Sentences with phrase «by sticking to that point»

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She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

However, the Hollywood businessman makes a point to stop work every day at 6:30 p.m. by sticking to a strict routine.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping point; we're not yet stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.

But by sticking with a few tried and true design principles, it's easy to tailor PowerPoint decks for the small screen that look good, and even more importantly, get your point across, according to graphic design experts.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

The point is to control (a) expenses and more importantly, (b) emotions by sticking to a formulaic approach.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

With the Federal Reserve sticking to its projections for policy tightening, buoying short - end rates, the spread between two - and 10 - year maturities has fallen in November by almost 16 basis points, the most since February 2016.

Once in a while, people are given a third - person point of view and are asked by the author to act on that knowledge, but for the most part, we are stuck in first - person.

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.

This was the sticking point in my own little lame march to salvation: admission to heaven is gained by luck of the draw.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

The act of turning stick to snake was used by the Egyptian mystics, what God did was real to prove a point.

This might be a hopeless hope, but I do hope the people I critique will be able to say, «I can see your point even though I still stick by mine!»

I found this easiest to do by piping little blobs of frosting over the coconut and sticking the candies to them.At this point, this cake will look like any old layer cake.

Kneading Tip: If your dough feels super sticky you may knead it first in your hands by just smooshing it then pulling and twisting until it becomes less sticky and then completing the kneading with the heel of your hands on the countertop at the point when it doesn't stick to the counter.

With no line movement thus far, more than six out of ten spread wagers are sticking with Drew Brees and the high - flying Saints to take down their division rivals by at least seven points at home.

This is because by that logic, Bellerin is never going to stick around forever, with Wenger bound to leave at some point of the Spaniard's career, even if it's not necessarily this summer.

However, despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take a valuable half - point away from the road dog Seahawks, the betting public is sticking with Seattle (who looked impressive in a 22 - 17 win over the Ravens last week) to either win straight up or lose by two or less at Edward Jones Dome.

Cech coming up against his former side this weekend is hardly a reason to want him dropped from the starting XI either, as he has a point to prove having been dislodged by Thibaut Courtois between the sticks, and there is no way he would go into the game wanting to be upstaged by his younger counter-part.

In mid-December, with Liverpool in tenth and nine points back from fourth place, it was he who took the decision to trial a 3 -4-3 formation and he stuck with it despite a 3 - 0 drubbing by Manchester United first time out.

However, even with the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give road dog Detroit an additional point, more than six out of ten spread wagers are sticking with Drew Brees and the 13 - 3 Saints to win by at least 11 - points in front of their home crowd.

As Holtby explains, the modern NHL goalie is trained to read a shot's release point by looking at the stick blade before reacting to the corresponding quadrant where it appears headed.

Ian Poulter was not amused by the way he sliced his ball into the heavy gorse off the 16th tee at Gullane Golf Club on his way to a missed cut at the Scottish Open, but he has to earn style points for the way he stuck his over-the-head, behind - the - back club toss, complete with a sort of backwards Tiger Woods club twirl.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take an important half - point away from the road dog Bucs, nearly seven out of ten spread bets are sticking with Tampa Bay to win by four or more against the maddeningly inconsistent Titans.

As a result, just over eight out of ten spread bets are sticking with the Saints to cover and win by at least seven points in front of their home crowd.

We have Perez - Alexis - Welbeck who could cause damages to any team but Wenger has decided to prove a failed point by sticking with the toothless none goal scorers in attack.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give # 23 Georgia Tech an additional point, nearly three out of four spread bets are sticking with the 13th ranked Bulldogs to win by at least seven points on the road.

This trend should end with the 4 - 4 unranked Commodores coming to the Swamp, however the betting public is not overwhelmingly in favor of a Florida blowout, with just six out of ten bets sticking with the Gators to win by 14 points or more.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give the winless Colts an additional half point, nearly eight out of ten spread wagers are sticking with the streaking Pats to put a hurt on Indy and win by at least 22 points at Gillette Stadium.

I personally prefer someone who will stick around and try to do something about it without breaking the team harmony by starting to point fingers at people around him.

Going by Arsene Wenger's team selections for Arsenal's three Europa League games so far, with every one ending up with three points, it is very likely that he is going to stick with the same sort of lineup for tomorrow's game against Norwich in the Caraboa Cup, which should not be too much harder than last weeks win in Serbia against Red Star.

Stroll followed up his first points haul in Formula 1 at his home race by becoming the youngest - ever rookie to reach the podium in Baku, but former World Champion Villeneuve is sticking by his word.

One sticking point for the committee was whether to include a possible extension of Willow Avenue west to Mokena Street on the concept plan, designed by Architectural Resource Corp. of Orland Park.

According to the CDC's 2011 Breastfeeding Report Card, 75 % of U.S. mothers start out nursing their babies, but only 44 % have stuck with it by the time their child is 6 months old — and just 15 % are breast - feeding exclusively by that point.

From a purely theoretical point of view, a position that embodies these two issues is untenable.As philosophers have remarked for some time, the lack of external influence simply leaves a void needing to be filled by some sort of pure internal causation, perhaps of the sort Aristotle had in mind when he claimed that a stone that moves is moved by a stick, and in turn the stick is moved by a man.

The sticking point appear to be (surprise, surprise) education aid, which Paterson wants to cut by $ 1.3 billion and the Assembly Democrats want to restore — at least to some degree.

That said, I think the uncontrollable nature of chemical weapons is something that shouldn't be discounted - we can build bombs that are less likely to fail to detonate, but the whole point of a chemical weapon is that it spreads a chemical which can be picked up by the wind, stick to clothes, etc..

Much more to the point: if Micah was to say something to Howard Dean by posting on his Facebook wall, that interaction would be public — it would stick around (assuming it's not deleted), and all of Micah's social network could see that he said it, too.

In this summer's concert they were being harnessed by the Germans to make a clear point: to avoid another conflict, we need to stick together.

The budget was due by April 1 but lawmakers and Cuomo failed to reach agreement on several sticking points — most notably the juvenile justice reform known as «raise the age.»

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

He said sticking points relate to labor and environmental issues, and to a campaign finance provision pushed by his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to lift certain spending limits by party committees.

The governor insists that he's sticking to all of the 10 points in the agenda for now, but, when pressed by reporters, did not completely rule out separating the abortion measure from the rest.

The biggest sticking point appears to be a provision that would phase in the rezoning, a proposal opposed by business leaders on the committee.

The candidate must still be confirmed by Congress, but his prospects look good: He apparently does not have ties to industry, one of the sticking points in appointing a new commissioner.

Researchers have tried to make computers learn video games by simply optimizing for points, but computers get stuck on games like Breakout or Space Invaders, where long, complicated strategies are often required to score big.

How to establish a system for use by developing countries to monitor, report and verify their emission cuts has emerged as the most contentious issue in the talks and the main sticking point between America and China.

A much bigger sticking point was concern, voiced by many liberal Democrats and environmental groups, that the legislation would weaken states» ability to issue their own chemical regulations.