Sentences with phrase «compelling reason for being»

But the film doesn't need to put decades of wrongdoing on the screen: It needs to find a compelling reason for being in the first place.

«But the compelling reason for me was that we're still able to tell this as a contemporary story.

Waterstones decided to team up with Amazon and one of most compelling reasons for that was the sheer cost of developing an ereader and a fully fledged ebook platform (just look at B&N's capital expenditure and increased costs and their need for cash to support their successful Nook business, hence their deal with Microsoft).

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Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

With the two - day shipping guarantee that comes with an Amazon Prime membership, and Walmart's two - day shipping offering with any $ 35 purchase, there may not be a compelling reason for last - minute shoppers to click check - out on Monday.

If the reason for reaching the threshold level was compelling, McKesson would supply the drugs and in some cases raise the threshold; if not, the matter would be passed to a regional compliance officer.

I mentioned in a recent INC. blog piece about Peanut Butter, a student loan repayment benefit service for employers (getpeanutbutter.com), that one of the most compelling reasons the company will likely succeed is that it's creating a solution that virtually all future customers will desire or need.

And once you make a decision, then stick with it unless there is a particularly compelling reason for you to change it.

Even if the price of headsets fall from their current $ 700 - $ 800 price for headsets like the Rift and Vive, the lack of available and engaging content shows that «there's still not a really incredibly compelling reason for people to spend 20 hours a day in VR,» Newell said.

I believe there are a couple of reasons for this — business owners feel compelled to put everything back into their business, and they don't track how much money they actually take out of the business.

Because as much as Gossip the book is about the popularization of back - fence talk and the search for a reason why one of the world's most compelling pastimes is so pleasurable, it's also about admitting that people just can't keep secrets; they don't want to, and we might as well embrace the fact that they'll keep fewer and fewer in the future unless we collectively settle on some new etiquette.

When I step back and think about the consumer proposition of the self - driving car, it is incredibly compelling (for safety and utilization reasons.)

There are numerous factors behind this decline, but one compelling reason is that traditional brick - and - mortar retailers haven't been that great at gathering data, and making sense of it for marketing purposes.

The iPad Pro's keyboard isn't as good as the one on a normal laptop, and it's now up to developers to build compelling apps that take advantage of all the new iOS 11 features and give people a better reason to ditch their laptop for an iPad.

The economic reasons for refining bitumen in the U.S. were compelling even before you could ship it to Texas, as evidenced by the Midwestern refineries converted to handle the ultra-heavy crude.

Charles Koch, the chairman of Koch Industries, the $ 115 billion leviathan of 100,000 employees, and author of Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies, says the most compelling reason to focus on profit is because you'll do more good in the long run.

«The prospect of combining with Sprint has been compelling for a variety of reasons, including the potential to create significant benefits for consumers and value for shareholders,» said John Legere, President and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

One of the biggest challenges for companies doing lead generation is coming up with a compelling reason for why people should do business with you instead of a competitor.

Gardening excels in this capacity, and for this reason, is an especially compelling choice for a wellness program: When we garden, we step outdoors and expose ourselves to sunshine and fresh air; we dig our hands into the dirt and connect with nature; and we develop a relationship with the food we consume, and therefore, with the earth in which that food grows — among other things, giving us more incentive to increase our daily intake of fresh vegetables and fruits.

While California has been taking a «wait - and - see» approach to virtual currency regulation, the Act provides compelling reasons for California to adopt it.

In her Content Marketing World 2014 presentation on personas, Adele Revella contends that the only reason to build a new persona is when it allows marketers to create something more effective, more compelling, or more persuasive for a buyer.

In fact, part of why I like the state crowdfunding alternatives (alternatives to JOBS Act Title III) is that they seem to take more of the approach that people want to back small companies for reasons that are as compelling or more compelling than the prospect of financial return.

It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to sacrifice yet more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other than «it would be more fair».

Asked which province — B.C., which wants to delay the project for environmental reasons, or Alberta, which wants to avoid delays for economic reasons — is making the more compelling argument, Canadians are evenly split, with 50 per cent saying each province's government is more persuasive

There's still not a really incredibly compelling reason for people to spend 20 hours a day in VR.

77 % of CMOs at top performing companies indicate that their most compelling reason for implementing marketing automation is to increase revenue.

However, there is a reason for this as government regulations makes it quite risky, which is part of the reason for the compelling valuation.

The reasons for loving insurers are compelling.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

«The prospect of combining with Sprint has been compelling for a variety of reasons, including the potential to create significant benefits for consumers and value for shareholders.

, that it is hard to see a compelling reason for consumers to switch voluntarily to crypto euros for the time being.

There's a good reason for that: attracting and retaining high - caliber female talent all the way up to the top leadership ranks comes with a long list of compelling results, ranging from lower turnover cost to higher

One year ago, for whatever reason, we were compelled to post up a chart illustrating investor psychology.

Still, the most compelling reason to argue against expensive weddings is that while many things needed for a memorable wedding cost money, the most important ones — a kiss at the altar, a mother's tear as she sees her son make a lifelong commitment — are free.

The other players, with a few exceptions, were honorable people who, for reasons that seemed to them morally compelling at the time, were deeply complicit in unspeakable wickedness.

That there have «only» been 75 - 100 million people killed for religious reasons is hardly compelling evidence of God's power to produce moral followers.

The way I see it, a person writes a book for one two reasons: 1) She has a message that she cares about and the best way to spread that message is through a book, or 2) She feels compelled to write so she shares whatever story / experience / message most inspires her at the time.

Hindus don't believe in your god and you don't believe in their gods for the same reason atheists believe in neither — there is no compelling evidence.

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

Those who take the time to peruse it carefully will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitutional period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from its parlous state today.

Similarly, there was no compelling reason for God to become man in Jesus other than that it was according to his good pleasure.

Those who take the time to peruse The Founder's Constitution will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitution period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from it's parlous state today.

For his testimony to be so lucid and compelling, combining reason and revelation, science and spirit, is unheard of.»

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

For myself I find these historical arguments quite compelling; but my fundamental reason for basing my Easter sermon on the appearances of Jesus, and not on the empty tomb, is not historical but religioFor myself I find these historical arguments quite compelling; but my fundamental reason for basing my Easter sermon on the appearances of Jesus, and not on the empty tomb, is not historical but religiofor basing my Easter sermon on the appearances of Jesus, and not on the empty tomb, is not historical but religious.

What is the morally compelling reason for refusing to work on a project that contributes to strategic stability and makes the world safer?

While I do not deny that memory fails as a bridge if it is transposed into Grice's and Shalom's concept of the present, it is not clear that the reasons for that transposition are compelling.

seems to me that the most compelling reason to own a gun today is for protection from other gun owners, especially the xtian ones.

The basic reasons for rejecting the dominant medieval image of the ministry were, then, compelling; and, if we leave aside the details, I suspect they still are.

But scientists can also use fact to mean something that has been tested or observed so many times that there is no longer a compelling reason to keep testing or looking for examples.