Sentences with phrase «giving ability points»

If you strike the right chord with their innermost feelings, the relationship status increases, eventually giving ability points and skill bonuses.

The game is littered with places of interests, ranging from ritual stones that give ability points to hidden or guarded treasures.

This game honestly plays like a Batman game; you are given ability points to unlock different skills and traits very similar to Batman: Arkham series.

Not only does raising your level make quests more manageable, it also increases your health and gives you Ability Points to unlock new skills.

Not exact matches

But being bilingual will have less weight, with the ability to speak a second official language given fewer points.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

While a lot of the value of the Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card lies in its ability to earn points, The Platinum Card ® from American Express focuses on giving cardholders a number of luxury and cost - saving travel perks.

At TSI over the past year and at the TSI Blog two months ago I've made the point that the Fed gave itself the ability to pay interest on bank reserves so that the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) could be raised without the need to shrink bank reserves and the economy - wide money supply.

DiscoverOrg uncovers thousands of these scoops (leadership moves, pain points and spending initiatives) every week, giving subscribers the ability to know where they should be focusing their efforts.

As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out, it's about abuse of power — according to Daniels's account, Trump's wealth gave him the ability to quash a damaging story about himself, at least until after the presidential election.

It also gives you the ability to combine your American Express Membership Rewards points, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, Citi ThankYou Rewards points, and SPG points by transferring them to Singapore Airlines.

My point was before going on the glove tangent, that when inventing something to disprove you can give it any supernatural abilities which do not have to conform to the known world and thus make disproving them essentially impossible.

«The standard was lowered not by any real point of science but because the standard was lowered because the ability to judge moral issues was given up by the APA»

The standard was lowered not by any real point of science but because the standard was lowered because the ability to judge moral issues was given up by the APA.The Bible standard was also given up, so now you essentially have no standard just a set of laws telling people you can or cant do.

In every NBA trade call, health information for every player is given, «including any factors that could affect a player's ability to play basketball at any point in his career,» according to Larry Coon's FAQ.

They sit in fourth place in the Premier League table, just a point above Tottenham, with question marks now being raised over their ability to qualify for the Champions League given their recent form.

The Arsenal and Wales international star Aaron Ramsey was a key figure in the victory over AFC Bournemouth at the weekend, earning himself the Man of the Match award from the TV pundits with a performance full of energy, desire and ability and having a big hand in both goals which gave the Gunners a vital three points.

Bol is going to give one lucky college team a center with unparalleled length (7» 8 wingspan) and impressive three - point shooting ability.

He is good but given that the focal point of the attack for Arsenal is Giroud, he won't fair well, I've always said if you where to give our «wingers» artistic license to play as inside forwards instead of on the overlap trying to cross it in to Gioud they will be a he'll of a lot better, Walcott and Ox preseason and Campbell world cup and Alexis Sanchez Copa America and now Gnabry are all self evident having a deep lying forward / target man is impeding their ability to perform well because there spending 70 % of the time trying to cross instead of run at opponents

However, despite his performances of late not quite matching up to his early season form, he still has the talent and ability to secure three points single - handedly, and his understanding with Eden Hazard — as demonstrated in the 1 - 0 victory over QPR — gives the Blues a threat that the Gunners currently lack.

Although Hernandez pointed out that he was still happy at the club and considered them to be «one of the best clubs in the world» he pointed out that he simply needed the manager to give him more opportunity to showcase his ability in order to prove his worth.

My hope as a doula and childbirth educator is to give people a starting point for learning about the power and process of birth and the ability to advocate for themselves before, during and after the birth process.

This allows your whole family to play together, and gives parents the ability to track kids» points, or adjust account settings.

Given May launched this election at a point where it ate up Article 50 time and that it has had a heavy toll on the general appraisal of her abilities, I think anything south of a 60 seat majority is a problem for her.

«We owe the young scientists who are coming into the system, from the moment they start in a Ph.D. program until they finally get to the point that they're in faculty positions... a responsibility to give them clear information and good support in making effective, sound decisions that comport with their abilities and career aspirations,» Daniels said at a briefing on the report.

All Abilities gives a large number of links in the U.S., divided into categories such as «business and economy» (where you'll find education - related links) and «computers and internet» (which points you in the direction of adaptive technologies and related products).

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Understanding how this immune system is regulated at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's baseline ability to resist disease.

The limb sounding method offers an observer the ability to probe a planetary atmosphere at distinct tangent points giving remarkable vertical resolution.

In the latest issue of the journal Cell, a team of scientists led by Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, Texas A&M University's Craig Kaplan, PhD, and UCSF Professor Christine Guthrie, PhD, describe a new technique — called the point mutant E-MAP (pE - MAP) approach — that gives researchers the ability to pinpoint and map thousands of interactions between each of an enzyme's many moving parts.

From that point on, our hormones rule our every decade, giving us our first period (and PMS), the highs and lows of pregnancy, and the big M. And this chemical influence is actually a good thing: So - called sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, help keep our sex drive up, our risk of heart disease down and our baby - making ability primed.

Like it or not, most of us have snooped at one point or another and it begs the question: which would we be more willing to give up, our ability to find new partners on the Internet, or our ability to find out about partners on the Internet?

We run down some of our favourite abilities to give you some idea of what to aim for the first time you arrive at it clutching your ability points and blinking in confusion.

You are then given skill points that can be used to unlock new abilities.

The simple fact is writer / directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa don't give us much in the way of a point of sympathy with Russell, except his ability to cheat generically unlikable systems (prisons and the opulence of the world of corporate executives) and say he's entirely motivated by a need to love and be loved in return.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

The safe houses aren't anything useful beyond giving you fast travel points and the ability to purchase weapons on the go.

Instead of having to wade through over twenty hours of exposition before unlocking the class system in VII, part VIII almost immediately lets you begin to customize your characters» skills by assigning points into various categories to give them new abilities.

Dungeon Defenders takes a semi-new approach to the tower defense genre, employing traditional elements like loot, leveling up, classes and towers while also changing the mentality up, advocating use of blockades at choke points and giving each class a different set of towers to summon as well as abilities.

This set of 20 linear equation and inequalities task cards requires students to demonstrate the ability to: - Solve linear equations - Solve linear inequalities - Solve word problems involving equations and inequalities - Determine slope from given points - Create an equation based on a linear graph - Graph a linear function from an equation These task cards are great for a review, test prep, class activity or even homework.

While traditional classroom training still continue to have its place, the retail sector should consider learning solutions for their employees that give them the ability to access information at the point of need and are just right sized to fit their downtimes.

«All these activities give students a wide range of information while providing the opportunity for students of all abilities to excel,» Choponis pointed out.

Bill sponsor Sen. Stuart Adams, R - Layton, noted that the bill actually gives schools more ability to earn As and Bs by lowering the percentage of total possible points they must hit to get an A to 80 percent from 90 percent.

The aim is to monitor the performance of each year's GCSE cohort, to give examiners a reference point for differences in ability between different year groups, says the regulator.

Your editor has already made short work tearing apart arguments advanced by Petrilli and others three years ago, and given how tiresome (as well as morally and intellectually unsupportable) arguments for reviving ability - tracking can be, there's no point in further indulging Petrilli's argument.

So league tables do improve schools» ability to score league table points, but this is not necessarily the same thing as giving students a better education.

She pointed out that her amended bill would still extend the probationary period before teachers receive tenure from two to three years and would at least give districts the ability to negotiate a streamlined dismissal process through collective bargaining with local teachers unions.

At Prieto Math and Science Academy, one of our partner schools in Chicago, teachers seek to improve their students» ability to give a viable argument and to critique the reasoning of others; their entry point is teaching students to use journals to record their own ideas and the ideas of others, and using the whiteboard strategically to support student journal writing and classroom discussion.

Giving drivers the ability to see even more, the Surround View Camera system delivers an unparalleled vantage point while parking.