Sentences with phrase «little if any point»

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If we can't make them at a competitive price, there's little point developing domestic industries for these markets.

Say your spouse has a credit card with little or no balance and a great payment history; if he or she agrees to add you as an authorized user, from a credit score point of view you automatically benefit from her card's available credit as well as her payment history.

And bonus points to you if you can convey that message with a little humor and a human touch.

Chances are that name means a little more to you if you were a tween in the «90s, which is exactly the point.

If I have a point to add, it's to avoid those «celebrity gifting» suite «opportunities»... these are ways to keep the marketing agencies of such events in business, and provide little else.

There's little point in packing all these features if they aren't configured to work towards making the whole experience unique, smooth and hassle - free for customers.

If there is not more clarity by that point, it is likely that a large number of insurers will abandon the market and the 12.2 million Americans in the exchanges would be left with little choice for coverage in 2018.

If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money,» said the owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai who only gave his surname as Huang.

Often, we're barely even conscious of this, or pay it little heed; but sometimes it feels, if not that time has slowed down, then that time is somehow beside the point.

Anyway the point is that if you are a banker and conceive of your job as «save the careers of corporate managers» rather than «do what is best for the corporation,» that's a little weird.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

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.

Of course, there is little point in obtaining large streams of data just for the sake of it, especially if it does not provide any meaningful insight.

But if you are the kind of person who dreams of business and first class travel, or someone who occasionally has to book an expensive flight with little advanced notice, then it might be worth it for you to play the travel rewards game with frequent flyer miles and hotel points.

The not seasonally adjusted data are pointing to a rapidly developing housing market implosion — 13 % drop in contracts signed from June to July in a two - month period that has little if any seasonality and with 30 - yr fixed mortgage rates hitting all - time lows.

For example, if you're choosing between a 10 - year adjustable - rate mortgage and a 30 - year fixed, and the difference in mortgage rate is 12.5 basis points (0.125 %), you may feel that there's little reason to accept the risk of an adjustable - rate loan.

Christopher Whalen: I think it's a lot simpler than you put forward which is: go ahead and keep your little quarter point march and if you see spreads start to widen, you stop.

If you're a plumber, for example, there's little point in having a link from your local garage, as someone looking on a car repair site isn't looking for a plumber.

I simply noted that the finger pointing toward the CC gets a bit ridiculous when there is more of a problem than meets the eye in protestant churches if you do a little research on the net and elsewhere.

If we and others aren't happy there's no point to life, and this is an example of where a little ignorance helps.

i; m not sure i follow your little brother thing, but sharing ideas and a conversation with two differing view points is a debate, and if both parties don't try to kill the other one this is a world of understanding thru conflict, for a differing point of view is in confliction with the others.

Dala, The point is — if you had any evidence to support what you say there would be little to no disagreement (depending upon how much actual evidence).

Allison also makes the important point that nearly all of what we know about Jesus comes from his disciples, and, if those disciples completely misunderstood him or even deliberately falsified much of what they saw and heard, then there is little hope we will know much at all.

If the Christian acts as mediator or advocate, as representative of the poor, it is not to get little concessions or to conciliate points of view or to harmonize opposing interests; no, it is to plead the cause of absolute misery before absolute power (power is always absolute!)

Kierkegaard's own brief preface to Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing does little more than begin this process, and tempts me to suggest that one who is not familiar with other works of Kierkegaard, will find himself still better prepared for immersion in this address if he turns immediately to Section Twelve and reads from that point to the end.

If this is your own argument, I suggest that you learn a little more math before you try to use it to make a point.

i don't expect that this little discourse will change your views — only that if anyone does not accept their need for a Savior in Jesus Christ then what could possibly be the point to studying the bible verse by verse or otherwise.

But it has hopefully strengthened his point and added this dimension to it: there can be little doubt that this «confrontation» between the Christian confession and humanistic acts of a general nature is, if not a programmatic Matthean theme, nevertheless based upon a tacit assumption which is quite integral to Matthew's total theological program.

To your last point, when I said choice is an illusion, I wasn't referring that it is impossible to make that choice, but rather that there is a «right» choice and a «wrong» choice, the «right» one being that you worship god, regardless of how weird some of the rituals might be, making you a little more than a robot, acting out a script your given, we're just slightly better because we can justify why we're acting out a command, but it takes years to understand that justification, in the beginning, you do these rituals because you're given a script and if you don't want to do it, tough.

This is why a little child, even though self - centered by nature, is not a sinner, and sin is «original» only in the sense that the natural self - centeredness of childhood, if uncurbed, becomes sinful as the individual matures to the point of responsible decision.

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

Even if this little matter of logic were surmountable — which it is not — and we were to admit that it is possible for Jesus, a human being, to be fully divine, we would still have to point out that he would not be fully human in the same sense as you and I.

Moreover, if the points of my little article are so «insubstantial» and «irrelevant,» then why all the unseemly rage?

If my little gusts and zephyrs annoy my critic, I can only point out they had the opposite effect on those who wrote rave reviews for the National Catholic Register, the New Oxford Review, and the Remnant, among a half «dozen others.

Sifton rightly concludes that everything her father wrote about American politics took for granted that there is little point in writing if one had no concept of America's spiritual and cultural identity.

You make several points, and they try to argue against one little part as if it somehow made the hard questions go away.

Personally, I cringed a little, but if he were to do that in a fundie church, he would get fired before he made it to his first point.

If there is no fact of the matter, there is little point in assigning ethics a central role in the formal curriculum.

John: I think if he is trying to make a point, though, he should go into it a little deeper to what he's trying to get at.

At the same time there is little point in being prudent and free if there is nothing worthwhile to choose or to decide upon.

At this point, if he showed himself a little less sure of himself, he would seem wiser, as if he had learned from experience.

While this final indicator can be criticized as being subjective (at least on the part of the legal scholar, if not on the part of those who appended the labels on each country's legal system), it is worth pointing out that as only one of eight indicators, this one influences the index very little.

@Blessed You have a lot to sort through First off while I am certainly not the person to be telling anyone about grammar (or spelling for that matter) I would point out that if you do not believe in God then you should type that word with a lower case g. Small point of little relevance I know.

He got really incensed when this was pointed out to him and started RE-POSTING the same quotes with snide little asides like «shh» and «mum's the word» as if that would make a difference.

I used a sparing amount of Canola oil instead of olive oil because my experience with olive oil is that its smoke point is too low for searing and sometimes if the olive oil burns a little, you get an off taste.

Of course, I won't complain if you do frost it, but my point is, this puppy can be whipped out and ready to eat in very little time.

Are the meatballs still cooking at this point or is this just the sauce cause the last thing before this was, drain butter and than put meatballs back in pan so I got a little confused about if the meatballs were still suppose to be cooking or not????

And as if all those roasted vegetable flavors weren't enough, we add gnocchi because we just love those little cheek - pinching potato dumplings, plus a good dose of basil pesto — extra special bonus points if you made homemade pesto while basil was at its peak back in the summer — and a big handful of seasonal greens because, healthy January is here!

I just finished my first attempt ever at making caramel and I'm not sure if its burnt or not lol It got brown a lot faster than I expected, almost amber before the last few clumps melted, to the point where I really didn't even get a chance to swirl it.It doesn't really taste burnt except for a little bit of an after taste, almost toasted tasting.Is that how it's supposed to be or did I take it a little too far?

They are super soft, to the point that you may want a fork to tackle them if you dig in straight out of the oven, or just make sure you let them cool and they'll firm up little bit more — but to me, a fall apart moist, light cupcake is not a problem.