Sentences with phrase «black points in»

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«Black Mirror» perfectly gets the point across that all the new technological advancements in our lives that should make us feel better usually have the opposite effect.

A 25 - year - old man was arrested after a lone policeman unwaveringly stared down the agitated suspect — clothed head to toe in black — who appeared to repeatedly draw an object from his hip and point it at the officer.

«Get in,» he says to this visitor from Vancouver, pointing to a black Ford Mustang with a film of dust on the hood.

Russia has said it plans to add several subs to its Black Sea fleet, which is a point of focus for Moscow — along with the Northern fleet, which has Russia's sea - based nuclear forces and is based close to NATO territory in Norway.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treateIn defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treatein how black and white drug offenders are treated.

As Dobbin and Kalev point out, «Black men have barely gained ground in corporate management since 1985.

Clad in all black, hair pulled back, she moved with the grace of a woman who points and flexes her feet as effortlessly as most people text.

Case in point: Arlan Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital, an early stage tech investment fund that focuses on three underserved markets in the world of venture capital: black, female, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.

On Wednesday, Bennett released a statement saying a Las Vegas police officer pointed a gun at him and detained him «for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

In a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceiveIn a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.

In recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or AsianIn recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asianin which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asians.

Today is the 28th anniversary of Black Monday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508 points in one day back in 1987.

According to separate analysis by DynamicAction, retailers ahead of Black Friday were already selling about 21 percent fewer items at full price than they did at the same point in 2014.

In the historically black neighborhood of Point Breeze in Philadelphia, financial institutions collectively put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers between 2012 and 201In the historically black neighborhood of Point Breeze in Philadelphia, financial institutions collectively put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers between 2012 and 201in Philadelphia, financial institutions collectively put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers between 2012 and 2016.

We asked over 200 sales and marketing professionals about 78 data points (and «secret sauce» combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More points (and «secret sauce» combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales?

She pointed to one senior woman they interviewed who is quoted in the article saying «I'm forever exhausted by people thinking the reason I have the senior role I'm in is that I'm black, not that I'm excellent.»

It is a gateway to the Black Hills to the north and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche as the geographic center of the United States in 1959.

Inside that black box is the mental state of investors, which can be rational, delusional, risk - averse, or risk - seeking at any given point in time.

Caterpillar Inc, the world's largest heavy equipment maker; 3M Co; and Stanley Black & Decker Inc are among companies that have pointed to higher material, commodity or other costs in their reports to investors.

For one I could point out 20 mispelling errors, «Mormonism» not a word, weird huh.I am a Mormon I do support Mitt and I did in 2008, but religion aside Mitt can get it done, and he has in the past!!!! Obama has failed the USA no doubt about that.Mitt's morals, family values is what America is on.Shame on the people who can't move past that, You (not me) voted on a black man for President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool huh.

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

That's the point; even the most racist members of the KKK back in the 60's believed they were being good Christians when they lynched blacks and bombed Jewish homes.

As for the black - Jewish alliance, that, too, shattered over time, to the point where Jesse Jackson could refer to New York as «Hymietown» and still remain both a player in Democratic politics and a feared figure in corporate board rooms intimidated by racial blackmail.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

It was at this point that Julie entered the mix to suggest that the blog Tony posted regarding the causes of Driscoll's seemingly sudden tumble from the status of Golden Boy contained no small measure of the pot calling the kettle black, and in the course of her comment pointed out that when Tony abandoned her and their children it was none other than Driscoll who stepped in to help.

«That starts with our team,» he says when asked about how he's made Black - ish as balanced as it is, pointing to its «very eclectic group of writers» that «reflects the world in which we live.»

Yesterday afternoon in New York City, police officers shot and killed a black man after he pointed a metal pipe at the officers and they confused it for a gun,...

He goes on to point out that he and Oates «are the only two black people in the gym.

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

The liberal transaction in which victimized blacks insist upon relief from guilt - ridden whites often points away from the necessity for us to be engaged in our own improvement.

One obvious point of division between black theologians and black church people is that black theology is not generally taught in black churches, state and national conventions, regional associations, ministers» conferences or Christian education congresses.

It is at this point that neoclassical metaphysics becomes relevant to ethics generally, and to the liberation agenda of black and liberation theologies in particular.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

Perhaps the most important theological point in this essay is that neoclassical theism, according to its own principles of method, must — given the reality of oppression — join black theology in affirming a certain priority for the conception of God as God of the oppressed.

Some conservatives are not above signaling, in more or less overt ways, their belief that blacks can never pass [the test of achievement by merit], and that there is little point in the rest of society bearing guilt for blacks» failures.

In the same way that the Black Lives Matter movement simply seeks to highlight that black lives do, in fact, matter (in a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous pointsIn the same way that the Black Lives Matter movement simply seeks to highlight that black lives do, in fact, matter (in a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous poiBlack Lives Matter movement simply seeks to highlight that black lives do, in fact, matter (in a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous poiblack lives do, in fact, matter (in a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous pointsin fact, matter (in a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous pointsin a society that mostly acts like this is not the case), feminism is a movement that allows women to speak up about the issues that affect them (in a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous pointsin a society that often tries to silence them, as illustrated in my previous pointsin my previous points).

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»

Strong Black Woman Syndrome, something she saw regularly in her clinical practice, emerges out of the expectation that black women be «super capable, to take care of others, to be stoic — emotionally strong to the point of stoicism — and radically independent.&rBlack Woman Syndrome, something she saw regularly in her clinical practice, emerges out of the expectation that black women be «super capable, to take care of others, to be stoic — emotionally strong to the point of stoicism — and radically independent.&rblack women be «super capable, to take care of others, to be stoic — emotionally strong to the point of stoicism — and radically independent.»

In any case, I see your point, but would argue that things are not always so cut and dried or black and white as you seem to suggest.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Because one can not guarantee that reading the Bible brings an encounter with God, it is not really correct to say simply that the Bible is the Word of God, for the word «is» does not point to a static relationship between God and the Bible as it does in the statement «The ink is black.»

The thing is, Black Six, that while your overall point is good, the last sentence implies an incorrect assumption, which is what the other posters are critiquing, In other words, you have a point, but so do they, and it's not idiotic.

It's tempting for any believer to quote Scripture or point out black and white in those situations.

And if it can be shown that God as witnessed in the Scriptures is not the liberator of the oppressed, then black theology would have either to drop the «Christian» designation or to choose another starting point.

Blacks in the United States have joined leading theologians in Latin America to bring this basic point vividly to the consciousness of the global church.

Is the thought of an American black man so against what you John Birch types believe in that you would shut down the government in an attempt to make your point?