Sentences with phrase «called decision points»

Former U.S. President George W. Bush has a memoir coming out today called Decision Points.

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You've probably called someone you know a psychopath in passing at some point in your life, either in jest as an acknowledgment of a strange behavior, or as a fleeting response to a decision that made you angry.

The decision acknowledged that evidence, including lyrics by the rapper T - Pain, shows «google» can be synonymous with «search the Internet» but pointed out that no other search engine calls itself «a google» — meaning the company's name is still distinct.

Hire a point person to make tough calls and establish clear expectations of when that decision maker has full authority and when he or she should consult upper management across seas.

Playoff committee chairman Kirby Hocutt made it sound like the decision wasn't that hard, calling the Buckeyes» 31 - point loss to unranked Iowa «damaging» and noting that the committee felt Alabama was «clearly the No. 4 team in the country.».

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

Mitt Romney Flip Flops because he makes a decision that usually makes sense... Then he gets a call from the «Prophets» of the LDS church and changes it with no question... is that who you want in office... look at the issues he flipped on... every one of them was changed to an LDS point of view.

For this reason and in this sense when a man makes this decision, it can be said that the end of history is attained, otherwise called the culminating point of history or the meaning and purpose of history.

The Church must hold within its fellowship persons who sincerely differ at this point of critical decision, call all to repentance, mediate to all God's mercy, minister to all in Christ's name.4

The call to decision and commitment, pointed out in the discussion of parables in Chapter 2 above, is present throughout religious language.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

As individuals demonstrated their ability to administer such matters, they would more and more be relied on; but the congregation as a whole would be expected to determine policy at every point and often, no doubt, would be called on to make ad hoc decisions in questionable cases.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

From my point of view, the worst decision in the game was after the Chargers 2nd interception, when Whiz calls three dives into the middle of the line with a jumbo formation.

As I mentioned there, I'm pretty meh about the whole «when do we call him up» thing unless the decision was related to the first point you mentioned, or the latter part of your second point.

Club owner Nicola Cortese took a big call by replacing the universally popular Nigel Adkins with a man new to these shores in Mauricio Pochettino and with the Saints winning one less point in the first six games under the Argentinean as compared to the last six games of Adkins» reign, the decision has not yet been vindicated.

«At that point it wasn't really a hard decision because, to me, what difference does it make if I want to call you a boy or a girl?»

Point though, is that we are told the hospital staff will hate us, condemn us, call cops on us, etc. to scare us away from the hospital... in reality, they might tell us why they think our babies need things, but they leave the decision to us.

With a 20 point lead in the poll, May's decision to call an election made sense.

Assuming that decision - makers make cost - benefit analyses when deciding to use force, China's doctrine calls for acquiring a nuclear arsenal only large enough to destroy an adversary's «strategic points» in such a way that the expected costs of a first strike outweigh the anticipated benefits.

The decision to write the CJN arose from a point of order which was raised by the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who called the attention of the chamber to newspaper reports indicating the decision of the Abuja to stop the process of amendments.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls called the decision to reduce the top rate of income tax to 45p a «gamble» - and pointed to figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) which the independence Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has labelled «highly uncertain» to back his case up.

He blamed this on what he calls a system that makes political parties powerful than even the President, to the point that his decisions are disregarded.

Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the 2nd Circuit decision in Brodsky v. NRC a «turning point in our long - standing struggle to end the collusion between the NRC and the nuclear industry,» adding:

He or she calls Members to speak, proposes and puts questions and declares the decision, enforces the rules of debate, rules on points of order and ensures that the provisions of the standing orders in their application to the Main Committee are applied.

In a statement released this afternoon, Fuschillo called his departure a «hard and bittersweet decision to reach,» but also said he's at a point in his life at which he's ready for a «new challenge.»

At that point he hadn't made a decision... He gave me a thank - you call Sunday and I asked the same question.»

Challenged over his decision not to marry until they had two children and he was leader of the opposition, Mr Miliband said: «We always said we would get married at some point... We did it in what you might call a 21st century way.»

But when the Observer asked him again whether or not he thought the governor made the right decision in choosing to hold a statewide tour, he said that he would «leave that call up to the governor» and again reiterated that he understood both sides» points of view.

Valesky says he's not worried about that at this point, and calls any kind of decisions about the IDC premature.

Sharpton called Skelos» decision to block the vote «unacceptable» and, at one point, led the audience in an impromptu chant of: «We want a vote.»

The report highlighted one case in point in which scientific evidence was overlooked: a decision by the U.K. government's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in May of this year to grant its first license for a homeopathic medicine called arnica.

Kennedy's study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, proposes a new decision - making threshold for when to move from fossil fuel technology to electric power (called electrification), and at what point that move may increase or lower carbon emissions.

A simple exchange of emails and telephone calls costs nothing, and by the time the relationship progresses to the point where the two of you go out, it is generally assumed that there is sufficient mutual interest to warrant such a decision.

A niche reviews site called LDSDatingSites.org points to the economic downturn and rise of hangout culture as other contributing factors in the decision of many LDS singles to remain single.

They pointed out that the Supreme Court's decisions in Knox v. Service Employees International Union and Harris v. Quinn had called Abood into question.

There are several decision points within ESSA that call for public engagement.

I called back and asked if I could come in, see the truck, try to make a decision based on the size of that truck compared to my current one and go from that point.

More to the point, the teaser that BlackBerry Mobile has pushed via its Twitter account earlier this morning confirms a leak from April 30 that the device would indeed be called the KEY2, with BlackBerry making the decision to change from spelling out the number like with the KEY2's predecessor.

China Miéville called the decision «a game changer» and long - time anti-DRM author and blogger Cory Doctorow praised the decision on both the Guardian Technology Blog andboing boing, the blog he co-edits: «I think that this might be the watershed for ebook DRM, the turning point that marks the moment at which all ebooks end up DRM - free.

This helps to avoid the situation where you call in at the end of the day only to find that your stock has fallen to substantially below your Decision Point for selling.

He calls his 1964 decision to buy the textile company a $ 200 billion dollar blunder, sparked by a spiteful urge to retaliate against the CEO who tried to «chisel» Buffett out of an eighth of a point on a tender deal.

João Menano, co-founder and CEO of James, a provider of AI - based online lending software to banks (until recently it was called CrowdProcess), pointed out that a lender might not consider age, gender or race in its underwriting now, but machine learning could learn that a data point that correlates with one of those factors is relevant to credit decisions.

I receive calls from people all the time, who are so frustrated with the way things are going with their dogs, that they are at the point where they are making a decision to either keep their dogs, or to give them away to an uncertain future, or even to put them to death..

Since rooms can vary drastically depending on the chain, it's a good idea to check reviews online and even call the hotel before making a decision about how many points to use for your stay.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Meaning, (securing points, flanking, suppressive fire, calling for backup, etc.) or will they calculate those decisions on their own?

So far, this could be one of a number of games, but it seems here that real weight will be put on the decisions that you make and the emotional toll, something that hasn't been explored much in video games up to this point, barring hamfisted attempts like Call of Duty WWII's quick photo tour of an abandoned concentration camp.

Oh, sure, there have been digressions like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, where decision points can change the final cutscene in a game, but in the actual moment - to - moment gameplay, you do the exact same thing, over and over and over again.

With the revamp, id Software's concluded that a battle - hardened marine would probably have worked out how to wield both at the same time, with Creative Director Tim Willits reminiscing that the original mechanic was «not the best call», and pointing to technical limitations as the reason for that decision.