Sentences with phrase «even very points»

Not exact matches

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

My point here is this seasoned engineer should not have had a five - figure salary, even if it made sense in a historical context (she had joined as a very junior person, consistent with prior salary).

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.

I'm at a point in my life where «wedding season» is about to become a very real thing, and I wanted something fun that would make me feel like the life of the party, even when awkwardly sitting to the side of the dance floor.

Although perhaps understating the speed of even budget broadband, Sony's Turvey isn't completely incorrect when he points out that Internet databases would have problems handling significant amounts of very large simultaneous downloads.

Some people even have the audacity to send me e-mail messages — very good ones, too — pointing out the error of my ways!

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.

I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Even when they lose a game, players pick up a few coaching points, so even when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performaEven when they lose a game, players pick up a few coaching points, so even when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performaeven when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performance.

I explain how I understand it, show some indicators that reinforce the point, and add my own wrinkle, one I consider very important: allowing for more running room has the potential to create even more running room.

The point about e-commerce is very interesting and should be explored further, and adds to evidence even mainstream economists (like Yellen) don't know what they're doing.

Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.

I take that as a favorable sign, but at this point, even that strong report says very little regarding the strength of any economic recovery.

Of course, the point about duration still stands — regardless of what drives returns, long duration means that even small changes to those drivers of return can be amplified into very big changes in prices in the short term.

I found this very useful an even incorporated a few thoughts and bullet points into a seminar I gave internally to my company on video production preparation.

September's retail sales numbers were inflated by hurricane - related gains, but even allowing for these one - offs, this and other reports pointed to a very strong final month for third - quarter consumer spending.

While the sabre rattling and economic boycotts are very visible actions, behind the scenes discussions between cooler heads will likely be what leads to a politically palitable resolution, if that is even possible at this point.

Perhaps your deferred taxes have grown so large as a result of a very small cost basis that selling and switching into an investment you expect to earn even three percentage points or more over the next decade will actually cost you money as a result of the principle value lost to the IRS.

If at any point you have a negative cash balance or even a very small one, you have a potential problem.

Yet it is government - created backlogs and delays and tight new rules that are the problem here, even if that very government has pointed the finger at its own employees on occasion to cover up its poor decision - making, and gone after conscientious whistle - blowers who object to being ordered to treat EI claimants unfairly.

He also pointed out that even if what happened with Daniels was the sort of thing that was very common for Cohen as part of his duties, the Daniels scenario could still be a contribution if Cohen understood it would aid Trump's electoral effort.

This is very different from somebody that al of the sudden preaches the opposite of what he said before and even denies he had a different opinion at one point...

I make no apologies for my comment, but even IF DWaters was trying to make valid points, the very problem is that they are still thinly veiled racist comments and seriously missing the point at * best *.

As was already pointed out by Edward Feser in the June / July issue of First Things, even if one grants that string theory is true, Krauss has already conceded the very medieval axiom he thought he was dispatching, since, after all, a «brane» (assuming it exists) is something.

Thus, they were very supportive of the Christian churches, even to the point that states and local government taxes supported churches and church related organizations.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

I was not talking religion I very specifically used the word compassion, yet you feel you have to make you point vilifying someone's belief, gosh that is getting old with you... you can't even celebrate the fact that here is an example of a good deed.

I think at some point the defensiveness becomes just as bad or even worse than the initial injury, and we have to admit that there is at the very least a callous disregard and contempt for the injured by the leaders of the organization.

In considering the Providence of God alongside the workings of the JULY / AUGUST 2006 natural laws he goes on to explain: «It is crystal clear that the Christian faith presupposes that God's providence is not just general but is very concrete, reaching down to the smallest and most unlikely details, even to the point that «all the hairs of our head» are numbered.

The problem Brigitte, when you go on these long philosophical journeys, is that you show not the slightest ability to pay attention to (or even comprehend it seems) the very valid points being made by all the commenters who have attempted to reason with you.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

That even the physicians themselves are now, by a large majority, confused to the point that they think refusals to refer are morally objectionable (and professionally unacceptable) is very worrisome.

Have you at any point even considered that anybody here might also consider it important to honestly study scripture and adjust their lives accordingly, but have still somehow reached very different conclusions than you?

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.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

But Juhnke also points out that even though Mennonites are becoming increasingly engaged with the broader church, they remain connected in a very real sense with the Amish and other conservative cousins.

This monologue is skillfully written, and even though it may have been conceived with political correctness in mind, it makes a very important and discussable point.

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

Why is the corresponding point in the Jacob cycle the story of the patriarch's violent, night - long wrestling bout with the deity, and his refusal to surrender even to the very end of the struggle (32:22 - 30)?

When the most significant psychological thinker of our time, Sigmund Freud, points out that words are very often a cover - up and that more truth is to be learned from dreams or even slips of the tongue than from controlled speech, those who preach the Word are going to speak to ever - dwindling audiences.

Just point me to one single logical error in any of the major religions, I'm not even restricting you to catholicism, which would be very unfair.

He makes two points: first, the raw alcohol intake from a communion cup or chalice is so very small as to be harmless; second, in the communion service the alcohol — rather than being destructive to the alcoholic — serves a positive and even redeeming purpose.

Something like that is the point of Lewis's sermon «Learning in War - Time,» a sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 1939 — when people in England had a genuine crisis, very much out of the ordinary, on their hands.

One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they they base their beliefs on.

I even put a sign on my front lawn, like everyone else in my diversified neighborhood, testifying to that very point.

The author points out that the former works out very well, as the current standard of living in developed countries is way beyond anything even princes could have dreamt of just a century ago.

Indeed, this is the very example of Christ, reflected in another poem, who humbled himself to the point of death, even death on a cross — and Christ clearly did not relinquish his identity in order to display humility.

It is beside the point to argue that Sankara's treatment of these questions is irrational, since from Sankara's standpoint the very putting of the questions reflects an even more profound expression of irrationality.

This very attitude is what precipitated my exit from the institutional church... it wasn't even the fact that they believed it, I may disagree about some of those points and that's fine, it is the demeaning of any other possibility.