Sentences with phrase «better than our point»

If we are to formulate a reason for the disparity of the respective evaluations, we can do no better than point to the degree to which each integrates complexity into an overall harmony.

When someone asks whatever happened to John Wayne, you have to do better than point out Henry Fonda.

The Foxes have started the Premier League season better than their points total would suggest, after facing some tough opening opponents and a win here will hopefully allow them to kick on this month.

I think we can do better than a point at the Etihad.

«They are better than their points would suggest, that's what the stats show,» Wenger said.

ZILLER: Rondo will move the ball better than any point guard the Bulls have had since... ever?

One point is better than no points I guess.

After debating for awhile I finally cracked and used this brush and the results are so much better than the pointed brush as it gives an even air brushed look mainly because the brush is larger in size and it buffs the product perfectly into the skin to give a gorgeous application that looks ever so natural!

It's light, it has a long battery life, it's easy to use, performance is more predictable than a netbook (thanks to the use of NAND flash vs. a conventional HDD), it's got a beautiful screen and for some usage models, touching is better than pointing.

I think pointing out that it's HTML 5 is much better than pointing out it's Cloud based.

If you like cash back better than points, you might prefer the USAA Cash Rewards Visa Signature ® Card.

We quickly learned that having a fancy camera did not mean our photos were any better than our point and shoot.

Money in your pocket will almost always be better than points in a program for the majority of travellers so, unless you have a solid plan on how you're going to use the miles in the short - term, you should let price rule the day and consider any points you get as a bonus.

But that strays from my point, that no matter what one may opine about the beliefs of others, friendliness and courtesy work better than pointed remarks and insults, no matter how true.

But somehow, being able to see the cockpit all around me makes it easier to understand how my ship should move, and using the Rift's head tracking to fire missiles feels much better than pointing a joystick.

They are smaller and cheaper than mirrorless or DSLR cameras, but better than a point - and - shoot camera.

Not exact matches

The study also found that, «humorous complainers are better liked than non-humorous complainers,» meaning Dufu's method could be a way to make a point without damaging a professional relationship.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

Their defense has fallen all the way to 29th in the league, and they are just 0.1 point per 100 possessions better defensively than the 14 - 33 Sacramento Kings.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Friday on better - than - expected employment data.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

At this point, it's been more than a dozen years since a certifiable blockbuster won best picture.

But at some point I realized that was the completely wrong approach: I was more effective being a pro skater and being an ambassador for the company, instead of being the guy that created the ads, which someone else could do better than me.

Finally, and this is perhaps the most noteworthy point, I'm certain they would all agree that business and entrepreneurial success is based primarily on developing products and services that are far better at meeting critical customer needs than the competition.

But they also point out it could inflict further headaches on Employment Minister Jason Kenney if the set salary level is higher than the minimum wage, meaning temporary foreign workers would stand to make better money than Canadians.

The good news is that from that point on, Joe's starting performing far better than he ever had.

«At this point, it was a better way to spend my money than putting it into rent,» she says.

The 0.3 - percentage - point estimate is slightly higher than most expectations but well below Republicans» assurances.

Based on the information he had provided, the broker pointed out that the business was actually worth less than expected and based on the current market it was still considered to be a good deal.

But again, since this is linked to a desire for high performance, I want to point out that there's no better performance enhancer than sleep.

Analysts are currently calling for 140,000 new job's in the government's report this Friday, but the sum of the data in recent days is mixed at best as both ISM reports point to weak hiring, but this morning's data points to better than expected figures.

By the end of the year, Best Buy shares soared more than 28 points, from $ 11.67 per share on Dec. 21, 2012, to $ 40.17 per share on Dec. 27, 2013.

In our experience, it's better to come off as a little too sprightly than too brusque: style and punctuation matter, and even something as simple as an exclamation point can lighten the tone.

The Anne Frank Foundation said it recognized the «good intentions» of those who name things after Frank, but pointed out that the significance of Frank and what she represents «will increasingly have a contemporary rather than a historical basis.»

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

Teams that recognize the achievements of individuals will always function better than teams that only point out faults.

But the best thing to do is to get to the point quickly, so as to minimize the pain inflicted on those receiving the (less - than - desirable) update.

Almost two - thirds (62 percent) of one - way flights offer better point values than round - trip flights.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

Good communicators don't sacrifice their authenticity to score cheap points by trying (and, more often than not, failing) to impress others.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

The point is that diversification among asset classes really helped ameliorate the return an equity - only investor would have suffered this year: a loss of 2.7 % is better than a loss of greater than 10 %.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

That's better than the 74.9 percent of prime - age workers who had jobs at the low point of the economic downturn, in September and October 2011, or the 74.8 percent from November 2010.

That would be a percentage - point improvement from 2016, and better than any other country in the Group of Seven rich economies.

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Even science - and you know it better than I do - points to an understanding of reality as a place where every element connects and interacts with everything else,» the pope said.