Sentences with phrase «while general points»

While general points programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards give you the most flexible rewards, some of the best rewards do come from loyalty to one specific airline or hotel brand.

Not exact matches

A return to Amazon's $ 9.99 price point is a veritable certainty, while the fact that ebook prices rose in general once Apple entered the market seems like a pretty damning fact in general.

In general, coins are used to transfer wealth, while tokens can represent a «contract» for almost anything, from physical objects to event tickets to loyalty points.

I agree with it, for the most part, but as someone who reads a lot of investing articles, the general consensus among the «experts» seems to be that while we are OK now, within the next couple of years the bull market will end [as they always do at some point], and we will suffer a large crash.

But the general point is that high terms of trade, all other things equal, will raise living standards, while low terms of trade will reduce them.»

: A classic point of contention for risk parity is that interest rates, in general, are too low, and that while the approach may have performed well in the past, it is only because of an historic bond rally, which is unlikely to happen again.

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

While this article covers some general points about certificates of deposit, we've also provided a more detailed look at average CD rates here.

For example, consumers» propensity to make a purchase increased by two points to a score of two, while perceptions of their personal financial situation and the general economic situation over the last 12 months were up three points month over month.

While virtually all present agreed with this general point, they applied it to a variety of specific issues.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

In general, the exponents of process theology of the Whitehead school stop short of affirming an ultimate end of the world process, while Teilhard de Chardin found it in the Omega Point with Christ as the goal of the evolutionary process.

Being prescriptive about it, and as a general principle, at any given point while the ball is in their team's possession, a footballer should do whatever is most likely to lead to a goal for their team.

That's indicative of the general direction Buffalo was headed in with two losses prior to the win against Detroit, but according to OddsShark, New England is just a 3 - point favorite, while the over / under is set at 45 points.

While there are 1 - point treatments for some conditions like eye infections, teething pain and vomiting, sleep issues generally require a full round of the General 24 - Hour Protocol which include 12 - points or the Alternative Sleep Protocols which include 4 points.

He also rightly pointed out that the principle of «diplomatic asylum», while recognized by Latin American states in a treaty from the 1950s, is not established as a general principle of international law.

While the document revealed important disagreements about the role of journalism, there was a general agreement on a few crucial points: journalists must report relentlessly, get outside of the bubble, call a lie a lie, follow the money and don't get distracted by Twitter!

I have five particular points here, but in general, I claim that a more balanced perspective reveals that, while realism doesn't have all of the answers, it is more potent than Motyl admits.

At one point the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, obtained an injunction against the BBC, preventing them from reporting a story they claimed was in the public interest while he argued that the story was sub judice.

Alice pointed out that «If Parliament were representative, we would have 130 more women MPs, twice as many Black, Asian and minority ethnic MPs and 50 times more disabled MPs», while another BHA representative, Owen Winter, noted that some 120 constituencies at the last general election had no female candidates at all.

Fifty - one percent of voters say the state attorney general is most trusted to combat corruption, while 34 percent point to federal prosecutors.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said reports by the CBI and other groups that generous pensions were unaffordable, missed the point that many people in all sectors were struggling on meager pensions while executives such as Sir Fred Goodwin, the disgraced former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, enjoyed large state subsidies.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

The first poll after the General Election has put Labour ahead by six points, while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were tied on «who would make the best prime minister».

GMB general secretary Paul Kenny pointed out that Conservatives failed to secure 40 % support of those who voted in the 2010 general election, while only 15 Tory MPs had the backing of 40 % of those entitled to vote in their constituencies.

Florida — OPEN, Jeb Bush (R) is retiring: While state CFO Tom Gallagher (R) and state Attorney General Charlie Crist (R) continue to lap their potential Democratic rivals in fundraising, a Republican poll released earlier this week showed a generic Democrat for governor leading a generic Republican by five points.

The margin of error in the general election is + / - 3.7 percentage points, while the primary poll's error margin is + / - 5.7 percentage points.

While on the offensive in other parts, the troops of 151 Battalion in conjunction with 7 Division Support Group also embarked on clearance offensive against Boko Haram terrorist's hideouts around Frigi crossing point and Izza general area.

While that seemed to satisfy the audience member, the question made him wish that he had added a section to his talk pointing to his general problem - solving abilities.

But while Judge Pham agreed that the technique had been subject to testing and peer review, it flunked on the other two points suggested by the Supreme Court to weigh cases like this one: the test of proven accuracy and general acceptance by scientists.

Brown says that while combination end points have a legitimate purpose when researchers are testing drugs for a rare or infrequent outcome, far too often researchers use the information in ways that «mislead both doctors and the general public.»

But the general principle is the same: Schemes that yield closely clustered points are good, while schemes that don't are not.

While our previous manuscript (Gilja et al., 2015) showed improved continuous control performance over earlier approaches, as the reviewer points out, the current study adds a parallel decoding method to enable discrete selection (the HMM), which is a critical step in developing point - and - click interfaces that would be suitable to control a general purpose computing device.

The reasoning behind point # 4 is this: As a general rule, the less cardio you do, the more muscle you'll preserve while in a calorie deficit.

However, while these are fun and even useful to point out certain general compatibilities, there are a few fundamental elements which contribute to compatibility.

However, while these are fun and even useful to point out certain general compatibilities, and there are a few fundamental elements which contribute to compatibility.

He published a report on online dating, and while parsing the concept in general, pointed out that it does not always work as advertised.

While Traffic is essentially about the war on drugs in America, the film's starting point is the almost - exclusively south - of - the - border (and nearly all Spanish language) story of Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, doing away with his annoying tics and delivering a career performance), an average Tijuana State policeman who is given the opportunity for greater prestige by working for General Salazar's (Tomas Milian) efforts against the drug cartels.

The board of directors of the Council of Chief State School Officers, while supporting most of the commission's general recommendations, disagrees with two points that have long exposed fault lines in the teaching profession.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.

While the majority of expert practitioners queried favored voluntary participation, there was general agreement that, at some point, all STEM teachers should become involved.

Backers of Mitts, meanwhile, point to a 1999 civil court case filed by the Illinois attorney general to recover $ 1,970 from Stamps after she allegedly failed to report income from temporary work at Chicago Public Schools while receiving government assistance as a single mother.

While he may have just coined a new verb, he does have a point: the 2016 Malibu is on a new iteration of General Motors» Epsilon platform, with a longer, lower, and wider look.

Associate editor Jonathon Klein said, «While I applaud General Motors for delivering a cheap mass - market electric vehicle before Tesla, the interior feels like a rushed afterthought and far too cheap for the price point.

While literature, in general, helps show readers the world from different times, settings, and points of view, sometimes a decentralized setting allows readers to reflect upon an issue in a different way.

While many commentators are quick to point out that the new color e-readers offer much more limited features, especially in terms of apps and general usability (i.e. no Bluetooth), a family that is finding itself a bit pressed financially could very well find the difference in price significant.

An evaluation tends to be shorter and more general, while a critique is usually more detailed and specifies what works on the page and what doesn't, recommends steps to fix it, and offers detailed suggestions for revisions, focusing on narrative and prose, theme, organization, pacing, clarity, voice, and point of view.

While writing each part, you need to state a general point.

While, again the widespread opinion is that iPad 2 is an evolutionary devices and doesn't bring anything new to the table, the general conclusion is that, at this point iPad 2 is the tablet to beat.

Also, as a point of general interest, the hospital has billed like 110K for the stay, while the insurance provider has «negotiated» this to around 30K..