Sentences with phrase «first point of order»

The first point of order in building a healthy relationship is having a strong sense of self.

As one of the first points of order at its first meeting of 2015, the GCF board should adopt an exclusion list that forbids any financing of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

The first point of the complaint filed against Elizabeth Holmes by the SEC mentions that Holmes intentionally misled members of the media in order to disingenuously represent Theranos technology.

Even to the point that First Solar should be held up differently and as an example of what Suniva and SolarWorld should have done in order to effectively manage their business in order to compete, and if they would have done that they would have been successful and they wouldn't need the protection of tariffs.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

The first crucial point to assess is that you will need to attain a win - to - loss rate of 60 % just in order to break even.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Dealing with «it all» and trying to do so while including every point of view is no small order, and according to Anderson, the key to doing it well starts with who you hire to create the show in the first place.

We discussed the whys and whens of my loss of faith in the first place (I was raised a devout Catholic, at one point considered holy orders as my life's work).

In order to counter this limitation of the third - person perspective, it is necessary to imaginatively assume a first - person point of view.

All that Bergson really says is that we can not know disorder without making it into an order of some sort first, and points out that the relation between the «two directions of order» is really a continuum that we distinguish on the basis of its extremes (completely free activity and geometrical mechanism, or integration and differentiation, to use the terms Gunter recommends) for the purposes of talking about this issue.

In point of fact, such is the natural order followed by our rational knowledge: we first conceive certain beings, then we define their essences, and last we affirm their existence by means of a judgment.

Although we would rather talk of the coherent unity of the causal complex, because, even when the development of a complex entity can be traced through contributary causes, the interlocking patterning of those causes through time and space and the higher meaningful unit of organisation which they produce still reveals order and purpose in the system which points to Transcendent Mind as First and Final creative cause.

In the Qur» an this first stage is pointed out in the fifty - third verse of the twelfth Surah, «Surely the self orders with utmost force the doing of evil.»

In light of this discussion of presuppositional analysis, it is perhaps worth making one final point concerning the relation between such a second - order type of procedure and the foregoing discussion of the first - order procedure of presenting the data of experience as evidence.

Just as one has first the concept of line identity and then fixes points in order to determine properties of a particular line, one has first the concept of individual identity and then experiences a reaction that determines properties of a particular individual.

That is the point of my conjecture that Christians» first language, the language used to interpret daily events of many different orders of magnitude, is not biblical.

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

Despite making some changes to our first - team, with Mathieu Debuchy and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain coming into the starting XI, we kept up our impressive form with a comfortable (ish) victory over Bournemouth in order to stay within three points of the leaders.

4th place gone, football quality at an all time low, a half empty stadium... the furure ai nt what it used to be... junkies in cold turkey... wenger pretending that more points than last season means progress... the man is a charlatan of the first order.

«He's a 26 - year - old switch - hitting centerfielder with high on - base, high slugging, accomplished enough to hit in the middle of our order right now, and that's a rare player,» says first - year Los Angeles G.M. Paul DePodesta, who points out that Bradley won't become a free agent until after the»07 season.

In order to keep the results consistent, I used 2007, when the NFL moved the first round of bye weeks to Week 4, as my starting point (Week 3 underdogs that started the season winless ATS covered 66.7 percent of the time from 2003 to 2006).

Manchester United host domestic rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford in the first game of the weekend after the conclusion of the international break, as the two English giants go head to head against each other in order to claim a top spot in the Premier League points table.

David Moyes saw his side pick up a valuable point over the Ukrainian Giants on Wednesday and will want to use that confidence booster in order to get United up - and - running in the Premier League, whilst Ball could seriously put himself in the frame for the permanent managerial position at the Stadium of Light if he could lead the Black Cats to their first victory of the season over their visitors.

I found that for the first few months I needed to squat in order to insert it to where it felt comfy — as high up as I could and point it towards the small of your back.

-LSB-...] Ultimately, if the point of WIC is to improve the health of low income mothers and babies and if the goal of the CDC is to increase breastfeeding rates in order to improve the health of the nation, all decisions about how WIC's support to moms and infants is provided should be done with a view to supporting breastfeeding first and foremost, with formula as an option only available upon specific request.

The sort of thing someone off The Wire might say, which is of course any right - thinking person's first point of reference when it comes to law and order issues.

The methodology used in the preparation of each set of results took as its starting point the gross national income (GNI) of the States Members of the United Nations during the corresponding base periods as a first approximation of the capacity to pay, and applied conversion factors, relief measures and limits to the scale in order to arrive at the final scale.

Three nearby businesses also owned by Housing, and also in the footprint of the first part of the Willets Point project, had full or partial vacate orders issued in 2009, yet the locations were not shut down.

As I stress in the first point, the most important thing is to have a PhD to offer — don't sacrifice research in order to build up a huge portfolio of employer - friendly qualities, as they are unlikely to eclipse a failed doctorate!

The data may also suggest a possible critical point, where the type of transition changes from the abrupt, first - order kind to a continuous crossover at higher energies.

That is the first order or debate or rhetoric is to support your opinion, either through your own evidenced expertise, or those of others who have significant expertise to bolster your point.

Although main points have been by no means published of its first proprietor, probably the most previous customers of the Stone used to be the In - Betweener, a servant to Master Order and Lord Chaos.

The trailer reveals the plot point that she must recover five mystical items in order to escape, which feels more like a video game than a movie (not the first time one of Snyder's films has invited that comparison).

In order to acquaint himself with his three lead actors, director Alfonso Cuarón had each of them write an essay about their characters, from a first - person point of view.

Among the potential wildcards, I would first point towards a trio of crowdpleasers, namely «A Taxi Driver,» «The Divine Order» and «Sheikh Jackson.»

I am not aware of research on precisely these points, but learning the answers to these questions should be of first - order importance for policymakers and practitioners interested in facilitating minority student achievement and educational attainment.

Objectives covered: Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size Identify lines of symmetry in 2 - D shapes presented in different orientations Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry Describe positions on a 2 - D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

UPDATED RESPONSE WITH CORRECT INFORMATION: The GPA requirement is for the first two years of college not high school — so Governor Malloy wants to require that a student must have a grade point average of 3.3 in order to get into the teacher training program at a Connecticut university of college.

Graph and name points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane using ordered pairs of whole numbers.

David Marx of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) shared that charter operators will need to earn at least 90 points in order to secure a superior rating on Charter FIRST.

A launch for the new Range Rover at the Beijing Motor Show next month would give Land Rover six months ahead of first deliveries to get their order book swelling, and China may be the place to do that as we hear the starting point for the new Range Rover will be # 100,000.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

At first I just ordered the new H2O out of curiosity and honestly I didn't like it in the beginning but it grew on me quickly to the point where I now prefer it to the Aura for the reasons mentioned.

First - time customers get 10 % off of their first order, while loyal customers can store their bonus points and pay with them in the fuFirst - time customers get 10 % off of their first order, while loyal customers can store their bonus points and pay with them in the fufirst order, while loyal customers can store their bonus points and pay with them in the future.

The non-business variant of this card only requires you to spend $ 5,000 in the first 3 months in order to receive 60,000 points.

«We recognize that more has to be done in order to enable those in the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Golden Horseshoe to accommodate some of the rising price points of homes, and we know that it's becoming more difficult for first - time homebuyers, so we're looking at ways to address it,» he said.

First off, I highlighted «Compared To» in bold in order to emphasize I was using it as a point of reference, NEVER stating that municipal bonds are like CDs.

In order to be eligible for the Clubcard points, you must make a purchase or balance transfer on this Tesco Credit Card within the first two months of account opening

Follow - Up — In order to be successful in keeping a relationship with the homeowner, and setting the stage for coming back in a year (and every year), the messaging to the homeowner from the first point of engagement has to be: «I'm not here for this one transaction only but I am an ongoing resource.»