Sentences with phrase «nearly enough points»

In the end, they didn't take nearly enough points from them and are now paying the penalty.

I probably wouldn't bet on it because I never bet on huge moneyline favorites, but I can't picture Rondae Hollis - Jefferson, DeMarre Carroll, and Allen Crabbe scoring nearly enough points to win.

Not exact matches

Even now, we are at the point in history where there are not nearly enough scientists to answer the more and more questions that come up... As Solomon said:

The team shot nearly 50 percent from the field and over 45 percent from the three - point line, which is good enough to win games against anyone, even the Top 10 Gators.

DaRon Greason had 25 of the team's 60 points, but it wasn't nearly enough as they gave up 111.

Chambers is still too raw, I don't know why Hayden and Ajayi have not been given a chance, but I figure it means they are not trusted enough, and then there would be the point in wanting to maintain stability by not bringing in a big ego but I am sure there are many defenders that are the same level or nearly the same as, or best but not too big as to want to call the shots.

Since I don't carry a small bag around nearly enough to justify a hefty price tag, I try to find alternatives at affordable price points when there is something on trend that I like.

Only it's not nearly enough money, so the food quality isn't there to attract full - paid students, let alone to justify a higher price point that the district can then use to put back into the food.

But de Blasio, giving the keynote speech at an education conference hosted by Columbia University, called his nearly 50 - point win earlier this month «substantial» and the source of enough political capital to enact his ambitious agenda.

For example, he says, there isn't enough evidence to say for certain that the embryo in question was nearly at term and, therefore, to say that it couldn't fly when born, a point he also raises in a column published in the same issue of Science.

While the Obama administration made a late push to control methane, environmental groups often referred to the regulations on the books as a good jumping - off point but not nearly strict enough to match the threat, particularly over the short term.

I now realize that the stomach work I was doing before joining the class was not nearly enough to strengthen my muscles to a point that they could alleviate stress on my lower back.

Since I don't carry a small bag around nearly enough to justify a hefty price tag, I try to find alternatives at affordable price points when there is something on trend that I like.

They grew long and thick up to the point where I had to cut them (schock - horror, I know) and nearly every mascara was good enough, because they just needed a little color to look stunning.

Stolberg doesn't try nearly hard enough, content to get by on the basics of sophomoric behavior and point - and - shout joke construction.

So inevitable are these conclusions, in fact, that I just gave up and accepted the ending, which sidesteps a first - glance case of double jeopardy with such vague dialogue, recited in such a bland tone of sotto voce, that I only got the basic gist of how we got from Point A to Point B. With Point B such a shrug - worthy certainty, I wasn't nearly confused enough to care besides.

But on the other hand, we're at a point in film history where there's only one star who's good at this kind of musical leading man role who has enough box office credibility from other projects (specifically his nearly 20 - year run as Wolverine) to get an automatic green light for almost any new musical movie just by saying «Yes,» and that's Jackman — so I'd rather not nitpick him to death here.

I'm not nearly far enough along to issue a proper review (it's an enormous game, with tutorials still popping up regularly at a point when many other games would be rolling their credits), but my early impressions are positive enough that I've no intention to stop playing any time soon.

For a film that tries to buck the gymnastics trend by thumbing its nose at the judges that count off points for any attempts at originality, the «movie judges», otherwise known as film critics, can thumb their noses right back and slam it, ironically, for not being nearly original enough.

Interestingly enough, nearly every time that I ask these kinds of questions, the teacher points out the one thing that I was concerned about, and I can simply respond with excerpts from the evaluation notes that corroborate our mutual understanding.

Oddly enough, as Biba points out, two key issues were very nearly buried in among the pages of the article.

From that standpoint, there's no chance that the 2009 low was the beginning of a secular bull, both because valuations weren't nearly low enough (prospective 10 - year returns briefly exceeded 10 % annually, but were nowhere close to those accompanying the beginning of previous secular bulls), and also because at present, valuations are already about the point where one would look for a secular bear to start.

Since March 2000, when the Shiller P / E briefly touched an unprecedented level of 43, we've worked about 19 points off of the P / E, but it's not nearly enough.

«Specifically, we find that nearly 10 % of prime borrowers who applied for their loans jointly could have lowered their mortgage interest rate at least one eighth of 1 percentage point if the mortgage was applied for by the applicant with a higher credit score and an income high enough to qualify for the mortgage,» the note reads.

For example, if the account owner is in the 35 % tax bracket and the beneficiary is in the 28 % bracket — a difference of just seven percentage points vs. the 13 percentage points of dropping from a 28 % to 15 % tax rate — those two advantages are enough to put the conversion ahead of the traditional IRA plus taxable account by nearly 4 % after 20 years, $ 340,000 vs. $ 328,000.

The tail is set on nearly level with the croup as a natural extension of the topline, strong at root, tapering to a fine point, nearly long enough to reach the hock.

Paul adds that frequent attention to trimming your cats nails - keep the points off - can accomplish the task nearly as well, but most people just aren't religious enough about this task to stay ahead of the risk to the furniture.

Another would - be sticking point for nearly 1 in 10 veterinarians surveyed was they believed they would not use the therapy laser enough to justify the investment.

That's not nearly enough to satisfy his tastes, however, and Brian has multiple places on his list for when he can collect enough points!

Paddling up to the point where we were nearly underneath some of the nests, we could make out the chicks calling out to their parents who were busy scrambling around the treeline with bits of food hanging from their mouths, as well as the occasional toddler who was brave enough to walk to the ends of the branch, but wasn't quite ready to make the leap, its wings flapping in the wind to gather strength for their eventual departure.

It was an innocuous enough question to receive by email, especially for someone that runs a travel blog, but I had to wonder: Did the sender realize I lived in New York City which, at last check, was not normally considered a convenient starting point for a day trip to the largest waterfall in North America (Google Maps pegs the drive to Niagara Falls from New York City at 411 miles and nearly 7 hours by car)?

If you bought four of those cards to make a $ 2,000 rent payment, you could earn 12,000 HHonors points — nearly enough for a free night at a level - 2 Hilton.

You can accumulate points quickly, even enough for your Southeast Asia adventure in July to be nearly paid for:

Category bonuses are good but the point cost for a single night at a Hilton was always astronimical, and though you pick up points quickly, not nearly enough.

I was excited to see this addition, though I do wish that it was a two - way street and that I could use miles for SPG redemptions (as I have a ton via Greek CC spend and not nearly enough SPG points).

JetBlue doesn't offer nearly as many flight destinations as other airlines, though, so think carefully about where you would want to fly once you earn enough points to redeem a free trip.

The point is that a review and a couple pictures is not nearly enough for anyone to decide whether this is fair use or not.

This, and more recent work I've been doing on the loss of large sized invertebrates from the coast, makes the point that looking at biodiversity is not nearly enough to understand the effects of the Anthropocene.

What could hypothetically happen if a very large change in GHG amount / type is made, is that the forcing could increase beyond a point where it becomes saturated at the tropopause level at all wavelengths — what can happen then is that the equilibrium climate sensitivity to the nearly zero forcing from additional GHGs may approach infinity, because in equilibrium the tropopause has to shift upward enough to reach a level where there can be some net LW flux up through it.

The New York Times» Andy Revkin has been one of the few reporters writing on global warming to point out what every serious energy expert in the U.S. has long known: new regulations alone won't do nearly enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Phil, it really seems you're trying too hard to score points and not nearly hard enough to just take an objective look at the methodology used in the paper.

One of the most important points made in these papers concerning the reproducibility of computational analyses is that having the tools and techniques in hand isn't nearly enough by itself to get the job done..

This is one reason that, as nearly every climate scientist I spoke to pointed out, the U.S. military is obsessed with climate change: The drowning of all American Navy bases by sea - level rise is trouble enough, but being the world's policeman is quite a bit harder when the crime rate doubles.

We discussed that «big data» in legal is not nearly as big as in other markets but pointed out there is nonetheless enough for interesting applications of AI.

Taking nearly an hour's worth of questions from reporters, Zuckerberg said Facebook up to this point hasn't taken a broad enough view of its responsibility to protect user data and prevent abuse of the platform.

It was a laptop meant to push the entire category forward, maybe to the point where «devices» just totally disappear into our lives — but it didn't have nearly enough oomph.

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