Sentences with phrase «by certain points»

If you need more direction, invest in a bottle which is marked to show how much you should have drank by certain points in the day

Historically, politicians drew from the real estate establishment to fill leadership positions at CMHC, raising the risk it could be captured by a certain point of view.

I thought I read something about WCAC not being able to play if 19 by a certain point in HS.

Parents often focus on what are known as developmental milestones, which represent abilities that most children tend to display by a certain point in development.

All should by a certain point.

Whenever I try to grow my hair out by a certain point it just doesn't look healthy.

We hope it's not prudishness, but somewhat taking the Soderbergh stance that «as soon as someone gets naked, the film becomes a documentary,» that scene's overlength did in fact take us out of the story: by a certain point we had understood the drama and import of this moment for Adèle, and her revelatory experience of having sex, for the first time, with someone she was terrifyingly in love with.

There are multiple endings (how many isn't exactly clear; I found three) based on your choices and the total number of C.O.O.L. points you've accrued by a certain point.

Suppose you say in an email that you're going to do a task — like finish a presentation, or make a phone call — by a certain point.

Not exact matches

Walking in most other sneakers comes with a lot of resistance — there are pressure points on certain parts of your feet, the material creases to try to move with your feet, and as the day goes by, the shoes get increasingly uncomfortable.

That last point touches upon another observation made by BAML — that while stocks certainly look pricey, certain areas of the market are actually attractively priced, at least compared with recent months.

At this point, it looks like the «new and improved» Kinect will be bundled with the Xbox One, meaning that the console's price will inevitably be pushed upward by something that certain wrestlers and I — not to mention a whole bunch of people — don't want or need.

While Gates does differ on certain «secondary points and policy prescriptions» offered by Piketty, he agrees with the book's basic premise: «that inequality is a growing problem and governments should play a role in reducing it.»

«There's a certain point at which, in the life of a group, or the life of a person, there's not much more that can be learned by more success,» he says.

There's no time for deep analysis about whether a customer should be offered a discount at a certain time; the challenge is to employ new predictive technologies to push Reliance's systems beyond the point where they're «still relying on rules that had to be written by programmers,» to address specific situations.

Depending on the way a rewards program is structured, you may be able to earn points by using your credit card to book flights and pay for other travel expenses, shopping through your card's online bonus mall and making purchases at certain retailers, hotels and restaurants.

All you need to do is look at the number of points or miles needed to earn a certain reward and divide that amount by its value (in dollars).

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

In general terms, an ownership change results from a cumulative change in the equity ownership of certain stockholders by more than 50 percentage points over a three - year period.

Some cards will offer extra points by shopping at a specific store, or by spending in certain categories.

Three's a crowd: following up on the last point above, make certain when you start the herding process by announcing a term sheet, that your potential other suitors are far enough along in their process.

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In the case of the binary trading, except high or low options, the strike prices are set by the broker and even if you have a fair idea on how an underlying asset will behave, you can not place an order to be executed at certain price points.

At certain points in the tune, they begin to play, completing their piece with a few dramatic strikes, after which the chant settles back into a gentler, more solemn tone, unaccompanied by the instruments» metallic voices.

I even find myself a little mystified by why it was such a big deal back in the day, telling myself, «Well, of course they were going to reconcile at some point, and in certain strategic and economy terms they already had, so why the big fuss?

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Perhaps I may not even have understood some of these things, perhaps they are simply demanded by love for the others, for the Church, which means a certain member of the Church at a certain point of time.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

Mays (RW 240) points Out the similarity between every world view's having an «essential relation» and Whitehead's opinion expressed in Process and Reality that certain characteristics are shared by every cosmic epoch.

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

The whole point is not to forbid certain words that are labeled «cuss words» by its culture, but all speech that does not «build up.»

For as Nisbet points out the really important thing about class is that group membership was by itself a sufficient condition of a certain degree of influence.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

The speculative dogmatic, being itself aware of this to a certain degree, has known no other way to help itself but by the maneuver, not very seemly in a philosophic science, of throwing out a detachment of asseverations at the point where a movement is being made.

A case in point is Childs's recurring use of the term «coercion,» by which he apparently means that the text itself, in its deep authority, requires a certain exposition, redaction or reading.

Once Jesus was dead and buried, his followers, who were also Christian Pastors, went to work offending more and more people who continued to practice the Church of Israel, Judaism and Mosaic Covenant to a certain point that emboldened factions that would find them guilty of sedition and condemn the followers of Jesus Christ, who were more than willing to put them to death as well, usually by MOB RULE.

Before addressing myself directly to questions which are raised in my mind by the analysis of this issue in Christ Without Myth, I should like to record certain points at which I find myself heartily in accord with Schubert Ogden.

The point is not that we decide or act blindly, but that we find ourselves claimed by the reality disclosed in a certain set of happenings — perhaps because of its manifest relevance to issues which are of immediate concern to us — before we have begun to grasp all that it means or implies.

For example, in criticising Dawkins, he points out that «If every step in the series [of evolution] occurs by chance... the end can not be ordered», apparently unaware that Dawkins does not view evolution as entirely random, but allows for a certain direction, provided by the mechanism of natural selection (p. 51).

O'Malley is especially single - minded in eschewing the use of terminology such as «liberal» or «conservative», making the valid point that such broad groupings were not easily identifiable at the time and were often marked by a certain fluidity in connection with particular issues.

To help point the way out of the problem I will turn to the writings of Whitehead (particularly his later works), drawing from his work certain conclusions which, while not explicitly stated by him may nevertheless be said to follow from his overall philosophical scheme.

At the same time, she writes in a later blog that the main point she wished to make in her earlier article is that atheists like her don't need belief in the biblical God in order to maintain certain ethical principles by reason alone, in the light of experience, and thus in a «conservative» manner.

The rule of the greatest good for the greatest number, for example, has a certain practical validity, but it implies that the greater good can be arrived at by addition whereas our principle points to the fact that the real good involves qualitative transformation of the order of life into a more subtle and complete mutual participation.

In point of fact, such is the natural order followed by our rational knowledge: we first conceive certain beings, then we define their essences, and last we affirm their existence by means of a judgment.

Perhaps; though the sceptic might still argue that here one is looking not at the impact of vows, but at those couples who have contrived to hold together through a certain level of psychological stability supported by sufficient conditions of external security.Let us allow the sceptic to press his point: can one really do more than hope for permanence in marriage?

Rather than looking for God's intervention at certain points, we can speak of God's activity through the process as a whole, in the purpose evidenced by its direction and in the appearance of organization out of chaos.

As I hope I've made plain in my just war writing over the last fifteen years, there are certain forms of political «order» that are not «right order» and need not be preserved — indeed, conscience may require that they be resisted, by a variety of means, a point on which Thomas Jefferson and Lech Walesa would have agreed.