Sentences with phrase «have a point by»

Sorry fred, but at this point you've stopped having a point by point discussion and gone into the realm of preaching.

Captain Brian Gionta, a 39 - year - old veteran NHL forward brought on to lead the team, had no points by the end of the tournament.

The aforementioned item combinations also prove to be a fun mechanic, as you can create new items that wouldn't appear during gameplay beforehand, and make items that greatly enhance their normal effects (clovers, for example, increase your combo'd points by five, while the crafted horseshoe item doubles that).

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As Mary Mycio has pointed out in Slate, however, it's impossible to know how many incidents of cancer were directly caused by Chernobyl.

It made that point by issuing a press release that would fit inside a Christmas card.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

It's complicated, but under the new rules, if a customer walks into a store with a chip card and the store hasn't updated its point - of - sale equipment to accept chip cards, the merchant is liable for any fraud that occurs from using the card the old way, by swiping the magnetic stripe.

At the March 20 - 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 % to 1.75 %, as had been widely expected.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

Lam points to the $ 50 billion that China has earmarked for investment in a port, railways, and roads in western Pakistan, in particular in the province of Balochistan, which has been plagued recently by separatist terrorism.

Shum and Colaco point out that any reclassification of risk would be heavily scrutinized by Canadian regulators, in order to make sure that changes aren't self - serving on the part of policy providers and in fact benefit consumers.

As for the Golden Globes, Gervais pointed out that the show is watched» ¨ by 25 million people in the U.S. and maybe 300 million people worldwide» ¨ — «tweeting about it would be a drop in the ocean,» Gervais noted.»

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Gross margins have grown by three to four percentage points.

He points out that: «Total has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, notably by ending continuous flaring and using the associated gas locally.

Now, one of Leap Transit's four buses has gone up for auction, as pointed out by Sarah Fine on Twitter.

Ford's CEO explained the move by pointing to decreasing demand for small cars, which the Mexico plant would have built.

Pellas points out that while Amazon, Google and Apple downplay privacy concerns related to these devices, the reality is that by nature of how they operate these devices have to be always listening.

As the auditing firm KPMG points out, automating repetitive administrative tasks has the potential to reduce operational costs by as much as 75 percent.

To get to this point, 23andMe had to conduct extensive studies proving the accuracy of its tests and assuring regulators that the reports can be easily understood by consumers so that they can make informed health care decisions.

Bots can help solve this by working as a centralized point of contact where workers in different departments can communicate and collaborate without having to break the multidepartmental mold.

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

He argues the «whatever it takes» ethos that's been adopted by global central banks has to fade at some point, and notes stimulus is already drying up.

The underlying combined ratio of 95.5 % increased 1.1 points, primarily driven by (i) loss cost trends that modestly exceeded earned pricing, the impact of which has been moderating in recent quarters, and (ii) normal quarterly variability in both loss activity and expenses.

The company, which lets users earn loyalty points from check - ins, photos and updates, has been acquired by travel software company ezRez.

Expanding that functionality to other retailers would remove the pain point of walking up to a checkout counter, enabling shoppers to pay by simply taking a picture of a product's bar code.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

Enter to win The new Sprinter by completing a short essay or submitting a video to tell us how a new van would take your business to the next level (extra points for submitting a video!).

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

At one point, the game's outsourced code became so problematic that they had to scrap the whole thing, which delayed the launch by a year.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

Just by showing photographs of the bees or how we harvest or that we had a devastating winter and it destroyed half our plants, that created an attachment to our farm, which allowed us to capture the price points we needed to create a premium experience.»

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third WaBy increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Waby an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Way.

Usually by the time you get to that point, say, in»06 or» 07, the Fed hikes rates aggressively, the curve is inverted, there had been excessive lending against inflated real - estate values.

Stephen Gordon has pointed out here on Econowatch that many tax policy discussions of late have involved hiking taxes that are perceived to be paid by someone else (the rich; corporations).

Osry and other succession experts point out that families are often sandbagged because they've failed to plan well in advance for a generational transition by creating an orderly, formal and, most importantly, consensual process to see it through.

Bernat brings this point home with a pointed joke: «You can not cure clinical depression by eating ice cream, which is unfortunate because that would be living the dream.»

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

Immigration advocates criticized the move as unnecessary, but the Trump administration and others were quick to point out that the National Guard has been deployed to the border in the past — most recently by former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

Whether you have potential clients who might be in wheelchairs or you may employ wheelchair - bound workers at any point, your workspace must be accessible by any person in a wheelchair.

The team's latest starting five, of James, Love, Isaiah Thomas, J.R. Smith, and Jae Crowder, has a net rating of -22.8, meaning it is outscored by 22.8 points per 100 possessions.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

I have overcome it by being lucky enough to find a few good people who believe in me to the point where they will do anything to ensure the company's success.

Cohn has served as a point man on top White House priorities such as tax reform and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, but both of those efforts have been muddled by Trump's increasingly combative relationship with Congress, one that was strained even further by his comments on Charlottesville.

Some tools will help you do this by providing more data you can use to target your demographics more accurately or allowing you to reach wider audiences than you have up to this point.

The current deadlock has raised pressure on Greek bonds on Thursday morning, sending the 10 - year bond yields up by 5 basis point.