russia's interference, or attempted interference, in our 2016 process.
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But millions of YouTube views are still a drop in the ocean compared to the tidal wave of Internet involvement that led up to its spiritual predecessor, 2008's Cloverfield.
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However this remains a drop in the ocean for a service that has close to two billion users who are sharing an aggregate of billions of pieces of content daily.
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While £5003,000 is a drop in the ocean for the U.S. company, it represents the maximum allowable punishment under UK law, which is the significant part to focus on here.
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Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi lines up a four-year, $1.5 billion government fund to help startups create jobs, entrepreneurs fear that may prove a drop in the ocean.
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Feeding those anxieties, Hamas's military wing said in a statement that the recently discovered tunnel "is only a drop in the ocean of resistance preparations" meant to defend the Palestinians.
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But despite its best efforts, Nwanze is the first to admit its work is a "drop in the ocean" in the effort to counter those determined to spread false stories.
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Facebook also recently announced 3,000 extra moderator staff to beef up its content review team (albeit, that's still a drop in the ocean vs the 2BN users it has generating content).
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More to the point, any $2000,2145 bonus for workers is a drop in the ocean compared to chopping the corporate tax rate by 2000 percent, as the Trump tax cuts will.
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With a rescue effort that involves thousands of people and millions of euros, these gestures may seem a drop in the ocean, but their value goes beyond their tangible impact, Maiolo said.
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And the 73,000 additional moderation staff announced by Zuckerberg in the wake of another content moderation scandal represents a tiny drop in the ocean for a platform with nearly two billion users.
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But while it is offering a generous premium, the new offer only covers US$2490m of its outstanding 22022% senior 22022s - a drop in the ocean when faced with US$15bn in debt.
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"The ban on logging is only a drop in the ocean" in reducing the amount of forest lost every year – amounting to between 2000 million and 215 million trees each year, Chibesakunda said.
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It may sound like a drop in the ocean just unsubscribing from a few mailing lists a week but it does make a difference in the amount of email cluttering up your inbox.
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"Less than a hundred lorries is a drop in the ocean compared to the more than 10,000 that go to the channel ports every day," said Charlie Elphicke, a Conservative lawmaker for Dover.
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Under deals Hezbollah has helped to broker, tens of thousands of refugees have left Lebanon for Syria in the past year - a drop in the ocean compared with the scale of the refugee crisis.
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As profitable as it is when a prospect is snapped up by a Premier League suitor, any one transfer fee is a drop in the ocean compared to the cumulative return on Boro's academy.
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The impact is a drop in the ocean of total government non-discretionary spending, which totaled 1.248 trillion reais ($320 billion) in the 12 months to February, according to Treasury figures released on Thursday.
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It still imports primary aluminium but the amount is now so small, 20,400 tonnes on a net basis in the first half, that it amounts to no more than a drop in the ocean.
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It still imports primary aluminum but the amount is now so small, 20,400 tonnes on a net basis in the first half, that it amounts to no more than a drop in the ocean.
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The DSA, subject of several media profiles, now has more than 15,000 members, a drop in the ocean compared to the major parties but a huge number for a previously unknown group of lefties.
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Goldman Sachs estimates the changes would prompt investors to move an additional $7 billion into mainland shares - a drop in the ocean for a country with a combined $7 trillion of stock market capitalisation.
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And while having a bespoke font may save the company millions, that is a drop in the ocean as its overall marketing budget will hit $2 billion this year, up from $1.8 billion in 2017.
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That's a drop in the ocean compared to data hungry services like Facebook and Google, which compiled an archive of my data ranging from a few hundred megabytes to over a couple of gigabytes of data.
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That's a drop in the ocean for Uber given the numbers it has raised, but, if the figure is correct, then that investment is multiples larger than the money Didi put into its fellow alliance members.
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The amount to be spent, about $450 million, represents a drop in the ocean of AI spending worldwide, which consultancy firm McKinsey estimated between $20 and 30 billion for the biggest tech companies alone in 2016.
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The military wing of Hamas said in a statement that the tunnel "is only a drop in the ocean of resistance preparations" meant to defend the Palestinian people, their holy sites, their land and their prisoners.
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I know that what I can do with my violin or with my music is just a drop in the ocean, but I would feel ashamed not to deliver this drop if I can do it.
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While the fine itself (around $750 a day) is just a drop in the ocean for Facebook, the decision does mark a victory for supporters of net neutrality in one of the world's fastest growing mobile markets.
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Nexon is fresh from a record first quarter that saw it make a profit of $493 million total revenue of $860 million — the estimated $137 million it has spent on Embark is a relative drop in the ocean.
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"It's a round trip of 1,200 kilometers so it's a half day of traveling so this isn't a payment for demonstrating - it's basically a drop in the ocean to make the journey possible or easier for people," Classen said.
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And it proved to be a drop in the ocean of trillions of euros, dollars, pounds, yen and yuan liquidity and guarantees that central banks and governments around the world were ultimately forced to provide and are still providing.
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"Measures taken by the Brazilian government so far are like a drop in the ocean," Benchimol said in the call, according to Estado, warning of a risk of people going hungry as well as a potential increase in murders.
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"So far, only a small proportion of the largest, listed firms have put a number on potential costs, which means this number is likely to be a drop in the ocean as firms prepare to do business post-Brexit," said Ali.
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During that hour-long episode, however, there was a 4 percent dip in traffic—which might seem like a drop in the ocean, but considering PornHub has 60 million daily users, that's more than just a handful of off-duty onanists.
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At least 2,000 people have benefited from this all-embracing care: a drop in the ocean when set against the migration crisis but, supporters say, an important assertion that rescuing people from leaky boats is not the only possible response.
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To be sure, that is just a drop in the ocean - U.S. oil and gas companies sold about $350.7 billion in debt between 2010 and 2014, the peak years of the oil-and-gas boom, when oil prices were peaking.
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Critics have also challenged 5-Star's assertion that the reform will save Italy 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) over the next decade, saying the actual savings will be around half that amount, representing a drop in the ocean in state spending.
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"It sounds like a lot of money, but by the standards of the overall graft of the Yanukovych administration, reportedly in the range of $40 billion, it's a drop in the ocean," Josh Kovensky, a reporter for the Kyiv Post, told VICE News.
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The banks are burdened with 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in gross bad loans, a drop in the ocean compared with those of Italy's troubled banks but equal to 2203 percent of San Marino's annual gross domestic product - enough to threaten its economy.
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He's only asking for $500 million in cancer research funding over ten years—a relative drop in the ocean of a federal budget—and his praise for family leave hasn't included embracing actual legislation on the table for years but blocked by Republicans.
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Of course, the three deaths Sessions mentions are just a drop in the ocean compared to the total number of young people dying from heroin and opioid overdoses in the U.S. In 2015 alone, 2,343 deaths were recorded among 15-24-year-olds.
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"Considering the hundreds of Benin Bronzes looted during that occupation, the decision to return the cockerel is like a drop in the ocean, but it is an important drop and we welcome it," the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said.
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"Walking at a crouch trying to hold the tension of the scene emotionally, the focus, and also just slipping all over the place - what we were doing was a drop in the ocean compared to what the men went through," MacKay added.
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However given the platform has close to 2 billion monthly active users (1.86BN MAUs at the end of 2016, to be exact) this is very obviously just the tiniest drop in the ocean of content being uploaded to the site every second of every day.
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But with a capacity of 2000 megawatts, enough to supply power to 220 average Taiwanese households for a year, the drop-in-the-ocean Pingtung project highlights the towering scale of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's pledge to make the island nuclear-free by 210.
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Although the inclusion is a "mere drop in the ocean compared to the actual size of the China domestic market, it will still mark China's grand entrance into global investment benchmarks," said Howard Wang, head of greater China equities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
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To date, a few thousand women have completed Akhaya Women's sexual empowerment program—a drop in the ocean in a nation of about 55 million—but Min Thu and her activists are already causing ripples in society that they hope will turn into waves.
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"The new tariffs ... are a drop in the ocean as a percentage of the overall trade between the U.S. and Europe and we view them as a negotiating tool to set the tone for what the really important negotiations are, namely autos," she said.
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The Chinese government estimates there are more than 700 million internet users in the country, so even the most optimistic figures for Snow in China — say, for example, that half of those 100 million downloads are from the country — would represent a mere drop in the ocean.
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The metadata they gathered on the 823 volunteer study participants covered around 250,000 calls and more than 1.2 million texts — clearly a drop in the ocean of the mass surveillance programs operated by state security agencies, yet they were still able to glean a lot of information.
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Even if you're the most beautiful woman in the world, even if you're a huge star who has spent almost half her life by now on screen, even if you are Priyanka Chopra, Miss World: You have to earn every win, every drop in the ocean, for yourself.
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"Mother used to call it a drop in the ocean, but without that drop, it would not be the same," Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the superior general of the congregation, said in an interview in a former chicken coop turned into spare living quarters for some of the sisters in Rome.
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But Professor Lu Ming, an economist at Shanghai Jiaotong University, said it would be an exaggeration to claim the charming town campaign could become the key to a new model of urbanisation because the total population of the 1,000 towns was a drop in the ocean of China's urban population.
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UEFA makes so-called solidarity payments drawn from its massive Champions League television income to other teams in those leagues, but the amounts are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars: a drop in the ocean compared to the giants' direct earnings, and nothing at all when indirect benefits are included.
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The celebration after her Auckland Classic victory was not as effusive as some of her previous 72 title wins, and the $43,63 winner's cheque, which she donated to Australia bushfire relief efforts, was a drop in the ocean for someone who has won almost $93 million in career prize-money.
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In August, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended a regional foreign ministers' meeting in Singapore to prepare for the November summits and pledged nearly $300 million in new security funding for the Indo-Pacific — a drop in the ocean compared to the billions China has been pouring into the region.
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In August, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended a regional foreign ministers' meeting in Singapore to prepare for the November summits and pledged nearly $300 million in new security funding for the Indo-Pacific - a drop in the ocean compared to the billions China has been pouring into the region.
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Those figures may be a drop in the ocean for WeWork — which pulled in a massive investment of $760 million this month at a valuation of $30 billion — but they represent significant progress for a venture that is just two years old, and only expanded outside of Shanghai at the beginning of 2017.
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Even if the company employs "thousands" of human moderators, distributed in offices around the world (such as Dublin for European content) to ensure 24/7 availability, it's still a drop in the ocean for a platform with more than a billion active users sharing multiple types of content on an ongoing basis.
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And while millions more encrypted connections sounds like progress, in reality it's rather a drop in the ocean of unsecured online content — with only a minority (40 per cent) of page views encrypted as of December 2015, according to Mozilla, and just 65 per cent of online transactions using the secure Internet protocol HTTPS.
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Scharre agrees, and says that government funding isn't that big of an issue while US tech giants are able to redirect just a little of their ad money to AI. "Money you get from somewhere like DARPA is just a drop in the ocean compared to what you can get from the likes of Google and Facebook," he says.
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Nor did they give any information about the progress of these common platforms for building electric vehicles — although they noted that they had sold some 500,000 EV's all in across the group to date — still just a drop in the ocean of the multiple millions sold by the three, and the tens of millions of cars that are sold across the whole industry.
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A pair of plastic plates here and there, from a children's birthday or a summer festival, might seem like a drop in the ocean, but if we, as estimated, will be dropping 17.5 million tons of plastic into the world's oceans by 2025, we might as well start doing something about that by changing the way our burritos and birthday cakes are served.
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The Treasury Department blacklisted Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami on Monday, saying he oversaw or "partially owned" narcotics shipments of more than 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds) from Venezuela, some of which ended up in Mexico and the U.S. "On the one hand, it's a drop in the ocean, because it won't change what's happening on the ground," said Dany Bahar, fellow at Brookings.
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