Sentences with phrase «gaining points each time»

You gain points every time you hit the board and the boards come in various sizes and they move in different directions which adds a level of difficulty to the game.

This results in players almost always gaining points each time they play, which helps them feel rewarded for playing and encourages them to play more.

Not exact matches

Yet, once a letter of intent is in hand, many business owners seek counsel to cut through these complexities and gain prescriptive, salient action points to guide them all the way to the closing and for a time afterward.

As the International Buiness Times points out, recent studies «found that disrupted sleep schedules of six - hour bouts decreased metabolism in volunteers, which could translate to annual weight gain of 10 pounds.»

Avon gained only 1.1 percentage points of share in the direct - selling industry during the same time frame, with 11.4 % of the market in 2011.

The blue - chip Dow Jones industrial average has set record highs for 11 consecutive sessions — the latest was an 11.44 - point gain to 20,821.76 on Friday — the first time that's happened in 30 years.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

Despite the gain, FB is down almost 15 % from its all - time high and its current price point lags behind the 50 - day and 200 - day moving averages.

The S&P Index, for example, gained some 25 points in no time.

Other issuers, like Nationwide or Point Bridge Capital, launched their ETFs so recently that these funds likely did not have enough time to generate much in the way of capital gains.

In contrast, the S&P 500 index rose from 102 points to 2275 points in that time, an annualized gain of 6.7 %.

Volume / mix increased 0.8 percentage points driven by strong consumption gains in condiments and sauces and gains in foodservice that were partially offset by shipment timing versus the prior year period as well as ongoing consumption weakness in Italy.

But at the same time, a steep rise in ANZ's monthly job ads report pointed to further gains in employment, defying fears of a struggling economy.

January's big gains sent the ETF higher by more than 6 % at its best point, and many investors predicted even better times ahead for the fund thanks to positive impacts from U.S. tax reform and strong corporate fundamentals.

The extra 1 % is splitting hairs to gain an extra fraction of a percentage point here or subtract one there; it's just not worth my time.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

Using duration of the tightening cycle or «time» as the benchmark (i.e. splitting up the various phases by 25 % increments), the S&P 500 was up an average 3.6 % (median +2.4 %); using «duration» or basis - point change as the benchmark, the first 25 % of the cycle sees an average gain of 7.2 % (median of +5.6 %).

Yields have been in a bear market for rather a long time now, though a grudging one, judging by its protracted trajectory, though I'll grant the nearly 100 basis point gains in 10 years since 2.05 percent as recently as September is rather stellar.

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.

Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical significance through being identified with the social, religious, and political institutions of his time.

My point being that by the time you develop the habit of feeding, quenching, clothing, healing, welcoming, and visiting prisons, you have gained a new life complete with new values and new goals and new vision.

So fruitful that, according to John Paul II, it points to the agency of Divine Providence: «In engaging great cultures for the first time, the Church can not abandon what she has gained from her inculturation in the world of Greco - Latin thought.

Force has at times been used to correct wrongs, but force will not gain the kind of cooperation St. Paul points to; it takes something else for that.

Here, if you like, is a man who, over a long period of time, has followed a certain scientific method and laboriously gained his results, who says to us: «Experience, with the help of reasoning, leads to this point; scientific knowledge begins here and ends there; such are my conclusions»; and the philosopher would have the right to answer: «Very well, leave it to me, and I'll show you what I can do with it!

I had been a long time «points» member, and was gaining weight while eating my whole grains and fruit by the pounds!

Again, they finished with the same amount of points as Team Kirshner during the Regular Season — the first time to Teams ever tied atop the Standings, let alone gaining the maximum amount of points..

Georgia Tech and UNC both have top - 25 units, but those two teams combined to gain 901 yards (5.6 per play) and score 53 points; the only reason they didn't score more was because they turned the ball over five times.

Iowa gained just 200 yards in 54 snaps on an icy pitch in Yankee Stadium; the Hawkeyes went three - and - out five times in 12 possessions and twice scored points on drives of fewer than 20 yards.

Okay Arsenal fans, it may not be time to hit the big Pink Panic Button just yet, especially as the point the Gunners gained against Sunderland last night ensured that we will go straight into the Champions League group stage next season.

It was hardly the sort of thing to increase the pressure on our London rivals Chelsea who sit one place above us in the league table and for some time it looked as though the Blues would stroll to victory themselves, but despite and early goal and plenty more chances, they allowed West Ham to gain a foothold and then claim a point through a Javier Hernandez strike.

I suppose by that time we would have leap frogged them and any point gained would make our top 4 safe..

Logically, if the last champion team had difficult time to gain points, do we still have chance to winning the league?

The Ravens, who closed as 2.5 - point favorites, out - gained the Pats by over 100 yards and kicked a 27 - yard field goal as time expired to walk away with a 31 - 30 triumph.

And as for Jon Fox and myself being Pals?We have never met never spoken and never corresponded.We share a common hatred of Arsene Wenger.We also share a long time support of Arsenal Football Club.That is it.There are many many others who post their thoughts and feelings on this site who feel the same way about Wenger and the hierarchy of this club as we do.It would be very very easy to rip your comments to shreds but I simply refuse to waste time pointing out the obvious to you other than to say if your «posts» carried as much conviction and feeling as the ones posted by Jon Fox then you would find yourself gaining far more respect than what you are getting now.Study Ken1945 and how he writes his posts.

Even if we do eventually miss the title... we would have proven a few points... it wont be for selling our most important players, it won't be because we strengthened a rival club; it wont be because a player became bigger than our club; forced his way out; we would have proven that it is not all about money / gains all the time; we would have had a coach who truly proved he is in charge and will not bulge to a player's pressure etc..

Arsenal beat Brighton 2 - 0 at the Emirates earlier in the season, but at the time the Gunners were on an unbeaten run of ten games at home, while Brighton had gained only one point on the road and were favourites for relegation, but this match has a completely different complexion looking at recent form.

The last time he was reportedly told to gain three points overall from clashes with Blackburn, Fulham and Everton to save his job, he managed five.

They flew back in time to greet our visitors Crystal Palace here at Anfield for our Barclays Premier League fixture, despite a great goal by Coutinho we didn't manage to gain any points.

I'm not too worried about Liverpool they have gained nothing on where they were this time last year and only managed 19 points from their remaining fixtures.

The Red Devils entertain Wolves for the second time in ten days hoping to gain maximum points which would keep them in touch with leaders Chelsea especially with the Champions facing a daunting away trip to Anfield on Sunday.

Goals from Graziano Pelle, Erik Lamela and Nacer Chadli lighted up a game where chances came at a premium, as well as typical «Spursy» defending of show a couple of times, but both teams will see this is as 2 points lost rather than 1 point gained.

I ate better than I ever had before and made a point to exercise at least three times a week doing yoga, squats, arm weights and walking, and ended up gaining just 25 pounds from my first appointment to my last.

Spending too much time in front of the TV can lead to weight gain, even if your child is physically active at other points during the day.

When figuring weight gain, remember to always figure from the lowest point, usually at some point in the first few days of life and try to weigh baby on the same scales each time in the same weight of clothing or with no clothing at all.

All necessary body functions are working perfectly, time spent in the uterus at this point is all about lung development and weight gain.

Stettler points to studies both in the U.S. and Europe that show rapid weight gain, including a study at his hospital, which showed infants who experienced rapid weight gain during the first four months of life were five times more likely to be obese by age 20.

This time, 23 percent said they'd vote for «Woodstock,» a gain of 12 points from the initial question, with Cuomo down to 46 percent, a drop of 19 points.

Adele Malpass, chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party, pointed to a report issued by the city's Department of Investigation in 2013 in which inspectors gained access voting booths 61 out of 63 times when posing as as ineligible individuals — individuals who had either died, been convicted of a felony or who had moved outside the city.

(WBEN / AP)- A big earnings gain from Apple is sending the Dow Jones industrial average above 22,000 points for the first time.

The last time any government won a by - election was in 1983, and with Labour considerably behind in the nationwide polls and Corbyn's popularity low, a gain in either seat would be a remarkable victory for the Conservatives and further evidence that they are dominating the post-Brexit political landscape (though, as Matt Singh points out on NumberCruncherPolitics, it would be even more remarkable than this).