Sentences with phrase «hit home the point»

Two of my favorite books on this subject hit home the point.

Mark Jaccard hitting home the point that, while spills might be locally devastating, they pale in comparison to the consequences of unmitigated climate change.

Not exact matches

To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

Your point about Enron, Tower, Hollywood, etc. really hits home & that's why most of my free cash flow (since my nut is covered already) goes towards buying stuff you can touch & see like real companies or real estate.

Because mortgages are such big dollar amounts — the Mortgage Bankers Association reported the average loan request in March 2017 hit an all - time high at $ 313,300 — even a fraction of a percentage point can make a big difference in your monthly payment and how much you will spend on your home in the long run.

I, too, recognized it was me — whatever I did — my doing, my responsibility, hard - work — whether I scored a touchdown, hit a home run, scored 25 points in a b - ball game, or kicked someone's ass in Jiu - Jitsu or Karate.

As a proud atheist, this is a point that hits home hard for me, as I know that even a finely qualified atheist would never be elected because of the lack of separation between church and state in this nation.

Point is, if Obama is allowed to do this unopposed today, there's a great possibility that he'll continue to do so, sooner or later hitting something close to home for you.

I see your point, but I am both Atheist, Alcoholic and have struggled with AA due to it's reliance on belief in god, and this article hit home for me.

I've been saying this for year, I guess the point is hitting home.

He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

But that's not the point, the point is that there were noisy people outside my house and all I wanted to do was open the window and tell them to quiet down because I can count on three fingers the number of times I've been home to witness the sound of hundreds of millions of water molecules hitting the roof over my head.

From 2002 through»05 only three players hit 50 home runs in a season; thisyear — with home runs up 11.7 % from last year at the same point — six players (Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, Jim Thome, Alfonso Soriano, Adam Dunn and CarlosLee) were on pace to reach 50.

Dirk Nowitzki did his best to at least help his team to one win in front of the home crowd with 34 points, but he was bizarrely ineffective in the final minutes, missing shots he hit with frightening regularity last year.

Compared with Ripken at the same point in his career, Jones (who had played 370 games through Sunday) had the same batting average -LRB-.290) and nearly the same number of hits (396 to 405) and home runs (61 to 63).

Side effects included severe nausea and weight loss, and he hit his low point during a tearful call home to his parents, Jim and Judy.

If language does not hit home it is dull, wasted, and fails to truly make ones point.

Just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse for Arsenal, who have been severely hit by injuries to the fulcrum of their team and made a totally unacceptable start to their season, Wenger's wizards failed to harness home advantage and pick up 3 points against a resurgent Hull City.

The tough games are coming thick and fast with Man United, Barcelona and Spurs game not too far away it hits home how important 3 points were yesterday.

If you've predicted something unfathomably rare (a no - hitter, pitcher hits two home runs, Justin Bour steals seven bases) and it comes true, that's going to be a lot of points.

Watford are just hit and miss at the best of times and a point has to be on offer for the home side.

On top of that, the Blues have hit the back of the net in each of their last 21 home league games against West Brom, so it all points to being a good afternoon for the Blues.

Newcastle Home Win: The Whites have hit the skids on the road and that should just give the Magpies enough to go out and collect the three points in this one.

However, Rovers are seriously exposed away from home — losing six of eight in 2011 and having won just three of their eighteen away matches all season — whereas Wolves have taken the vast majority of their points at Molineux, where they've beaten the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United this season and have lost only two of eight in 2011, and they really have hit a purple patch.

Now it would be folly to assume at this point that this level of performance will definitely continue for the whole campaign; as much as we'd like them to, the Reds won't hit double figures for shots on target for every single home game this season, as they have so far.

It gets to the point where he hits, writhes on the floor, screams, calls for mom who isn't home yet, and nothing I do helps.

Almost two years ago, my father fell, hit his head, had brain surgery and became a permanent resident of a nursing home; at one point, when he was down to 86 pounds and refusing to eat, we feared we'd lose him.

I almost cried at how some points truly hit home.

The supposedly unbiased article reads like an ad for Nestlé, hitting all of the formula industry's main talking points including repeatedly mentioning that breastfeeding is difficult and not everyone can do it, advising that mothers have a tin of formula waiting at home before their baby is born, claiming that formula is as close as possible to breastmilk, and even recommending a specific Nestlé brand.

That makes a really good starting point in like, you know, I was maybe down for the count for day and a half to two days but I was still able to work 10 hour a day, see patients, do my thing at home, cook, do all my stuff and I was still able to function even though I was starting to feel it because I hit it hard.

Breathe: The section on «warning signs of burnout and excessive stress» sure hits home, especially this point: «Frequent colds and flus with an increased recovery time — Similar to hormonal balance, the body prioritizes stress hormones over immune function, making it extra hard to fight common colds and other illnesses.»

After Kurt lost 87 pounds and 22 % percentage points of body fat on My Diet Is Better Than Yours, The Wild Diet shot up on the charts and hit # 28 of all books on Amazon, and # 1 in 12 different categories, including «Cooking,» «Lifestyle & Home,» «Health, Fitness & Dieting,» and «Dieting, Diets & Weight Loss.»

At one point, a cousin came outside to let us know that three of our family members were hit by a drunk driver on their way home that afternoon.

I may be hitting a low point from time to time, crying on the plane, missing my friends and family, but I have found a new life and made myself at home in this strange land, somehow.

I'm actually sitting in the Hong Kong airport as I write this, and the reason I've decided to hit on the La Perla topic is because EVERY time I'm in the HK airport I go to the money exchange, swap what money I have for the currency of my destination, then go to the HSBC ATM to draw out enough HK dollars to keep for my taxi ride home once I arrive back after whatever jet - setting I'm doing... AND... then make it a point to stop in to the La Perla boutique opposite the ATM to brows the delicately hung lushness that La Perla is.

I have been working on my home office space for months, and finally feel that it's hit a point of where I'm ready to share with you!

By the time Bruce Almighty hit screens, audiences could tell that Oedekerk's manic sense of silly was still as strong as ever, and just three short years later that point was driven home when the increasingly prolific writer / director returned to the screens with the kid - friendly, computer animated comedy Barnyard.

Freed, or to be freed, slave Django (Jamie Foxx) is too bitter and steely - eyed to wisecrack or even smile as his pointed verbal bullets hit home.

The main points of focus here are the script and the fact that the film took time to become a hit, aquiring it's core audience through home video and television.

That just about sums it up, People like to judge, categorise, criticise and somewhere in the middle of all of that, the point of the movie hits home.

Only nearer the end does she really come across as the ultimate female action hero and by that point, the transformation feels a little forced, the dialogue not really hitting home as much as it should have.

Three points hit home with me.

On a reasonably long run from the north of England to the Home Counties, I hit both roadworks and rush - hour traffic at various points.

I drove it home with them pointing forward hitting the ground.

I do a lot right, but Mr. Gunson's post irritated the crap and lymph out of me because it hits too close to home on those three points.

No, they did not hit a home run but it is a good e-reader with some good points and a definite improvement over the Simple Touch with Glo Light.

It's hard to not think about the money but the point of this article hits home!

Many thanks for a «point blank» article that hits the message home!

Home values may have hit their low point, as St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard recently noted housing prices have «by and large» stabilized.

That hit might seem minuscule, but if you're on the cusp of having a good credit score (700 to 759) or an excellent credit score (760 and above), a 5 - point reduction could push you into a lower category — and prevent you from qualifying for the best interest rates on a home loan.