Sentences with phrase «even less points»

Also, this year the top teams will make even less points, TV rights made sure the competition is leveling out.

Admittedly, you could still pair your Echo Dot with one, but then there's even less point to buying the speaker - dock.

Not exact matches

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

More to the point, with a lame - duck, deeply unpopular Republican president and Democratic - controlled Congress, some say there's unlikely to even be a 2009 budget to serve as a vessel for pork stuffing, circumstances that make a moratorium much less punishing.

So, even if we can't take it to the bank that more coffee definitively means less heart disease, the signs are pointing in that direction.

When Slava Rubin, the founding CEO of Indeigogo, one of the very first crowdfunding sites that launched in January 2008, talks about it, he hits a point rarely discussed and even less frequently understood.

We've gone from less than 20 % of our appointments being in the private sector to the point now where I believe we're at about 30 %, or maybe even above that.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

The Inc. article points out that Americans already don't use all their vacation days, and an open - ended policy often leads to them taking even less.

Pockets of weakness persist for some less advantaged groups and in some parts of the country, a point Chair Yellen herself recently made, and even nationally, there's not all that much wage pressure.

Still, there is another, less popular use of Chase Ultimate Rewards points that gives them even more clout in the flexibility area.

In fact, of the 66 marketing professionals surveyed in January, less than half of marketers had even even assessed all points from which they collect data.

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

Now that customers can use any bitcoin wallet to load their GASH Point accounts in seconds, gamers will have a way to get back to enjoying their purchases in even less time.

In 2010 and 2011, lesser overvalued, overbought, overbullish extremes were followed by significant market losses, even though Treasury bill yields were only in the range of 10 - 15 basis points.

Yet even with the downbeat forecast, losses were relatively modest, with most benchmarks finishing less than half a percentage point lower.

A great many of your points have little to do with actual scripture which has even less to do with the moral scaffolding of 21st century life.

None the less, I applaud your far reaching attempt to make a point although the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

======= @Cheese «Even if your first 2 points were true (and we don't know that they are) there is no reason to conclude the first cause was an intelligence and even less reason to think it is your specific Even if your first 2 points were true (and we don't know that they are) there is no reason to conclude the first cause was an intelligence and even less reason to think it is your specific even less reason to think it is your specific god.

According to some sources, such as Myers, even though meat production in Costa Rica tripled during the period 1960 - 70 internal consumption fell to a point where each person ate «less meat than a domestic cat receives annually in the United States» (Myers 1981, 6).

My point is rather that the justification of bigger and bigger corporations with less and less commitment to any geographical community, even the nation, works against community and true human welfare.

There is NO structure in consti «tutional law which even recognizes ho «mose «xual unions AT ALL, much less «distinguishes between them», and no one can point one out.

Nobody can even agree on a starting point, much less where to go once a starting point is found.

In short, everything happens as though, in the course of its phyletic existence, every living form achieved (with more or less success) what may be called a period, or even a point, of socialization.

Or, to state this very important point differently, I am now finally in a position to explain why I feel justified in maintaining that a free - will theodicy is, in principle, no less plausible than the process theodicy, even though I grant that a free - will theodicy will be more «defensive» than its process counterpart.

Even when lucrative jobs loom, we choose to live on less, to be home more, to not vacation, to not have the latest gadgets or a flat - screen TV or a new car with windows that work (sore point in the summer, you see).

Inconsistencies in fact and point of view and the duplication of episodes are apparent even to the casual reader; and detailed analysis of the text is easily accessible in any standard Introduction to the Old Testament.1 We are skeptical of some of the common criteria of literary priority, however; and we reject the view that the «later» sources (often late only editorially, not in substance) are necessarily less accurate, less dependable.

Take away those unprovable points of magic and you are left with a mildly entertaining set of stories, where the older the stories, the less credible they are even as a historical record.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

Meyer says today's college students have greater expectations for fresh food than previous generations, to the point at which they will pass up wrapped sandwiches in a cold case, even if the sandwiches were made less than an hour beforehand.

I know it will not be easy to swallow that I consider having recourse to refined SHEA BUTTER but here are some reasons: 1) coconut oil is costly and my aim is not only to avoid using unethically sourced products, but also to reduce the cost of food; 2) coconut oil has a very low melting point, even lower than spreadable butter, and even in its solid state it is quite soft, so I am afraid this vegan butter will not be fit for making puff pastry; 3) for all I know, and I know little, so I am not completely sure of this, coconut oil has a better nutrient profile than shea butter and is less harmful (one may infer it from the resemblance between shea butter and palm oil).

Even more points when they take less than 15 minutes to make.

«It is very pleasing to see however the latest Fonterra milk price at $ 6 which is 14 per cent up this period and at $ 6 basically the dairy farms are above their break - even point so we do expect to see less stress in dairy going forward.»

For this shake, the mint leaves will lightly color and flavor it, to the point that you really don't even need to add extra mint, Less you like your mint milkshake extra minty.

Just to point out that this made 2 smoothies, making it under 150 calories per serving and even less if you do not add the optional coconut flakes.

In turn, perhaps DT makes a valid point as even when not scoring Lacazette contributes to Arsenal's build - up play and he cost significantly less albeit he's two years older, but naturally there will be many who strongly disagree with his suggestion.

At some point, especially with a pitcher, we have to say he can not keep failing, because failing is not learning; succeeding is learning, even at a lesser level.

Van Gaal even though one point less than us still talk about catching Chelsea and winning the trophy.

you need a dictionary, going from 4 to 3rd with less points can not be described as a massive improvement or even an improvement at all.Stop gassin an wake up

r u telling me what i think?i don't Wenger at all, i hate what hes doing to Arsenal, making us stand still, we got 7 less points this year even wit te addition of Sanchez.fact

Some may point to the fact that the AST has only about 1000 members and so the poll is not a true reflection of the fanbase, but I also think that the fact that a poll from the same source less than two years ago returned an even greater margin wanting Wenger to stay and if the staunch Wenger fans have changed their minds what does that say about the rest of us?

Or, since you pointed out his salary, find attackers with a better ratio who also earn more which will be even less.

We would then be six points behind the spuds with a much worse goal difference and even less confidence while they would have ridden the blow of losing to West Ham and bounced straight back.

But having chelsea get even 1 less point throws open the doubts in their minds.

Minus Russell Westbrook, it might still be a challenge for the Thunder to get back to the NBA Finals, but thanks to performances by two point guards — one untested and the other very tested — maybe even a little too tested — against the Houston Rockets, there's less reason to panic.

I think the pressures to get points and win trophies in an immensely competitive environment where winning trophies is increasingly shaped by the massive investment in squads in Manchester, Chelsea and even Liverpool - left Wenger and his philosophy in its wake — he tried but with less than half the investment of United and City and hundreds of millions less than Chelsea and Liverpool, it became increasingly difficult for him to play Wengerball.