Sentences with phrase «make your points clearly»

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

«Make your points clearly and succinctly and your query has a much greater chance at garnering notice, while using hyperbole in your entreaties will have its exact opposite intended effect on most VCs,» says Ian Sigalow.

The opening poem in Laboratories of the Spirit, «The Hand,» makes this point clearly.

I made the point clearly enough to tick off Mama.

Harold Lindsell, former editor of Christianity Today, has made the point clearly: «No one should succumb to the error of viewing prayers as a means of changing the individual and his attitudes rather than changing events, circumstances, and history itself Certainly «prayer changes me» — my outlook, orientation and my attitudes.

Again, Dahl made the point clearly:

It has a positive message and makes the point clearly.

I hope that I have now made these points clearly.

We summarized everything so that we would make our points clearly and stay on message.

I guess I didn't make my point clearly.

This makes it easy for indexers to come to feel comfortable in a fantasy world (I don't mean to hurt people's feelings but I do want to make this point clearly) where the price you pay for the stocks you buy doesn't matter.

One would therefore imagine they would welcome a submission making its point clearly and succinctly (one sheet of paper!)

Also, in my comment on sunspots and climate, I thought that I had made my point clearly enough.

Generally when I find myself having to write a follow - up post to something I wrote, it's because I obviously didn't make my points clearly enough.

; o) I like to ask questions that help people to make their point clearly.

In his Foreword to the McGill Guide John I Laskin makes this point clearly and unequivocally when he states that the first function served by a case citation is to

The illustration Ivan gave makes the point clearly and simply.

Make your points clearly at the beginning of each paragraph, and use the rest of the paragraph to support the point.

Like Larry Bodine, I too agreed that Fetman's billboard ad was an effective form of advertising, because it made a point clearly, provoked an emotional response and generated buzz.

Justice Goudge made this point clearly in Humber River when he said at paras. 23 and 24:

Your full attention is needed to ensure that you can establish a rapport with the caller and give all of your energy to ensuring that you make your points clearly.

Keep practicing until you are able to make your points clearly and with confidence.

Not exact matches

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

Those policies don't clearly outline what types of videos can be used to make ad money, but they do point out that YouTube wouldn't be liable for any illegal activity from the video owner.

Playoff committee chairman Kirby Hocutt made it sound like the decision wasn't that hard, calling the Buckeyes» 31 - point loss to unranked Iowa «damaging» and noting that the committee felt Alabama was «clearly the No. 4 team in the country.».

«The uncertainty that has contributed to our slow recovery is clearly still present — making any advances shaky at best,» said Dunkelberg, pointing specifically to ObamaCare and the debt - ceiling issue.

However, trending information clearly points to the fact that sales reps are having a hard time making contact with buyers and don't get involved until much later in the buying cycle.

Every time our founding fathers met with foreign heads of state and were asked «What is the official religion of the United States» they very clearly made the point that we have none.

I clearly pointed out when you made logical leaps (genetic fallacy) # 3 And I clearly refuted that.

Nor should we neglect the way that the cult clearly achieved prominence by the negative way that it disrupted and displaced competing focuses of religious allegiance (a significant point made by Susan Alcock).

Artificial contraception is promoted (after each birth, when we can feel vulnerable) and sterilisation may be suggested at some point, making it all the more important that the Church's teachings are clearly proclaimed.

This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»

In doing so, he quotes from the NRSV translation of the Bible, which more clearly brings out the point that Sproul is trying to make:

We will talk more about predetermination and foreordination in the future posts about Unconditional Election and the Sovereignty of God, so I don't want to use a lot of room to discuss these issues here, except to say that Scripture, reason, and experience all seem to point pretty clearly to the fact that God expects us to make wise choices and holds us accountable for the choices and decisions we make.

You speak out both sides of your mouth to make a point you are clearly unsettled on yourself.

Notice the point Jesus makes here, Hayward: getting the beam out of your own eye FIRST is necessary for seeing clearly enough to THEN help your brother.

I think Colossians 1:19 - 22 & 2:13 - 15 make this point pretty clearly.

Jay's comment below made me think that I probably hadn't expressed myself clearly enough as supporting your point.

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

The Relevance of Cosmic Unity In the lead letter of the same issue of Philosophy Now the prominent anti-reductionist philosopher of ethics and of science Mary Midgely makes a point often made by Edward Holloway (though he might not have used the word «choice»), namely that «simple logic surely shows that natural selection can not be the universal explanation because «selection» only makes sense a clearly specified range of choices — an idea to which far too little attention has been given.»

And some gay people feel that gay sex is wrong (and many have at some point in their lives), so they are clearly capable of taking a moral stand on the issue (without the physical components of their brains being any different than someone who makes a different choice).

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

It stands to reason that an all knowing eternal God could predict what you and I would believe no before He made and thus have already know whether we would except him or not And I'm not sure what you trying to say by that And because we want to tell others about Him and be used by Him to reach others And that commit does not make any sense, but clearly God is not a punk, as I have already demonstrated And your main point, as I already explained is false No, but my belief is true, none the less, it is by definition virtually impossible to prove anything And no, I don't need knee pads.

And it is a clearly experienced fact that «points», announced or otherwise made obvious, interrupt both the unity and the movement of a sermon.

[4] Humanae Vitae makes the point quite clearly: «a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife» (no. 13).

The plot is loosely held together by quite a bit of setting up and falling down, devoting much of its runtime to making you want to care about what the Pentagon Papers are, how the newspaper operates, and what's clearly at stake, before finally getting to the point where everything finally comes together, which is when the film is at its sharpest.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

The Hebrew Bible makes the point quite clearly.

Secondly, Paul made it very clear to young Timothy, who was an elder / pastor who was directing the church affairs well, and so was worthy of double honour, that is, honour and respect, as well as being paid wages, which he so clearly pointed out in the context.

Some practical points: Be sure to make your name clearly visible on each page of your blog.