Sentences with phrase «larger points about»

(Mr. Koestenbaum's larger points about the way the perusal of paintings can slow vision and stops time make his essay valuable for anyone interested in the medium, especially its abstract branch.)

Our in - house ethics blogger (he really does go by @ethicsblogger) Chris MacDonald turned a moment of personal frustration with Keurig's new «2.0» single - cup coffee - brewing system into a larger point about the obligations companies have to serve their best customers, instead of trying to block competitors.

You've probably heard cracks before that Twitter humor largely consists of jokes made on Tumblr being shared as screenshots on Facebook, but within this joke is a larger point about how all of these systems interconnect and interact.

Sure there are larger themes people are trying to make, but they are making it primarily off of Julie's narrative, using it as evidence for proving a larger point about the corruption of EV leaders.

A divorce is by definition a clash of competing truths and do you think we can get to the truth of it all on an online forum in order to then make a larger point about theology and spiritual leadership?

«Perhaps Jesus is actually making a larger point about an alternative economic system.»

Nevertheless, his telling of this story brilliantly reinforces his larger point about the way that the promotion of the Bible ended up undermining the book's pious advocates.

The mayor's interjection came in the context of a larger point about de Blasio's campaign focusing on the economic fissures that divide New York.

Even in the worst films she's committed to mining the trials of her characters to make a larger point about humanity.

It is only by combining an iconic white - guy - hero - genre with one of the few credible black - guys - with - guns genres that Tarantino can make his larger point about the evils of slavery and racism.

Battle of the Sexes uses tennis to make a larger point about the condition of the world, but Borg McEnroe isn't making a point beyond «professional athletes are intense people», and also «these two guys eventually became super good friends».

Does the novel seem to be making some larger point about the fluidity of identity?

Although Chuck Wendig goes on to make a larger point about character versus plot, what he says right here, in the excerpts I've provided, nicely echoes Grace Paley's point.

In depriving students and the larger public from seeing her work at the Grey, the artist, who currently lives in Berlin and runs a foundation dedicated to art, philosophy, and yoga, has chosen to make a larger point about marginalization and otherness, themes that have dominated her work throughout her career.

Divining ties between younger and older artists would be the usual idle visual speculation if it didn't also suggest a larger point about cultural change.

On John's larger point about using grades because they're a «safe» measure, I'd simply remind everyone that there were bad old days, when applicants to firms were judged on factors that were less than meritorious, and so if grades, dumb as they are, do nothing else they force a law firm to swallow hard before declining to hire a Black woman with a fist full of A + marks.

Every professor, mentor, and supervisor that I've ever had has given me the same warning: representing a person is about advocating for an individual, and not using that person or his case as a tool to make some larger point about society.

And that brings up a larger point about the future of software on these phones: the OnePlus 3 and 3T are likely done with official software support following the Oreo update, while the 5T will see at least the «P» release in 2018.

Not exact matches

Strikingly, the gender pay gap is even larger at the top — a point underscored by the recent news that NBC «Today» stars Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are paid about 28 % of what Matt Lauer previously earned.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

«The basic point I want to stress about these two inputs is that they are absolutely fundamental to all financial planning regardless of how large either of them is,» he says.

«It's this massive purchase, in many cases, the largest purchase of your life at that point, and it's something that you know nothing about,» he said.

Of course, this list isn't for everybody, but the larger point is simply to get you thinking about the potential of using the winter holidays soon to come as a great opportunity to cozy up and catch up on your reading.

At the same time, many in the industry point to ongoing concerns about how the largest banks in the system are treated and the impact that has on smaller institutions.

Colonial, the largest fuel pipeline system in the United States, functions as the primary artery carrying about 3 million barrels of gasoline and other fuels daily from the Gulf Coast to various points throughout the U.S. Southeast and East Coast.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

On May 17, the Dow Jones Industrial Index (which tracks 30 of the largest U.S. - based companies) fell about 370 points, or nearly 2 percent.

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

In a section outlining points about Facebook's business model, Zuckerberg has written down before him a point about the social network needing to be free to be accessible to everyone, and that advertising is the only way to offer that service to the largest number of people

In large part, I agree... especially with your point about the thinness of my analogy between Alberta (as home of the oil sands) and Arkansas (as home of Walmart).

Monday was all about superlatives: the largest one - day point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the biggest one - day percentage change in the VIX Index.

An interesting fact about this trading approach is that a lot of financial institutions are basing their positions on the same pivot point and buying and selling large volumes, which has a direct impact on the price changes of the assets.

It is possible that a large part of the decline in implied volatilities of interest rates can be attributed to reduced uncertainty about the future path of monetary policy at that turning point.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

This fall has been larger than the fall in the United States so that the spread between 10 - year yields in the two countries has narrowed from about 60 basis points to about 20 basis points.

You might have noticed that in the bullet points about «large target market examples», there are some large markets that aren't truly evergreen.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

Munger has offended just about everyone at some point so consultants are part of a large club.

Large broker - dealers and wirehouses are tuning into income annuities, to the point that they are asking for support and information about the products, according to CANNEX...

Its tall, pointed design is typical of Hindu architecture, and is highlighted by a towering, approximately 154 - foot - high (about 47 - metre - high) central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

And J - Staff, you're ignoring the larger point I made about why in the world god would make a world so fragile.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

Obviously, he was MORE CONCERNED about the much larger problem of ADULTERY by heteros, but don't expect HYPOCRITES to make as big a point about it.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Among the various kinds I can mention only the pimmt - cafe, or «coffee - pepper,» larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet - red at one end; the piment - zoueseau, or bird - pepper, small and long and scarlet; — and the piment - capresse, very large, pointed at one end, and bag - shaped at the other.

«That has brought about the re-emergence of the economy category, which is a larger percentage of the overall beer business now, especially for us considering at one point in time 95 percent of our business was coming from the premium category and above,» he notes.

Chicken with Oyster Mushrooms, Portobellos, & Napa Cabbage (adapted from Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop) 3 skinless chicken breasts (~ 1.5 lbs without the bone), thinly sliced ~ 1 lb mushrooms (we used 2 big portobellos and 3 big oyster mushrooms), thinly sliced 1 small head garlic (about 6 large cloves), thinly sliced about the same quantity ginger, thinly sliced 1 napa cabbage (a bit on the small side), cored, quartered, and sliced into ~ 1/4 ″ thick pieces safflower oil (or any other neutral oil with a high smoke point) 2 scallions, green part only, thinly sliced 1 tsp salt more salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste for the marinade 1 tsp salt 4 tsp Shaoxing rice wine (plus more for deglazing the wok, later on) 4 tsp corn starch 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan peppercorn