Sentences with phrase «just what the point»

I'm wondering just what the point of this story is.

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«The line between e-commerce and what most would call traditional retail has blurred right away to the point where for me everything is really just «commerce,»» he says.

The final version of the talking points shows what happened: Just about everything was cut, leaving virtually nothing.

The point here is simply to acknowledge what many have argued about the whole idea of «post-truth» - it's not anything new, but just more of the same.

No matter what your business sells, someone will be interested in it, you just have to find the interesting point of view.

«At a certain point, I realized that there's a percentage of the population that no matter what you do or say, they're just not going to like you, and it's beyond your control,» Levy says.

What's more, the 10 - year Treasury rate is up by just 0.1 percentage points since Wednesday, to just over 2.2 %.

Instead, the point that I'd rather make is that how you say something is just as important as what you are saying.

It's debatable if you can ever have too much money but at certain point just figuring out what to do with it is a job.

Ask any entrepreneur that's just starting out what the most difficult aspect of their business is and they'll likely point you to the challenge of reaching and retaining customers.

«From that point, I paid that [$ 21,000] off in just six months, and I paid that off so fast that I thought, «You know what?

My breaststroke probably looked more like a dog paddle, and my fly probably looked... well, let's just say that at one point the lifeguard asked what stroke I was trying to do.

«Just a few points off... is what will cause the entire narrative to be off,» he continued.

Case in point: they will remember what kind of pillow you prefer and make you feel like you just arrived home with their friendly service!

No need to think about what your decision will be at this point, just explain what's happened so far.

«What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction» - Oprah Winfrey

We want to give them access to these kinds of optimization opportunities through the data points that we've gathered, not just for their shipments but for also what we're seeing for other people's shipments.»

«A big part of what's kept us hungry is feeling like we deserve to show the world that we can get back there — that it wasn't just a fluke, that it was taken away and that we will get back to that point.»

«We've already seen a very significant amount of the euro's appreciation take effect on earnings so at this point in time what matters most is just how much more hawkish people become on the ECB,» he added.

«What I feel is really unique and compelling about this offering is just the breadth of the menu and the multiple price points and the simplicity of it,» Flatley says of her chain's strategy.

It's good when great things happen locally and that's just what happened when the City of East Point was awarded a $ 20,000 Let's Play grant from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM!.

Underemployment, still elevated by just under six million involuntary part - timers, was 9.7 % last month, about a percentage point above what I consider to be its full employment rate (though down from 10.4 % a year ago).

Just to drive this point home, we asked 27 of today's personal finance experts what they wish they'd known about investing in their 20s.

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

Per our point about asking people what they want to learn about, on a lot of our content pieces, we ask just that.

I'm pretty sure that the people were taking turns, but at some point it seemed like people were just repeating what the previous person had said.

So, generally, the biggest deltas are, one, a little bit weaker on the handset side; two, a little more conservative modeling of what happens later in the year than what we had, which frankly is not, again, just to drive that point home, nobody knows how many people are going to buy a new handset when it's launched on the market — not us, not our customers, not analysts, or you name it.

Ezra Klein: Also, to just build on that point a little bit, every Western European nation and also Canada and also Israel gets about... It's about half of what we pay, it's not as cheap as Singapore, but if we only managed to cut our costs in half, that would also be a big advance.

I understand that startups normally need capital froman an IPO or need to issue more stocks in order to finance R&D (well, as just about all companies pursue immediate profits not at the cost of the future, the second option is becoming forgettable), but what's the point when the whole world is now run by a few corporate cartels?

The point, they say, is to provide the data and to make people aware of it, so that managers can understand what works and, just as important, what doesn't.

When someone reads good content and sees a backlink pointing to the source or creator, there is a very good chance that they will click on the link to learn more about who or what is responsible for what they just enjoyed.

In the example below I've placed the ellipsis just at the point where the reader is curious to know what comes next:

But the point is: just start with what you have.»

That point just illustrates to me the importance of staying invested in the market no matter what crazy headlines are being written nor what events transpire around the world.

To determine your estimated equity, just subtract the outstanding balance of your loan from the estimated value of your property and you will have a great starting point for determining what types of refinance loans will work for you.

«Let me just say if we provided every service that we could and did all that in exemplary fashion, if he can still get access to guns what's the point of all this?»

Again, the point is not that there's anything wrong with slicing indexes differently, just make sure you know what you're getting.

Practically, what this means is that if you trade one crypto for another crypto (say BTC for XRP just to illustrate the point), the IRS views you as doing the following:

With an ETF, you can get exposure to just about any asset class in the world, very cheaply — just basis points — and what do people use them for?

Mark Whitmore: This is Mark Whitmore, I keep forgetting we have two Mark's on the line here, and Chris you absolutely interpreted what I was trying to say correctly, and kind of to follow up a little bit, I think one of the things that the other Mark pointed out is the issue of timing, and whereas the two prevailing investing paradigms out there seem to be this notion of efficient market theory which attempts to just buy and hold the market no matter what, completely price indifferent.

(Now just a few points away)-- What will

With any type of investment, it's always important to think about just what the financial markets are discounting in price at any point in time.

Or you just don't like the headache of figuring out what all the points mean to you.

Not only was the Competition Bureau not entitled to project what the operator of a VOW may or may not seek to charge in a commission sense, the Competition Bureau ignored that full - blown VOW's were not just office sites in terms of the scale of their business, (others continue to make this same mistake) and that consequently before a VOW might even reach the point of «economies of scale», the additional costs associated with running a full - blown VOW would need to be satisfied.

But those are big deals and it's broadening the touch points that we have at customers beyond just the business user into the IT or the shadow IT side and it takes time but we like what we're seeing.

So, then what is the point of even campaigning for office when folks will just change their decision message after they get into office?

Sometimes when people's positions are so far removed from my own, I just wonder what's the point.

Listening to them speak, I sometimes wonder if they've ever read the bible or actually paid attention to what was written instead of just using talking points, propaganda and rhetoric in their sermons.

[RICHARD SWIFT] I just finished reading The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.He's really inspiring «cause his writing is just so simple.It's almost to the point of boredom.Like, «Why does he spend a whole chapter on what happened in this bar?»

I think our new Pope is just what the Church needs at this point — humility, self - sacrifice, lack of interest in «material» things!