Sentences with phrase «meant more points»

Bigger bills meant more points, and Hilton offers a pretty high base level already — double points was a lot of points.

We would have had more depth, more quality, more competition and that would have meant more points, and more of a chance to win something.

If he only scores 17 or 18 whilst achieving this (given we have plenty of goalscorers who can score against lesser sides) I'd be happy with that, as it'd almost certainly mean more points.

With a great travel rewards credit card, each menial purchase can mean more points or miles you can use to pay for airfare, hotel stays, and the other travel expenses that can get you out of the aisle and onto the beach.

Higher category means more points.

That means the more points you have on your driving record, the higher your insurance rates will be.

Not exact matches

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

A recent Inc.com post pointed out that, if two lanes are merging into one, it makes more mathematical sense to «zipper merge» which means letting lanes fill up and then merging at the last possible moment.

Chances are that name means a little more to you if you were a tween in the «90s, which is exactly the point.

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

According to data from FiveThirtyEight, the state of Arizona has a partisan lean of R +7.5, meaning that an overperformance of 8 points or more would «bode well» for Democrats in November's Senate race.

«That doesn't mean you shouldn't work on yourself and develop yourself and learn to make people more comfortable, but at a certain point it's like, what are you trying to accomplish?»

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

The expense of air travel ranked as a more significant concern, getting a mean score of 4.9 on a seven - point scale.

And as Kowitt pointed out throughout her questions, sometimes consumers say one thing and do another — meaning they say they want to eat more fresh produce and incorporate healthier foods in their diets, but still spend billions on snacks and beverages they know aren't good for them nutritionally.

Creating a PowerPoint presentation, or deck, for your business plan is a quick, to - the - point means of revealing your best selling points to those reviewing it, while still sending over your more detailed plan.

The rally that followed in the following hour, which took the S&P 500 up more than 25 points, was accompanied by weak volume, meaning buyers were not particularly enthusiastic.

In more extreme cases, that might mean gradual progress toward ordering that pizza — first making your kid make eye contact with the waiter, then asking her to point to her preferred pie, then actually doing the ordering herself.

«But those ends are much more important than the means: there is no point deploying blockchain or a product marketed as blockchain just for the sake of it.»

So, even if we can't take it to the bank that more coffee definitively means less heart disease, the signs are pointing in that direction.

Germany views migrants as a way to solve a future dearth of young and able workers but many in Europe who oppose immigration are keen to point out that, as a prosperous country, Germany has the means to support more migrants.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

In order to keep the price point low, they sacrifice computational power, which means they can not support the more sophisticated image processing programs.

«Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work,» Coles told Business Insider.

More to the point, it's a navetà ‰ that's by no means uncommon among companies entering the IPO process.

The benefit of this kind of data is that it allows data companies like Cambridge Analytica to develop more sophisticated psychological profiles of internet users (more data points means more predictive power).

You could also make the argument that, at some point, there is a significant increase in the per barrel cost of transportation and that the cancellation of Keystone XL would shift more barrels onto that more expensive, marginal means.

In the end this shrinks the economy — and that means that more and more loans will go bad, until crisis levels are reached at the point where lenders realize that there is no more room to extract more, and stop lending.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

That means you have more cushion from the point of view you're describing.

There could be more pain in other sectors of the bond market based on credit quality and maturity, but the point is that bonds were never meant to be long - term return enhancers for your portfolio.

This means that your consumers are more likely to do their own research about your company before your first point of contact with them.

This means that, in 19 out of 20 cases, survey results will differ by no more than 2.5 percentage points from what would have been obtained by the opinions of all target group members in the U.S.

Each point you redeem for travel booked through Chase Ultimate Rewards is worth $.0125 (one and a quarter cents), which means that 100 points equals $ 1.25 in redemption value, and points are worth 25 % more than if redeemed for cash.

At this point, it's hard to say which arm of the federal government is more confused — or what it means for consumers.

I made the point that if Greece defaults it does not necessarily mean they have to leave the EU, any more than if Illinois defaulted they would have to leave the United States.

That doesn't mean there aren't good long - term positions that come up from time to time, and this author will be more keen to point those out when they do appear.

This means investors in German two year bonds are putting a hefty premium on safety but the more significant point is that essentially YOU pay the German government to take your money!

Secondly, I cant make sense of the meaning of exchange spread, could you explain a little more on that point please?

Combining the card's double points on travel, and its built in 20 % discount when redeeming points for travel via UR, means that you can accrue more than 2.5 % in rewards this way.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

Once people reach a point in life where their income is more substantial and their financial needs have grown, they have the means and the incentive to purchase a house that will build financial value.

He sent me an email on Thursday in which he said even with the five horsemen (FANGs + AAPL) and the SPX and Dow up today (and the SPX setting a new all - time high), the bullish percent index (BPI) of the NYSE is negative which means there are more stocks generating a point and figure sell signal than a buy signal.

Fairly priced doesn't mean sell, it means you should expect returns consistent with historical returns, or something like 4 or 5 percentage points more than bonds.

Keep in mind the trade - off of earning Ritz - Carlton Rewards points means you won't be earning other hotel or airline points, which may be more valuable to you.

Don't get me wrong, if there is a gasoline rewards credit card that is worth more to you than 2 travel points per $ 1 then, by all means, apply for it and use it for when you buy gas.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to invalidate your experience, but more and more evidence is pointing to NDEs being the brain's response to dying, a physiological process but not a spiritual one.

I agreed, and then pointed out that the fact that it doesn't take a magical man in the sky to make me love them means it's EVEN MORE SPECIAL.

If the paradigm of the school / class is to get their chaplains in training to think more about talking about God at the end of life, then the lecture has a point, a meaning.

The point of Lent is also to help one segue into a more long - term committment to sacrifice and personal growth, and is not just meant to be a tough 40 days of no cookies.