Sentences with phrase «few points are making»

If you're in a position where a few points are making all the difference, don't get hit with a denial and have to eat the negative effects of an inquiry.

Not exact matches

Then there are the scenes when plot points are achingly hand - fed to us, like a scene in which Ellsberg is making copies of the volumes of files that make up the Pentagon Papers (which also drags on a few beats too long).

Some higher - end brands live in both the fashion and comfort world — even if a few luxe designers are loath to admit they try to make shoes comfortable, as though it devalues their brand, Schneider - Levy points out.

As Fain points out, «The ability to more fully describe and understand a consumer's behavior is more complete than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even more effective over the next few years.»

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

He points out that group RRSPs are already available, and few employers make use of them.

Make no mistake, the new iPhone is still lacking in a few areas — its small screen continues to be a sticking point, and why oh why does Apple still refuse to include Near Field Communications despite everyone else doing it?

Facebook stock is up a few percentage points after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the recent scandals hadn't made «any meaningful impact» on the business.

The catch is that most airlines only make a few saver - level tickets available for each flight — and they make them available at various points before traveling — so you may not be able to find saver seats right away.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate tripss delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

Few malls are being built these days, a point that makes space in existing malls more desirable.

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).

A few times during the session Kogan made a point of arguing that data audits are essentially useless for catching bad actors — claiming that anyone who wants to misuse data can simply put a copy on a hard drive and «store it under the mattress».

«I think it is usually when you have a point of maximum fear that you have got the greatest opportunities, so the Chinese market is so large and so deep that you can't just make an argument out of a few market movements and out of a few stocks,» he told CNBC.

Your APR is determined by a few key data points you'll see on your offer sheet — the total loan amount, origination fee, the total amount you'll eventually pay back to the lender once the loan has run its course, and the number of payments you'll make.

In a nutshell, Check Point has been making substantial changes to its sales organization and strategy in the U.S. «The changes we have implemented in the field didn't bear fruits yet and as noted before it will take a few quarters to ramp up the level of productivity and results as we expect,» Payne said in the conference call this week.

At the core of the matter is that a pitch is a pitch, and you'll notice that these investors all mention a few essential points... like how much drive and motivation you and your co-founders have to make your business work.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

While investors should want management to feel pride and attachment to the business, when family is involved it can get to a point where decisions are made that benefit the few and not the many.

Though there are a few pointed items that will likely make negotiations challenging, MacNaughton said he saw no real surprises in the «laundry list» of negotiation objectives released by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

Southwest's Rapid Rewards program is one of the few revenue - based systems, which makes it easy to turn their points into flights.

I realize there are very few publicly traded companies that act the way Berkshire Hathaway does (in terms its relationship with Wall Street, executive pay, corporate governance, stock options, etc...), but it's still a point worth making.

Furthermore, he made a great point that these complicated projects are planned out years ahead, so the revenues in Reservoir Description would not show any decline from the dropoff in Offshore until a few years after the drop in oil prices.

An article from a few days ago in the San Diego Union Tribune made a similar point: that falling pension fund return estimates are not a cause for concern, because pension funds have shown in their actual performances that they are handily beating those estimates.

(Creationism fails to be a theory mainly because of the last point; it makes few or no specific claims about what we would expect to find, so it can't be used for anything.

I was just trying to make a few points.

I read that a few years ago, Christianity was just «business» to you and that you wanted to «just make out with chicks» (at one point).

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

A few months ago the conservative cyberpundit Glenn Reynolds made a splash when he pointed out that Sweden G > D > P > erp capita is roughly comparable with that of with that of Mississippi - see, those foolish believers in the welfare state have impoverished themselves!

Of course, with this parable, Jesus makes the point that many, many people are called but few are chosen.

There's a lot I could say about my experiences, but as his wife, I would like to make a few points for everyone to consider as we continue discussing sexuality in the Church:

I'm not saying that when you'll do this you'll become an atheist (though personally I believe if you truely do think about it, that you will become one soon enough) there are a few people on this board (like JW) who has thought long and hard about god and rationalized it enough to still be a believer and make some sense, but fred, I will not be even remotely swayed to understand your point if you only use the bible as your bullhorn.

All you do is wait for someone to make a point you agree with then jump in and say «What she said» and throw in a few expletives.

Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

As Johnson points out, we've got a few years before he needs to actually make a decision but we can all smell what the Rock is cooking.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

I too have bought quite a few Christian albums of late where I've initially thought, wow, there are some great tunes on here, only to realise they seem purposefully vague to the point that they make more references to setting suns and emotions than anything Godly.

I engaged in intense prayer and meditation for quite a few years from adolescence on into adulthood and it seems to me that I succeeded in altering my brain's neurophysiology / chemistry significantly to the point where I could make a living from being a psychic or a spirit medium.

For a start, there are fewer vocations in the West for reasons that are known and can't be gone into here; but for us personally, the lack of vocations up to this point makes sense, somehow, in the Providence of God.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

However, a few points must be made about this statement:

The pope harshly denounced Pharisaism and Jewish legalism, with its 613 points of law, in a homily at a Mass just prior to the Synod, which made it appear to more than a few observers that people who would defend traditional teachings on marriage would somehow ipso facto be considered pharisaical — hardly an inducement to candor at an event where the boss would be present.

While I'm glad to see Bell take this step forward a few points come to mind... 1) Why did Rob Bell wait to make this announcment until the week his book was released?

You know, I could easily point my finger at a person who claims to be a salesman and I could justify lying to make a sale or justify getting out of sales because all salesmen lie based upon a few who claim to be a salesman.

I think they're trying to get more sneaky about it, especially with Pages, but I have seen a few people boldly point out that you have to interact with them or Facebook will make them go away.

It's hard to make out what your saying in your inane babbling, but I'll refute the few points you managed to articulate.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

I'd read about it a few years ago and thought they made some interesting points, though honestly I don't remember specifically what they were.

It's been a long, quite challenging journey to get to this point, but seeing lovely customers walk through the door over the last few days has made it so worth it and we couldn't be more grateful for all your support for what we're doing, it's truly incredibly.