Sentences with phrase «larger point stands»

Still, the larger point stands, as the $ 90 bn included a $ 3 bn for «clean coal.»

Those two were rentals, but the larger point stands.

But the larger point stands: The Dodgers have been in the NLCS before, but they've never been in this sweet of a spot.

Not exact matches

Equities analysts don't doubt that's the case, but point out that for such large, diversified companies, the gaming business remains a junior part of their operations (although they're huge by any stand - alone measure).

According to Fidelity, one of the largest administrators of retirement plans in America with ~ 7 million accounts, the average IRA balance — including both traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs — stood at $ 81,100 at the end of 2012, up 53 % from 2008 when balances hit their lowest point since the market meltdown.

I always get nasty comments when I point them out, but survivorship bias looms large when we forget that the few famous entrepreneurs — even the hundreds of relative unknowns in the Sunday Times» Rich List — stand on the broken backs of uncountable also - rans.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

At one point, in anger, the larger of the two missionaries abruptly stood up, pointed his index finger at me, and shouted «You are closed minded».

«There's one of them,» said the undergraduate sitting next to me, pointing to a large man in a raincoat standing placidly at the rear of the chapel.

AFIC says that as it stands, CBA is its single largest shareholding and at the current point in time it is neither a buyer or a seller.

Barcelona which is the current champion of La Liga standing of 2nd position of La Liga point table of ongoing season of this largest professional league competition 2016/17.

The daily which prides itself as the largest selling English newspaper in the world published a rather daft account of the Premier League standings by placing Arsenal with 10 points above Tottenham Hotspur who are with 11 points.

Your children are comfortable in a padded seat that accommodates the quality Chicco KeyFit car seat for a travel system, a large sun canopy and a standing platform with a bench that has a 3 - point safety belt for your older, more independent child.

But the important point is that a large number of scientific journals are standing together in their conviction that reproducibility and transparency are important issues.

The «attainment gap», categorised as the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils, is the largest for Irish and white British teenagers, standing at 46 percentage points and 32 percentage points respectively.

The attainment gap — the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils — is largest for Irish and white British teenagers; the attainment gap for Irish pupils stands at 46 percentage points while for white British pupils it is 32 percentage points.

I stand by my larger point that VA models are not ready to be used in high - stakes personnel decisions, and I think I'm correct in characterizing that as the opinion of most people who are developing and testing the models.

The temperature will eventually hit 117 degrees, at which point riding a motorcycle is akin to standing in front of the world's largest hair dryer, and yet all three of us are fighting for seat time on the bike.

At one point she was standing next to us when two large breed dogs were chasing each other at least 50 yards away.

The ears are large, pointed, and stand forward and straight up from the head.

The Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card stands out by offering a large 50,000 - point sign up bonus — worth, by some estimates, up to $ 500 or more — and a large $ 300 travel credit that you can use to pay for airfare, hotel stays or other travel - related purchases.

As we sat back and watched the interactions in awe and amusement, several elephants wandered into the scene, with one of the larger, feisty baboons at one point standing up on his hinds legs and directly facing off with an elephant — until the elephant made it clear who would prevail by grunting and aggressively moving his front legs.

With a large stock of retro, mini mal's, eggs, alternative shapes and Stand Up Paddle boards produced to be ridden in UK waters, Custard Point is a must to pop into when in Newquay.

Located at the highest point in the area with a 360 degree view: two fully self - contained, free - standing three bedroom holiday houses with open fire, large sundeck, TV / DVD / CD, private BBQ.

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

There are cars standing still in places waiting for you to come up to them; there are large arcing speed - trap start points all over; and there are a good deal of rock wall / formations on the sides of roads stopping you from crossing land for a short - cut.

The last point comes no doubt in partial reference to the demise of a long - standing, large publisher in the form of THQ, and the perception of a shrinking market in the console space.

Focal points of the stand will be three large - scale sculptures: Homage to the Square by Jose Dávila, DAZE II by Antony Gormley, and Overture by Idris Khan.

His work also became more three - dimensional to the point where he started producing large, free - standing metal pieces, which, although they are painted upon, might well be considered sculpture.

At Studio Voltaire, Welcome to Saxnot forms a major new large — scale installation comprising a series of free — standing infographic works as well as printed matter and products that point to Britlin's ethos and agenda.

At that point it was the largest private sculptural commission in Ireland, and one that would stand up to international comparison.

Eight eye - level «Locators» (galvanized steel pipes attached to metal stands), placed on the points of the compass in a large circle, gave viewers the experience of directing their sight to specific locations on the landscape, blotting out all other features.

[Response: The larger point is that many of us could stand to have a better awareness of how much of societal / global security is dependent on a climate stability that we mostly, like so many things, take for granted.

From a chaos theory point, all or none of these restraints might be «reasonable», but from a more practical stand point, they work because we have no good way of assigning a probability for any of them happening and so practically we can ignore them, and if many of them did happen, we'd have larger issues than climate change.

In many cases, they use an empty field as their starting point, ignoring the fact that to set up a cedar farm you may have to raze a stand of enormous trees that would otherwise have stored large amounts of carbon for decades.

As pointed out here by Seth Godin, the war on snow globes was so important to the TSA that they printed up large, stand - alone signs that were dedicated solely to the mission of issuing a Travel Advisory to each and every air traveler about snow globes.

In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie about the question.

Whether or not Harper is substantively correct, his larger point, that the survey was not intended to offer a magic bullet to law school grads vis a vis obtaining employment, likely stands up.

If you can stand to live without a fingerprint sensor or you live outside the US (or if you don't mind flashing firmware on your US model, which could potentially void your warranty), and don't mind the XZ1's large bezels, this could very well be a good buy you — but even then, I'd wait for the price to go down by at least $ 100 before pulling the trigger... by which point there'll be another new Xperia phone right around the corner.

A simple bullet point can do wonders for standing out amongst the large crowd.

Driven by the largest - single - month gain in expectations for jobs since the inception of the Index eight years ago, the RBC Index for January 2010 stands at 58.3, up 19.3 points from its December 2009 reading of 39.0.