Sentences with phrase «of achievement points»

Blazing through the Campaign takes little time and earns a good number of achievement points but the game is lumbered with awful AI.

I was young and the film was screened in an academic setting, all of its achievements pointed out and celebrated in sporadic pausings.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

On tax reform, the most significant legislative achievement of Trump's first year, it's probably not fair to point just at Trump for a policy that tends to pose more harm to Democratic constituencies than Republican.

Even controlling for grade - point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels of academic achievement.

«Trying to analyze my professional path like a «web site performance» has been hard but helpful to get an objective point of view about current achievements and future goals.»

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

Teams that recognize the achievements of individuals will always function better than teams that only point out faults.

A survey published earlier this year by Junior Achievement and PwC found that 24 % of students aged 18 to 29 believe that their loans will be forgiven at some point.

Twitter is under fire for being a platform for bigotry and nastiness, but Gates points out that it was also the forum where people around the world shared amazing achievements and heart - melting acts of kindness.

Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.

Focal point, the Psychology of Achievement, Time Management and other teachings have transformed my life.

A press release should always prioritize the news angle — the main point of a PR after all is to tell the press about an achievement they should take note of.

Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.

The answer you'd get to this question would largely depend on the point in history when you asked it and the level of scientific achievement in the culture where you asked it.

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

My point: Religion doesn't necessarily lead to users of primitive tools, and in fact has been a motivator for great achievements.

Some conservatives are not above signaling, in more or less overt ways, their belief that blacks can never pass [the test of achievement by merit], and that there is little point in the rest of society bearing guilt for blacks» failures.

Bartholomew points out that to return from that exile to our «native land» or «home»» to a state of implacement, in his preferred terminology» provides the narrative framework of the entire Old Testament, with sin constantly presenting an obstacle to that achievement.

For instance, a twenty - eight - year - old mother in the same study, like many other respondents, pointed to «my family and my children primarily, and my careers» Another person answered, «my child, my friends, my hobbies, and mostly my work; they give me a sense of achievement.»

God's receiving the world's achievements into his own everlasting life; God's remembering for ever that which is thus received; God's using for further good the achievements which have taken place in the created order — here are points which need to be emphasized when we begin to think of the worth or value of human existence.

Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, New York, points out that the present generation of Jewish young people, those born here in the «60s, is the first one that can not reasonably expect to surpass its parents» achievements, as those parents did their parents».

Here the point is that just as the growth of the seed is not a process man controls, so the kingdom of God is not a human achievement but a gift of God.

Don't boast about your possessions or your achievements — there's bound to be a Freudian in the room who'll point out that you are displacing your desire for something more significant in the way of bodily attributes or fulfilling relationships.

Burckhardt hit all the civilizational high points, tracing the whole flattering arc of human achievement.

Moreover, scientific and technical progress in the next ten years will introduce unprecedented achievements In this field and it is no exaggeration to assert here and now that teleconimuni - cation will play a primary role both on the national and on world levels and it could also be pointed out that the most difficult problems are not generally of a purely technical nature and that telecommunications questions should more and more command the attention of governmental authorities at the highest level. . . .

«26 On the other hand, God's mercy points to the corruption of evil in every historic achievement.

«16 Of course there are all kinds of developments in techniques and in cultural achievements; but the point is that man s moral position before God remains the samOf course there are all kinds of developments in techniques and in cultural achievements; but the point is that man s moral position before God remains the samof developments in techniques and in cultural achievements; but the point is that man s moral position before God remains the same.

More to the point, as entertaining as Tirso's play is, it is neither an extraordinary literary achievement nor even necessarily the most authoritative version of the tale.

This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits of human achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this point but to movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.

That this illimitable forward - leaning vitality foresees concrete achievements and conquests that are of doubtful moral significance is nothing to the point.

about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.

Just as the world must trust God to provide the aim for its efforts, so God must trust the world for the achievement of that aim, As Madden and Hare point out, «he is apparently so weak that he can not guarantee his own welfare.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Hartshorne will have nothing to do with this abstractly negative God, and it is one of the achievements of his philosophy continually to have pointed out the implications of classical theism (even though, of course, classical theists would wish to resist the drawing of some of them).

As Felt (PS 10:57) has pointed out, what needs to be done is to elucidate how the ontological aspect (achievement of subjective aim) of an actual entity might be connected with significant interaction of that entity with others (the epistemological aspect).

Third, it is noteworthy that in Man's Vision of God Hartshorne distinguishes between God's «purpose as laid down before all the worlds, or rather before each and every world» — which is part of God's eternal and unchanging aspect — and «the more and more particular purposes which mark the approach to, and..., the achievements of purpose which mark arrival at, any given point of time» (MVG 237, my italics).

At one point Kirkpatrick writes that the process view asks us «to imagine a process of unification as having, in effect, subjective unity prior to the achievement of subjective unity» (PS 3:20).

But the great achievement here is that evangelicalism affirms a scripturally grounded conceptual framework that is shared by all who lay claim to historic Christian orthodoxy, thereby providing common points of reference for the continuing and candid engagement of our agreements and disagreements.

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»

We work, and sometimes we succeed even to the point of enjoying the success; but at other times we are disappointed with the results or ache over our own lack of satisfaction in achievement.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

It included short presentations and proof points from global dairy leaders as well as from Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the contribution of the dairy sector to the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals such as ending poverty and hunger, and protecting the environment.

Some will say 20 years in the top 4 is a great achievement and will point out to the misfortunes of United and Chelsea of this season, while others will point out that it's been 12 years and we'll never win the title with Arsene again, especially since we failed this year.

It's also worth pointing out that, regardless of whether Arizona ties or breaks or fails to do either thing with the record on Wednesday, they'll still managed a notable achievement against the Dodgers this series.

«Fantastic achievement this fantastic achievement that» Yes to a point you may be right, but we are now (apparently) out of the financial retraint period and according to Chips Keswick last summer we had # 100» 000000 to spend, unyet what is fantastic is that Wenger was not too interested in buying the World class defensive midfielder we desperately needed in the summer, nor has he addressed the defensive shortfalls, during the summer transfer he was in Italy on the day we bought Welbeck, and during the most recent transfer window he spend three out of the four weeks messing around buying some apparent wonderkid who we wont see on the pitch for around 18 months.

A lot of Arsenal fans seem to think that this is not really an achievement at all and when Wenger points to his record he receives more scorn than praise from certain sections of the Arsenal fanbase and the football media.

good point — heirarchical change must be with ones interested in the football achievements of the club.

Dyke points out that 20 years ago, 60 percent of the Premier League were eligible for England, but any correlation between this percentage and international achievement seems sketchy at best.