Sentences with phrase «cost of action points»

When in battle, you can move your selected unit around freely, but each step comes at the cost of action points which, once depleted, you'll be unable to move that character again for that turn.

Not exact matches

Critics point to a laundry list of CFPB actions that they say could warrant removal under existing Dodd - Frank standards: Republicans have excoriated the agency for the cost of renovating its building, for example, and for an alleged lack of diversity among its employees.

DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL - Rebecca Harris MP (Castle Point) «Bill to require the Secretary of State to conduct a cross-departmental analysis of the potential costs and benefits of advancing time by one hour for all, or part of, the year; to require the Secretary of State to take certain action in the light of that analysis.»

Noble responded by pointing a series of layoffs, job cuts, efficiency initiatives and other actions undertaken over the past eight years that had significantly reduced operating costs.

Researchers hope the estimate will spur government action, and point out that the annual costs are a fraction of the value of nature's «ecosystem services»

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You see, every action you can take at each location costs a certain amount of action points, and each worker you have on your playerboard also has a set amount of action points they can use when put to work.

- characters are drawn in the main screen in a super-deformed style - features a lot of fan - service - play as Eduard, an innkeeper of an inn who doesn't have a lot of customers - stumble into a cave while looking for crystals and meet a girl who has amnesia - this girl also has six sisters who unlock each other's memories as you come across them - your subordinate at the inn gets the idea to put all of the girls into maid uniforms - the girls transform into battle - appropriate clothing during the battle sequences - strategy / action - RPG hybrid - unlimited movement within a circle around the character's starting point - combo system - when attacking weaker enemies, you knock them back in a fashion that takes out others and builds up a combo - extra turn awarded if you manage to take out 10 or more enemies in one swing - enemies do respawn their weak helpers at a hit point cost to them - right side of the screen shows a time bar so you know which friend or foe will attack nex - male character you play as is more of a support role in battle - he'll provide a lot of your stat buffs - events for each of the maidens that give them a chance to level up and unlock new abilities in each battle - possible 18 quests - each of the girls has their own quirks

Death Point [$ 1.99] was one such title, and its $ 5.99 cost of entry was a bargain for the awesome stealth shooting action within.

Attacking ends that characters turn regardless of remaining action points and some unique abilities do not cost an action or have a chance to grant a bonus action point.

All actions cost a certain amount of time on the doomsday clock, and the game was marketed with a hurry - up intensity as a selling point.

(Lomborg makes a vital point when he reminds us that there are also a lot of other maladies afflicting the globe, and that there are both costs of action and lost opportunity associated with any path we choose.)

Politics: Costs of our actions to everyone become apparent, folks quite reasonably consider passing those costs back to those who are causing them - >> people and corporations get upset over losing what had been up to that point a free lunch for thCosts of our actions to everyone become apparent, folks quite reasonably consider passing those costs back to those who are causing them - >> people and corporations get upset over losing what had been up to that point a free lunch for thcosts back to those who are causing them - >> people and corporations get upset over losing what had been up to that point a free lunch for them...

These points are most powerfully driven home by Harvard economist Martin Weitzman (a good summary of his work on this topic and its policy implications can be found in pages 20 - 25 the The Costs of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change from the White House Council of Economic Advisors) and financial risk management expert Bob Litterman.

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

Tim Lambert links to this article by Eric Pooley in Slate's The Big Moneye which points out that, for all the disagreement among economists regarding the details of climate change policy, there is substantial consensus on the following main points (i) the cost of action to stabilise atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases will be of the order of 1 per cent of GDP (ii) a strong mitigation policy is preferable to business as usual

First, it makes voluntary action to reduce emissions ineffectual, since this just lowers the cost of emissions permits (I thought this had been fixed by the changes announced in March, but I was wrong on this point).

But in the end, the whole point of mitigation is that it appears that the costs of inaction are worse than the costs of action.

The point of such rhetoric is simply to persuade the public that the cost of ending GHG emissions is unacceptable, and to thereby defuse and discourage public support for action.

From a SME's point of view, an action before an ISDS seems to be madness as «the costs of arbitration should be borne by the unsuccessful disputing party».

The new trustees now faced a classic dilemma; at the point where funds available were lowest, they had to decide whether to proceed with a case against the original trustees with all the inherent risks that entailed in terms of adverse costs if they lost or, not take action but risk a future claim by the trust's beneficiaries for failing to carry out their duties in properly preserving the trust's assets.

Justice David Brown delivered a paper on 21 November 2014 at the Carleton County Law Association Annual Meeting in which he sets out a 5 point action plan for moving the judicial system towards achieving its fundamental goal — the fair, timely and cost effective determination of civil cases on their merits.

However, Jackson LJ pointed at CFAs as being one of the contributing factors to the increase in civil litigation costs; 100 % success fees are not unusual, especially in traditionally more risky litigation such as defamation actions (such costs are the subject of a separate consultation).

These cases are interesting to compare to Pintea, where the costs award of $ 83,000 seems highly punitive, especially in light of Justice Martin's point about the merits of the action.

The plan may require regular meetings of the project team or regular reporting on progress against agreed action points and on costs.

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