Sentences with phrase «more points leading»

Too many points will result in penalties, with more points leading to harsher consequences.

Not exact matches

Depression can have a similar effect on decision - making; it can lead to a more pessimistic point of view, one that renders you unable to use the information available to make the best decision.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

This will not only save your business money, it will also help you generate more leads at a lower price point without breaking the bank.

The company has raised more than $ 20 million in venture capital, led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from NEA and Khosla Ventures.

Lack of real income growth and falling interest rates over a generation have led to more borrowing, which points to a world of trouble tomorrow.

Since 2005, soda sales have dropped steadily, as more and more evidence points to sugar as the leading culprit in North America's obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

«Jamie Dimon has been the one who has led the charge in order to say, «Nope, no more regulation, fight back against regulation, call the regulation un-American, try to resist, try to put loopholes into regulation, hire an army of lobbyists,» Warren said in an interview with CNN's «Starting Point.»

According to a 2013 survey of more than 22,000 business executives by the Katzenbach Center at Strategy &, most leaders understand the key point I just mentioned — that culture plays a critical role in achieving great financial performance - and successfully leading and managing change.

«If you look at more current information, you will see that these data points are not demonstrative of our current network, community impact, and both the direct and indirect job creation near fulfillment centers,» a company representative said previously, adding that «Amazon's investments led to the creation of 200,000 additional non-Amazon jobs, ranging from construction jobs to healthcare industry positions.»

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user data it shared with app makers in 2014.

The S&P / TSX composite index was down 228.57 points to 15,442.68, led by a more than six per cent decline in the energy sector.

By going back to the basics and actually talking to every customer ourselves, we identified some friction points within the app, discovered features that were extremely useful to our user base and increase our secondary conversion rate, turning more leads into paying customers.

Higher wages can point to higher inflation, which, in turn, could lead the Fed to raise interest rates more aggressively.

If you need a more firm example, Koch also pointed to the work ethic of Michael Eisner who led Paramount movies and then the Walt Disney Company.

Leading rounds that include scratching out checks that start about $ 250 million (Slack) and head to $ 10 billion (Uber), its scale has reshaped Silicon Valley in 2017 — and, more to the point, irked the VC community.

As CNBC anchor Becky Quick pointed out this morning during their segment in which I joined, we may be entering that phase of the cycle where good news on Main St. is bad news on Wall St.. That is, accelerating wage growth may lead the Federal Reserve to tighten faster, slowing overall growth more than currently expected.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

Hirschman too became far more pessimistic about long term convergence, and began worrying about the nature of these constraints, even pointing out how misguided optimism itself could lead to highly pro-cyclical policies that reverse the convergence process, in part by encouraging the kinds of inverted balance sheets that I discussed in my blog entry of two weeks ago.

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Especially the point showing that real estate investing can lead to +100 % ratio more easily than earning a wage and investing it.

It's important to point out that fewer fields might equate to more conversions, but you're also likely to get more low quality leads.

As illustrated by the previous two points, the Facebook change will lead to an increased adoption of influencer marketing, giving influencers more options.

Well, the ECRI (one of the more reliable private economic analysis groups) has finally thrown in the towel - «With the Weekly Leading Index having dropped more than 13 points in the last nine months, it is exhibiting a pronounced, pervasive, and persistent decline that is unambiguously recessionary.»

Conversely, will different charging structures and price points lead to more choice and variety - in terms of cost, but also in design, facilities and services - to fit customers» varying lifestyles and wealth?

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

FANG stocks have led the market higher throughout most of the nine - year bull market, so it's not surprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 330 points (1.3 percent) on Monday, while the S&P 500 fell about 42 points (1.5 percent).

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

This is Mooney's point as well: volatility spiking would trigger algorithms to deleverage, thus exacerbating the volatility, leading to even more deleveraging.

It's scary... and you know what's even more scary, is the fact that most 5 - point Calvinist pastors keep these disturbing ideas to themselves, and they are leading both small and exceedingly large churches in the direction of Calvinist thinking without the flock even knowing.

Also, as you pointed out, as we receive the light that we have been given, God gives more light or more revelation, as we reject the light that has been revealed, it leads to more darkness.

But it is a central point for him that there is more than one way to be secular»» the camp of unbelief is deeply divided»» and for that reason he is unwilling to assert that secularism necessarily leads to the monstrous beliefs and movements that Mr. Smith describes.

Even more disastrously, it may mean that the central function of ministry is felt to be a discourse on Sunday morning, containing a lead, three points, and a thought for next week, not to exceed twenty - five minutes in length, set forth in a tone any self - respecting human being would reject if approached privately.

again, i think that's more honest than most here, and leads to a new set of questions... but that's my point.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

Jesus loved theology and Bible study as much as the next person; but Jesus never loved theology and Bible study more than the next person, for if theology and Bible study does not lead us to love the next person, we have missed the entire point.

She can now learn to think for herself more fully, as she has been doing over time that might have led her to this point.

More to the point, just as William Paley, in his perverse way, acted as a kind of accidental midwife to Darwin's theory, so too I think the speculations of Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski (and others, many of whom belong to the Discovery Institute) will lead not to a more robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical complexMore to the point, just as William Paley, in his perverse way, acted as a kind of accidental midwife to Darwin's theory, so too I think the speculations of Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski (and others, many of whom belong to the Discovery Institute) will lead not to a more robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical complexmore robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical complexity.

The revelation of the Francis pontificate, from my vantage point, is that too many of the Church's leading lights are not merely liberal in the sense of doubting Humanae Vitae or feeling that the Church might treat gay Catholics with more Christian charity.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

To make the point more strongly, I know of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to ordination.

This date was deleted from subsequent publications, because the authors wanted to point to the problem in a more general way, not to predict the exact time when crises would lead to collapse.

This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

I can not at this point enter into the discussion of types of Diaspora Judaism affected by contact with paganism; I wish only to record my conviction (1) that Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normal, and normative; and (2) that early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.

If one wishes a more detailed study of the question, one can read Schiflebeeckx's Jesus, in which it takes him 437 pages to come to this point: «All in all, we are led to conclude that the New Testament, not In spite of the diverse kerygmatic projects but because of them, gives substantial information about Jesus of Nazareth?»

I came to where I am because where life had led me had been to a point of frustration in always wanting more when I had everything I needed humanly speaking and not understanding rationally why.

Scripture and worship, «like fingers pointing to the moon» should lead us beyond themselves and I have come to find the way of silence and contemplation often more helpful than elaborate and wordy worship.