Sentences with phrase «by only a point»

It has evolved into three Diablo Foothill Athletic League titles in the last four years, with the only year they didn't win it, 2009 - 2010, seeing the Dons edged out by only a point by a Dublin side that won the Division II title.

It was the only pollster to pick Labour's share of 40 % and it missed the Tories» by only a point.

While turnout fell heavily in places where all - postal ballots were held in 2004 but not this year, elsewhere support fell on average by only a point or so.

One fell short by only a point and a half on a scale of 150 — and that school was run by a guy who is considered an all - star in the charter movement here.

Not exact matches

My colleague Maria Pergolino pointed out that when people say they are a thought leader they are saying they take the time to help others by not only doing a great job but also making an effort to package it up via blogs, presentations, etc., so other people can learn.

You might be surprised that this point is only listed at number four on the list, but it is important to recognize the reality that any business is driven and guided by the financial results.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

He's more amused than disappointed, pointing out that I only went astray by passing along Khanna's non-existent regards.

If I needed just a few more points, I could have also opened a SKYPASS Visa card issued by US Bank — it only offers a 15,000 point sign - up bonus, but almost as soon as I created a Korean Air Skypass frequent flyer account online, I started getting targeted offers in the mail for a 50,000 point bonus.

The increases were only made easier by the federal government's two - percentage - point reduction of the GST.

There was also a great book that was written by Andrew Grove called Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company.

In 2015, make it a point to not only avoid bullying at all costs, but call out bullying by others as unacceptable.

In order to find the potential turning points that will take an industry in a new direction, leaders must give their employees permission to stop focusing only on what needs to be accomplished by the end of the day or week.

Not only is the reef threatened by widespread bleaching as a result of rising ocean temperatures, but the project also requires the major expansion of the Abbot Point port in Queensland.

I like Google's Patent Search engine as a starting point, but by no means should this be the only research you do.

The only way... you as a company can make progress is by acquisitions,» says Stanford's Pfeffer, who points out that HP and Microsoft have also made careers of gobbling up the little guys.

Not only that, but the broadcast networks could be so weak by that point that they will be unable to pay enough to lock up future Super bowl rights — making it even more likely that the chance to air the big game will be snapped up by a digital giant like Apple or Google.

INSIDER's sources deny there's any resulting friction between the two after Shepherd left the company and pointed out that Shepherd was at Kardashian West's intimate dinner party for her 37th birthday on October 27, which was only attended by about 20 close friends and family.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

According to proprietary research by the call intelligence company Invoca, voice search is the preferred mode of communication for 20 percent of consumers making a purchase of $ 500 or more, only 2 percentage points removed from the 22 percent who prefer traditional online search.

That's only a fraction of Uber's $ 41 billion valuation, but Lyft generally doesn't behave like it's run by immature frat boys and it has those pink moustaches, so score another couple points for the underdog.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

«The readability and visualization of the data your BI collects is not only advantageous for your tech team, but often times the reports that the BI summary creates will need to be seen by other people - executives, future vendors, investors, etc.,» points out SelectHub, a service for enterprise software product evaluation.

The casino was fined $ 10 million, but by that point, Trump was associated with the business in name only.

There's also the important point that Amazon is by no means the only game in town when it comes to big companies hiring workers who are free to work from home.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

Thomas points out that, not only does this natural ebb and flow sound delightful, it also results in an impressive level of productivity (a book a year is a hefty output by any writer's standards).

He pointed out that the only reason he had $ 17,000 with which to start Under Armour was that he'd started a previous business at Maryland, selling roses by the dozen.

There's no point devoting hours to content creation only to have every word redlined by your compliance team.

Longer term, it would mean missing the stated 2021 target of reducing the national debt - to - GDP to 25 per cent by only a single percentage point.

One of the most well - established ways to hear from readers, the NYT public editor pointed out — although not the only one, by any means — is through comments on news stories.

I said nothing of the sort, I only pointed out that census data was misused by Nazis for their own evil purposes, as it was misused by the American government (and possibly the Canadian government) for the purposes of interning their citizens of Japanese descent (which, to the credit of the US Census bureau, it has apologized for).

The CEO talked about the Internet riches harnessing that technology could bring Tribune by pointing to the example of Buzzfeed, though that comparison misses many of the almost innumerable differences between a legacy newspaper company — even if one with the time and money to really «transform» itself — and a venture - juiced, digital - only, social news success, which is itself experiencing a bit of a stumble.

Georgia, however, was a toss - up between the candidates, with Trump ahead by only 1 point among likely voters.

According to the NFIB survey on credit access by small businesses, «four percent of owners reported that all their borrowing needs were not satisfied, up 1 point and historically very low... only 1 percent reported that financing was their top business problem.»

Mr. Lawson is scathing as to the the City institutions» lack of competence, exceeded only by their greed (always pointing out how much more venal their global partners were, to be sure).

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

With only one month remaining before France's presidential election, Le Pen trails both rivals by about 20 points, throwing her candidacy into doubt.

The Fed also hiked its benchmark rate by 25 basis points, as was widely expected, to a target range of 0.5 to 0.75 percent, only its second rate hike in a decade.

But by the time MPs actually get around to holding hearings several months from now, the price of crude may well have fallen to the point that this most recent bout of pain at the pumps will have been forgotten — or it may have soared so high that the only affordable way anybody will be getting to Parliament Hill is by bicycle.

Even the 4 % annual total return of the S&P 500 in the 15 years since the 2000 peak has been made possible only by driving current valuations to the second most extreme point in U.S. history.

The most compelling point made by Gross is that the assumption of a 6.6 % real rate of return on equities in an economy that is only growing by 2 - 3 % is logically unsustainable.

In fact, the notion that a drop around the halfway point in a four - year term is only natural might be a case of Canadian discourse being clouded by American experience.

Also no point telling them that I am getting bored with work simply because, even with saving 70 % of my income each year, I can only grow my net worth 6 % a year by working and saving.

The important bit from my point of view is that they also increased their dividend, which although this was only by 2 %, it is still an increase.

Base points can be earned only by making eligible purchases with Hyatt.

My point is only that a country's contribution to global growth can not be calculated by measuring its share of global growth.

China has managed to meet the GDP growth target of 6.7 percent, the level of economic activity presumably needed to keep unemployment from rising, only by increasing total debt by a frightening amount equal to a 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP.

The point is that cosigning is a risk that is taken not only by the cosigner, but by the borrower as well.