Sentences with phrase «bad points which»

Not exact matches

Dick's pointed to sales of hunting gear such as rifles, which chief financial officer Lee Belitsky called «much worse than our expectations» on a conference call, and athletic apparel is key culprits in the shortfall.

But the sudden drop - off in sales in January, which pointed to a deeper dysfunction, was arguably worse than both of those combined.

It might sound rare or unlikely, but as Hello Giggles pointed out, «it's pretty likely that you know someone who fits the description» of an empath, which means that it's worth understanding how to tell as well as the good and the bad of dating an empath.

Seconds later, another email arrived from his wife, also saying the PM was trying to reach him — at which point the plane took off, leaving Oliver to ponder for the next five hours whether good or bad news awaited him when he reached his destination.

Another reader points out this should be «when worse comes to worst,» which indicates something has degraded from one negative plane to the lowest possible.

Which leads us back to the first point: if your mobile site is clunky (or worse, cluttered with annoying pop - ups) then you've already lost.

The first involves the «inverted U curve,» which models the inflection point at which the addition of units — of effort, of people, of money — stops making something better; and the further point at which adding units actually makes something worse.

More bad news for seniors: Medicare Part B premiums, which are usually deducted from Social Security payments, are expected to increase next year to the point in which they will probably wipe out the entire COLA.

It gives you «a resource to tap» in worst case scenarios, which will ensure you don't panic if the market drops 500 points in a day, she adds.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.

4 Sarao traded a ton of E-mini futures during the flash crash — «62,077 E-mini S&P contracts with a notional value of $ 3.5 billion» — and made «approximately $ 879,018 in net profits» that day, or a profit of about 2.5 basis points on the notional amount, which I guess isn't bad for one day's work.

As CNBC anchor Becky Quick pointed out this morning during their segment in which I joined, we may be entering that phase of the cycle where good news on Main St. is bad news on Wall St.. That is, accelerating wage growth may lead the Federal Reserve to tighten faster, slowing overall growth more than currently expected.

Provoked by a comment by Spady that «any taxes that causes Safeway to lose jobs is a bad one,» Sawant responded with a prepared talking point that Safeway is owned by Albertson's, which has $ 59 billion in annual revenues.

I am spread between UK, US, Europe, Japan, & Pacific and I always keep my ear to the ground just in case there's an impending disaster at which point I quickly buy a put option (6 months) just in case something bad happens.

Facebook organic reach is notoriously bad, so there really is no value in paying a Facebook influencer no matter how large her reach is — unless you can get permission to boost the content (at which point it's your own money anyways!)

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

But if we get to the point where we are back to zero - interest rates or worse, negative interest rates, the next logical step for central bankers is the eradication of cash and controlling our buying which can only really be done electronically with this emerging cryptocurrency technology.

This means Select + cardholders take longer to accumulate their rewards points, which isn't a necessarily bad as long as they are not aiming to receive the high - tier ticket rewards.

«The afflicted nations [the PIIGs], in particular, have nothing but bad choices: either they suffer the pains of deflation or they take the drastic step of leaving the euro, which won't be politically feasible until or unless all else fails (a point Greece seems to be approaching).

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

What they do not mention is that once an entire field has been created — with careers, funding, appointments, and prestige all premised upon an experimental result which was utterly false due either to fraud or to plain bad luck — pointing this fact out is not likely to be very popular.

«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at aBad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at abad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at all.

Indeed, when the good faith of the Jew unveils the bad faith of Christian belief in God, the Christian can become more truly open to the Christ who points to the end of the old creation, the end of reality as such, and ushers in that new creation of total liberation, which no longer can even be named as reality.

If the whole point is relationship with God and one another......... which I believe it is, its not just the good, but the bad and the ugly.

They got progressively worse, to the point at which (at age 16) the maximum dose of over-the-counter pain medication still couldn't give me relief.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).

Indeed, the only point on which the fundamentalists agree with the Catholics is that the religious war is likely to get worse.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

Chicago philosopher - comic Aaron Freeman made the same point in a recent National Public Radio commentary: «Gratitude ameliorates the worst aspect of American life, which is that the consumer culture makes us constantly aware of what we do not have, without counterbalancing rituals of gratitude for the mind - boggling bounty that is the U.S.A.... As you are grateful, to that precise extent you are happy.»

It's also a Bible verse, which I thought, based on what you wrote a few lines later, is bad form to use to back up one's points.

It's nut jobs like this that give christianity a bad name, which in my point of view is good, organized religion is evil, and the faster we get rid of religion the better this world will be.

I've had several other points at which I've had to confront my worst fears in my prayer, confront God and say, «Is this really true about you?

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

Religion has nowadays become a bad word but it points to this solidarity of believers which belief needs if it is to survive and flourish.

At this point, whether in good circumstances or bad, Christian faith and especially that aspect of it which Jesus called the kingdom of God, becomes highly relevant.

I have about six points to a «Chaos Theory» which help us understand why bad things happen in this world.

Which is worse: using the emotionally charged imagery of a crucified Jesus to point out something bogus, or using that same emotionally charged story to get people to believe something bogus in the first place?

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

And the opposite of this would be in English «ugly,» which points to a person or object as unattractive, unlovely, badly patterned, and, hence, offensive.

I usually only bake at 350, which is below / at the smoke point according the bottle... is this still a bad idea?

«When somebody is selling our beer for $ 500 on eBay, it's a falsely inflated price point and a bad representation of our brewery,» says Natalie Cilurzo, co-owner of Russian River Brewing, which joins The Bruery, Lost Abbey, Stone Brewing, Midnight Sun, Hill Farmstead, Westvleteren, Cantillion, and Hair of the Dog as producers of some of the most desirable after - market beers in the world.

During the 20 years that we have had Arsene Wenger as our manager the 11th month of the year is the one which has seen the Gunners take the fewest average points per game, 1.59 compared to the next worst August which is 1.89 and the best which is 2.18 in March.

Cant remember which podcast I heard it but the take was that John Wall was the worst of the elite point guards.

I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.

In my humble opinion at this point I wo much rather him than Ramsey which clearly is making the team worse at the moment.

Of course it doesn't make them all bad, what it does is make me less likely to trust, which is my initial point.

Things lurch from bad to worse at Fratton Park and it seems there is a very real possibility that the south coast club could go under or at the very least be put into administration which would incur a relegation confirming ten point penalty.