Sentences with phrase «little point gets»

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And put that way, it seems a bit more daunting from a taxpayer's point of view, especially when there's very little governments can or need to do to fix Canada's affordable housing crisis — other than get out of the way.

At a certain point during an extended stock rally, investors get cocky and continue to pile head - first into positions with little regard for risks.

There's nothing wrong with a little perfectionism in the workplace, and encouraging your employees to do their best is always a good thing, but when it gets to the point that you're scrutinizing every detail of their performance, it ends up being counterproductive.

I was trying to reconcile in my greedy little mind how I could accept this assignment and become the face of penises, but ultimately I wasn't able to get to that point.

«And so from that point on — at first it was very exciting, we were getting our first orders — and it was a little terrifying,» Krim said.

Think of each word as having an associated cost, and strive to spend as little of your currency as possible to get your point across.

They have little patience for wasted breath, and are good at getting to the point.

Point Bridge's investment thesis gets a little fuzzy here.

Says Diamond, «The high point of my career is getting thank - yous from the littlest shelters, the ones that can't do anything to help me, but I know I have helped people who truly are doing what they can for animals.»

But one pain point that gets surprisingly little attention is arguably the biggest one of all: actual pain, the chronic kind that affects more than 100 million Americans.

To get to the next low point on the chart you have to go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollars.

That doesn't mean that every time customers call or send E-mail, they should get a «little five - point questionnaire,» adds Seybold, who recommends that companies start slowly by polling a percentage of their customers each week.

These days, I prefer my scripture to get to the point a little quicker.

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.

Inflation is running a little bit low, but it is only 20 basis points before they get more comfortable with it, at least on a core basis.

To get our point across, we're going to get a little geeky and see how your willpower relates to implementation intention and ultimately wealth.

Things get quite technical at a few points and I wanted to ensure everyone enjoyed this conversation but providing a little bit of context with that 20 - minute introduction.

It had gotten a little overbought at the point,» Cashin, director floor operations at the NYSE...

So ideally, the Fed's stimulus could get the economy back to a normal rate of growth before inflation becomes a problem, at which point the Fed could taper off its bond buying little by little and gracefully exit the picture.

Let's dig a little deeper into those four key points mentioned above to get a better understanding of the differences and dispel a common misunderstanding about choosing credit.

But when we are having a dialogue about this stuff, tell me how can I get my point of view across, like, I believe that being gay is a choice, and then use what many, many others use to defend their so - called choice, little girls.

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.

I would have to say, taking into account the number of injuries you could have worked on personally and the likelyhood of them being Atheists and the likelyhood of you knowing this ahead of time that the person was an ACTUAL Atheist or God Hater (have not met one of them) I sort of think you are embellishing just a bit get your some point across that has little substance to begin with.

My only issue is that sometimes he gets a little too aggressive which I think detracts from some of the points he tries to make because it's dripping with so much bias it's hard not to disagree on principle.

I've gotten to the point where I actually look forward to Fridays at 5 p.m.. It's like I'm giving myself a little vacation from the hustle, scramble and the comparison.

But Israel is America's little puppet so they get away with anything at this point.

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!)

OK, I checked out the comic, and then read the headline, and obviously missed the play on words, but then I got it, and kept reading, then I went back to the comic and looked at it again, and thought that the point was ok, but it wasn't really funny... then I looked a little south and laughed out loud.

Not try to get one little bit of scripture, and then go on about 3 points that will lead me to better understand something about my walk with Him... but just read.

It's a nice little story, and I do get the point.

When interpreters get to the little horn, says Calvin, they quickly point to the Pope or the Turks, that is, whoever opposes or threatens the faithful in their own day.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

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.

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.

I received my review copy of Sarah Bessey's Out of Sorts at the lowest, most exhausting point in my pregnancy and so I never got around to writing an endorsement, which killed me a little because Sarah is such a kindred spirit.

Get you pointed little heads out of your behinds.

Thomas Hardy grimly attests: «As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering....

I'm a little uncomfortable with his phrase «the crossing back and forth between evangelical commitments and Catholic commitments» — to me that sounds too casual for such an important matter — but I think I get his point.

Consider how at one point in the Pensées Pascal gets to the heart of the believer's central epistemological dilemma: «The metaphysical proofs of God are so far removed from man's reasoning, and so complicated, that they have little force.

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.

This is not the place to examine the two texts in detail, but we can illustrate how some of the points we have been discussing might be applied.13 From the surface content of the titles alone, we would get little clue as to the underlying differences between the two.

So, for a few years there, I had gotten to this point where I was little over the donut.

As previous posters have said it seems a little much to even comment at this point, but after having this bookmarked for ages I finally got to try it!

Sometimes accidents happen and I'm starting to learn that there is literally no point in getting upset about it no matter how big or little the mistake is.

At this point it should be a little on the liquidy side, and that's when I add the white bean flour / water mixture to get the rest of the creaminess without the flour, butter, and milk.

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.

I sometimes get a little too much stress going on to the point where it runs up my back and neck and gives me a complete headache.

My sister is currently studying for exams and being the fab sister that I am I decided to make her bliss balls to cheer her up (and maybe earn some brownie points along the way...) Being as indecisive as I am I couldn't choose one flavour to make so a few hours later I ended up with seven different types of bliss balls (I might have gotten a little carried away!)

Now he is napping happily I just wanted to say thank u cuz I'm at the point in pregnancy where my flow has slowed a little bit and needed to supplement while nursing until he is on food regularly and I am so very relieved and happy to have found something I can get down him that is good!

You know, I think that things have got to change up a little bit at some point... then you'll know what recipes are keepers and it will be awesome to have a thing or two as a constant every year, and make new traditions:) Do you have the brunch menu figured out already?