Sentences with phrase «made pointed response»

The lyrics to the song: «Driving all night, got a hankering for something / Think I'm in the mood for some hot - man muffins / Mmmm, sounds so fine, yes indeed» made pointed response to the church's protest.

In this post I have made pointed responses to a number of people — sometimes in discourse with Jimmy dear — which I try to keep relatively light and at least amuse myself.

Not exact matches

You've probably called someone you know a psychopath in passing at some point in your life, either in jest as an acknowledgment of a strange behavior, or as a fleeting response to a decision that made you angry.

The larger point Wolfers seems to be making with his response to Trump is that looking at the number of record - high closes in a narrow period is not a particularly good indicator of economic performance — particularly for a president who inherited a stock market that was already relatively high in value.

His response confused Brown to the point where she made up an explanation about it, in order to make sense of it.

Make a point to attend one of the industry trade shows such as The Response Expo or the Electronic Retailing Association Tradeshow as these shows can provide a great opportunity to find resources and build connections for your product launch.

For example, the telephone sales force for some companies may be on hand 24 hours a day to take calls made in response to late - night infomercials on television.Security is a significantly bigger issue for round - the - clock operations, Arledge points out.

In this regulation is actually helpful, a point made by Senator Sullivan in response to Zuckerberg's statement:

To this day I remember Andy's response, and he made two points.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

I am going to give a fuller response to this one because I think you are making a legitimate point here.

In his response, Austin made an interesting point: although there is certainly a distinction to be made between investments from private companies and SOEs, there is also one to be made between the different kinds of SOEs.

While I correctly anticipated the credit crisis (see Critical Point for a reminder), the unwise response of policymakers — defend the bondholders, avoid debt restructuring, change accounting rules, extend, and pretend — virtually ensured years of economic headwinds, and led me to insist on making our approach robust to even Depression - era outcomes.

fishon makes some good points in his response, but for the benefit of others, I will just briefly respond, then I will try my best to let him make future comments unfettered by me.

L4H, If you were making a point independent and not in response to my point, why did you make it in reply to mine?

But I will (again) reiterate one crucial point that Smith made in his response: there is no substitute for reading the book.

Sorry Theo — was there a point to this response other than to make you look like a fool?

Regardless, the point I was trying to make is, was a mauling by a bear the appropriate response.

The point is, Russell made that argument in response to Christianity.

Lisa Miller's September 2011 critical response to Tony Jones» two kinds of marriage post / series makes some interesting points:

Perhaps one of the most important points to make at the outset is that this vocation is not a negative asceticism but a positive response of the whole person to the love of Jesus Christ.

I fail to see how that response has anything to do with the point that I was trying to make, and, seeing as how you seem to have missed my postings intention entirely, I will not bother reading too deeply into your thoughtful analysis of my commentary in return, which would no doubt be an engaging and intellectual adventure.

I made a point of asking about this at the conference, and theologian Peter Enns offered a brief response, noting that central to this debate is Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 in which Paul draws his famous parallel between Jesus and Adam.

Ok, lets see if I can walk through your thought process: [laughing] has no capacity to formulate rational response... I think that's code for [laughing disagrees with me, I make a good point, he gives me reasons why I'm (right turn clyde) am wrong.

All the comments / points I have made so far have gone unanswered or conveniently skipped (for lack of logical response).

Whitehead in his response to Dewey ignored the conflicting epistemological status of generalizations in the two models and adopted the language of Dewey to make a familiar point.

But in your response, you make my point.

Pointing out what is a trend (not an absolute truth) in the comments does not make a post immature, but the language and the response to criticism will.

Is there anyone who has a reasoned response to the points Jake has made?

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

The parable has but one point to make, and the descriptive details are not independently important except as they clarify the single point and the response that is expected.

The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.

The function of worship is to make us more sensitive to these depths; to focus, sharpen and deepen our response to the world and to other people beyond the point of proximate concern (of liking, self - interest, limited commitment, etc.) to that of ultimate concern; to purify and correct our loves in the light of Christ's love; and in him to find the grace and power to be the reconciled and reconciling community.

However, if the argument is made that alternative orientation is nature's response to overpopulation, then 1) we'd need to see results from that, and 2) those results would point to either an increase or decrease.

But when our sin is pointed out to us, the proper response is not to make excuses, but to say, «You are right.

Rob's response here does not really address good criticism, but it does make a good point at the end — you generally should not criticize books you have not read.

NathanL, you have made some interesting points, but I think your response to SocietyVs shows something.

According to the objectives of the bill, the law «will make the divine message understood, ensure the response of society, encourage peace and tranquillity, promote the supreme human values of truth, honesty, integrity, character building, tolerance, understanding others» point of view and way of life».

Shadowflash, I don't recall your response to any of my posts... I usually do recall them... But I do agree with one thing you said... «human mind hates being wrong» But I see it differently then you do... I see human mind and human understanding being the stumbling block and point of pride, which prevents man from seeing the reality of his real condition, and the need to humble himself in order to be able to see himself as he is, and seek the help of His Creator without whom he is a living, moving shell, yet, without the vital part of him being alive, which would make him complete.

Maybe it takes a comedian to point out that such a lukewarm response makes jokes of us all.

In response to this question we must point out first of all that beauty is a value.5 And it is the struggle to realize value that makes any process purposeful.

With this in mind, I've come to believe that «I don't know» is an appropriate response to tough questions, a response that may (at times) make a better case for hope than a five - point lecture ever could.

Dear PATIAT, (In response) Exactly!!!! I can't give the author any points for «making an effort» to offer a carnal spin on something spiritual and i never said «It's not like that» God's word does that for her BUT she must read it with a spiritual mind and let go of her carnal one.

I wish to make two points about the «Marian problem» in response to Timothy George's excellent article «Evangelicals and the Mother of God.»

Laughing — yet again you fail, you sit here and you tell me in one breath that i'm wrong in dealing with absolutes, Yet My whole point in the previous post was to point out that I can't blame science for killing Billions of people because they created the bombs and guns to do so... Just like you can't blame Christianity for people using violence against others, it's the people not the ideology that caused the violence, and i believe that... for whatever reason you apparently missed that and tried to make me sound like i honestly blame science for killing billions... so... maybe you need some reading and comprehension classes... i du n no, just would appreciate if you're going to argue with me, that you actually read my responses.

Perhaps the point of Jesus» question was not to make a general statement about natural disasters, but rather to evoke a response similar to that of the Pharisees, who after being asked a similar question, turned and dropped their stones.

But what makes Fish's book unique in this regard is not just the way he clearly wants to distance himself from the main implications of his own reader - response criticism: that the reader decides the meaning of a text, even to the point that the text quite disappears (the title of one of Fish's later books in fact plaintively asked, Is There a Text in This Class?).

Howard told reporters «We can't make excuses» early on, but his responses from that point on ran contrary to that thinking.

Once again the dribble you come out with is completely against the points I tried to make in response to someone else's views.

With a potential suspension looming, we reached out to Scott Cooley, an odds consultant for Bookmaker.eu, to assess Elliot's value to the point spread and what kind of adjustment they'd make in response.