Sentences with phrase «little less pointed»

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A little less than 15 minutes passed between our first handshake and the moment I pointed this Audi TT toward the (cloudy) coastal highways of Santa Cruz.

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

Many saw little point in buying expensive new PCs and signing up with service providers to access content that was not only less secure but rarely French.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Earnings reports are doing very little to help the Dow Jones Industrial Average in morning trade Friday, with the shares of the four companies that reported results adding less than 10 net points to the Dow's price.

A great many of your points have little to do with actual scripture which has even less to do with the moral scaffolding of 21st century life.

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

Some conservatives are not above signaling, in more or less overt ways, their belief that blacks can never pass [the test of achievement by merit], and that there is little point in the rest of society bearing guilt for blacks» failures.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

a rather pointed open letter implicitly, but very clearly, characterizing Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage (and, perhaps, on abortion as well, though that is a little less clear) as «repression,» and implicitly characterizing the Archbishop himself, who is a strong defender of marriage, chastity, and the sanctity of human life, as an oppressor.

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

At this point, one should remember that the Bible contains little less than two million words, and that «simple story» is a magnificent understatement of a description of the enormously varied history, poetry, law, prophecy and counsel.

I know it will not be easy to swallow that I consider having recourse to refined SHEA BUTTER but here are some reasons: 1) coconut oil is costly and my aim is not only to avoid using unethically sourced products, but also to reduce the cost of food; 2) coconut oil has a very low melting point, even lower than spreadable butter, and even in its solid state it is quite soft, so I am afraid this vegan butter will not be fit for making puff pastry; 3) for all I know, and I know little, so I am not completely sure of this, coconut oil has a better nutrient profile than shea butter and is less harmful (one may infer it from the resemblance between shea butter and palm oil).

The Tigers led by as many as 15 points early in the second half and were still up by 11 before LaChance's free throws with a little less than 10 minutes to go began a 7 - 2 run - capped by Roberson's 3 - that tightened the score to 66 - 60.

Support is so important; just a little extra fight from players, and a little less criticism from fans (myself included) maybe is worth a few points down the line.

Minus Russell Westbrook, it might still be a challenge for the Thunder to get back to the NBA Finals, but thanks to performances by two point guards — one untested and the other very tested — maybe even a little too tested — against the Houston Rockets, there's less reason to panic.

lol calm down son, i'm mad as hell, but i ain't reading all that, that is what we call a article (book / atlas of words) this is a comment section, so be a little less delicate when someone points that out in the future.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Just saying «this season we should not drop points to lesser opponents» means very little and doesn't give you a winners mentality or a fighter's mentality IMO.

Villanova's Ryan Arcidiacono, who scored his 1,000 th point on the night, was given a forearm to the face by Gibbs with a little less than 5 minutes in a blowout win for No. 6 Villanova.

If, at some point, we managed to put together something like a settled back four, watching us defend might become a little less of a cardiovascular struggle, but there's no doubting the heart of players like McNair, Blackett and Fletcher, and Van Gaal clearly knows how important that is.

Even at this early stage in the season, however, you feel that anything less than three points against the Royals will see him nudged just a little further towards an untimely exit from Villa Park.

Like I said in a previous post, winning the big games means little if you follow up those wins by dropping points against the lesser lights.

If like many, your staircase in the focal point of your hallway then the question becomes a little less straightforward.

So, if you're having a girl, she may weigh a little less than 2 3/4 pounds at this point.

I see a lot of women who continue to have overactive letdown and so babies starts nursing a little bit less like they switch either having solid or kind of more than natural weaning process but until that point as baby is nursing a lot I do tend to feel a lot moms continue to have an overactive letdown and it's not so much that that goes away, it's just that mom and baby are better at handling it, so it's not a big of a problem

The argument that we need to make our welfare state less generous leads us to an end - point of a system which provides no security, which pays far too little to live on, which traps people in poverty, and which allows costly problems to spiral out of control.

That seemed to me a rather disingenuous answer and to many people there was a little doubt what General Groves really thought about this, and I have to say that partly at least on this account, the Los Alamos scientists were intimidated, felt intimidated; and in fact the people in Chicago who felt much less intimidation of that sort, they were not living on a military base, and they may have been wondering what to do with themselves anyway at that point.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

While the researchers may blame genetics, it could be that the people who did not respond to exercise may have been given the wrong dose of exercise, either too much or too little, to a point where they actually became weaker or less fit.

You mentioned at one point you counted calories... I wonder if it wouldn't be worth going back to that for awhile and see exactly where you are at now and possibly cut back just a little and see what happens — maybe 100 calories less a day which is 700 less a week, which will add up over time.

I was trying to put my thoughts in a way that were not offensive, but after re-reading my post, I seem to come across as a little know it all that is trying to point out the obvious to someone less intelligent than myself.

Chris goes on to talk a little about certain types of salt that he does not recommend, and points out that regular table salt (while not the devil) is basically lacking any of the additional minerals and nutrients that you would find in the more natural, less processed salts, like sea salt etc..

Bonus points for acting a little less shiny than the competition, staying truer to your own lip color.

This Zara floral jacket was part of a two piece I bought last summer (check it here), I absolutely loved the little co-ord, but this season the trend is a little less on point, so i've been wearing the jacket on it's own.

As Twitter knows (I'm sure I'll pay for that indiscretion at some point) it was less than impressive and I saw little room for improvement.

This might sound a little beside the point with a murderer on the loose, but Beast is less concerned with the usual whodunit mechanics than the queasy climate of suspicion the murders have stirred up on the island, and the way in which Moll responds to it by crazily — yet also in a sense horribly understandably — doubling down on her outsider status.

Aside from less than a handful of funny self - referencing points, this is a hugely disappointing by the numbers blockbuster that under services its embarrassingly rich cast and offers its enormous fanbase too little that is challenging, inspired or even surprising.

There's little doubt, however, that the movie, even during its less successful moments, benefits from the thoroughly (and uniformly) superlative work of its various actors - McDormand and Rockwell are especially magnetic here - and there does reach a point at which Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri becomes far more engrossing and captivating than one might've anticipated.

The most perfect illustration I can think of is that after getting deep into Freedom Unite, I came to realize that despite actually finishing Monster Hunter Tri, I learned very little about it and understood even less about its finer points.

«I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favourite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

That game was enjoyable yet frustratingly hard to the point of launching the gamepad into a concrete wall, me and my little boy played it together which meant less deaths, but we still fought with eachother to determine who was the crap player messing everything up, turns out it was me, old and out of fashion

I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favorite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

The Truth About Emanuel would be an enjoyable slice of Gothic horror if it breathed a little easier and offered less thematic messaging; «I don't like people disappearing on me,» Emanuel intones at one point.

Spending a little extra time researching a system which covers all the points you need it to will mean less outgoings.

«One data point that was a little less intuitive,» Gehlbach says, «was the lack of expected reactions.»

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

I'll avoid obvious points, like you need to know what you want to teach, and try to focus on some that are a little less visible.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less white.