Sentences with phrase «increasing number of points»

The structure of the promotion is similar to a number of previous promotions where bonus points are paid after each of the stays. An increasing number of points is offered for each subsequent stay.

After removing the Bonus Award Night from the Club Carlson Visa card (reported here), effective June 1, 2015, more than 200 hotels in the Carlson Group are going up in the rewards category — some by two or even three categories — drastically increasing the number of points required for a free hotel night.

These have ranged from culling the benefits on their US Credit Card to dramatically increasing the number of points you'll need to book rooms in their hotels.

Hyatt likes to offer exponential bonus awards, increasing the number of points earned at each qualifying tier.

Every time you read through the news in the miles and points world, you seem to find an airline increasing the number of points you need to book a flight.

Using this technique, he has increased the number of point sources known in Cha - I to 429.

The downside to this simplicity is that there is no way to increase the number of points you earn for purchases.

Check out our best ways to earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points to increase the number of points you have to transfer.

The downside to this simplicity is that there is no way to increase the number of points you earn for purchases.

This increases the number of points in one account so that you don't have to make multiple transfers to outside programs and face fewer annoying remainders (outside transfers must be in multiples of 1,000 while internal transfers can be any value).

It's not enough for all the top properties since IHG increased the number of points need for some InterContinental properties to 60,000 / night.

Without a plan you can't possibly know when you'll have an opportunity to use the points you buy in the promotion and, before you know it, IHG may increase the number of points needed for a top - class stay and, suddenly, you're left with a points balance that's a lot less useful to you than it was before (and worth a lot less too).

The new chart is effective from 14 January, 2014 and increases the number of points required to upgrade from a discount economy (Red e-deal) class to business.

People manufacture spending in order to meet minimum spend requirements to get credit card sign - up bonuses, meet annual spending thresholds for bonuses, or simply to increase the number of points and miles they earn on a regular basis.

This promotion is clearly geared towards leisure travelers who tend to travel on the weekends, but still offers the business travelers an awesome opportunity to increase the number of points earned with each stay.

Coins increase the number of points in the game and they can also give Mario extra lives (100 coins give 1 extra life), and they can be found floating above the platforms of each level or under the coin boxes or certain blocks (in that case, Mario has to jump beneath the block to get the coins).

Every violation which you incur will increase your points and an increased number of points will imply a higher insurance premium.

Not exact matches

But there are an increasing number of signs pointing to the idea that this isn't always the case.

As a matter of fact, there is no point in denying that by all means clichés surely increase the number of words in the text, which is clearly seen in this sentence.

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).

«It makes sense to point to an increase in the number of travelers as one likely reason, but other than that, we have no theories.»

More importantly, 23 percent said they plan to add workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent said they planned to scale back on the number of workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.

As you'd expect, men outnumber women on the list, but the 17 - to - 13 margin points to an increase in the number and quality of women pursuing leadership roles in business.

Starz chief exec Chris Albrecht, who ordered two seasons of the Capetown - based drama Black Sails before it had even aired, points out that the number of scripted dramas on TV has increased by 33 % since 2010.

FiveThirtyEight pointed out that the number of people who thought tax cuts enacted under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would help the rich more than the middle class increased after those plans passed.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

While other data on Thursday showed a modest increase in new applications for jobless benefits last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to tightening labor market conditions.

Although, that is slowly changing as an increasing number of «reward travelers» seek to maximize their credit card points to pay for these travel expenses.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

After a number of years of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP), the increase in rates stopped for around 11 months until December 2016 when the Federal Reserve promised to increase interest rates by 25 basis points.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

When site owners began creating artificial methods of increasing the number of links pointing to their sites to improve their rankings, the search engines retaliated with link quality measures.

«This coupled with our increasing control of the middle mile and last mile of transportation reduces the number of touch points in transportation, thereby improving the speed of delivery and reducing risk of damage.»

«Political uncertainty in Russia has seen a definite fall in the number of Russians looking to buy in Italy, especially at the upper end of the market ($ 5million - plus) most notably around parts of Sardinia and coastal Tuscany, but there has been an increase in Russian interest at lower price points especially in Liguria.

Segment Results North America VPG increased 5 percent to $ 3,255 in the fourth quarter of 2014 from $ 3,103 in the fourth quarter of 2013, driven mainly by an increase in the average number of points purchased per contract and higher pricing.

During the 2014 Winter Olympics your signing bonus was increased depending on the number of medals won by Team USA — 500 points for every gold, 250 for every silver, and 100 for every bronze.

Segment Results North America VPG increased 6.9 percent to $ 3,477 in the third quarter of 2014 from $ 3,252 in the third quarter of 2013, driven mainly by an increase in the average number of points purchased per contract, higher pricing and a modest improvement in closing efficiency.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

Looking at the figures, showing steadily increasing numbers of pilgrims (with peaks in the Jubilee Years: next one 2021) it seems to me that the turning point in 20th Century numbers was in 1982, the first pilgrimage to Santiago of St John Paul II.

The priesthood became hereditary, a separate, professional class, and the sacrifices so increased in number and in the complexity of their attendant rites that one scholar points to the change as «perhaps the most striking and convincing proof of development the Old Testament affords.»

Herberg pointed out the increasing number of marriages between Irish and Italian Catholics, a union that at one time had been taboo but which was now deemed acceptable because both parties were Catholic.

During the 1990s, he points out, the average number of school shootings with multiple victims increased from two to five per year.

Some VPAG supporters have pointed out that as the number of truly practising Christians decreases the influence of non-Christians increases.

Pew has released the findings of their 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which shows that among the overall population, the number of people who do not believe in God has increased 3 percentage points.

The number of people that now call themselves non-religious has increased so rapidly that the majority of non-believers were at some point religious.

In considering these systems of increasing complexity we must soon reach a point where a number of internal configurations in which the system may exist will vastly exceed the number of actual examples of any one given class that can possibly be collected in our universe.

How are we to prevent this compression of Mankind on the closed surface of the planet (a thing that is good in itself, as we have seen, since it promotes social unification) from passing that critical point beyond which any increase in numbers will mean famine and suffocation?

The increasing number of scientific discoveries involving hyper - complex systems, even among the smallest of life forms, point away from the idea of these systems forming by simple «chance» and more toward an intelligent creator.