Sentences with phrase «little point making»

There's little point making a career change into a company that is failing.

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

At one point he owned 159 Little Caesars Pizza stores, making him the Detroit - based chain's largest franchisee.

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.

In them, she would make a point and see it receive little attention — but then, a white boy would be praised for saying something similar.

You're almost part psychologist as a planner because you really need to go in and be really aware of where people are coming from, and what their little buzz points are, what's going to irritate them, what's going to make them happy.

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

The only way... you as a company can make progress is by acquisitions,» says Stanford's Pfeffer, who points out that HP and Microsoft have also made careers of gobbling up the little guys.

In The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell argues that for us to understand why some products succeed, we must think of each as part of an epidemic.

Using a general template that you've crafted as a starting point is fine, but you need to put in a little something extra to really make you stand out.

What to do instead: It makes people feel good to be complimented, so pointing out a piece of work or a post on their social media profile that you enjoyed gives your message a little something extra.

«Dyslexia doesn't necessarily make people more open,» Gladwell admits at one point, before soldiering on: «But the most tantalizing possibility raised by the disorder is that it might make it a little bit easier to be disagreeable.»

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.

You «re making a good point that OPEC and Russia are kind of opening the door, at least a little bit for U.S. producers.

While it points to numerous rational shortcomings, the field offers little in the way of solutions that make money from market manias.

Those little points mentioned above can make a lot of difference in your credit rating.

That's true to a point, but as in all aspects of life, little details can make a huge difference.

Secondly, I cant make sense of the meaning of exchange spread, could you explain a little more on that point please?

The point of balance is a little bit higher up on the handle then I personally like because it makes maneuvering it around to different hand positions a little bit more difficult.

Also, when Maudlin observes that «atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry,» he makes a useful point, but one which needs a little clarification.

Even as an Anglo - Catholic, he knew little about Roman Catholic practices and made a point of avoiding Catholics themselves.

It's not the same point you are making, but I see it a little differently - to me the demon represents evil and chaos and pain and lies that attack our hearts and minds.

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.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

But the point behind that little comment was to make us realize how small our lives are as compared to the rest of the universe and what it holds.

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»?

I have made little explicit reference to the point of view I bring to these matters.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madLittle by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madlittle, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

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.

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.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The point, (I learned a little too late,) is about protecting the heart of that young person until they are able to make informed decisions about what they want in life.

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.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

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.

The two little parables that follow do not quite make the same point.

Sentence two is the closest to an actual argument he makes, but it is a fact that science has little to no information on what happens after we die, as you pointed out yourself, we do not know (in the sense of having empirical proof).

It is little wonder that he takes to crowning himself with his self - made wreaths and strutting about with his nose pointing upward.

The Relevance of Cosmic Unity In the lead letter of the same issue of Philosophy Now the prominent anti-reductionist philosopher of ethics and of science Mary Midgely makes a point often made by Edward Holloway (though he might not have used the word «choice»), namely that «simple logic surely shows that natural selection can not be the universal explanation because «selection» only makes sense a clearly specified range of choices — an idea to which far too little attention has been given.»

ElmerGantry — the only points you make that are accurate are 3 and 4, you might want to do a little research on everything else, sorry but no one not even Mormons believe your points.

The council itself said little about justification, but it set a mood that made discussion of this old point of division inevitable.

The pews, the buildings, the clergy, the politics, the money, the power, the liturgy, the bells and smells, the holidays, the dress code, the rules, and everything else that we think of as «church» was at one point, someone's minor little innovation to help them make disciples.

The point is, succinctly made by John Jay Chapman, that «mere financial dishonesty is of very little Importance in the history of civilization.

I would make it a point to seek out those who need a little help, a little love, and be their friend.

Jeremy and Glenn — I don't think that Brian would say he doesn't believe in absolute truth — I could be wrong but I think he would say something like... he doesn't believe that any human has (at least up to this point) been able to know absolute truth and that he believes there is a lot more of absolute truth to be known and that he doesn't believe that it is as narrow or «little» as so many try to make it.

I make these general remarks about the two sorts of judgment, because there are many religious persons — some of you now present, possibly, are among them — who do not yet make a working use of the distinction, and who may therefore feel at first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the following lectures the phenomena of religious experience must be considered.

Indeed there is little point in our making reference to revelation unless it brings with it an unexpected power to make reality more intelligible and our lives more meaningful.

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