Sentences with phrase «losing points on»

In Florida, motorists who have been issued with traffic tickets for non-criminal moving violations can attend traffic school to avoid losing points on their driving licenses.

Editing step of essay writing process is often neglected by students, and, as the result, they end up with losing points on their assignments because of mistakes.

While the place lost points on its unimaginative name, it made up for it by offering mole amarillo.

Last game we gained points on the top 4 (We won, United, City, Southampton and Chelski drew) Today we lose points on the top 4 (We lost, United drew, Southampton and City won, I doubt Spuds will beat Chelski)

A 4 - 0 thrashing of neighbours Everton at Anfield left the Reds in dreamland, along with the added bonus that a number of teams around them lost points on Saturday, and the prospect of City and Chelsea playing each other on Monday night.

This is where most babies lose points on the APGAR scoring.

The most expensive of the products tested, it lost points on cost effectiveness — you'll only need one wipe per eye, but each costs about $ 1.

The disappointing epic - smallscale The Secret Life of Walter Mitty delivers incredible audio and video but loses points on the supplements.

A school can lose points on the state report cards (a 5 - point deduction) if its test participation falls below 95 percent; however, a individual student who opts out of taking a required assessment is not counted in the calculation (i.e., is left out of the calculation) of proficiency rates for his or her school or district.

This program loses points on having 0 interface and is not appealing to new users.

With our proofreading assistance, you will no longer lose points on grammar!

Thousands of people around the United States lose points on their credit score due to the lack of financial responsibility and paying their bills on time.

You can lose points on your credit rating.

In contrast, borrowers whose loan balance (or balances) are near or above the original amount would lose points on their credit score.

You will just end up with a denial, and you will lose some points on your credit score.

I was expecting this game to lose points on controls but after playing the demo build last year I haven't been too worried about it.

Not exact matches

Though she lost Democratic primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran on a leftist platform, Clinton pointed to some Senate results as proof that she wouldn't have fared better running on a Sanders platform.

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).

That point isn't lost on Steve Roberson, the co-founder and technical lead of Start - Up Hire, a new job site for venture capital - backed companies.

In work life, we can get so focused on the day - to - day grind that we lose sight of the main point, which is that we're all in this together.

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.

If Barcelona or Catalonia lost the presence of large anchor companies, that would have an impact on the startup ecosystem, since large companies are customers and sources of talent and future founders,» he wrote, but the strong pace of acquisitions seems to point in the opposite direction.

You can trade points or miles on sites like Points.com, but you'll generally lose some of the value in the process.

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.

It's a point that seems lost on the global governance movement.

So while we feel we've lost control of the way our personal data is collected, that doesn't mean we'll stop sharing it on Facebook... or Twitter, or Pinterest, or Instagram (you get the point).

Rapid uptake of new technologies and intense competition between manufacturers have pushed margins on many sets into negative territory, and as Bloomberg Businessweek's recent profile of CEO Stringer pointed out, over the past eight years the company has lost an astounding US$ 8.5 billion on TVs.

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.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 59.28 points, or 0.25 percent, to 24,039.77, the S&P 500 lost 5.9 points, or 0.22 percent, to 2,648.9 and the Nasdaq Composite added 3.99 points, or 0.06 percent, to 7,134.69.

And then there was the «funeral» they held for five B - school terms that have lost all meaning: synergy, leadership, innovation, development, and «building on your last point.»

He is famous for calling sales managers late at night and on weekends to ask pointed questions about stalled deals or lost accounts.

The move came on a day when the Dow set a new record for intraday drops, losing more than 1,500 points at one juncture.

On that day, the Dow industrials rapidly lost about 600 points, taking the average down nearly 1,000 points on the session, only to rebound within a matter of minuteOn that day, the Dow industrials rapidly lost about 600 points, taking the average down nearly 1,000 points on the session, only to rebound within a matter of minuteon the session, only to rebound within a matter of minutes.

«Once she got to the point when she had to get on the computer and get on websites and do all that, she kind of lost interest.»

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

These are real people that you're taking on a journey so if they feel at any point you're just trying to use them to generate income, you can lose an audience quite quickly.

This last point suggests the kind of discrimination we're more likely to encounter: a Hooters waitress in Michigan was recently put on probation until she lost weight.

On why she left DuPont: «At some point when you are fighting these fights, you lose your joy a bit.

The celeb can then choose to answer these questions by responding directly to the fan, at which point the fan will likely freak out on their Twitter page that Kim Kardashian just answered their query as to how she lost her baby weight (it was the Atkins diet).

It's critical to understand that at some point in your efforts to minimize mistakes, you're going to lose out on maximizing workplace productivity and efficiency.

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.

So, is Check Point losing ground in the cybersecurity space to rivals, or will it be able to spring a positive surprise when it releases its fourth - quarter results on Jan. 31?

Last week I noted that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I expected the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

In those cases, and on the dozens of days when the Dow has lost 400-500-600 points or more, the market has recovered.

It also lost 177 points on Monday.

The key points to take away from the above graphs are that you should have a max dollar amount you will let yourself lose on any one trade, and you must not deviate from that threshold.

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However, the fact that the cost of fulfillment increased 500 basis points as percent of revenue generated tells us that AMZN is losing even more on an operating business on Prime memberships.