Sentences with phrase «beginning point for»

At Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations we have found that our program is a great beginning point for a marriage strengthening effort because it is a social event, sharing food and stories.

Well, there is a beginning point for everything right?

This calculator is meant only to serve as an APPROXIMATION and a beginning point for your retirement planning.

This can be a beginning point for a discussion of how justice on a societal scale evolves — and how our individual actions can contribute to the problem or to the solution.

However, this does not mean that all newbies are to be shunned as there is always a beginning point for anything or anyone.

It is an important beginning point for understanding the complexities involved in explaining why outcomes related to bedsharing (recall, one of many types of cosleeping) vary between being protective for some populations and dangerous for others.

In a pluralistic society such as ours, therefore, finding a common consensus of desirable qualities necessary in human society as a beginning point for discussion about the role the media play in contributing to, or detracting from such shared qualities, is awfully elusive.

The methods of pastoral theology demonstrate the value of a «thick description» as a fundamental beginning point for all the fields of theological study.

2 Whatever the nature of this destination, it will be the fruit of preparation and lively engagement with the Biblical text, it will be clear to the minister, and it will be the beginning point for the sermon preparation proper.

The beginning point for this is for Black Americans and other oppressed minority groups to set their own agenda of liberation.

The beginning point for the holiness that recovers and reorders life is indeed sabbath.

All of these new works deeply considered many of these issues and are only just the beginning points for deeper reflection.

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Once you show respect for their point of view, you can then begin to disarm and persuade that person to your way of thinking.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

But there is no escapting the fact the country's consumers are not happy campers: Market researcher Nielsen found that consumer confidence in Malaysia fell to 78 points over the July - September period, down 11 percentage points on the quarter, marking a record low since the survey began in 2005, as well as Southeast Asia's worst reading for the quarter.

And behemoths like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., have crossed certain tipping points and user amounts that allow them to begin charging for reach.

His exit is the latest in a string of departures from the unit, Recode points out, highlighting that one of the project's other cofounders, Jiajun Zhu, recently left for an unnamed startup, while another group, including cofounder Anthony Levandowski, went to found a self - driving truck startup at the beginning of the year.

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

Aeroplan has now reversed that decision, angering only those who didn't quite have enough points for their dream vacation and spent all their points on Alouettes tickets the day before the announcement, expecting their miles to begin expiring on Jan. 1, 2014.

Reis and Blank are always quick to point out that failed startups «begin with an idea for a product that they think people want.»

Amid this chaotic scene, Reynolds had the wherewithal to both begin broadcasting on Facebook and setting the scene for viewers from her point of view.

Similarly, some will point to high levels of inflation, but breaking China inflation down into food, non food and housing (see chart below; white line - food, orange line - non food, yellow line - rents), a big part of non-food makes it pretty clear that food is beginning to turn for its own reasons, while house prices and rents really are falling out of bed.

However, if / when it forms a proper base of consolidation from here, we can begin to look for a low - risk buy point (at which time we would notify Wagner Daily, subscribers of our exact entry, stop, and target prices).

Markets around the world saw prices for precious metals, rare earth elements and strategic metals deteriorate to the point where costs exceeded price, and mines began to falter.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Otto launched out of stealth in May, about four months after Levandowski formed the company and began consulting for Uber, at which point the company's autonomous trucks were already being tested on public highways.

«There's obviously a point where it begins to make more sense for a business to have their own office space,» Clark says.

To alleviate the slowdown and offset the liquidity drain due to continuing capital outflows the People's Bank of China, the central bank, undertook further easing measures, cutting the reserve requirement ratio by a further 50 basis points to 17 % and 15 % for large and small banks respectively at the beginning of March.

At that point, you can begin shopping around for another balance transfer card — applying early so that it's ready when you need it.

Citi's ThankYou program from our partner Citi has been around for many years, but it only became a serious competitor once it began offering transfers of points to travel partners.

For instance, you made a point of deciding that you would speak at the end of the FOMC meeting rather than at the beginning as your predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

Once our personas prioritized one of these key points, they naturally begin to seek new ideas, approaches and options for doing so.

He pointed out that efforts to influence the election began in 2014, before he started running for president.

Gemini has begun briging on customers and will officially open for trading on Thursday October 8th, at which point customers...

As such, we began stalking $ TRUE for a potential pullback buy entry point as it pulled into major support of its prior highs, as shown on the weekly chart below:

Ninety percent of the 2011 searches were for income start dates that begin within 15 to 31 days of policy purchase, Baker points out.

Only when I began to think for myself and to question what I had been told, did I see that the «other side» had some valid points — I simply didn't want to hear them, much less attempt to understand them.

@Chuckles «For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim.»

There is a nearly irresistible temptation to begin a review with something like, «There was a time when Mailer was famous for thinking he'd make a better President than Kennedy, but things have reached the point where he now seems to think he'd make a better Christ than Jesus.»

For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

Or i could point out that the big bang is the biggest joke ever told... That even the top physicists can't figure out how their own theory could work, not to mention the fact that for it to work they would need for the Universe to break the fundamental laws we understand as true since the beginning i.e. (No matter in the Universe can be created nor destroyed, you can only change it's state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc.).

======== @Cheese «See point one and we don't know the unverse «began»... for all we know it is eternal.»

To better appreciate the moral significance of Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends in the White Rose resistance movement, I began to search my own memory for a point of connection with them and the great decision they made.

I told him that he had begun to slide down a slippery slope, for the five points of Calvinism are like five links on a chain: they stand or fall together and if one link in the chain breaks, it is only a matter of time before the whole system unravels.

Lewis S. Ford has addressed himself directly to the claim for nonphysical (but still temporal) successiveness in the genetic process in his article «On Genetic Successiveness: a Third Alternative» (1: 421 - 25).1 Ford begins by pointing out that the differences between phases in a single occasion can not be mere differences in complexity of integration.

Perhaps they begin with some genuine concern to «reach the lost», but at some point, they degenerate into blatant appeals for more funds to support the lifestyle that the increase in money and publicity has engendered.

At some point after that, he began to plead for medical assistance, which the officers did not administer.

I remained a three - point Calvinists for quite a while, until, after Seminary, I began my first pastorate in Montana.

At this point I can not say for certain, but the ethos of saying some one is athiest tends to be that they are more likely to believe life begins around viability, and there is less issues / concerns in dealing with abortion and contraception.