Sentences with phrase «lose points with»

On the other hand, you could lose points with the recruiter if you don't include a cover letter.

Be as enthusiastic as possible about the prospect, and you won't lose points with the parents - to - be.

Not exact matches

Amid the toughest stretch of the Cavs» season in which the team has lost five of their last six games, blame has reportedly been passed around the locker room, with players pointing fingers at each other, the coaching staff, Cavs ownership, and most recently, Kevin Love.

They're distracting themselves with minutiae, losing sight of the big picture, and potentially missing out on what's important — namely, those inflection points.

Topol pointed out that currently there's a ton of «information blocking» going on by health providers that don't» want to share data with others for fear of losing their patients (i.e. business).

The sell - off continued on Friday, with the Dow shedding an additional 144 points to 16,026, and the NASDAQ losing 55 points to 3,998 in late afternoon trading.

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 14.25 points lower at 24,448.69 — notching its first four - day losing streak since March — with Goldman Sachs as the worst - performing stock in the index.

At that point, most people lose all interest in my investing, which is fine with me.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

It would've been easy to get lost in, but my stylist pointed me in the right directions with tips like, «this is a more traditional look, whereas this is a bit more forward.»

The service problems had dragged down sales by eight percentage points in the quarter, with three of those points coming from lost sales due to rep annoyance, Jung said.

Which leads us back to the first point: if your mobile site is clunky (or worse, cluttered with annoying pop - ups) then you've already lost.

When Stephanopoulos pointed out that even if the AHCA didn't take away coverage from those with preexisting conditions, it enabled insurers to charge them more, Ryan countered that such provisions wouldn't apply to people who retained continuous coverage — or coverage without any gaps — to which Stephanopoulos noted that people often lose coverage, and its not their personal choice.

Despite losing Games 5 and 6, the Warriors held a four - point lead in Game 7 with just over five minutes to go.

Bernstein's Monteyne pointed to the risks of bringing together companies with different cultures, noting that Morrisons - Safeway lost 28 percent of their sales through a combination of store sales, integration problems and culture clash during the last big UK grocery merger over a decade ago.

Maimane criticized the South African government for its longstanding policy of «quiet diplomacy» with its neighbor, pointing a finger at Zuma's predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, for allowing Mugabe to remain in office after he lost a 2008 election.

Bourdain: Across America people have lost touch with what used to be a staple at a certain lower - income point.

I didn't even realize I had gone through almost the entire store at this point — after a while, all the tall shelves stacked with so many products started feeling like a maze, and I completely lost track of where I was.

As they try to assess whether the iPhone has reached a plateau, investors will not be happy about losing a data point, said Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Partners.

Obviously there's a difference between software and hardware, and the costs associated with it; however, the point of personality types shouldn't be lost.

Boards explaining how you can win or lose points and showing pictures of the best scorers are a common sight in Rongcheng; passersby talk about them with pride.

One point often lost on critics of that outfit is that its main liability — entwinement with a far - flung political network — also accounts for its unique ability to mobilize new resources and partnerships behind different causes.

Provoked by a comment by Spady that «any taxes that causes Safeway to lose jobs is a bad one,» Sawant responded with a prepared talking point that Safeway is owned by Albertson's, which has $ 59 billion in annual revenues.

With Monday's sharp downturn, the Dow Jones has lost about 2,200 points since Jan. 26, a decline of nearly 10 percent.

This puts them far ahead of schedule compared with the restoration effort after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, where 3.2 million of Florida Power & Light's customers lost power but only 13 percent had the lights back on at the same point after the storm.

It keep us from losing touch with the whole point of this — to live the life we want, doing what we love, with other passionate people.

In a recent set of data released by research firm comScore for the second quarter, RIM with its BlackBerry OS is revealed to have lost 1.6 percentage points from its 12.3 percent share in the first quarter of the year in the US.

Skeptics of Facebook's business model have long pointed to anecdotal evidence that the social network is losing its luster with teens as evidence that the firm will ultimately be unable to justify its $ 140 billion valuation.

Understandably, with huge sums having been lost (and in some cases gained) in the blink of an eye, pointed questions are being asked about the sell which first triggered the process and whether it was an attempt at market manipulation.

A return to US$ 100 oil would accelerate investment in electric vehicles and bring forward the moment of cost parity with petrol and diesel engines, at which point the oil industry risks losing its footing forever and going into run - off.

December 2012 was seen as a key turning point for gold prices with the commodity losing its close correlation to Fed policy announcements.

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I agree with some of the points like don't have to miss out the plurals because if we forgot to count them, we can lose some amount of hits to our website.

Markets Steady After Strong Start to Earnings Season Financial markets appear to have lost some of their spark in recent days, with a flat session on Wednesday being followed by similar trading in Europe on Thursday and US futures pointing to a similar open.

At some point the Fed is going to lose its ability to jump - start the stock market with its monetary defibrillator.

And of course the whole point is not to share with others what isn't real or true for you, a point that is not lost on super pastor Rob as we return to the dilemma of living an honest faith when you become the latest pastor in demand.

Perhaps they begin with some genuine concern to «reach the lost», but at some point, they degenerate into blatant appeals for more funds to support the lifestyle that the increase in money and publicity has engendered.

The obvious problem of dealing with such contrasts in the linear form of narrative can be alleviated by pointing out explicitly what sorts or contrasts are being integrated, so that even if readers lose sight of the particular information involved, they can still appreciate the aesthetic transformation of elements.

My point here is not to take sides with any of these speculations, but only to indicate that the initial insistence on locating humanity fully within nature, heightens the marvel of creation that is too often lost when we stay within our dualistic compartments.

So Luke loses the point altogether, thinking it has something to do with the incompatibility of new and old, and Thomas simply summarizes the simile without concern for the original point of departure in observation of life.

When any religion, in this case islam, espouses ideas that are in direct conflict with the Constitution and openly work to impose an alien political / religious system called sharia on the United States, at some point the right to claim constitutional protection is lost.

Ron — you make great points, though you lose a lot of your audience with the reliance on capitalization.

And, as Smith notes, a problem with mere prudentialism is that its adoption is imprudent «because if people realize that the point of «morality» is really to get what we want, then people will lose their incentive to respect the moral - prudential imperatives that prudence itself imposes whenever those imperatives seem to impede us from getting what we want.»

If I may, although in its inception, zombie mythology focused solely on the living dead, however with the additions to zombie myth, zombies can now be alive or dead depending on the movie or show you are watching, really as long as it's a mob of people who have lost their humanity and are cannibals are considered zombies at this point.

While I agree with you point I hope he discards his faith like the bad habit it is... I didn't lose faith, I discarded it as useless tool.

In Luke 15:1 - 10, then, the two points are made: the shepherd leaves the ninety - nine sheep to seek out the lost one, and rejoices when it is found; the woman drops everything else to seek out the one lost coin (the coin mentioned is probably a Greek drachma, literally worth sixteen cents, but in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices with her friends when it is found.

Yet, to repeat another point made earlier, if these constraints themselves become too rigid, as they often do in the unfolding of a religious tradition, then the communication flow becomes so burdened with redundancy that it loses any truly informational (in this case, revelatory) character and decays into the transmission of mere banality.

And I agree with you, no point «gaining the whole world and yet losing your soul» even in a ministry sense.

It also speaks of love for the brethern, even to the point of death — yet the western christian church is so caught up with building its own clone organizations that we have lost the caring / love aspect of out faith.