Sentences with phrase «first point i would make»

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«A lot of people are banking on it to make up for the first - quarter number, it needs to deliver... I really think that that number might be the trigger point on does this market have the legs to go higher.»

«They became the proof point that you could be involved in an organization that would provide a support centre without cannibalizing the entrepreneurial culture that made the agency successful in the first place.»

What Lazy CEOs have figured out is that you need to ditch the traditional approach to project management in favor of first identifying and resolving the critical point of constraint that will make or break any new project you undertake.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

He'd first made contact with the Australian dairy 12 years ago, and had made a point of checking in every year since, getting to know the company and its market, and patiently waiting for a moment when a deal might make sense.

Naideck said SBA's move makes it look like the agency wants the sellers to act like financiers, but «from a seller's point of view, if they still have the risk of collecting the money, they'll think «Why should I sell it in the first place?»»

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.

When you take the high value of Starpoints into account, the sign - up bonus on this card becomes a lot bigger than the sheer number of points would suggest: Earn 25,000 Starpoints ® after you use your new Card to make $ 3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months.

The first point Andy made was that it was critically important to provide a free mobile operating system — an open - source operating system — that would enable innovation at every level of the stack.

In the first few pages of Pinker's book, he makes the point that civilization has made «spectacular progress» in nearly every possible way.

As my colleague Rick Newman pointed out, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

His previous communications director, Dimitri Soudas, and his wife had three children during his nine years on Harper's staff; he made a point of resigning in time to walk his daughter Georgia to her first day of school on Sept. 6.

excerpt: «First of all, if you did not do so yesterday, please take the time to read Kevin Carmichael's look at the trip, and in particular how pack journalism narratives have formed, but he makes very relevant points about the political dynamics and the regional politics of India that the Canadian media is completely ignoring.»

So from this point forward, we should go — if we had $ 135 as our assumption for recycling, take that down to $ 115 for 2Q through the remainder of the year, which is about $ 0.08 of incremental headwind and you feel that given the power of the first quarter, and it was a great quarter in garbage, that you can make that up?

If your first point of contact with new sales leads is someone who doesn't have a sales background to properly assess sales leads, ask questions, build relationships and make the right decisions, you're going to miss out on a lot of good sales opportunities — and you'll end up passing along too many unqualified leads to your sales team.

First off, saying that their software works by scanning signals in a lower activity period (at night) makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, however, we do have to give them points for creativity.

First, the «returns on equities» here are typically taken to be earnings yields, which as we've frequently noted, are affected by cyclical variations in profit margins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valuation).

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@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

SOMEBODY had to be the first to notice it, she pointed out, and just because all the ungrateful whippersnappers think it's obvious NOW doesn't make it any less of a terrific discovery.

@tea: i still do not understand why all you jesus freaks insist on making darwin the point of your anti-evolution propaganda when he only placed the first stone; hundreds if not thousands of other sciectists have refined and attempted to debunk the progess of evolution along the way and all have failed to.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

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.»

no this drought is caused by your god for an entirely different reason; because your god taught humans nature belongs to them, they has abused it to the point of natures first man made drought.

Nowhere is the author making the point that if people sin willfully, or even if they return to an empty form of religion which accomplished nothing, that this proves that they do not have eternal life, lost their eternal life, or never had it in the first place.

As The Hollywood Reporter pointed out, it's not the first time Morrissey has made high - profile statements about his veganism.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

But before we come to that discussion, it will be useful for us to turn our attention to the question of «resurrection» — first, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, about which so much of the earliest Christian writing found in the New Testament, and so much of the Christian experience of discipleship, turns; and second, to consider the point of the continuing Christian affirmation that those who have responded to the event of Christ are themselves made «sharers in Christ's resurrection».

All measurement is not measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important measurement of intervals, independent of such measurement of lengths, the estimation of angles, or, what comes to the same thing, of ratios and arcs of circles to the whole circumference, In point of fact, it is by angular measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently of measurement of lengths, by this same method, with the sky for clock - face.

yes i have looked at all the evidence and seen at first, all finger pointed to the man and then when the witnesses recanted their stories, would that make you think twice and three times before taking a life.

The case of Adnan Syed — made widely known through the first season of the Serial podcast — has reached a significant turning point.

To illustrate this point, the authors of the paper show what would happen if the first vampire made his appearance in the year 1600.

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

I remember when the first season of Serial was at its high point that Best Buy put out a tweet referencing something about the pay phone at Best Buy — where one of the calls was supposed to have been made — in kind of a joking way.

The most we can say with certainty at this point is that Jesus may have thought of himself as the Messiah in the Son - of - man sense, and that his first century followers believed he had repeatedly made this claim.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

This may not be apparent at first to those who have struggled after enough «points» to make their sermons complete.

Cyprian makes the obvious point that clothing can not become ruddy if water alone is present in the wine vat, and goes on to emphasise the link between the grapes being trampled upon and the blood of Christ, which could not have been produced unless Christ «had first been trodden upon and pressed.»

But first you had to make several pointless idiot posts under this username to make sure you got the point across?

The point I am making about pointing the finger at ourselves (or myself at least) is that it seems out of place that we, who are all sinners, would so quickly judge others, whose motives and hearts we can not see, when we have complete access to our own hearts, and all too often know first - hand that we are in the wrong.

In your first comment to me I would have expected you to declare you didn't get the point instead of making a comment.

The only one who can not is Lucifer because he do not want to, God heart is not made of iron, if there are evil people alive in this world it is only because God want them to repent to, there are most evil people who as a children or teenager was sweet but because of another being became evil, Only God know what it did make them change or their pain but only one things is sure as God he did have the first seat to see all their pain and live, and to my point of view as a Father it is by no means lesser than the pain he did feel for them or them victimes, like a electric chair.

First of all the word is «servants» not «slaves» which was a reference to all that were in servitude (including slaves) because Paul had previously made the point that we were ALL the same, (Jews / Gentiles, Bondman / Free).

But Irenaeus of Lyons, who first made the point, may have been wrong in his exegesis but splendidly right in the point he was getting at when he made it.

Personally, I cringed a little, but if he were to do that in a fundie church, he would get fired before he made it to his first point.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

To get to that point, however, the atheist must first have made a commitment to follow the evidence, no matter where it may go.

The point of entry came through an essay by Paul Ramsey that had made a powerful and decisive impression on me when I first began to think seriously about this matter of abortion more than forty years ago.

As to the first point, Christians have a positive theological investment in a Zionism which makes for a viable Jewish state.