Sentences with phrase «drawing point for»

That availability will be a big drawing point for young immigrants from China whom we need to attract here.

Mickey's immense popularity is also touched on, as he describes how often times, a Mickey short playing in front of a movie would be the real drawing point for audiences to go to the cinema.

Not exact matches

People needed to earn 17 points to be put into the prize draw for tickets to the Global Citizen Festival concert held in Central Park last month.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

What drew me to the concept most was that the corporate team isn't in business for the money, and genuinely want to help people by providing simple, healthy and delicious food at an affordable price point.

There are points in there where Jim and Mike have differing recollections or points of view and we try to air those and let them speak for themselves as opposed to drawing our conclusions.

And he was the Conservative's point man for making the long - form census no longer mandatory, a decision so contentious it drew condemnation from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

«To explain this, the economists point to the «visibility effect» — that appointing a celebrity helps draw the attention of investors to a company which, all else being equal, increases demand for its shares and thus its share price,» noted The Economist in 2010, when the study was released.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

To explain this, the economists point to the «visibility effect» — that appointing a celebrity helps draw the attention of investors to a company which, all else being equal, increases demand for its shares and thus its share price.

The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

There are also many educational articles that draw on current events to make a point, although some of them draw upon the company's proprietary trading algorithms for subscribers.

«Key to our brand is authenticity — and to maintain that, we draw key labor from Brazil for the U.S. — in order to be able to do that under the visa and immigration system, you need to own those operations,» points out Johnson.

Jones points to several recently introduced condominiums that drew long lines and almost instantaneous reservations for presales, especially at price points below $ 700,000.

Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

The primary conclusion I draw from this is Google has a great deal of trust for the anchor text I use to point to my own pages.

The full truth is that I have nothing against trend lines, and yes I understand that there are «objective» methods out there detailing the «correct» method for choosing which two points to connect to draw a proper trend line (DeMark, Magee, I think Pring to name a few).

Drawing your levels in this manner gives you a better reference point to look for signals from since you are getting closer to the mean or average turning point price in the market, so it's basically a higher - probability level than a level that's further out but exactly at a bar high or low.

«One debate I want to draw attention to,» venture capitalist Alyse Killeen pointed out, «is the debate whether businesses speak for their users.

At some point during the early Upanishadic period the objective and subjective quests for unity tended to draw together Often both types of inquiry are presented in the same passage or narrative (Chan.

Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, who says his points during the debate were poorly made, also drew attention for suggesting Germans suffered more greatly than the Jews due to the Holocaust.

Drawing from her exquisite, soul - searching online journal and the transformational insights of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp points the way to the life that you were always meant for.

(For clarity, I'm not saying that about all the people mentioned here, nor intending to accuse any of them... just pointing out that they were a pool of people to draw from in repeating a message later on in 2009 and 2010.)

Sometimes the distinctions were rather artificially drawn; yet their point is clear — ancient Christian thinkers knew that the Bible could be read in different ways and for different purposes.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Our departure point is the structural, economic and financial crisis, with all the practical and ideological consequences which we can draw from it for our action programme.

For starters, Trump drew an impressive 81 percent of those who self - identified as «born again» — three points higher than Mitt Romney's 78 percent in 2012 and George W. Bush's 78 percent in 2004.

Scot McKnight was the first person to draw my attention to the fact that «anyone who thinks it is wrong for a woman to teach in a church can be consistent with that point of view only if they refuse to learn from women scholars» (The Blue Parakeet, p. 148).

In very many instances in actual life the Church had to leave the individual to his own conscience, even though it was neither easy nor sure for the individual to draw from general Christian principles a concrete prescription for a definite course of action at a definite point of space and time in his life.

Sometimes the point is by contrast, sometimes by likeness, sometimes the various elements of a parable can not be drawn straight across in a one - for - one manner.

Case in point: As the time draws near for Daniel Craig to graduate from his role as debonair and distraught secret agent James Bond, people have been betting on future 007 hopefuls.

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.»

Western society, while still giving lip - service to religion, has evolved past the point where (for most people anyways) a satire or insult about jebus, the pope, or any other religious or political figure is reason enough to drawn down and start shooting.

Dr Matthews draws all this, and much more, together in a readable and indeed at times engrossing work which challenges the clichés of much of what passes for current medical ethics, and points us to a better way.

It is God who draws from every occasion all the possibilities for continued experience, and it is God who offers us those possibilities in the order of what is best from God's point of view.

From this vantage point the meaning of death for oneself and for others may be appropriately drawn.

Because ancient man did not draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.

On the other hand, if we too readily draw the boundaries and allow for no sacrifice or inconvenience, then it may be as clear from the friend's point of view that no investment in friendship is forthcoming from us.

I applaud you John Blake for drawing attention to important points.

Besides, as Schweizer himself points out, in Romans 2:28 - 29 Paul also draws a distinction between what is done for show and what is done for God.

He talks to me at various points in the day as He reminds me or draws me to attention and shows me things and people I need to pray for, as well as giving thanks.

And on top of that, God, or rather N - nL has come very, very close to exposing you for the unrepentant heathen that you are, even to the point of showing you where He, or rater God, draws the line --

For example, the parable of the Prodigal Son can be scrambled into ineffective confusion by letting the father and the two sons be «the three points» from which applications and lesson are drawn.

Agriculturists in the United States had been so fully drawn into industrial patterns of thought that they continued to assume that their task was to deal with the need for increasing food production for the growing population to which the ecologists pointed with alarm.

It bears repeating that a preaching event is a sharing in the Word, a trip not just a destination, an arriving at a point for drawing conclusions and not handing over of a conclusion.

In fact, Farrow's list of fundamental truths points eloquently to the basic ontological foundations for human reproduction and the ethical education of children in society, and from these he reasonably draws a normative social claim: Heterosexual marriage open to the transmission of life is the morally normative context of human sexuality.

If Bultmann's concern for demythologizing is a valid one, and if the sole point at issue is where exactly the line is to be drawn between myth and kerygma, the only way forward is to take certain specific problems of exegesis one by one.

If one were to draw a diagram with a point at the center to indicate the individual person and a series of concentric circles for his major relations in society, the first circle would represent the family and the second his economic life.

I think Jeremy you did a good job pointing out that that line shouldn't be drawn for others we should live in a «manner that life is a contest to see who can be the most gracious, loving, kind, and forgiving, and teach others to do the same.»

As R. T. Gribbon points out, «We assume that congregational leadership is most commonly drawn from those to whom «belonging» in the congregation is most important; those persons understandably have difficulty understanding those church participants for whom «belonging» and church - related activity is of little importance» (When People Seek the Church [Alban Institute, 1982], p. 14).