Sentences with phrase «about being in favor»

«We had the discussion, but then obviously other advocates started muddying the issue on whether or not we were talking about being in favor of gambling,» McMahon said.

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When that news turned out not to be an album but a pre-recorded monologue about a plant - based diet that the starlet occasionally favors — a barely - veiled shill for her forthcoming meal - delivery company — the Beyhive started swarming in furor.

There's a lot of hemming and hawing about how Facebook doesn't choose what kinds of information to show you, which of course is factually incorrect, and appears to be mostly a rhetorical dodge in order to get around accusations of favoring certain viewpoints in trending topics.

But while the majority of you say you're in favor of being open, most of you are selective about the exact numbers you disclose.

Unlike Lauer, the moderator on Monday night stepped in on several occasions to challenge Trump, including his comments about the «stop and frisk» program and his repeated protests that he was not in favor of the Iraq War.

In almost every case, whether it was «dog whistle» statements about race aimed at currying favor with neo-Nazis, or comments about how the Democrats created ISIS, Trump's message was not designed to fit into the traditional candidate - media relationship.

«It's about winning favor early in the transaction and understanding the thing that drives them; giving them the feeling that they just got a bit more than they were expecting.»

In particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favoIn particular, there are those who argue that Facebook fueled Trump's rise by circulating a host of fake news stories about political topics, and these stories helped tip the scale in his favoin his favor.

And Jannard had something else going in his favor: He is passionate about photography.

The Trump administration is justifiably cautious about rewarding bad behavior, and has recently questioned the utility of negotiations, apparently in favor of demonstrations of force.

Wells Fargo executives said each of the bank's 12 director nominees received more than about 89 percent support from investors and about 92 percent of shares were cast in favor of the pay of Chief Executive Tim Sloan and other leaders.

Some observers believe that the profusion of fake articles on Facebook helped sway the presidential election in favor of Trump, although others have argued that all this accomplished was to entrench the views that Trump voters already held about various issues.

What's unusual about Mendoza's approach is that it involves abandoning the website his company, Jewelry Sales & Design, launched close to a decade ago in favor of a simple third - party - hosted landing page.

After learning more about the case, Kondoker said he is now in favor of Apple and agrees with the tech giant that «this software the government wants them to use will be used against millions of other innocent people.»

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders didn't directly comment on whether he favored Britain's vote to leave the EU, but in an interview with MSNBC's «Morning Joe,» Sanders said, «What worries me very much is the breaking down of international cooperation... On the other hand, I think what this vote is about is an indication that the global economy is not working for everybody.

It's just that having lots to brag about on Facebook — about what their workplace looks like or offers — won't likely tip the scales in an employer's favor if the fundamental wants of millennials aren't met.

Ad tech firms are out of favor these days - too many players, too many unmet promises, too little transparency, too few successes, and too much money for nothing much to talk about in the way of results.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

«We no longer believe the odds are in our favor for the S&P 500 to reach our prior target of 2,350 by year - end, since history shows that recoveries from pullbacks / corrections have generally taken about two to four months to materialize,» Craig Johnson, technical market strategist, said in a note.

«China and «cloud space»» have favored cheaper consumption, but have been decidedly job unfriendly in developed economies if observers were to be honest about it.

Anyone who has learned about the fundamentals of content marketing knows the concept isn't all that complicated — consistently provide something of relevant value to your target audience in the hope it will ultimately return the favor in kind.

We expect that to happen again — particularly because the jury was prohibited from knowing about these court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem.

Most of the stuff that this guy brings out; Old capitalism versus new capitalism, Financial intelligence and education and the importance of both, the possible pitfalls of the American social security system and medicare, Taxation system - who it favors and who it hurts the most, all the stuff about residential homes not being assets, the dollar and how it continues to decline in value and the rest all this stuff is absolutely true.

Before we talk about why portfolio rebalancing can be bad, it is important to understand the concept and why most investment managers are in favor of the strategy.

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Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

If on the play of the ace and king, your right - hand opponent plays two interesting cards (ten - nine, jack - nine or jack - ten) the odds in favor of finessing the eight are about three to one.

This net worth calculation uses an investment allocation favoring venture funds and clean technology, which is in line with the billionaire's public comments about his investments.

The trade imbalance is about $ 375 billion in China's favor.

Financials are likely to benefit as rising Bund yields should favor European Banks starting to lift from very oversold conditions, so much of what has been written about in the last few days remains key to focus on, and has not changed.

Retailers are actually down about 6 percent year - to - date, and LPL Financial adds that «it is likely that the performance of individual company stocks be more dispersed than they have been historically, which may favor active management in the sector moving forward.»

Quaint notions about private property and free enterprise would be discarded in favor of a «single payer» model for the entire US economy — namely the Fed.

True investing is about banking on things that are likely to work out in your favor, even if everything doesn't go according to plan — which it rarely will.

ANALYST TAKE: «Markets never have been convinced about a rate hike this year but these reports have once again tipped the balance back in favor of a March 2017 move, rather than December, while September is only 15 percent priced in,» said Craig Erlam, chief market analyst at OANDA.

Despite the fact that three of the lawsuits have been decided in favor of the shareowners, «our concerns about the motivations and implications of these suits remain,» the investors continued.

While we continue to find select value in the United States, we are particularly cautious about the expensive sectors, regions and stocks that have fared so well over this protracted bull market, and we currently favor potential opportunities elsewhere.

The cool thing about the platform is you can see the songs other people have chosen in real - time and skip them if you don't favor the particular track.

In a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithIn a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithin mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithm.

The economy, the one message they which could swing the election in their favor and what are they talking about — abortion rights.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

I listen to how they talk about matters of faith, religion, what they watch on their favorite religious tv programs, often listening as well to their radios playing their favored «Christian music» radio stations in the background, what are in the lyrics.

And I'm pretty sure that praying for victory in battle is more about being a better soldier than it is about tilting the tables in my favor.

For Milbank, Taylor «is highly alert to the fact that disenchantment perhaps primarily came about because a certain style of theology favored this — a style wishing to monopolize all mystery in the one God, somewhat in the way that the modern state now monopolized all coercive power at the sovereign center.»

(If some of his best friends are Jews, it counts in his favor, although it may simply indicate that he is confused about his prejudices.)

A complicating factor is that some bishops who are most concerned about this development will keep their distance from the national bureaucracy, thus assuring that the relevant institutions will be left in the hands of those who either favor or do not understand what is happening.

I am happy to see that the majority of the US population is now in favor of gay marriage and civil unions, and about 75 % of young people are.

Concern about space and time or about here and now is subdued in favor of the dual constitution of an actual entity and its life span, which embodies a process of transition from initial indetermination to terminal determination (PR 72).

As I said last week, this general guide for interpreting and applying the Bible makes sense to me.It's not about discounting the historical / grammatical method in favor of forcing a Jesus message into every last page, but simply looking at Scripture through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ just as Christians should look at everything through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

we are talking about those people who believe in that particular flavor of ANYTHING that deals with «some invisible friend who gives you special favors and hurts the people you don't like.»

The two «no compromise» factions in the abortion debate are, on the one hand, the 20 percent who favor the present unlimited abortion license and, on the other, those who would effect a national prohibition of all abortions, which is also about 20 percent of the population.