Sentences with phrase «by pointing or»

She can tell you what she needs and wants; if not verbally, then by pointing or grunting, which is a far cry from the beginning.

Ask questions that encourage your child to respond by pointing or touching a picture or answering a simple question.

Second time I scored it for GGG by a point or 2.

If we are in the title race in the run in and miss out by a point or goal difference and we end up in the top 4 ok but just top 4 being a pass mark not good enough.

We only missed out on Top 4 last season by a point or two, with 75 points — more than the previous season when we were 2nd.

If it moved by a point or more teams were 12 - 7 ATS and by 2 or more points: 8 - 2 ATS.

And the groups and people who fell off the list — such as 50Can, the Hechinger Report, and Leonie Haimson — didn't fall far; they just missed the cut - off by a point or two.

The takeaway from the survey, Carton continued, isn't that the iPad's numbers were larger by a point or two, but that demand for it is at least equal to, if not greater than, the pre-sales demand for the iPhone.

For many people, the takeaway from these findings is, «I should use alternative indexes, because I can beat the market by a point or two.»

If you already contribute to your 401k, just sign in to your account and increase your contribution percentage by a point or 2.

«Upping our outcomes by a point or two meant that hundreds more students were successful.

Not exact matches

As a resident of Kedgwick, N.B., 25 kilometres south of the nearest point of the Quebec border, St. Pierre says he is under no obligation to abide by the Quebec provincial rules or limit his purchases to authorized producers.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

But the important issue is, if we increase GDP by 30 or 40 basis points, this plan is break - even.»

The forum, it's worth pointing out, is viewed by many to embody the very ideals that led to the populist uprising, including the surprise victory of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. presidential election in November; it brings together the global elite, or those who are typically first to reap the benefits of wealth creation.

When setting off fireworks this weekend, or any other weekend, be sure to follow safety precautions, including keeping fireworks away from children, keeping a bucket of water close by, and pointing the fireworks away from other people.

And they are the most advanced generation of credit cards, equipped with small microprocessors, or chip, that secure point - of - sale transactions by encrypting the personal information of the cardholder.

I should note, the goal of the second point is not to solve the world's problems or anything external, but to give an active experience and to feel the emotional results of living by one's values.

They didn't review what decisions were made, by whom, at what point or why.

Enter to win The new Sprinter by completing a short essay or submitting a video to tell us how a new van would take your business to the next level (extra points for submitting a video!).

Just by showing photographs of the bees or how we harvest or that we had a devastating winter and it destroyed half our plants, that created an attachment to our farm, which allowed us to capture the price points we needed to create a premium experience.»

For example, if a leader is interviewing someone for customer service position, at some point they candidate should demonstrate his or her skills by taking a fake customer service call.

Usually by the time you get to that point, say, in»06 or» 07, the Fed hikes rates aggressively, the curve is inverted, there had been excessive lending against inflated real - estate values.

Whether you have potential clients who might be in wheelchairs or you may employ wheelchair - bound workers at any point, your workspace must be accessible by any person in a wheelchair.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

So whether it's interacting with customers on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Google +, or its own blog, across all these touch points the company says it tries to answer every comment posted by customers and fans — whether it's retweeting customer tweets, replying to mentions, or following people.

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

Some tools will help you do this by providing more data you can use to target your demographics more accurately or allowing you to reach wider audiences than you have up to this point.

Just like any filler word, «so» is used by speakers at points of uncertainty to stretch the time their brains have to think about the next point, response, or question.

The MBA team ultimately recommended that Howard get a Square Register, an iPad - based point - of - sale system that will allow his customers to enter their products, calculate the cost and pay by credit or debit card — still checking out without the need for a human cashier.

Smart contracts, built on top of an Ethereum (or a substitute's) blockchain, can be developed to automatically confirm points of access within a network, therein reducing the need for individual authentication currently performed by manual intermediaries.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

«At some point, the lack of productivity by an employee catches up and has to be dealt with — either in the employee having to do marathon work days to catch up or by simply firing the offender.»

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

I know that I drive people mad by refusing, point blank, ever to rate their work or new product ideas a perfect 10.

But too often Morris stood by as patrons took those expert suggestions to nearby retailers, purchasing the exact same products from national chains like Sephora or Ulta in order to earn customer rewards points.

But, you might ask, if they don't want to be guided by best practices (or restricted by them, depending on your point of view), how do they want to be managed?

The planes won't be ready until 2024 or later, which may be why Trump's tweet pointed out they would be used by «future presidents.»

A fair point made by Wendy's management is that the gap between the price of groceries, or food at home, and restaurants, or food away from home, is increasing.

In a short time, the Central State has borrowed sums so staggering that it has no choice but to either inflate the debt away, thereby destroying the savings and income of its remaining productive citizenry, or by taxing these same productive citizens to the point of penury.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

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.

Jensen said he repeated to anyone who'd ask throughout the general election that Clinton was up by 3 or 4 points, but that it was not «that unusual» for polls to be off by that amount.

«The people who don't talk to us are significantly different than the people that do talk to us that they can throw a poll off by 4 or 5 points,» he said.

This is the fifth quarter in a row that global same - store sales have been positive, but the company has missed analyst expectations in this metric by 70 basis points or more.

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.

Frankly, I don't think they are represented in the Canaccord share price, but they have been improved quite a bit by Canaccord, and they look to be at, or close to, the inflection point, when they could add serious value.

The Infatuation has guides and reviews for restaurants and bars, and breaks everything down by neighborhood, price, point, or occasion.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

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.