I have a great many faults and failings as a Catholic (and indeed as a human being); but having become a Catholic, however poor a one I might be, is surely one
of the few points in my favor.
Reeves has studied the effect of natural disasters on voting patterns and has found that when a local official asks for federal aid after an earthquake, hurricane or tornado, that official gets a bump
of a few points in the polls.
I sincerely hope that active learning teachers aren't losing their jobs for the sake
of a few points in a standardized test.
A couple points may be the difference between winning or losing a game, but the difference
of a few points in terms of interest rate can be a real game - changer.
Not exact matches
Critics, though,
point out that driving customers to
fewer and
fewer options across the gamut
of health services could prove risky for them
in the long run.
Then there are the scenes when plot
points are achingly hand - fed to us, like a scene
in which Ellsberg is making copies
of the volumes
of files that make up the Pentagon Papers (which also drags on a
few beats too long).
In April 2014, a
few Bank
of Canada economists published a short paper that should be the starting
point for every conversation about the state
of the economy.
It's just becoming more and more obvious that a
few key players and central platforms
in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the
point where they will be controlling significant segments
of the entire economy and our lives as well.
And Sessions might already have a
few judges
in green - friendly states who share his
point of view.
I have enough useless bits
of paper
in my actual wallet, so I couldn't see the
point and gave up after a
few minutes.
However, someone needs to
point out a
few of the gaps opening
in the seemingly impregnable reputation
of the modern - day version
of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd — now known as BHP Billiton.
On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a
few percentage
points in most
of the core metrics since I last checked back
in November 2016.
«This is only a
few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 %
of the full year's refunds are typically received by this
point in the year).»
Next Monday, Blue
Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named
in honor
of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next
few hours waiting on instead.
Shipments have steadily ticked up a
few percentage
points each week
in the second half
of 2014, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.
As proof, Connolly
points to the wave
of serendipitous product placements —
in ads for Motrin, Mighty Dog, and the U.S. Postal Service, to name a
few — that the wheel has received.
Forty - five percent
of those surveyed by NFIB said they found
few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage
points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage
points higher than the same time period
in both 2013 and 2012.
Pointing to a «cycle
of boom and bust,» the CFPB
points out a
few key players
in its report:
This comes
in handy because,
in many cases, it costs
fewer points to book a trip if you go through one
of those programs, as opposed to using the
points as cash.
On a visit to Fortune's office Wednesday, the health system executive painted a mostly rosy picture
of the modern, efficient health system he sees
in America's future — though he did note a
few pain
points that stand
in the way.
«The company believes that malware, installed through the use
of compromised third - party vendor credentials, affected one particular
point of sale system at
fewer than 300
of approximately 5,500 franchised North America Wendy's restaurants,» the company said
in its quarterly filing Wednesday.
«More cards are charging a monthly fee, like a checking account, and
fewer have a la carte fees for services like
point -
of - sale purchases, ATM transactions and live customer service calls,» said Susan Weinstock, director
of Pew's Safe Checking
in the Electronic Age Project.
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.
SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped early on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count
pointed to further increases
in the country's output, underlining one
of only a
few factors holding back crude markets
in an otherwise bullish environment.
Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some
point in his or her life for every year
of age over the past
few decades:
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.
A conversion increase
of a
few percentage
points could result
in thousands
of dollars (or hundreds
of thousands)
in new revenue.
If people repeatedly come to you with requests
in areas where you don't feel adequately qualified to help, having a
few stock resources, such as books or articles, to
point them to can ease the pain
of saying no, Grant suggests.
They've added features
in the last
few months that
point to the fact that they are increasing the amount
of attention they give video: view count, embedding options, video for website conversions.
As well,
points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom
of a
few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him
in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.
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 Internet.
Rumors
of an
in - display fingerprint scanner appear to be dead at this
point, leaving
few standout features for the Galaxy S9.
A: There's an inflection
point that you hit where if you only remain focused on your core business you might be out
of business
in a
few years.
It read, «I Survived,» then described,
in a
few bullet
points, the varieties
of heartache that had befallen the fan base
in recent years.
Also,
in the body
of the email make sure you get to the
point using as
few words as possible.
SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count
pointed to further increases
in the country's output, underlining one
of only a
few factors holding back crude markets
in an otherwise bullish environment.
Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the
point when very
few countries
in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk
of staging the Olympics.
In the business world a company might make a
point of having managers sit on assembly lines or take customer complaints a
few days a year.
That said, it seems VandeHei may not have been so much urging Zuckerberg to run as he was commenting that the 2016 race is so outside the bounds
of typical U.S. presidential elections that almost
few twists
in the narrative would be surprising at this
point.
A 2009 study found that 66 percent
of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today,
fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any
point in the last four decades.
«We've seen a
few cycles
of this,» he says,
pointing to the EU's $ 794 million fine against Microsoft (msft),
in 2004, for bundling its media player with Windows, and the 2001 decision to block a merger between GE (ge) and Honeywell (hon), as other high - water marks
of regulatory zeal.
In most cases you have only a
few seconds to capture someone's attention at the beginning
of your demo and get your most important
point across.
While on the campaign trail
in 2015 at the age
of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience
of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000
in school loans, loans I suspect a lot
of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll
point out I just paid off a
few years ago.»
Here are a
few ways we have seen companies be successful (not
in any particular order
of importance after
point one):
The proposal has generated a great deal
of often vitriolic debate over the future
of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed
in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past
few decades, to the
point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.
If that sounds like your company, stopping the bleeding won't happen with a flip
of the switch; it'll take innovative engagement solutions over a
few seasons to set you culture and leadership
pointing in the right direction.
But
in a
few years, when 5G gear sending data at up to 100 times the speed
of current networks is commonplace, people may remember July 2016 as a major turning
point.
Asked if he fell
in love «at some
point» with Herzer — who declined his offer
of marriage
in 2000, a
few months after they began dating — Redstone answered «yes.»
I'll
point you to The Verge's excellent writeup on the issue, but
in simple terms, more than a
few of these devices can not adequately deal with the amount
of power USB - C pushes.
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.