Sentences with phrase «conversation point in»

The growing student loan debt has become a major conversation point in political, financial, and educational circles.

The ambiguity about whether or not he's really dead, the sort of effeminate quality of the cover as a whole, the implications of the girl kissing him, as though sealing his death... it's a whole new conversation point in its own right.

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In April 2014, a few Bank of Canada economists published a short paper that should be the starting point for every conversation about the state of the economy.

(Or at this point in the conversation, suddenly reclassified as a former prospect.)

And that point — an important nuance lost in the clutter — alludes to what Mast told me at the beginning of our conversation when he explained why he got into the chocolate business.

So from a single conversation he can create a video published on YouTube and SlideShare; a blog post; a podcast (published on iTunes); a syndicated podcast (published on a PR network); social messages (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn); a series of tweets (Twitter); and a collection of key points or messages in the form of a curated e-book.

To this day, I remember these feedback conversations as turning points in my career — where I took the feedback, put it to work and started seeing the results.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

As Albrecht points out in a recent Psychology Today piece, all conversations are composed of three parts — declaratives, questions, and qualifiers.

Additionally, as Zucker pointed out in his conversation with Smith, Trump also makes himself available more than many other candidates do.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversations.

We go up three points with 54 seconds left in the game after a successful two - point conversation.

She pointed out the irony attached to such a rapturous reception, in that her process is a shared experience, a collaborative conversation, and, most importantly, a two - way street.

Straight size vs. plus size: it's a conversation that has frothed to the forefront of the modeling industry in recent years, but according to filmmaker Jenny McQuaile, it misses the point.

In a conversation with Rolling Stone magazine in one of the lowest points of his career, Steve Jobs said this: «Technology is nothinIn a conversation with Rolling Stone magazine in one of the lowest points of his career, Steve Jobs said this: «Technology is nothinin one of the lowest points of his career, Steve Jobs said this: «Technology is nothing.

In a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceiveIn a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.

This conversation is also a good point of reference for the employee in case «you worded the letter more harshly or more leniently than you intended to,» Williams says.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

The current #MeToo moment is a rare inflection point for women in society, as we find ourselves in a broad and potentially game - changing conversation about how women are faring in the workplace and beyond.

A big difference is that we're local, and I think we're coming to a point where a conversation is starting — and it's going to be a long conversation — about the role of companies in the communities where they work and their responsibilities to those communities.

«Flynn had been forced to resign the day before, and the controversy around Gen. Flynn at that point in time was centered on whether he had lied to the vice president about the nature of his conversations with the Russians,» Comey said.

So make a point of raising this the next business day, when your concerns are still fresh in your mind, and make sure you're prepared for the conversation.

Earlier this week in a private dining room at the upscale Manhattan restaurant A Voce, Bitcoin enthusiasts held a roundtable conversation about the cryptocurrency's fine points, its possibilities, and its future.

Having meaningful conversations with those searching for the help you can provide is the turning point in transforming clicks into customers.

Still, Whitman pointed out the possibility for pushback to Pruitt's anti-conservation agenda from hunters and ranchers within the GOP's base, and possibly the more moderate Republicans she has had conversations with in Congress (Whitman declined to name those politicians).

With the NRA and NRA - backed politicians becoming a focal point of the conversation around gun control, people and companies are standing up to say «enough» as they join in the rapidly growing NRA boycott.

Instead of jumping straight into a conversation, or snoozing through bullet - pointed sentence fragments in a slideshow presentation, he requires his senior executives to write six - page narrative memos.

This is the point in the conversation, where we generally hear... wait these guys did it.

But remember, we're not in stressful conversations to score points or to create enemies.

Rubin's curious point in the OpEd is that it wasn't «courses in economics or finance» from his days at Harvard that prepared him «for working at Goldman Sachs and in the government» (notice the almost decade - long stretch at Citigroup is completely missing) but instead «the key was Professor Demos's philosophy course and the conversations about existentialism in coffee shops around campus.»

As I had these conversations with the programmers and entrepreneurs who are most deeply involved in Bitcoin, I encountered a quiet but widely held belief that much of the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo.

I was engaged in a helpful conversation with an Inc. 500 head of sales in response to my article pointing out the differences between buyer profiling and buyer personas.

At one point the protagonist, John, has a conversation with History in which History informs him that the Landlord (God) has sent «pictures» of Himself to many of the pagans in the land who live apart from Mother Kirk (The Church).

Is it so wrong of me to have faith that only one person believes in the drivel that he's posting rather than think that another person a) actually thinks that chad is making good points and good enough points to post and b) go to the 62nd page of an almost defunct article for a conversation that has nothing to do with themselves other than to cheer on a stupid post?

I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have to go to church every Sunday to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours... when judgment day comes, he will be the one to say welcome, or turn us away...

i; m not sure i follow your little brother thing, but sharing ideas and a conversation with two differing view points is a debate, and if both parties don't try to kill the other one this is a world of understanding thru conflict, for a differing point of view is in confliction with the others.

Writing in sympathetic conversation with Weber, Novak points out that there is also a good deal of counterevidence that Weber did not take into account.

If you pay attention to what I wrote, I accuse both the atheist and the religious person in that «intelligent design» conversation of anthropomorphizing intelligence and debating the point from the wrong perspective in the first place.

In fact I would love to have a conversation with an atheist just to understand their point of view.

Double points if this higher being can have an actual conversation with you instead of you hearing his voice in your head.

«Trolls» derail conversations, incite anger in other users, employ name - calling to get their points across and turn could - be dialogues into shouting matches.

«You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that hom.ose.xuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,» said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas.

I'm frustrated with divisions in the Church, with conversations that miss the point.

In fact, if at any point I ever default to language that implies Tony is my superior, he has halted the conversation and told me that he never wants me to talk that way; that I am an equal and co-creator in anything we dIn fact, if at any point I ever default to language that implies Tony is my superior, he has halted the conversation and told me that he never wants me to talk that way; that I am an equal and co-creator in anything we din anything we do.

To support this, Matthew points to Jesus» conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, as well as his statement in Matthew 12:46 - 50 that «whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.»

And then there is a small contingent of us who approach this conversation from a unique vantage point — we are in a heterosexual marriage with someone who does not entirely identify as heterosexual.

And I think so often in our work for justice, we lack patience for those who are on different points of the journey, we want to leap them from Point A to Point Z. Sometimes I want to make that leap myself or leapfrog someone else to where I am already — forgetting that it took a lot of pipelines, bridges, prayers and conversations for me to end up where I am.

Just as a point of clarification to Bill's post above, while I welcome what I thinkis a imporant point we should al keep in mind I would in no way ever see myself as an important part of the conversation more a present somewhat comenting bystander although my ego was very flattered when I read Bill's comment