Sentences with phrase «making major points»

And as you know, if Hebrews is making major points about Christian worship, that means Leviticus is going to be much more important than most people think... fun stuff, but very challenging to implement.

Gier makes a major point of insisting that the retention of the past is a basic philosophic tenet of process theology.

«His dad made a major point of being unable to run because he had to handle things in Albany,» said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz.

said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo only cut the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge toll because the real estate magnate made it a major point in speeches.

Trump took to Twitter in 2014 to try to claim some of the limelight for himself: «Governor Cuomo only cut the Verrazano Bridge tolls because I made it a major point in speeches.

Governor Cuomo only cut the Verrazano Bridge tolls because I made it a major point in speeches.

It seems extraneous, but ultimately makes a major point about the power of words.

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Panama's proximity to Colombia has made it a major transit point for Colombian criminal groups, both on land and water.

It's soft yet durable, which makes the shoes very comfortable to walk around in, and has been a major selling point for Adidas» versions.

With that much money at stake, it would only make sense that crypto holdings will start to become a major focal point in IRS audits.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

The point is that when you encounter a crisis, it primes your organization to go through major changes it might not otherwise be capable of making.

My point in sharing these insights isn't to scare you straight or to get you to make any major life changes.

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.

Micah Zenko makes a good point that the major issue when it comes to torture is that it is blatantly illegal, immoral, and unethical.

It highlights the opinions and experiences of IoT decision - makers on topics that include: drivers for adoption; major challenges and pain points; stages of adoption, deployment, and maturity of IoT implementations; investment in and utilization of devices, platforms, and services; the decision - making process; and forward - looking plans.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

The other major point of interest for the meeting's announcements will be whether a younger official is elevated to a station that makes them a prime candidate to replace Xi.

The point here is not to make major business changes on a whim based on something a customer — or even several customers — does or says.

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.

Oliver eventually pointed out that The Oregonian «s publisher, Advance Publications, later put the newspaper through a major reorganization aimed at making it «a digital - first» publication, while cutting roughly 22 % of the newsroom staff, including Esteve.

Instead of showing all of the special effects and revealing major plot points, the video was more of a teaser that focused on the process behind the making of the movie — emphasizing the real sets and practical effects, and de-emphasizing the CGI effects which were widely criticized as removing the humanity and realism of the prequels.

The New York Times notes that the new plan could make climate change a major talking point in the upcoming presidential election.

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

The one major point in favor of your argument that you didn't highlight is that most people using a Roth IRA assume that they'll make more money in the future than they do today, thus realizing a lower tax rate by paying taxes now than they would have in the future (even assuming tax rates stay constant).

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It is important to point to some major areas that will make a difference in many women's lives.

«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

I can't reply directly to PK's post above, but this is referencing the great point he made about many high earners needing to live in major metro areas to earn those high incomes, but not being from those areas, and thus not having family (or even friends) close by.

Two major points are to be made in support of my conclusion.

That I am at every point indebted to the work of others is evident in the text, and in major matters this has been made explicit in the footnotes.

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

He makes a point of arguing, however, that countries such as India, China, and multiethnic Russia should have major roles in the UN system that he envisions (if they ever get their own acts together).

The point im trying to make is that darwin saw some major flaws in his theory.

Similarly, the major contribution of the existentialist movement in philosophy, psychology, and theology has been to point out the fundamental role of decision - making in all human experience.

To summarize, there are four major points at which feminists have made contact with Whitehead's philosophy.

tthe next major turning point in the evolution of mankind will be the shedding off of our need for religion... if we make it to that point, we may have a future that includes a rational.

Clarification: when I wrote «John Galt doesn't use this as an incidental point in his radio address but makes no bones that there is no religion in his world view», I meant to express that this was a major point in John Galt's radio address; that no - one could read this and believe that it was an incidental point.

At one point, participants jotted down «what major comment about worship [they would] like to make.»

In sketching out some of the major themes of Dillard's prose, three points emerge that need to be made explicit and placed in a larger context.

The study, consisting of two volumes and buttressed by dozens of charts, made the following major points:

To the extent that there is a link between AIDS and homosexuality, the major point that must be made is that it is homosexual promiscuity that stands condemned, not evangelical belief that homosexual practice is wrong.

This is a perfectly good phrase, and I may have used it myself, but it does not help with the major points I was trying to make in this essay.

He rightly points out that the two most common ones» that English majors make for better people and better societies» are patently false.

In early November, for instance, Francis Phillips, in her Catholic Herald blog, scored something of a bull's eye, with a post in which she pointed out that Tesco had ended its support for a major cancer research event, but instead made a large contribution to London's main annual gay prideevent.

A major problem is to tell the story in such a way that people hear it as contemporary and relevant.51 John Taylor pointed out that we could reach outsiders not by anything we do inside the church buildings but by crossing over to the outsiders and learning to be at home in that alien territory, as the more we are engaged in Christian witness, the more we shall recognize that it is not we who make or mar the future.

But whether one prefers the Old or the New Mass, Father Langlois, as a church historian, made it a point to underscore that «liturgical reform — including major liturgical reform — has always been part of Catholic tradition.

If you're making this for your kids you will score some major cool - mom points!

When my kids are making dinner, having one less dish to clean up is a major selling point!