Sentences with phrase «not win any point»

His Anti-Wenger comments on his way to Inter I'm sure didn't win him points either.

Doesn't win points for originality, but the film keeps to a steady rhythm of entertainment, delivering a few laughs and tears along the way on DVD before it settles into its rightful home on basic cable.

Critics Consensus: Pacific Rim Uprising won't win any points for subtlety or originality, but it delivers enough of the rock»em - sock»em robots - vs.

Critic Consensus: Pacific Rim Uprising won't win any points for subtlety or originality, but it delivers enough of the rock»em - sock»em robots - vs.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

It doesn't win points for originality, but then again neither does a lot of PS4's lineup either, outside indies.

While the Honor 6 Plus may not win any point for originality, it does impress us with the construction.

If they are making the specific effort to get that message across, you won't win any points by ignoring it.

Don't: You will not win points with your next potential boss by speaking badly of a past one.

Exaggeration will not win you any points.

Not exact matches

I've been working on this already (ie everything I've done to this point makes me ready to win here — doesn't mean industry expertise but means some combination of skills and assessment of why you'll succeed)

The coach is not in your game, but rather on the sidelines pointing out your strengths and strategies you've used to win.

Employees «win» by accumulating points via various dietary and exercise mechanisms, though not necessarily for superior athleticism.

The Spurs» 61 - win campaign in 2016 - 17 wouldn't have been possible without Leonard and his 25 points per game and 13.6 win shares.

«Guys like Conor Lamb in districts that the president won by 20 points are gonna need room to say some things that in a place like Fairfield County, Connecticut would be problematic with the so - called base — not so - called base but the base.»

At some point, I had $ 10,000 saved and I was struggling to pay the bills, and after a while, you can't win.

This tactic isn't just about looking (and being) more engaged in the interview — though that certainly wins you points.

They may not be the most romantic locations your city has to offer, but if you play it right, you could win points for originality.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Pollster Frank Graves of Ekos Research points out that Jean Chrétien's 1993 win wasn't followed by any «post-election swoon,» while Paul Martin after 2004 and Stephen Harper after 2011 suffered declines which, far from being short - term slumps, proved irreversible.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

It's not very glamorous or exciting advice, but that's also his point: Slow and steady wins the race.

But it's just as important, if not more so, to show remote employees you care, and to make a point of celebrating wins and successes with remote team members, says Miles.

«My point is that it wasn't an across - the - board win for health care,» Leedom said.

And the answer is, certainly not, the settings recommended in the following text can be taken as a reference point to reach out to your preferred and advantageous winning ratios.

While information respective to a customer profile about background, job functions with related titles, reporting, motivations, pain points, needs, fears, and wants can be derived with some degree of research, the real value is in uncovering profound unarticulated insights and not - so obvious goals that lead to a winning customer strategy and a competitive differentiator.

At that point, it's not about winning, it's just not a situation many guys would want to be in.

why not diabetes or blood pressure medicine which has more universal and might I say LIFE SAVING need????, because contraception, and anything that addresses a women's «choice» are things that would win brownie point among the liberal democrats.

You're points are invalid; Gar marriage is not won, it's a waste of time in our political system but it's not a battle or argument that has been won or lost.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

I get that you see this outside of religion but my point here, finisher is basically stating that we are wrong by insulting and indirectly fighting for christianity... you don't win people over with hate.

You said, «Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

Notice I didn't say win the argument, prove your point, or convince the other person they are wrong.

Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out that, on many key issues, the public is not that much farther to the left than it was when Republicans were routinely winning presidential elections.

It's odd, therefore, that a Pulitzer Prize - winning art critic would miss the point, and that the Times's culture editors wouldn't notice the omission.

The fact is that Abelard was trying to say, with his own passionate awareness of what love can mean in human experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.

The important point to win now is that it is reasonable for everyone — religious or not — to think marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and that anyone who thinks that and acts that way shouldn't face government penalties and discrimination.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Of course, applied to a nominal Christian, it would be offensive, but (1) that might not be a bad thing in that context, and (2) I'm not sure the term matters in that situation — «outsider» isn't likely to win you any points either — it's going to be down to relational skills in communicating the idea lovingly.

Seriously, isn't that the point of war... to gain a tactical advantage and win regardless of the sacrifice of human life?

One danger to the Christian revolt is that it will enter into alliance with forces whose aims and strategies are so foreign to its own that when the common Victory is won — if won it can be — the revolutionary church will be left with the sad reflection that it supplied the «Fourteen Points» which gave specious sanctity to an outrageous peace and that its fruits of victory are an external prosperity based on rotting foundations and debts which it can not collect without destroying its own life.

The point isn't that they have to win.

A second point is that non-violent resistance does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Now, Ruddick is extraordinarily careful to write of maternal thinking not as an ontological given but as a hard - won epistemology that emerges from engaging in maternal practices, and she specifically attacks the «idealized Good Mother,» pointing out that many mothers «who live in the Good Mother's shadow... come to feel their lives are riddled with shameful secrets that even the closest friends can't share.»

Since the idiots like Monarda and its alter egos can't prove their points, the conclusion is that they're without proof; therefore the other side wins.

The logic of grace in this sense points not toward winning, but toward holiness.