Sentences with phrase «first turning point»

The first turning point was 1997, when the nations of the world agreed to limit their CO2 emissions at the Kyoto Protocol.

(Note that Camy mentions using the Black Moment for the Disaster, but many sources say to limit pitches to the first third or so of a story, so this might instead be the first turning point in the plot.)

Identify what's unique about the protagonist and what connects that to the core conflict and the inciting incident or first turning point.

Physical attraction was the first turning point, in most cases, there is no relationship.

Not exact matches

Aside from the Switch's main gimmick — turning into a portable console — and Nintendo's first - party game lineup, there's no standout sell point for the Switch.

We've talked about why businesses stop growing, and the first two points looked at those reasons, but the last two points could easily be turned around and used as the start of a growth strategy.

I received 3 applications that first weekend and my realtor started turning down potential renters at that point.

[5:45] Intangible assets that business owners must leverage [11:50] Analyzing, measuring and replacing underperforming aspects [14:00] First impressions and first statements [17:40] The lifetime value of a customer [20:00] Incentivizing employees [20:45] Ingenuity to find new points of leverage [22:00] Jay's experience turning «Icy Hot» around [26:30] The power of one small shift [27:50] Three ways to grow a business exponentially [33:40] What stops people from optimization [40:00] The value you bring to a customer [43:00] Measuring, quantifying and improving your processes [48:10] Why most businesses fail [50:00] Building pillars that will support your business [57:00] Providing comfort for your customer can bring in more reFirst impressions and first statements [17:40] The lifetime value of a customer [20:00] Incentivizing employees [20:45] Ingenuity to find new points of leverage [22:00] Jay's experience turning «Icy Hot» around [26:30] The power of one small shift [27:50] Three ways to grow a business exponentially [33:40] What stops people from optimization [40:00] The value you bring to a customer [43:00] Measuring, quantifying and improving your processes [48:10] Why most businesses fail [50:00] Building pillars that will support your business [57:00] Providing comfort for your customer can bring in more refirst statements [17:40] The lifetime value of a customer [20:00] Incentivizing employees [20:45] Ingenuity to find new points of leverage [22:00] Jay's experience turning «Icy Hot» around [26:30] The power of one small shift [27:50] Three ways to grow a business exponentially [33:40] What stops people from optimization [40:00] The value you bring to a customer [43:00] Measuring, quantifying and improving your processes [48:10] Why most businesses fail [50:00] Building pillars that will support your business [57:00] Providing comfort for your customer can bring in more revenue

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at all.

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.

Looking at the figures, showing steadily increasing numbers of pilgrims (with peaks in the Jubilee Years: next one 2021) it seems to me that the turning point in 20th Century numbers was in 1982, the first pilgrimage to Santiago of St John Paul II.

Ok, now for the first part: It's clear that [laughing] is not well read, because he has argued that people are still reading when clearly my [right turn clyde] point is that people are not.

Whether for the first time he was then convinced that he was the Messiah, whether he had already come to this conviction or had been coming to it and now felt that he had received the seal of God's approval, or whether he did not believe that he was the Messiah at all but considered himself only a prophet and forerunner of the coming one, his baptism was the turning point between his previous life of preparation and waiting and the active ministry in which he would henceforth be engaged.

Let us deal with the first question at this point and then turn in the next section to the second.

The critical turning point was the 18th century: the age of human rights and the first democratic revolutions.

So in reference to the orginal article and my first point, I would only echo Pascal's Wager: if I live life accepting of God and «love my neighbor,» but it turns out to be wrong because there is no God, I have no regrets; if I live life unaccepting of God and He does exist, well I guess Ghandi and I will be sharing a room...

I intend to confine myself to the three points that preachers traditionally allow themselves (more aptly, perhaps, the three wishes that fairy - tale characters are always granted just before they are turned back into frogs) I wish, first of all, that one might avoid the statistical traps that lie in the path if one relies too much on changing church membership figures — in this case the figures that are supposed to show drastic decline and weakening in oldline Protestantism since the 1960s.

The pessimists however point out that the problems of the new era are often far advanced before we become aware of them, and that they frequently turn out to be worse than at first thought.

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».

Turns out they weren't offended by that misleading first sentence or my high - risk call not to use power point.

Sometimes the first act of commitment is more dramatic than any others which follow, and the believer looks back to it in gratitude as a turning point in his life.

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

I'm asking for prayer because this represents a critical turning point in the project in which I will be engaging in some important conversations with those who might not, at first glance, agree with me.

As he observed: «We now stand at a turning - point in the history of the biosphere and in the shorter history of one of its products, mankind... Man is the first species of living being in our biosphere that has acquired the power to wreck the biosphere and, in wrecking it, to liquidate himself.»

By the fourth century B.C., Athenian culture had become self - conseious about its ideal of both culture and education — or, more exactly, about education as «culturing» the young.10 At that point Plato introduced the first major modification in the idea (though, as it turned out, not the practice) of paideia.

As we now turn to practical Modernism, which is best represented in American Protestantism, it must be pointed out first of all that it is possible to make only a theoretical distinction between these two types of Modernism.

Then, when I was 18, God intervened in my life, the first of two dramatic turning points.

when i first stumbled on the stages in the life of faith about 9 or so years ago it was a huge turning point for me.

First, Christian hope prevents secular hopes from becoming false absolutes and, in turn, totalitarian: one need only consider some of the tragic secular utopias of the 20th century to understand this point.

I think I had my heat turned up too high for the first 2 hrs as most of my liquid was gone at that point and I had to add in some extra water to keep the bottom from burning.

That in turn has seen them fall to sixth place in the Premier League table, four points adrift of the top four, and it's certainly giving Mauricio Pochettino something to think about for arguably the first time in his tenure at the club.

Plus, while I'm belaboring the point, his first offensive coordinator hire suggested he might be more of the «just have the offense get out of the defense's way» style of defensive coordinator - turned - head coach — a Will Muschamp, if you will.

He said that we started better, had more of the ball, that we were a very good Arsenal and crucially, for me, was that Mourinho identified that the first goal was the turning point.

Recap culture bends toward the same talking points, and a critique of this season will certainly be «fan service» — i.e., by delivering what viewers want (Jon resurrected, Ramsay Bolton and Walder Frey killed, etc.), George R.R. Martin and the showrunners have moved away from the ruthless plot turns that made Game of Thrones stand out in the first place.

Still, United showed character to turn it around and Matic deserves plaudits for taking a gamble to score a rare goal — and his first for United — to deliver the three points from an unlikely position.

They turned it around immediately in the second half and went on a scoring barrage, totaling 33 points in the third quarter, just four fewer than they scored in the first two frames combined.

The center barely played in his first two years with Oklahoma City, but has turned into a decent player in Charlotte, who had his second 20 - point, 10 - rebound outing in three games shortly after he had missed 19 with injury.

After the match everyone talked about the first three games [Riggs won the first three games with the loss of only four points] as if they were some kind of turning point.

We certainly had a few turning points — the fact that we scored first, the fact that our defenders were calm on the ball and that we could always dictate our technical level.

And this kid for 6m, people are right to point to Holding who was one our first signings last season, and he turned out possibly to be the best one.

At one point discussion turned to the rest of the first round.

But Steph Curry countered with the first of his postseason career (32 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds)-- and his all - around excellence, combined with that of Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson, helped the Warriors turn a slight 3 - point lead at halftime into a 19 - point rout.

The turning point occurred in the first period of Game 3.

Last season they first lost 75 - 74, and then in a January rematch had them down by 18 points before the momentum turned and they finally fell, 112 - 104, only a month before the Bulldogs would go on to a shot at the NAIA Division II national title.

Yet after scoring his first points in Canada he turned up in Baku looking like a completely different driver.

The Ravens turned the turnover into seven points, and lead 17 - 3 at the end of the first quarter in Baltimore.

The Broncos briefly struggled with the Chiefs, but turned up the heat late in the first half after Kansas City placekicker Ryan Succop missed a field goal that would have put his team within a point of the division champions.

Now unlocked as the primary everything in Mike D'Antoni's free - flowing system, Harden has a shot at leading the league in points and assists for the first time since the great Tiny Archibald turned the trick in 1973.

Against Arizona, Oregon scored just 13 points on its first nine possessions, turning the ball over on downs once, losing two fumbles, and punting three times.