Sentences with phrase «narrow point in»

One was called Berlin and the other Colln, located on opposite sandy banks at a narrow point in the northward flow of the river Spree.

Cadillac renamed its low - priced Series 62 «Calais» in 1965, after the French town and resort which overlooks the narrowest point in the English Channel.

Not exact matches

But whereas Yglesias praises Bernanke on a fairly narrow point — the fact that Bernanke promised to keep rates low even after the economy improved — what we liked about the speech was the sheer volume of myths and misconceptions that he debunked or clarified in a short period of time.

The point is I would have never been given the opportunity to save the company if I had anything other than a narrow say - do gap in the two years leading up to that event.

Clinton's campaign was quick to caveat the results, pointing out that Clinton's blowout win in Mississippi and narrow loss in Michigan meant she would actually build on her already sizable delegate lead Tuesday night.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

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.

Making sure the right ones get to the right places has never been a trivial matter, but the decision to narrow forecasting brought with it a gigantic leap in the amount of data that had to be processed each day, from 100,000 to 3.5 million data points --» demand forecasting units,» in supply chain speak.

Studypool specializes in on - demand Microtutoring, a concept which allows you to narrow in on a specific area of studies with no set price point or time interval so you don't have to shell out $ 100 for an hour of unnecessary tutoring.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points, the tightest spread in more than six years.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

But Tabarrok is correct in pointing out that having such narrow options for gaining marketable skills is lousy for many students, lousy for many employers and lousy for the economy as a whole.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

«Convergence and harmonization means... Canada bending its regulations or simply adopting U.S. federal regulations, and I ask the question: at what point does the narrowing of policy room to manoeuvre fundamentally compromise democratic accountability in our political system?»

The point was to show how much variation in performance there's been historically over shorter time frames compared with a much narrower range in long - term returns.

I want to focus on a narrower point that can be applied to a co-founder or any senior member of your team in the early days — which is to find somebody complementary to you.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

He pointed to the president's recent decision to impose tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, as well as ongoing renegotiations of trade deals with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, as ways in which the United States would narrow the trade gap.

The decline in issuance was sharper than can be readily explained by seasonality and the fall in housing loan approvals in 2004 and appears to have been driven by a fall in issuer supply rather than investor demand, given that primary spreads have narrowed by at least 5 basis points over the period, to historically low levels.

Fifteen points of P / E separate energy stocks and technology stocks, the narrowest spread between low and high P / E groups in at least three years.

This led to quite a sharp narrowing in the spread in bond yields between the two countries, from around 130 basis points at the time of the previous Statement to a low of 85 basis points in early December.

Stocks stayed in a narrow range, holding on to a better - than 100 - point gain posted by the blue chips by late morning, until about 3:00 P.M., when the market began to drift lower.

This fall has been larger than the fall in the United States so that the spread between 10 - year yields in the two countries has narrowed from about 60 basis points to about 20 basis points.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points US5US30 = TWEB, the tightest spread in more than six years.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

Therefore, we abandoned our customary stance of opposing much of what the church does in order to support it on this narrow point.

The point is, love does not equal sex in its narrow biological meaning.

Hence we must conclude with Professors Branscomb, Lohmeyer, Werner, Bishop Rawlinson, and other recent writers, that Mark's point of view is that which was «in general characteristic of the Gentile - Christian Church of the first century,» but that it was not, «in the narrower and more distinctive sense of the words, a «Pauline» Gospel.»

God are you so narrow minded to the point of not possibly take this in consideration?

Duffy makes a point of reminding us that he is a «cradle» Catholic, raised in what many consider the narrow, provincial, and oppressive world of Irish Catholicism, where the phrase «God is love» was «thumped into you with a stick and the penny catechism.»

SO, since your mind is obvously too narrow to understand the POINT of the article in mentioning the paragraph you quote, I will try to explain it.

At this point Cobb might be tempted to make one last ditch stand, arguing that I have begged the question by merely assuming that a structured society can not be an enduring object, whereas what he is saying, when he says that one regional standpoint can include another, is that one enduring entity, one nonspatial, serially ordered society, can still be a structured society in that its temporally successive occasions can include the regional standpoints of the «narrower» actual entities which make up its subordinate societies and / or nexus.

Along the way it will be necessary to gore a familiar ox or two; however, since my analysis points to the conclusion that Victor Lowe and those who follow him have understood the questions surrounding Whitehead and Bergson in terms too narrow to accommodate the whole truth in this matter, including Gunter's thesis.

The point of these corrections is neither liturgical prissiness nor aesthetic nostalgia; there is no «reform of the reform» to be found in lace surplices, narrow fiddleback chasubles, and massive candles.

Jeremy and Glenn — I don't think that Brian would say he doesn't believe in absolute truth — I could be wrong but I think he would say something like... he doesn't believe that any human has (at least up to this point) been able to know absolute truth and that he believes there is a lot more of absolute truth to be known and that he doesn't believe that it is as narrow or «little» as so many try to make it.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

The Reconstruction must move beyond narrow notions of religious groups and philosophical schools which conceive of themselves as tiny options, points of view, or faiths that exist solitarily in an otherwise cosmopolitan world.

And Barr, in a subsequent letter, affirms: «The whole point of my article was precisely to demonstrate that the narrow concept of randomness that is used throughout all branches of science is compatible with a divine Providence that governs and directs every event in the universe.»

I can only try to conclude these remarks by trying to carve out a few narrow footpaths in the thicket, which may perhaps point out where the main road lies and how it is to be found.

This point of view counters the narrow applications of theatrical imagery by emphasizing the constitutive and transformative impact of Word and resists the casual association between «performance» and narcissism by stressing that self is social and is constituted by «speaking», «acting» and «joining together» in communion.

Cobb is right when he says that the term theology has increasingly narrowed in meaning to the point where it now refers to an academic specialty.

I don't really care what those looking on think about us (from their narrow view point), all I care about is that the heart beat of Jesus Christ resides in us and that it pulses with His love, forgiveness and grace.

The point here, however, is to draw out implications of the narrower truth that a Christian congregation's social form is also shaped by its social space, which in turn is importantly and distinctively, if not exhaustively, shaped by the way biblical writings are used in the congregation's common life.

In proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of lifIn proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of lifin too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of life.

DE: I'd say that the bounding of a particular sense - awareness, when you are making it narrower and wider, will be in terms of some emphasis point — what attention fastens on and what becomes background.

From a meta - ethical point of view this suggests the idea that ethics could be based on this command without falling back into narrow legalism, an idea worth further study, not least in the development of natural law theory.

Stanley Fish's great accomplishment in Surprised by Sin was to find value in both points of view while moving the debate away from a sterile either / or alternative by showing how both sides could be right but in ways neither side could suspect from within its own narrow framework.