Sentences with phrase «making big points»

After months of offering generous sign - up bonuses, credit card issuers have started dialing back on the reward points they're including with new cards — or making big points bonanzas harder to earn.

Brent Staples writes editorials for the New York Times and books about race, making a big point of his being black.

Del Conte, however, may have made the bigger point during a panel focused on the retrospective (we think) of conference realignment, an idea whose core spawned the explosive redistricting of college football's powers over the last decade.

But we make a big point of saying «attachment parenting» is not indulgent parenting.

@dionna - code - name - mama: Well, when I was having recurrent yeast infections (this was back when I was using antibiotics for acne, and I had a yeast infection every two weeks for a year — ugh), the nurse - midwife at my OBGYN's office made a big point of saying I needed to wash my undies (she assumed, correctly at the time, no cloth pads or family cloth) in vinegar to kill the yeast — that just washing them normally wouldn't necessarily do it.

Moreover, Russian government in the 90s made a big point of Russian Federation being the legal successor to the USSR.

Funke, too, has made a big point of supporting the other provisions in the omnibus bill, including pay equity for women in the workplace.

Among other things, the author makes a big point that a paper from March 2004 by Chylek et al showed a cooling of Greenland, and that this study had somehow been censored from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.

We're in the middle of planning the most important day of our lives and it's hard to not make this the biggest point of conversation.

In just a short moment, the brand will attempt to make a big point by using a compelling image, strategy, and message.

I know that's a crude analogy but I think it's makes a big point.

«The Accountability Plateau,» by Mark Schneider, just published by Education Next and the Fordham Institute, makes a big point: that «consequential accountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middle school math.

Christie has made a big point that two - thirds of all districts will see an increase in state aid this year, and none will see cuts.

Power's release made a big point that Android users had little interest in Apple CarPlay and vice-versa, as if that's news.

«Currently there is nothing specifically planned outside the UK, but that's not always going to be the case,» a person close to the company told TechCrunch on the occasion of its Blinkbox digital content launch earlier this year, when the company also made a big point of hinting hard about a tablet launch.

I think you made the biggest point I could ever say myself — I gave it my best shot!!

I also made a big point of having the blurriness there which I have to paint, not like Gerhard Richter, I don't erase it, I paint the blurriness, which is really sharp in a sense.

He made a big point of playing down the effect of Bartz's abrupt departure last week, calling the executive team — all essentially Bartz appointees, including Levinsohn himself — «self - sufficient,» and therefore more immune to the changes it's seeing at the very top.

However, some employers really value education and make a big point of preferring to hire staff with degrees (no matter how long ago they were achieved).

Not exact matches

As you chill the methane and oxygen below its liquid point, you get a fairly meaningful density increase — you get on the order of 10 % to 12 % density increase, which makes quite a big difference for the propellant load.

Shilling does not say when the stock market will crash, or how big such a crash will be, but he does emphasize the importance of shifting wealth into cash at such times — a point he's been making for much of his career.

Computing power has increased exponentially in the last decade, to the point where big data and machine learning have come together to make the customer experience richer and infinitely more simple.

With just your voice, you can pull up photos from your Google Photos library, make video calls with the Google Duo service, and, notably, play YouTube videos — potentially a big selling point for these devices, given Google recently yanked support for YouTube from Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

And along the way, the biggest pain point I've observed plaguing public relations is the dearth of KPIs, metrics and analytics to drive campaigns and inform smart decision - making and iteration.

He makes a point of sharing the type of information that will help others avoid mistakes that he made when he was just starting out, and of taking complex ideas (like big data or digital marketing technologies) and explaining them in a way that beginners can understand.

«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 rollback of these privacy rules wouldn't be as big of a deal to people if they had a choice between an ISP that collects data en masse and one that makes it a point not to serve up targeted ads.

Most pipeline - management training revolves around technical training on using a CRM system, but what managers really need is training on making better pipeline management decisions — for instance how to determine the ideal pipeline size for each rep. Managers need to know at what point in the sales process their actions have the biggest impact.

Not only that, but the broadcast networks could be so weak by that point that they will be unable to pay enough to lock up future Super bowl rights — making it even more likely that the chance to air the big game will be snapped up by a digital giant like Apple or Google.

But for now, I'll point you to the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, an organization comprised of some of the world's biggest companies who have made a public commitment to work together on issues of diversity and accountability in all its challenging nuance.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

«At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price,» said John Legere, moved attribution up president and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

«While one data point doesn't make a trend, this is the biggest monthly decline in Ireland's Treasury holdings since the data became available, and...

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.

Her neck - and - neck rival Bernie Sanders has made Wall Street greed and breaking up the big banks a key point of his campaign.

However, if what you have is contagious, pointing out that you could get others sick can make a big difference.

«Here's some big, dumb industry that hasn't changed for 30 years and could be made a hell of a lot better,» he points out.

Three moms make a point to assure anyone within earshot that their child «is the next big thing.»

The point of the ad is to make the argument that some of the big game's festivities should carry over into the day after the Super Bowl.

On Wednesday, Morneau made a point of saying he sees a very big difference between a national pharmacare «strategy» and a «plan.»

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

When seated he leans forward when he gets to a big point the way we do when we are fired up, and he is great at breaking complex information into the magical 3s: Three points provide a verbal agenda, making it easy for everyone to follow and remember.

During Virgin's early years, one difficult decision we had to make involved Virgin Records, which at one point was in desperate need of cash to sign bigger artists.

You need to be courageous and make a point of facing your fears, no matter how big or small.

One thing that might help in this respect is to have a better service experience for customers than the big players offer, said Heger, pointing out that American provider Sprint made this a major priority and subsequently improved its financial performance.

Eventually the operations hit peak efficiency, at which point in order to keep growing you need to bring in more customers, open more restaurants (franchises) or make another big acquisition.

Similarly, some will point to high levels of inflation, but breaking China inflation down into food, non food and housing (see chart below; white line - food, orange line - non food, yellow line - rents), a big part of non-food makes it pretty clear that food is beginning to turn for its own reasons, while house prices and rents really are falling out of bed.

That's actually one of our biggest points of difference — the result of its manufacturing process — and what makes Proraso soap so special.

I don't think a 25 basis point hike in the funds rate, if that's what you're contemplating, will make a big difference to the trajectory of any of the variables I've cited above.