Sentences with phrase «anywhere near a point»

One reason rejection rates are so high is that most of the companies that prospective funders see haven't gotten anywhere near that point just yet.

There are a great many ways of using CIO, the most extreme are what you have mentioned, bit there are many modified versions that don't have children anywhere near the point of vomiting.

What's even more disturbing is women can tell if a guy is bad in bed before the clothes even come off (and, frankly, before we're anywhere NEAR that point to begin with).

Not that it matters on public roads, because the CLS 63 AMG's performance envelope is so large that you'd have to be driving like an absolute loon to get anywhere near the point where the default traction control system would have to intervene.

However, I've miles of data exploration to go before I will be anywhere near a point where I can appropriately articulate my suspicions about multidecadal variations.

Contrast those opening lines with the wandering first paragraphs of many lawyers» blog posts, many of which never seem to get anywhere near the point.

Not exact matches

It's an important point and one that exposes a limitation of the Boardlist's approach: No matter how many female directors they help place, Silicon Valley boards won't get anywhere near gender parity until more women create and invest in startups.

If you think this minor issue is anywhere near as bad as what the crusaders did, I think you're only point of reference is probably some movies that glorified what they did.

yet, where the christian extremists are anywhere near as bad at this point as the muslim extremists, but it looks like it is coming from what I can see from all of the extremist hate - filled posts by a lot of people posting on this and any other article about muslims.

I'd like to point out that for one bowl of this pasta, you would not pay anywhere near $ 10.

This antioxidant pigment is quite unstable to heat, and you do not need to get anywhere near the smoke point temperature of EVOO to start seeing loss of chlorophyll.

Im Just pin pointing a fact that the financial capability of the sides in the premier league is a lot different to the ones in Bundasliga or La Liga i cant see a side outside the top 4 of wither of those leagues spending 60 plus million a season on players, point being the calibre of their players isn't anywhere near that of Premier league players.

It was important to get them off together, if they were to meet anywhere near the chosen point.

In turn, he's picked out two players in particular who he believes shouldn't be anywhere near the Liverpool starting line - up again, and in truth, he has a point.

I can't imagine seeing AFC finish anywhere near the top of the table at this point.

Consistency is good, but what's the point when it's never anywhere near good enough to win the trophy.

AD failed to convert three lobs which I can't remember ever happening (which probably shows you how spoiled we've been by AD's ability to catch the ball anywhere near the basket and turn the catch into points).

Would it really make sense that a club claiming to be functionally «house poor», who has a lengthy history of thriftiness, would be willing to leverage everything in the kitty and more on a relatively unknown and unproven player that no one rated anywhere near that 11th hour price point.

oh a LOT of people have a problema with him being a gunner buddy, read around and youll see, they do nt want him anywhere near us... thankfully AW got it better and he got us a valuable point today

Minus some flashes from both Sead and Iwobi, and a workingman - like effort from Elneny, we learned very little... so here are a few of my observations from today's game, which highlight my concerns about this team moving forward... the fact that Mertz started this game, regardless of our injuries or those being «rested», should be a serious red flag for any true Arsenal fan... if Wenger is preparing to use Mertz with any regularity then the whole thing is a moot point because we are in deep shit... the fact is no quality team would ever have this tin soldier anywhere near there starting eleven except to groom their youthful players, who in turn should be playing in this type of game instead... I can only hope he was simply throwing him a bone for the FA appearance and for agreeing to stay on following the season, but I think the most likely answer is that Wenger's fragile relationship with the fan - base can't be ignored so he felt his experience was a safer bet... unfortunately not a positive choice for a team trying to move forward (same old, same old)

How about this instead: To have any hope in hell of ever getting anywhere near City in ambition, top players and league points, we need a complete clear out of all the appalling dross who run our club at every level.

The ball did not go anywhere near out of play, yet the referee waved away claims for a penalty and pointed for a corner.

Games with Birmingham City at Goodison and West Ham at Upton Park are two feasible fixtures, so is a trip to Stoke, and with Everton languishing in the bottom half of the table all three simply have to be converted into maximum points if they're to come anywhere near completing their season - long objective of a return to Europe.

It must also be pointed out that these statistics in no way make Emre Can a better player than Steven Gerrard, these figures are a small fragment of what makes up the DNA of a good player and Can has a very, very long way to go before he gets anywhere near Steven Gerrard.

Doubts remain over whether the Honda engine will be anywhere near quick enough to compete for points, but both Toro Rosso and Honda are off to an excellent start in their relationship and could well end up being a match made in heaven.

I know away from home Stoke haven't been anywhere near up to the standard required to clinch three points, but with the Baggies slap bang in the middle of a dismal run of form, there may not be an easier away assigment all season.

A fantastic atmosphere was met in response by a fantastic team defensive performance, City struggling to get anywhere near the Reds» goal after Georginio Wijnaldum's early opening goal, one which would eventually get the three points.

No one is suggesting Scottish turnout will be anywhere near the 85 % of that poll — more likely 20 points below.

If you want to make your case, point to a Tides funded study that is anywhere near as misleading and error - ridden as the NIPCC.

We never went anywhere near as high as today at any point during the last deglaciation.»

It is also naïve in the extreme to believe that modern day fruits and vegetables have anywhere NEAR the nutritional profile of wild grown plants tens of thousands of years ago (even organically grown ones), or that modern farm cows have the mineral content in their meat that wild game did back in our ancestor's time (This point is relevant because it illustrates the limitations of attempting to duplicate historical diets).

That is, bodyweight training can build muscle up to a point but it can't deliver anywhere near the results of resistance training (and weightlifting in particular).

There is a fair point one could make about the idiocy of modern television effectively being just an updated version of a minstrel show, but Bamboozled doesn't go anywhere near that territory.

Contrivance is everywhere, motivations are vague or non-existent and at least one major plot point (in the many ways, THE plot point), hinges on an almost hilarious idiotic coincidence that doesn't hold anywhere near enough weight to justify what it's used for.

This is how bad «Table 19» gets: At a certain point in the movie, there is absolutely no reason that any of the characters would remain at the wedding or anywhere near it.

So, the general point holds: America has not built a teaching force anywhere near the standards that are being set for tomorrow's students.

And though the feel of the unit is price - point appropriate, it's neither as convenient as a paddle setup nor anywhere near as satisfying as rowing a manual.

Drivers coming from a crossover or a SUV will find that the Cross Country is easy to maneuver around town because it offers a vantage point that's higher than that of a regular sedan but it's not anywhere near as bulky as tall soft - roaders like Volvo's own XC60.

However, there simply is not a convertible out there that provides the smoothness, comfort, feature set, and room anywhere near this price point.

Redline begins at 4500rpm, but there is no point going anywhere near it.

While this probably isn't anywhere near where we'd like to be seated when the 2015 Dodge Viper approaches, we certainly wouldn't kick out a chance to be behind the wheel at this point.

Touch wood, I don't think I've ever had full - on writer's block — the kind where a writer is paralyzed to the point where he or she can't get anything down on paper — but I do get days or weeks when nothing works, I don't get anywhere near enough written and what I do write is either awful or pointless (oh, look, it's a cheesy dream sequence and four pages of irrelevant waffle about some character's childhood).

The earlier report pointed out that millennials are not consuming print newspapers in anywhere near the numbers the industry once saw, and that more than half of the 1000 + survey respondents didn't pay for any type of news, digital or otherwise.

I love these assertions that believe that a drop to $ 9.99 for bestsellers will somehow be a magic selling tool, not only for the bestsellers, but for the entire industry, most of which are not selling anywhere near that price point.

Another detail we were able to learn is that the MSRP for the HTC Nexus 9 will indeed be $ 399, which isn't anywhere near the Nexus 7's $ 229 price point but indicates that Google is aiming to bring a premium quality device to market at an affordable price.

We'll explore this subject further on page 6, but the difference in content availability isn't anywhere near a positive selling point for the Nook.

More realistically, yearly spending doesn't need to be anywhere near this high because you receive $ 300 in travel credits annually, a $ 100 Global Entry fee credit every four years and you earn three points per dollar on your travel and dining purchases.

All the historical valuation measures of stocks and markets point to them being fully valued, and that doesn't mean they're overvalued or anywhere near bubble territory.

There some obvious touch - points: Most people don't have anywhere near the volume of money required for even a $ 5 commission outweigh the large index fund expense ratios.

While I have never spent a Christmas morning in the snowy mountains, I very much hope to one day, and miles and points will be what makes it a reality as paid rates can be extremely high anywhere remotely near a ski resort this time of year.