Sentences with phrase «equivalent points of»

These are equivalent points of view provided the atmosphere resists centripetal force by continuing to travel in a circle.

Max's dead mother, Rosemary's dead husband (another Rushmore graduate), and Herman's stint in Vietnam may not be equivalent points of reference for these characters, but the movie gently treats them as if they were.

Not exact matches

The mental boost was «equivalent to a ten - point increase in IQ,» according to the Association for Psychological Science write - up of the study.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

Ayyadurai also claimed that GMO foods are not regulated enough to be considered safe, pointing to the FDA's policy of «substantial equivalence,» which says that GMOs are equivalent to non-GMO foods that have been conventionally bred over longer time scales.

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

Purchases of usage subscriptions (including credits, points, and / or virtual currency) or any virtual items made available on the online services are nonrefundable, have no monetary value (i.e., are not a cash account or equivalent), and are purchases of only a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable, personal, and non-transferable right to use, even if such came with a durational term (e.g., a monthly subscription).

The company has developed a machine that uses electricity to print the magnetic equivalent of pixels on a surface — complex patterns of north and south polarity points — allowing precise control over the topology of the magnetic fields.

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Top of the vacancy list at France's DGSE, the equivalent of America's CIA or Britain's MI6, are posts for young information technology gurus and linguists who master the finer points of Russian, Chinese, or Farsi, widely used in Iran and Afghanistan.

That would be the equivalent of over 4,000 Dow points.

There are some estimates that the impact of that is the equivalent of 1 percentage point rate hike, because it is a form of tightening — you're reducing the money supply.

Here's how the different programs work in practice: Airlines like Southwest price their seats either in cash or in an equivalent number of points.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

They're also offering a Bitcoin Black Friday deal by offering more Gyft points for every dollar equivalent of Bitcoin spent.

Leveraging inside information about upcoming initiatives, current pain points, and leadership changes is the equivalent of having a triple double in your sales cycle.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

If you simply save these rewards up, and cash them out once you want to book a vacation, you can think of a reward program like this as being equivalent to one based on points or miles, except you are given much more freedom.

From around the middle of 2017, the average interest rates on the stock of outstanding variable interest - only loans increased to be about 40 basis points above interest rates on equivalent P&I loans (Graph 2).

Prior to 2009, many publishers set a wholesale price for e-books at a 20 % discount from the equivalent physical book, at which point Amazon's $ 9.99 price point roughly matched the wholesale price of many of its e-books.

For instance, Charlie Munger points out that Disney is able to adapt to technological change better than any other company he had ever studied in his life, calling it the equivalent of «an oil company that can put the oil back in the ground after it is done drilling so it can drill it again.»

At one point last night BTCChina.com, China's largest Bitcoin exchange, was trading at well over 6000 CNY and over the equivalent of $ 1000 USD.

With the CFLP index for large enterprises rising 3.4 points to 54.4 in March, and the equivalent measure of small enterprises falling by 4.3 points to 50.9, the stronger CFLP measure relative to the Markit PMI may simply reflect this bias towards better - performing larger firms.

The technological equivalent of this latter point is watching a video!

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

As another interesting point — people should remember that a penny saved could be the equivalent of two pennies earned if you are amongst those who are in the highest tax bracket.

He bought LVLT at the maximum point of pessimism and at $ 100 million it only represents the equivalent of one week's cash flow for BRK.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

Analysis by the economist Gareth Olds, for instance, found that the expansion of food stamps in the mid-2000s, which increased enrollment by 3 — 5 percentage points, added the equivalent of 1.1 million additional workers to the labor force by relaxing household credit constraints.

«To illustrate the magnitude of the 75 - year actuarial deficit, consider that for the... Trust Funds to remain fully solvent throughout the 75 - year projection period... revenues would have to increase by an amount equivalent to an immediate and permanent payroll tax rate increase of 2.76 percentage points to 15.16 percent.»

But after considering the impact of taxes, the taxable - equivalent yield (the return required on a taxable bond to make it equal to the return of a tax - exempt bond) of municipal bonds was a full percentage point higher, at 3.75 %, for investors in the highest (37 %) tax bracket.

The report point out that viewed as seed - funding rewards is 10x more valuable to entrepreneurship and the economy than the equivalent amount in angel and VC funding because the funding ask of angels and VCs is two or three orders of magnitude (ie 10 to 100 times) more than at seed stage.

Tradestation publishes its spreads and offers fractional pips (pips are the smallest price change that a given exchange rate can make - for most pairs this is the equivalent of 1/100 of one percent, or one basis point).

At this point, we need to make a serious review of what role Pakistan played in keeping OBL safe in his mansion, not far from their equivalent of West Ppoint, we need to make a serious review of what role Pakistan played in keeping OBL safe in his mansion, not far from their equivalent of West PointPoint.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

Those who support making abortion illegal point to the fact that a fetus has a heartbeat at six weeks, and therefore, the termination of a pregnancy is the equivalent of killing a person.

Straus has pointed out that effective therapy for homeless alcoholics «must offer substitute reward values for abstinence which will be at least equivalent to the reward value of excessive drinking and which will not require greater effort than is required by drinking.»

If your only point of reference for what love is is the bible, you could well have the equivalent of battered woman's syndrome, equating abuse and degradation for love.

At this point I was the equivalent of a poor widow with an ill orphaned child.These people knew exactly what they were doing, but the people they went to church with wouldn't know.

Then your ignorance of your Bible will be exposed as the equivalent verses will be posted here totally disproving your point.,

(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»

As The Atlantic points out, that's «one in every 133 people worldwide,» or roughly the equivalent of the combined populations of Australia and Taiwan.

This tenet is, in fact, virtually equivalent to the previous point, because this tenet insists that the actual world consists of a nexus of cause - effect relations among physical things that is not open to influence from alleged nonphysical agents.

I see my role as listening to their fears until the point is reached when it is time for me to ask the equivalent of Jesus» question, «What is your name?»

But when a certain intensity is attained by the new emotion, a critical point is passed, and there then ensues an irreversible revolution, equivalent to the production of a new nature.)

Our faith that these unintelligible objects actually exist proves thus to be a full equivalent in praktischer Hinsicht, as Kant calls it, or from the point of view of our action, for a knowledge of what they might be, in case we were permitted positively to conceive them.

It follows that a geometrical element b associated with any group of equivalent abstractive sets is such that it always has some other geometrical element a incident in it, the reason being that each of the equivalent abstractive sets which are the members of a geometrical element b is such that each can cover and not be covered by the a equivalent abstractive sets which are the members of the geometrical element a. And if every geometrical element has some other geometrical element incident in it, no geometrical element can be a point.

And, in particular, what would be the point of refusing to confide children to such a couple, since all the different models are considered equivalent?

Just flip the ON switch, at which point the motor will start to spin with the barest whisper, then twist the knob to unleash the equivalent of two furious horses stampeding inside the blender.

According to fat secret, my stats: 1319 calories, 49 fat, 170 carbs, 13 fiber, and 51 protein (2200 mg sodium) which is the equivalent of 35 points — which I get because I didn't count my fresh fruit as an extra point.