Sentences with phrase «of a few points from»

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That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

The Cut & Color Room offers clients a range of rewards — from services to free flatirons and blow - dryers — for as few as 100 Perka points or as many as 10,000, depending on the retail value of items purchased.

At one point of the night, and many beers in, I joined Carl and a few bloggers on discussing what his life has been like since retiring from his job.

The optimism survey found that fewer than 1 in 2 — or just 45 % — of small business owners are optimistic, a sharp 15 - point drop from 60 % in August.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

From the integration of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the InterFrom the integration of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the Interfrom the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the Internet.

For example, instead of descriptive bullet points when I'm recommending a particular communications strategy, I'll often show a few screenshots of media coverage that resulted from the strategy, then talk through how we got there.

«I want to raise a few extra points of income from the top, and use it for the things we need,» he later added.

Of course, as Adfreak points out, that hasn't stopped more than a few commenters from questioning the agency's choice of too many skinny white chickOf course, as Adfreak points out, that hasn't stopped more than a few commenters from questioning the agency's choice of too many skinny white chickof too many skinny white chicks.

Bell points out that Amazon is one of only a very few companies whose annual report regularly includes a host of terms from analytics.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

There are a few reasons, including travel and purchase protections and other perks, but from a rewards perspective, Chase's cards are particularly valuable because of the type of rewards currency they earn: transferable points.

Among the findings: Results from the federally - funded General Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their lives.

Of course, you should come prepared for the meeting with a few thoughts and talking points, but don't get discouraged from sharing your opinion in the future if you're wrong about something.

Having talked about liquidity from the banking system's point of view, I will finish with a few thoughts on liquidity in the superannuation (pension) system.

A few days later, while arguing that his personal feelings on the matter should not affect the ultimate decision to accept or reject the proposal, he stated, «from my [point of view] it seems that the community's feeling on this issue isalready [sic] clear.»

Since then, additional sources and reports continue to point to the same conclusion: that hundreds, not dozens, of people died from the storm, despite claims by President Trump and Puerto Rican officials that the count is 62 or fewer.

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

These events all point to a persisting lack of education about Bitcoin users, who still have few truly non-technical options to choose from prior to purchasing, storing and trading their assets.

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

From this point on, it is expected that the price of Tron will be on a slow rise for the next few days at least.

To benefit most from a deferred variable annuity's tax - deferred savings opportunity, use a low - cost annuity — some products are available for fewer than 50 basis points (0.50 %) of your investment annually.4

Pan American Silver Corp (TSX: PAAS), a metals and mining company based in Canada, received a lot of attention from a substantial price movement on the TSX over the last few months, increasing to CA$ 22.16 at one point, and dropping to the lows of CA$ 19.1.

From a forecasting standpoint, the company's numbers speak for themselves: On a quarterly basis, its sales team consistently delivers on bookings within a few percentage points of predictions.

One of our few prior data points on this question comes from the (accidental) 2016 revelation that Zuckerberg covers his laptop's webcam with tape — a privacy measure that's not as paranoid as it might sound.

Because of the ceiling's height and the parapet surrounding it, the solar panels will only be visible from a select few points in Gloucestershire.

Netflix has not responded to AFA, which has pointed to a few different teen suicides in 2017 as resulting from a binge - watch of the series.

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

Few would debate the proposition that war is one of the worst realities that can befall humanity, and from that point of view it is hard to disagree with my friend's assessment.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

Firstly, I will critique a few major approaches and perspectives to show that any exclusivistic attempt from one point of view is problematic, and that a healthy development of the discipline requires a holistic understanding of mission.

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

The fact that much of the most strident rhetoric of the last few years has come from the post-1994 Republican - dominated Congress reinforces my point.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

Based on the comments I received from my blog posts on the science and religion debate, I want to point Evangel readers in the direction of some resources that would inform the conversation because ---- with the exception of a few interlocutors ---- pervasive ignorance and fear seem to....

At least in part to deal with such points, Eigen more recently pointed out that each biological genome is not a single sequence of bases on DNA (a unique «point in sequence space») but rather a fairly large number of variant sequences that have quite similar — even indistinguishable — biological functions.11 b, 11 c Most of these functionally similar sequences differ from the «wild - type» sequence in only one or a few locations, but some have fairly large discrepancies.

Two philosophers from Oxford and Cambridge respectively, Simon Blackburn and Leslie Green, presented the main argument against the validity of Pope Benedict's phrase, simply pointing out that in practice very few people at present are radically relativist in all morality to the point of being anarchic and care-less of cruelty.

It was not just a few men but all:» 4 the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter» You can twist the Bible all you like but there is a point where you get silly.

Once it was when from the summit of a high mountain I looked over a gashed and corrugated landscape extending to a long convex of ocean that ascended to the horizon, and again from the same point when I could see nothing beneath me but a boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dragging their anchors.

I appreciate your points especially the one about the new covenant and a few others but in my opinion in your interest to demosntrate the value of hte cross and to shy away from sin and the wrath of God you have actually cheapened and devalued the Love God has for us.

Over the last few decades, for example, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars of the American Founding have all pointed out that a smidgen of religious belief seems necessary to prevent modern liberalism from devouring its own political and economic gains.

So the LCWR orders are becoming greyer and greyer, to the point where their demise is, from a demographic point of view, merely a matter of time: perhaps a few decades down the road, absent truly radical renewal.

Note that this is quite a different conception from that which a few geneticists were beginning, at that time or shortly thereafter, to formulate from a reductionist point of view.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

(Note: Wright's understanding of «the word» from Chapter 2 is critical to understanding his next few points.)

This to me is illogical when evaluated from a purely natural development point of view, to name a few.