Sentences with phrase «numbered the points of»

When there is a genetic risk for breast cancer, from a numbers point of view, it does make sense to have a prophylactic mastectomy because it reduces your risk by 90 percent.

Being a mathematics & statistics major in university, I have the tendency to look at everything from a numbers point of view.

This is close to as cheap we ever see Choice Privileges Points being sold (when there a 50 % bonus available points cost ~ 0.733 cents each and points cost 0.786 cents each in the last promotion) so, from a numbers point of view, this looks promising.

In his «Chance and Order» series (1971), Martin set up grids on paper and numbered the points of intersection.

Not exact matches

For a number of years, the two were estranged, to the point where Sumner tried to buy out Shari's stake in Viacom and CBS (as he bought out her brother Brent).

But a number of these entrepreneurs point to family backgrounds in which immigration played a huge role in developing their families» values.

As the NewsWhip blog points out, in addition to the focus on video, Facebook has made a number of tweaks to its news - feed algorithm that have also affected how media content appears and whether it gets engagement or not.

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

But there are an increasing number of signs pointing to the idea that this isn't always the case.

A number of people pointed out in response to Telnaes» tweet that most newspapers leave President Barack Obama's daughters out of their political criticism and editorial cartoons, even though they regularly appear with the president at political events.

Sullivan discussed this point in her column, by responding to concerns raised by a number of readers.

Warheads gave you playground credibility; the more you could eat at once, or the number of Warheads you could eat in a certain span of time gave you cool points.

With Southwest, once you receive a certain number of miles or points, you're granted Companion Pass Status.

After earning a certain number of points, the customer gets a reward.

The shareholder points to a number of self - inflicted wounds: poor disclosure, abruptly firing the CEO in April, and taking on financing at egregious terms, all of which gives short sellers more ammunition to sow doubt.

By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

I don't know how it is that so many of us manage to miss this simple point, but our financial system is based on numbers.

As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.

«A lot of people are banking on it to make up for the first - quarter number, it needs to deliver... I really think that that number might be the trigger point on does this market have the legs to go higher.»

The company's number of daily active users pointed to steady engagement in the platform despite backlash from the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

As a matter of fact, there is no point in denying that by all means clichés surely increase the number of words in the text, which is clearly seen in this sentence.

«From my experience, companies have to be functionally integrated to deliver on number one and number two, and they have to understand the points of intersection between each silo.

Many people have bought into this space because it's one of the only places to get decent yield, but she points out that a number of companies only offer corporate debt because of market demand.

For example, the maximum number of points awarded under the age category was 10 and that was given to anyone between the ages of 21 to 49.

To her point, today's marketing is driven heavily by a mix of online ads, sponsored content, and search engine optimization — methods that place your content front and center to audiences that can be targeted and managed across a number of demographics.

Moss points to a number of options, including targeted communications that let them know that management is aware of their concerns.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

When a number of Ontario funds — at one point, the province was home to 46 labour - sponsored funds — started failing due to a combination of poor investments, falling sales and rising redemptions, he scooped up several and consolidated them into the Canadian Fund.

In a recent research note, he pointed to the possibility, based on Apple's reported hiring of a large number of auto industry veterans, of Apple changing gears entirely and building a car.

If there is not more clarity by that point, it is likely that a large number of insurers will abandon the market and the 12.2 million Americans in the exchanges would be left with little choice for coverage in 2018.

When consumers reach the breaking point, one expects to see rising numbers of mortgages in arrears.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

«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.

We'll put put specific numbers on that bluebird view by creating a simple model that involves moving a few decimal points: Let's say that FAANG Inc's share price is $ 24 (based on $ 24 trillion valuation) and that it earns 80 cents (that's the $ 80 billion, many decimal points to the left), so it's selling at the FAANGs combined PE of 30.

Beam points out that these GSS numbers represent a very small data set of young men — only about 60 to 80 people.

«It makes sense to point to an increase in the number of travelers as one likely reason, but other than that, we have no theories.»

So what we're trying to do is help now to get the business up and get the numbers right so that he can kind of get to that point.»

One reason for its popularity is the more accessible price point, due in large part to the overwhelming number of semi-detached houses in this community.

Moderator Anderson Cooper then asked Sanders, «To Secretary Clinton's point, there are a number of Democratic governors in many states who say that fracking can be done safely, and that it's helping their economies.

As a number of critics have pointed out, using AMP would come at a certain cost.

He pointed out that even de Souza had noted in her judgement that Brazil is the country with the second - largest number of WhatsApp users, out of more than a billion worldwide.

One study showed that narcissism is the number one predictor of success among West Point cadets, for example, while another meta - analysis of research in the area showed that being a touch narcissistic was a great way to climb the career ladder.

In addition, she points out, there are only a finite number of great mentors to go around.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

Use a simple system with round numbers of points equating to a particular gift or a percent off the customer's next purchase.

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

My point is this: No matter how passionately you believe in your business, you've got to make the numbers work before you can turn your dream into the reality of a large and profitable company.

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

Although we've had two months of similar hiring and paycheck numbers, the SurePayroll small business owner optimism number plummeted 11 points, revealing that only 55 percent of business owners are optimistic about the economy.

Using splashy big numbers of capital market debt deals is foolish when those deals are refinancing previous ones at rates hundreds of basis points cheaper.