Sentences with phrase «certain what the point»

If it's not fun and you're miserable all the time, then I'm not entirely certain what the point of this whole exercise is.

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At a certain point, as a marketer, you have to ask yourself what you're in this for.

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If you're working towards a certain budget, and are happy to tell me broadly what it is, I can try and point you to the most relevant options.

«That doesn't mean you shouldn't work on yourself and develop yourself and learn to make people more comfortable, but at a certain point it's like, what are you trying to accomplish?»

«At a certain point, I realized that there's a percentage of the population that no matter what you do or say, they're just not going to like you, and it's beyond your control,» Levy says.

«After growing to a certain point, you may be able to sit back and say, «What we've built is generating some income; I can go do some other things now,»» he says.

What is certain at this point is that the U.K. would not remain in the European Aviation Safety Agency, said the European Commission.

It's debatable if you can ever have too much money but at certain point just figuring out what to do with it is a job.

«At a certain point, you have to listen to what the market is telling you.»

In Japan you can point certain Sony Ericsson or DoCoMo cell phones at a building, and they will display information about what's inside it, such as directions to a third - floor office or a menu for the rooftop restaurant.

You might not be thinking about what books, articles or speeches to create, but there has probably been a point in time where you have talked yourself out of pursuing something, because you convinced yourself that you lack a certain level of creativity that it takes to get the job done.

We can spin any tale we want, but what I am saying is that the market doesn't work at certain points.»

Neither Check Point nor Qihoo is certain what the attacker's intentions may be, but if history provides any insight, it's not unreasonable to expect that the botnet could unleash overwhelming barrages of distributed denial of service attacks against targets of its botmaster's choosing.

Bourdain: Across America people have lost touch with what used to be a staple at a certain lower - income point.

«What I'm trying to drive at, is whether there are any circumstances in which you'd go back to the EU on certain points, for example, if the resolution were amended to say Parliament would like the government to seek an extension of the Article 50 process — is that possible?»

At a certain point, «People can not tell whether what they read has any foundation,» it said.

At that point, «you have to make a conscious plan to share as much information as possible — what your sales are, what the strategy is, why you're making certain decisions,» says Roberge.

Klein narrates: «There's only so much protesting can accomplish... at a certain point, you have to talk about what you're fighting for.»

I agree with what you have to say to a certain degree, and the points you make about New imam quits embattled Islamic community center — CNN Belief Blog — CNN.com Blogs are valid ones.

For man here is both a microcosm of the universe and at the same time and in certain significant respects an anticipation of what Teilhard called the Omega - point or God.

I would try to gently point out that I had 32 more years of experience in the word than she, & shed a tear for the trials I knew she soon would face... beginning the journey to become less certain of WHAT I know & fare more certain of WHO I know.

I did not understand him to be equating Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees as certain mystifications in the former as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.

but that demonstrates my point: either what these terrorists did is objectively wrong, or you must embrace it could be right in certain circu.mstances.

A final comment about speculation and the present context: What has come to be called «foundationalism» is the attempt, through empirical and / or rational procedures, to establish an absolutely certain starting point.

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.

For in such an analysis, what is disclosed is that we are in truth a certain direction or routing of events which, because of a persisting memory of what has occurred along it, and because there has emerged (at some point in the evolutionary development so far as our own species is concerned) an awareness which includes both consciousness and self - consciousness, may meaningfully be given a specific identity.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

He himself knows well enough in a way up to a certain point that he is in despair, he notices it in himself, as one notices in oneself that one is going about with an illness as yet unpronounced, but he will not quite admit what illness it is.

Hugh Anderson has pointed out that James Denney, the well - known Scottish scholar of the beginning of the century, saw clearly that «what Easter revealed was the Cross standing at the heart of everything» and because of this may be said to have pre-figured «certain emphases that have appeared in Bultmann».

Have I hung onto what I know (a certain level of comfort) beyond a healthy point?

Now that the author has seemingly done damage to the integrity of the biblical text to the point that we can apparently know nothing more, or do nothing more, than feel our way around in the dark never being certain of what God's Holy Word says I ask this question:

Divine causality that can be localized historically at certain points in space and time, appears rather to be what characterizes the supernatural operation of God in sacred history, in contrast to the natural relation of God to his world.

What is more, he surpasses Hegel from a certain point of view — a point of view which is precisely essential for our present dialogue between a theology of hope and a philosophy of reason.

What is accessible and knowable is so only from a certain point of view and in a certain relation.

Eigen also points out that biological systems generally operate near what Kauffman calls «the edge of chaos»» — that is, it usually happens that certain small changes will lead to disintegration of a quasi-species.

The fallacy of the one - point theory should have become manifest the moment it became clear that scholars themselves could not agree on what the one point was — though each was certain that he knew!

Some people dedicate a lot of time and energy watching Joss Whedon's «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and debating the finer points of that story, debating what Whedon's intent was with certain images, what philosophy is supported by that storyline.

So what I told you was true... from a certain point of view.»

After the momentum passes a certain point, there will be no return, even if many members of the Notre Dame community then see and regret what they have allowed to happen.

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

In what follows we want merely to underline, as it were, certain points of the text.

Is it not rather the case, as Teilhard pointed out, that «what we call evolution develops only in virtue of a certain internal preference for survival?»

If he keeps looking he may find that it is possible to reduce everything to mathematics from a certain point of view, but what is that except a language of the mind?

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

Kautsky was right when he showed that at certain points the movement of history is irresistible no matter what may be the intentions or efforts of man, while at others man has a limited possibility of modifying, bending, arresting, or dividing the course of events.

Hence, MacArthur looks at abusive practices in charismatic / pentecostal circles and points at the false belief outside of the truth, but at the same time, his beliefs are rooted on what you and I would believe is a false assumption, that certain gifts are no longer in operation today.

Here we come to the essential point of what we are compelled to call Henry Duméry's religious philosophy, for it is no longer just a question of a critique of religious representations but of a certain interpretation of the relationship between God and the mind.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

Here, if you like, is a man who, over a long period of time, has followed a certain scientific method and laboriously gained his results, who says to us: «Experience, with the help of reasoning, leads to this point; scientific knowledge begins here and ends there; such are my conclusions»; and the philosopher would have the right to answer: «Very well, leave it to me, and I'll show you what I can do with it!