Sentences with phrase «argue about the numbers»

I don't think that Ackman or the short investors would argue about the numbers.

If there's anything baseball fans love more than cold, hard numbers, it's arguing about those numbers.

Throwing past «data» at one another trying to extrapolate some truth about the future is just arguing about the number of fairies on the head of a pin (since it's Easter, I'm feeling a little Catholic today).

In other words, you oversell the benefits and undersell the impact and make it look like you're just arguing about numbers (Obamacare also sold a $ 2500 average annual savings which has not materialized).

September 18, 2015 Shawn Levy isn't interested in arguing about the numbers.

While people argue about the numbers, index funds tend to do better than average (depends on what you call «average», of course).

Everyone wants to argue about the numbers.

Not exact matches

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

A «powder keg is forming in the installed base» of iPhone customers, Arcuri argues: Currently, the portion of existing iPhone customers who might be expected to upgrade into iPhone 7 is about 33 percent, a number that has been consistent for the last six quarters, Arcuri writes.

It means that when we discuss policies to increase the number of women on boards, we're not arguing about where we're going — we're just arguing about how to get there.

But Taylor argues that this number would be much higher if directors cared more about shareholder value or were not so loathe toward forcing CEOs out, largely for personal reasons.

Snap will undoubtedly point to its millennial reach and those much - talked - about engagement numbers as a way of arguing that it is more valuable.

The report has come under fire from a number of critics, who argue that — among other things — it is talking about theoretical future ad sales that might never have occurred even if ad blocking didn't exist.

Even if you hold on to some very bullish assumptions about the near future, the numbers argue that prices must come down.

If the iQIYI number seems to offer comfort to those who argue that China is soon about to develop a large and meaningful paid - for ancillary market, the detail suggests that Netflix's target may already be out of reach.

I would also argue that the labor force participation rate is not picking up data about the «gig economy» — Uber drivers, Airbnb renters, etc — which now make up a substantial number of people.

See, you can not sit in a room and argue about mathematics if you do nt believe in numbers.

They argue cogently that worker ownership plans would tremendously increase our productivity and prosperity and can be brought about through methods that have already proven successful in a number of corporations.2 Additionally, they propose a number of other ways to distribute our wealth through innovative, capitalist methods.

Back during college, a good number of my evangelical friends were liberals, and we spent countless hours arguing about politics.

Based on its assumptions about human beings, it argues that the greatest good of the greatest number is served best when each person works aggressively for his or her own economic interest.

@Colin & others I'm not going to argue your claim that orientation is genetic because I think there is some truth to it, however, I have questions about the evolutionary shift to growing numbers of LGBTs.

A number of analysts, anticipating the need to soften the blow against the Democrats, began arguing in October that the 2010 election was about generalized anger directed at incumbents because of economic conditions.

Point number six, of course, is stated in about a dozen different ways, with people arguing over what the actual requirement should be (repent and be baptized, confess your sins, say this prayer, etc, etc), but for the sake of this blog post, I don't really care about that.

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

The greatest outcry, however, came from survey organizations who produce the polls, social scientists who utilize poll findings to bolster arguments about the vitality of American religion, and a number of Roman Catholic researchers who argued that we exaggerated the overreporting in their constituency.

I can not argue about the quality of our little Spanish magician and what he has added to the side since Wenger signed him from La Liga club Malaga a few years ago, whether in the number 10 role, on one of the flanks or his more recent central position.

Arguing about actual numbers and data instead of tone and hurt feelings.

Cuomo, during a radio interview Wednesday, flashed a little ego when he argued that his sky - high poll numbers are less about him personally and more about the renewed pride New Yorkers are taking in state government since he took office in January.

Those neighborhoods also made the largest numbers of complaints about people smoking marijuana to 911 and 311 and at community meetings, Shea said, arguing that cops are tackling the crime where they hear it's most prevalent.

«I know that there are a small handful, but it's not the numbers, it's the principle — about six people and those six are having their cases aggressively argued vis - a-vis the federal government,» Cuomo said.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, and defence lawyers in the trial of some former government appointees for their roles in a supposed $ 6 million fraudulent deal between the National Communication Authority (NCA) and Infraloks Development Limited (IDL), argued in court today [Tuesday], about the number of days the case should be heard in a week.

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

Greenhalgh and Jenny Jones argue about police numbers.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

London and Schenker argue that while the Internet offers patients valuable data and tools — including hospital quality ratings and professional treatment guidelines — that may help them when facing decisions about where to seek care or whether to undergo a medical procedure, reliable and unbiased information may be hard to identify among the growing number of medical care advertisements online.

When my older brother's oldest child was five, Kruskal recalls, he argued with another little boy about whether there was a largest number.

You might approach the matter anthropically, arguing that if there were some other number of dimensions, we would not be here to wonder about it.

Although many people would argue the accuracy of this test, it can give you the relative numbers about your body fat percentage.

Yes, a lot of assumptions were made here (and I'm sure you could argue plus or minus 10 - 25 % for ANY of these numbers), but this hopefully puts it a bit in perspective - ~ 200 calories of glycogen is about 50 grams of carbohydrates, and given the body can synthesize around 15 - 20 grams of glycogen per hour, and is doing so during the workout from any food remaining in the gut, unless you haven't eaten in 12 hours you really only need ~ 30 additional grams of carbohydrates post workout, of which the body will use about 15 - 20 per hour to top off your stores.

I am sure that cholesterol is the number one cause of heart problems and I try (best of my knowledge) to argue people to avoid cholesterol in their diet, but then there is studies that people refer to as «Norwegian hunt 2 Study» https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/ that says too low cholesterol is killing us?!?!? What can you say about this study?

Of course, one could argue that Colin Farrell and Christian Bale don't hurt salability, but if you're Malick, how do you go about explaining a vision of primeval vistas wherein civilizations enter into contact, negotiate relationships, and settle on grounds uncommon and familiar to those that crunch the numbers or create categories for marketing plans?

Warren Buckland, by contrast, picks up exactly these aspects which do not fit and argues that these films do indeed represent something new, something that is not classical at all; his edited collection, Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema, offers a number of interesting perspectives on just what is new about these films (2).

To Amy's point about the difference between a role where Tom really gets to act, in the classical sense, versus one where he stages He - Man battles against CGI and his own «I do my own stunts, thankyouverymuch» mortality, I'd argue that a number of his best turns feature him capital - A Acting his way through He - Man battles against his own emotions.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

Teachers will need to incorporate lessons that ask students to analyze exemplar oral and written arguments, and they will need to increase the number of writing and speaking assignments in which students argue their opinion about a topic or theme, using text - based evidence as support.

Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for: - Amazing verbs and adverbs - Adventurous adjectives - Astonishing alliteration - Capturing the readers» attention - Exceptional expanded noun phrases - Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons - Structuring and organising creative writing - Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors - Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world - Writing about Emotions There are also a number of games and help - sheets, including: - All 8 writing purpose help - sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)- Descriptive writing assessment and mark scheme - Descriptive writing - knowing the words inside out posters.

Included are whole lesson resources (normally 2 pounds each) for: - Amazing verbs and adverbs - Adventurous adjectives - Astonishing alliteration - Capturing the readers» attention - Exceptional expanded noun phrases - Perfect personification and awesome oxymorons - Structuring and organising creative writing - Stupendous similes and miraculous metaphors - Wondrous writing - seven wonders of the world - Writing about Emotions - VCOP - vocabulary - VCOP - openers - VCOP - connectives - VCOP - punctuation There are also a number of games and help - sheets, including: - All 8 writing purpose help - sheets (Analyse, Explain, Inform, Persuade, Describe, Instruct, Evaluate, Argue)- Literacy writing mat -2 «Pointless» games - Templates (Newspapers, Blogs, Postcards, etc.) All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slides of the PowerPoints.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

So rather than arguing about whether a number should be 58 % and not 67 %, etc., I want to look at some of the big picture highlights I picked up from Data Guy's presentation.

What really impresses me about Legendary is just how well it actually works with any number of players, from just me looking to kick back for an hour or two all the way up to five people swigging cider and arguing about whose cooler; Wolverine or Deadpool.