• Later, the president has a working lunch with a small circle of cabinet members and advisers.

    CNN: ERAP'S BIG ROLE

  • By the mid-nineteen-eighties, Petraeus had become one of a small circle of post-Vietnam military officers who had developed an interest in counter-insurgency doctrine.

    NEWYORKER: The General��s Dilemma

  • Insider trading rules were vague, and it was easy for a small circle of experts to sell a story and get others to bite.

    FORBES: As ETF Costs Crater, Retirement Investors Win

  • After he moved to Paris, he socialized mostly with his family and, since he was a suspicious man who suffered from a mild but persistent persecution complex, with a small circle of trusted associates.

    NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

  • While Tiger Global has invested in tech startups for several years, many of the other players are new to Silicon Valley's scene and are spreading their bets beyond a small circle of hot social-networking companies.

    WSJ: New Money Ventures to Silicon Valley

  • They have a very small circle of friends.

    NEWYORKER: State of the Union

  • In visible light, all stars appear as points, only smeared out into a small circle by the atmosphere and by the optics of the telescope.

    ECONOMIST: Planetary formation

  • While supporters of the law danced in a small, celebratory circle, opponents took to the microphone venting their fury.

    BBC: Healthcare ruling is good for democracy

  • On Sunday afternoon the veterans and French and British dignatories attended a ceremony of remembrance at which 60 small ships formed a circle out at sea, while a Lancaster bomber flew over.

    BBC: Veterans remember Dunkirk rescue

  • The truth is that neither the U.S. intelligence community, nor the International Atomic Energy Agency, nor anybody else outside a very small circle in Iran has certain knowledge about the current state of Irans nuclear-weapons program, or how far it is from producing one or more usable devices.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where��s our Churchill?

  • This small Jewish circle was affected in the early 1900s by a second wave of immigration that brought Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms (campaigns of repression) and, later, the Russian Revolution.

    CNN: The Ghosts of Shanghai

  • Inside the circle, given away by its small helical pattern, is a smear of dna dried onto its surface.

    FORBES: Do-It-Yourself Life

  • Most of the Arctic is continental shelf, so most of it will eventually be allotted to one of the five neighbours (Iceland also has a small claim within the Arctic Circle).

    ECONOMIST: The scramble for the seabed

  • Also, the center Select button, in the middle of the directional arrows, is a bit hard to use, as the circle button is quite small.

    ENGADGET: Hands-on with Motorola's RAZR V3 for Cingular

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