Sentences with phrase «clear what the point»

Nonetheless, we can conclude that it really doesn't matter, the context doesn't make it clear exactly what it is to «baptize for the dead» but it does make it clear what point he was illustrating with it anyways:

If I've missed «the point» then I'd like you, or anyone else, to make clear what the point is because my rant was aimed at those people who've made it a point to use the «no trophies = no buy» mantra as the sole purpose for lack of support for great games.

Owl905: I am far from clear what point you are trying to make.

The commenter reasoned that since the ERISA definitions may change over time through statutory amendment, Department of Labor regulations or judicial interpretation, it would not be clear what point in time is to be considered current.

Not exact matches

Choosing the right tools means having a clear understanding of your core objectives, the pain points that are getting in your way, and what the future looks like for your growing business.

Not to the point of stifling creativity, but so that roadblocks can be cleared and you can rest assured that you're getting what you're paying for.

«What we're trying, and have to do... is to actually make these points even clearer than in the past.»

But with him I made it clear: The point of paying your dues is to learn everything you can about business and management; what to do, and what not to do.

(Though wider than what the NYT / CBS poll measured, Carson's lead still does not clear the new poll's 4.9 - point margin or error.)

That's still one of my favorite starting points, because it sends a clear message about what the planning is about and how it'll help your business.

It's not clear to me, though, that the proper reference point for judging what's «normal» should be pre-recession employment rates, for two reasons.

What is clear, however, is that most states with right - to - work laws are quick to point them out as they compete for business.

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis caused a stir Thursday with the news that he's considering a bid for the floundering tech company, but analysts point out that it's still not clear what the future holds for the Canadian smartphone maker.

«But Ryan's employers are having him there because he's been cleared and you have to remember, Ryan has relationships with a lot of people personally,» he said, pointing to Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel's recent announcement that he will let Seacrest interview him: «Listen, you know, we should at the very least afford people the opportunity for truth, what the facts of the story are before hanging them out to dry,» Kimmel told Variety.

We don't know the end result, but if you have a clear vision of the journey and what it is that you want out of your business then you are pointed in the right direction to achieve that success.

«We're almost into September; if a firm doesn't have a pretty clear idea what their approach is at this point, they need to allocate resources to figure it out.»

And, as Jason Del Ray pointed out three years ago in a post about Amazon's refusal to release its Prime figures, while Bezos himself has made it clear that he doesn't care much about what Wall Street thinks, many of his employees care very much about the company's stock price.

But it was very clear from the very beginning on the part of the actual Congressmen that they weren't going to support it because they had already come out on the floor with such vehement opposition to the bill and pointing out exactly what was wrong with the bill, that it didn't have to be done in a hurry.

What's likely to happen is that transaction clearing houses like Visa and Maestro will handle the transaction at the point of sale and then carry out the actual «underlying» money (in this case blockchain) transaction as they do today.

He's clear and direct about what he wants, and understands the founder point of view.

Gather the information and data points prior to discussing with your client, so they have a clear idea of what will be included in the study.

It's always clear what should have been done, as Carl points out, in this or that situation.

Neither can they become disposable accessories — a point Coughlin makes clear in one of the book's essays, «What Truths We Hold,» which also appeared as a First Things web column.

Point is then that there is no clear - cut ruling on what God supposedly prefers.

It is clear you did not read it with an eye towards finding out the truth of what was written, or you wouldn't have bothered reading all those made up stories only to proclaim you were a christian at a later point.

My point is that millions of poeple have read the bible and there is no clear majority opinion as to what it says on several major points.

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

I am to the point that these guys have to be challenged in ways that make it clear to other gurus that road is not worth going down and they are accountable for what they say.

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

At this point it is necessary to gain some clarity by problematizing what are normally taken to be simple binaries — clear and seemingly self - evident — like oppressor - oppressed and attempt to see if this almost taken - for - granted polarities are what have been responsible for the lack of progress in our quest for peace and reconciliation.

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

To point to another's supposed sin, is a sin of ignorance, blind by distorted perception, that is other than the clear Self looking at the subject through unconditional love, what «one» should perceive this way is the suffering and / or needed help.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.&rawhat could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.&raWhat was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

However even if that extraordinary claim were accepted it is not clear that it would negate the point that God would be different from what He is, in his concrete reality, if He did not know what He knows.

That which points us to God, that which emphasizes God's presence and makes clear God's love and reminds us of our need to respond to God — this is what is sacred to us.

But perhaps the central point is clear: there are not merely different theologies abroad but different concepts of what even counts as a theological statement.

But, as Dr. Cohen points out, Schechter developed no clear guidelines or methodology for determining what was changeable in halacha and what was not; nor, so far as I am aware, did Frankel nor has Conservative Judaism.

My point is that, despite insistent claims that they simply follow the «clear teachings of the Bible,» complementarians themselves are not in total agreement on what those teachings are.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

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!

The point is not that such appraisals are made «in time» and not «in eternity», as some would like to phrase it; I have already tried to make it clear that such a dualism will not serve us and that God himself is «temporal» although in what we may style «an eminent manner».

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».

The object of these lectures is, as Mr. Baelz points out at the beginning of his own contribution, to try to «get clear in our minds what kind of thing Christian belief is and what kind of thing it is not».

The most fundamental criticism by Ogden (p. 118f) is that I have not been clear about what he elsewhere calls «The Point of Christology» (The Journal of Religion, 55/4 [October.

What this body of scholarship makes clear, he emphasizes, is that «the halakhah has a history that reveals the dialectic of continuity and change at every point.»

Instead, I was clear that I was aware that simple isn't the best, and that it was just a starting point for what I was saying which is why I continued on by trying to elaborate more.

We can (and should) point out that they have not been clear, but be fair about what they mean.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Piper, not sure what your point is, but IT»S becoming clear that you probably don't have too many friends.