Sentences with phrase «amounts of points from»

For example, the Marriott Rewards program can be great when you earn huge amounts of points from staying at their hotels or by using their credit card.

I love Mario Party, and I know that chance will play a large role in any of the series, so I really don't have any good reason to complain so much to a point where I would deduct large amounts of points from my personal review score.

Not exact matches

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb seemed to draw from a whole new regulatory playbook when he recently proposed a policy shift that could eventually reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to the point where they were no longer addictive.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Special circumstances like these emphasize the point that the right amount of days off for each person will vary from year to year based on circumstances.

According to estimates from eMarketer, spending on digital ads in the U.S. will likely grow this year to the point where it is larger than the amount spent on television, the former Goliath of the industry.

While that sounds like a simple point, drivers expend a huge amount of energy counteracting G - forces that often range between 3 and 5 Gs and higher; to withstand that force, drivers contract their muscles to maintain physical balance and seating posture as well as to prevent blood from being forced to one side of the body.

As many others have pointed out, this seems odd, given that the bank fairly recently repatriated a large amount of its gold from the U.S.

Making sure the right ones get to the right places has never been a trivial matter, but the decision to narrow forecasting brought with it a gigantic leap in the amount of data that had to be processed each day, from 100,000 to 3.5 million data points --» demand forecasting units,» in supply chain speak.

And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

«One week, when I retrieved the data for the week of May 17, I noticed there was unusual amount of bitcoin activity that I have not seen before... from nothing to hundreds of data points a day, clearly bitcoin mining.

The first - and most obvious - reason is that the exit will start from a point of extraordinary policy accommodation, and will involve gradually reducing the amount of stimulus in place, as opposed to initiating a rapid and severe policy tightening.

Rather than let your investments drift with market movements, it may make more sense to rebalance your holdings periodically (say, once or twice a year) or when your mix drifts a set amount from your target (you may allow your mix to fluctuate a maximum of 10 percentage points above or below the level you target).

Because I think China's nominal GDP growth has been overstated by a substantial amount because of its systematic failure to write down bad loans, I usually have subtracted 2 - 4 percentage points from the nominal GDP growth rate before I did my very rough calculation.

China has managed to meet the GDP growth target of 6.7 percent, the level of economic activity presumably needed to keep unemployment from rising, only by increasing total debt by a frightening amount equal to a 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP.

in the case of our directors, officers, and security holders, (i) the receipt by the locked - up party from us of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon (A) the exercise or settlement of stock options or RSUs granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan described in this prospectus or (B) the exercise of warrants outstanding and which are described in this prospectus, or (ii) the transfer of shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock, or any securities convertible into Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon a vesting or settlement event of our securities or upon the exercise of options or warrants to purchase our securities on a «cashless» or «net exercise» basis to the extent permitted by the instruments representing such options or warrants (and any transfer to us necessary to generate such amount of cash needed for the payment of taxes, including estimated taxes, due as a result of such vesting or exercise whether by means of a «net settlement» or otherwise) so long as such «cashless exercise» or «net exercise» is effected solely by the surrender of outstanding stock options or warrants (or the Class A common stock or Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise thereof) to us and our cancellation of all or a portion thereof to pay the exercise price or withholding tax and remittance obligations, provided that in the case of (i), the shares received upon such exercise or settlement are subject to the restrictions set forth above, and provided further that in the case of (ii), any filings under Section 16 (a) of the Exchange Act, or any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the locked - up party, shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this bullet point;

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

These pain points differ from those of a seasoned tax preparer, whose pain points may be not knowing how to maximize the amount of their return and find creative loopholes for deductions.

Reports from CCN point out that: To explain the Plasma Cash model, Buterin gives the example that if a user deposits some amount of ether to a crypto exchange or any third party service, a Plasma coin would be created with the same value of ether and a unique ID that can not be merged or split.In contrast with Plasma, Plasma Cash would only require users to pay attention to the blocks that contain coins they want to keep track of:

Many businesses do indeed require a substantial amount of capital to get off the ground, and this fact often deters people with the entrepreneurial spirit from ever getting to the point where they can become their own bosses.

Why this is important: This describes average amount of net client exposure that is fully hedged at any point in time during a trading day, either internally by matching opposing interest from different clients or externally with the market.

Research from Vanguard shows that an «immediate» lump - sum amount in a portfolio that includes a 60/40 mix of stocks and bonds outperformed dollar - cost averaging by a margin of 2.4 percentage points on average during a 12 - month period.

It's also a good point brought up in the comment below: what distinguishes Google from the crowd, isn't so much the amount of money it spends on perks, but how deliberate the company seems to be in connecting that spending to overarching goals related to employee productivity and organizational culture.

It can potentially revert back to the old policy, but you will earn the same amount of points whether you buy a ticket through Chase or directly from an airline.

Gravity always as.serts the same amount of force on me and at no point am I squished into the ground or untethered from earth to fly around.

All the decisions of the consequent nature flow from the primordial nature, and though the former does not fit the present actual occasions into a ready - made pattern of the temporal past (as Ford carefully points out: IPQ 13:356), yet «the weaving of Cod's physical feelings upon his primordial concepts (PR 524) amounts to the emergence into time, as predicates of God's propositional feelings, of the very valuations of his nontemporal decision.

At the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfect.

From the Christian point of view, the foregoing remarks amount to a very generous statement of sympathy for other faiths.

The significant interest in philosophical mathematics follows from the amount of space allotted in IM to the treatment of the three basic problems that had occupied Whitehead in his work up to that point.

1, p. 9) No amount of ingenious accommodation can disguise the fact that Holloway was fully aware that his philosophical thought at points diverged significantly from the Thomistic tradition.

Case in my coffee - point is this sauce; caramelized sweet onions, dark undertones from coffee, smoky heat from chipotle chiles, with just the right amount of sweet fruitiness from raspberry jam.

I tend to discount the first 2 - 3 years of Chambers» tenure as Dechellis left the cupboards completely bare (and Chambers had the added pleasure of trying to recruit athletes to Penn State during the fallout from the Sandusky scandal), but at this point he's had a fair amount of time to build his program at Penn State.

Iwobi has shown an immense amount of ability for such an early point in his career, and is quickly becoming a fans favourite, and is said to have been learning from team - mate Mesut Ozil in training.

The Thunder's mercurial point guard has wrested the spotlight away from his MVP teammate through sheer force of will and with absurd amounts of intensity.

Perhaps if you cash in, you get a set amount of bonus points or you can get all of the points from a single match instead of just the single freebie the champion gets.

now we are putting all our eggs in the miki basket by signing auba hoping to recreate the dortmund connnection, Auba a player better than laca but so similar it makes no sense spending that amount of money especially with all the cracks in the team, but hey lets do that and get rid of giroud our only option B upfront to accomodate miki a player who is 29 and at the lowest point of his career, building a team around him shows me that sad state we our in, we take what we are given and try to make the best of the situation and that's all of us from the board to the manager to the players all the way down to the fans.

Wenger has achieved a huge amount for the club and although some of it was set prior to his arrival and some of it was an extension of his initial success the fact that winds up most of the anti wenger fans is that the club IS spending money and IS trying to rebuild after a long time in the wilderness, but when it comes to the spending on players its always the CHEAPER option in the most important area's Chips Keswick Boasted a # 100» 000 000 war chest during last summers closed season and stated that the club could buy any player they wished (Apart from the worlds top players at that point Messi) yet instead of spending the money in area's that needed drastic improvement Wenger opted for the cheaper replacements and spent just over half of the money allocated.

That game arguably saw the best we have seen from Alexis since he was ruled out with a hamstring problem in November and Mertesacker suggests that even though the team picked up a decent amount of points while the Chilean was in the treatment room it is clear that a club needs it's best players to have a good chance of success.

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

As pointed out by football writer Daniel Storey on Twitter, the Saints made huge amounts from the sales of Dejan Lovren to Liverpool, Luke Shaw to Manchester United and Calum Chambers to Arsenal, but have conceded 20 fewer goals than they did at this stage last season.

From Spuds, Leicester and Arsenal — We probably had the easiest of the last 10 games to the end of the season — yet we managing to pick up the least amount of points.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

I would forgive any amount of venting, of which I frequently participate to the point of borderline hypocrisy from a previous months post because the alternative for me would be to stop looking forward to Arsenals big games, stop religiously checking my phone for updates etc, because that is the beginning of the end of being a fan.

They came to this match with a tremendous amount confidence with that kind of overwhelming victory in their last match but they had to return from this match with loosing 2 points.

As is the case with a lot of young playmakers, Xhaka's main point of criticism is his goal efficiency, with a very disappointingly low amount of goals and assists since making a move from Basel to the Bundesliga, as well as at international level.

Zaha himself was being subjected to a substantial amount of fair, physical competition from the lively Terriers; a sign that Town was more than up to the task of hopefully beginning its inaugural Premier League season with maximum points.

Even from a fan's point of view, it is a ridiculous amount of games to play in a short space of time and not good for the heart rate.

Five wins and one draw have banked 16 points from the 18 up for grabs since the turn of the year, amounting to over half of the Tigers» haul for the entire season.

Just at home, the DW Stadium, Wigan posses some of the league's worst records, like least amount of points registered — 11 from 11 matches, the leakiest home defence having shipped 20 goals and conceding nearly two goals every game on average, as well as the second bluntest attacking line (10).

For a large amount of the game it seemed that Bilbao would walk away from the Mestalla with three points and condemn Pellegrino to his fourth defeat of the season but the Basque side crumbled in the final minutes.