Sentences with phrase «been on the point of»

Perth - based exploration junior Alkane Exploration NL is on the point of proving up the marketability of product from its 100 per cent held Dubbo Zirconia project, located twenty kilometres south of Dubbo and 400 km north - west of Sydney.

(I only have cash and equities) I want an easy option and am on the point of increasing my bond holdings by settling on say, one of Vanguards» Lifestrategy funds when... «the more I read the more confused I get!»

In each case, the speaker is on the point of dying: Job suffers from afflictions he can not understand, Paul is in prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passion.

His hair had vanished, or was on the point of vanishing, not through ordinary loss but by a process of rarification.

Just a few moments ago, I had overcome you in battle, knocked you to the ground and was on the point of slaying you.

When it was believed that we were on the point of being able to change human nature or the makeup of the human race in the laboratory, speculators began talk about the shape that new race should take.

I said within myself: «Come, let it be done now,» and as I said it, I was on the point of the resolve.

He had been on the point of writing for some Christian friends of his a discourse on their common salvation when word reached him that such persons had appeared among them.

They might have been on the point of splitting... I only got 6 buns rather than 12, and they didn't pile high because the egg protein made them more like a soft meringue.

Paris Saint - Germain are on the point of adding the $ 180million capture of Kylian Mbappe to their unprecedented and controversy - laden $ 222m signing of Neymar.

Just as the medical team was on the point of administering the procedure, the patient mustered the last gasp of breath in him and muttered.

I understand key figures around the Premier are on the point of resigning.

By now you'll be on the point of spotting a trend, so we need not wait for Gordon Brown's memoirs to summarise the reactions of New Labour's senior figures to an account whose veracity none of them appears to dispute in any significant way.

I was on the point of exhaustion.

Other experiments, such as the one at Tenerife by Rod Davies of Jodrell Bank and his collaborators, a team that includes scientists from Cambridge and the Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias are on the point of detecting primordial ripples.

«The people who were involved in building the first generation of nuclear plants, for example in France in the 1980s, are on the point of retiring.»

• Incredibly strict form whilst simultaneously forcing those lats out until they appear to be on the point of wrenching away from their insertions.

Not exact matches

If you're traveling for business on one of Emirates or Etihad's A380 planes and you have some points to spare, consider redeeming them for a first - class ticket so you can try out their showers.

As Claire Fallon, the Huffington Post's books and culture writer, points out, there are plenty of other reasons why ebooks may never catch on with a larger crowd.

To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

Then there are the scenes when plot points are achingly hand - fed to us, like a scene in which Ellsberg is making copies of the volumes of files that make up the Pentagon Papers (which also drags on a few beats too long).

Active management of the meeting, while it is in progress, can keep it from getting off track or dwindling too long on unnecessary points.

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

The Wilderness Society is calling on the Commonwealth government to further delay the release of a key report on the proposed gas hub at James Price Point.

Some of the posts may not immediately stand out as advertisements on your feed, which is the whole point.

On Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index was within two points of its all - time high.

The best ones make it a point to either speak or visit their clients mid-year to get a sense of what's going on so that they can strategize the best approach for tax savings with enough time to take actions.

Highlighting scads of studies that have found that a wide confidence gap exists between the sexes, they point out that success is just as dependent on confidence as it is on competence.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

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.

While this is a good point to look into, I want to focus on the worth of negotiations when you are married to an entrepreneur.

I point to the fact that I've been on this journey with Starbucks for nearly eight years now on the board — be eight years in March of 2017.

Mickaël Scherrer, international university relations project manager at Total, is fully on board with UNESCO's point of view.

Shum and Colaco point out that any reclassification of risk would be heavily scrutinized by Canadian regulators, in order to make sure that changes aren't self - serving on the part of policy providers and in fact benefit consumers.

It is going to be situated on a hilltop at one of the highest points of the property with a view of the meadows and the main building.

That's too bad, and is the point of this series: «The Best From the Brightest» focuses on one seminal concept from leading business thinkers.

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

«It is divided and there is a tremendous amount of finger - pointing going on right now.»

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter: «Eric Hellweg over at HBR said on Twitter this is one of their all - time best sellers,» Dickerson points out.

However, if you've reached the point where you are spending too much time on the non-critical stuff, can't keep up with demand, or don't have some of the skills needed to take the next step, it's time to reach for the calculator and figure out if an extra pair of hands can be justified.

Think of every politician on the campaign trail and you'd be hard pressed to find any who don't use hand gestures to articulate points.

Nearly as surprising was the willingness of Russia and private oil companies in North America to carry on at prices that were understood to be well below their break - even points.

Have specific people on your team who are points of contact for dealing with this type of emergency.

Steve Jobs was famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for his «reality distortion field,» his ability to make other people believe the seemingly impossible was actually possible.

As James Colaco, senior manager of Deloitte Canada's insurance practice points out, in the competitive world of insurance sales «it would be incumbent on the insurers to treat their customers well.»

The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

Bitcoin, like most other digital currencies, is anonymous (but not untraceable)-- which was one of its key selling points in the early days when it was perhaps best - known for buying drugs on the dark web.

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.