Sentences with phrase «get fewer points»

This dog would jet across the yard like a flash and would nearly catch the dog toy in the air, or sometimes on one bounce and I thought that it would probably be real tough to beat him in a game of Kickball 500, where you kick a ball back and forth to a guy and they have to catch it either in the air or after as few bounces as possible because they get fewer points after each bounce, and you go to 500.

With Chelsea, Man U and City struggling, we will still likely get fewer points this season than last season.

Boston's Shawn Thornton is a physical forward, with lots of hits and penalty minutes — the kind that gets the fewest points.

A long - winded way of saying «science and the bible do not conflict, the bible is just misunderstood, or got a few points wrong.»

Sanchez is the type of player that gets us a few points a season when we shouldn't have got them.

Do you like when Draymond barks at you for letting the other team's top wing get a few points?

The team has the killer instinct, preferring to kick hell out of a rival when it gets a few points ahead rather than merely win.

They've got a few points to play with but you always get a team that starts sliding, and they are the team that seem to be doing that at the moment.

We'll never throw your credit repair campaign to the wind hoping you'll get a few points.

I still get a few points for my hotel rate, but I only get one welcome amenity and consecutive nights at the same hotel, even if booked separately, don't count as multiple stays.

I used to get a few points when I traveled quite a bit for work but you need to fly a lot, or spend a whole lot down here to get enough points to get you anywhere.

Consider this the inverse of the «Swindle» show, which gets a few points correct but misrepresents everything else.

Before our full Moto 360 Sport review begins, we've got a few points we need to go over, starting with our initial impressions.

Not exact matches

It's just becoming more and more obvious that a few key players and central platforms in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the point where they will be controlling significant segments of the entire economy and our lives as well.

This point is so subtle that most clients and students take a few times to «get» it.

What text can you omit to get to your point in fewer words?

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

If I needed just a few more points, I could have also opened a SKYPASS Visa card issued by US Bank — it only offers a 15,000 point sign - up bonus, but almost as soon as I created a Korean Air Skypass frequent flyer account online, I started getting targeted offers in the mail for a 50,000 point bonus.

If you save a few points here and there, your profit and loss statement can get stunningly better.»

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

Also, in the body of the email make sure you get to the point using as few words as possible.

For example, instead of descriptive bullet points when I'm recommending a particular communications strategy, I'll often show a few screenshots of media coverage that resulted from the strategy, then talk through how we got there.

But by sticking with a few tried and true design principles, it's easy to tailor PowerPoint decks for the small screen that look good, and even more importantly, get your point across, according to graphic design experts.

When you get to the point where you're only spending a few hours a year managing your investments you can move on to the next thing.

By spending more time in the discovery phase, Perkins points out, far fewer deals get stalled later on.

In most cases you have only a few seconds to capture someone's attention at the beginning of your demo and get your most important point across.

When you're finished doing that, here are a few points that I believe are getting lost in the shuffle.

«I think the main reason the show got so much traction in the first few seasons was the original cast - we all knew each other, and had known each other for 10 years at that point.

Of course, you should come prepared for the meeting with a few thoughts and talking points, but don't get discouraged from sharing your opinion in the future if you're wrong about something.

To get to this point, St Jude and a few other research hospitals that are piloting similar schemes have had to develop a great deal of infrastructure, train their clinical staff in how to respond to genetic data, and secure the significant funding these schemes require.

«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.

By converting your Marriott Rewards to Starpoints, you're getting to stay in great hotels for fewer points.

Getting your credit to that point requires a few months of tinkering if you have reasonably good credit.

Like the $ 95 - a-year Sapphire Preferred, you can transfer your points on a 1:1 basis or redeem for 1.5 cents each, but you get a few extra perks along the way:

It's important to point out that fewer fields might equate to more conversions, but you're also likely to get more low quality leads.

Up until this point, the agency has taken few actions, but it appears it's ready to start getting more aggressive against fraud.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

I could call out a few more sectors, but you get the point.

I always get nasty comments when I point them out, but survivorship bias looms large when we forget that the few famous entrepreneurs — even the hundreds of relative unknowns in the Sunday Times» Rich List — stand on the broken backs of uncountable also - rans.

Things get quite technical at a few points and I wanted to ensure everyone enjoyed this conversation but providing a little bit of context with that 20 - minute introduction.

If oil prices ever move up, or stabilize, then we should get to a point of growing dividends (rather than the cuts and suspensions of the past few months).

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.

Before we get into a few examples, please know there are so many incredible ways that you can use your Chase Ultimate Rewards points (we found 49 different redemption options and that's still scratching the surface!).

These cards earn between 2x - 7x Honors points for each dollar spent in a variety of categories, provide boosts to get you closer to elite status, and offer a few unique benefits.

I recently got a few credit cards that are linked to airline miles and points and I am so thankful you posted this!

It was really good to see that there are, indeed, a few actual Christians who responded and actually got the point of the article.

Since so few other people take care to mind the concrete details of EQUAL treatment, it's usually left to those of us who would continually get the short end of the stick to point these things out.

I was very reluctant to do that because I felt that I really wasn't sure if I would get an answer, or that I wouldn't be ready for an answer, or that I wouldn't know for certain if I felt that I did get an answer that is was actually from God or whether I was just deceiving myself, so for a few years there I just put that off, however those questions and concerns kept boiling up within me, so at that point I couldn't take it anymore putting it off.

Yes, I was one of the freaks of Christianity who got his kicks studying, debating, and teaching the finer points of theology that few people even knew existed, and fewer cared about.