Sentences with phrase «of older point»

The vibrancy of the colours and the lovable characters made me think of Monkey Island, and the host of older point and click adventure games.

The council itself said little about justification, but it set a mood that made discussion of this old point of division inevitable.

You can take a self - guided tour of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse; visit three different exhibit rooms; see the wonders of the tidepools during the winter months; hike the Bayside Trail; see a film or slideshow in the auditorium; or enjoy spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and the city of San Diego.

The model of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse provides a way for visitors to understand the shape and sizes of the various structures and their juxtaposition to each other.

If you're a fan of the old point - and - click adventure games, and Monkey Island in particular, then you owe it to yourself to play Chaos on Deponia.

Developed by Odd Gentlemen, King's Quest boasts five chapters or episodes and is reminiscent of those old point and click adventure games which requires players to solve puzzles, find objects for your inventory and then use them with the environment to progress.

Also, in the spirit of old point - and - click games not every item or area explored is essential to The puzzle solving is a little more streamlined than most point and clicks, but it makes puzzle solving a little less challenging making for less headache.

That the place called in these letters patent Cape or Point Comfort is the place now called and known by the name of Old Point Comfort, on the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, and that immediately after the granting of the letters patent, the corporation proceeded under and by virtue of them to take possession of parts of the territory which they describe and to form settlements, plant a colony, and exercise the powers of government therein, which colony was called and known by the name of the Colony of Virginia.

Not exact matches

Unbeknownst to the company, the old agency ran a black - hat back - linking campaign which pointed thousands of spam links to the client company's site.

It's complicated, but under the new rules, if a customer walks into a store with a chip card and the store hasn't updated its point - of - sale equipment to accept chip cards, the merchant is liable for any fraud that occurs from using the card the old way, by swiping the magnetic stripe.

If you ask someone about the problem, they will usually explain that the old research is off point or out of date.

«They even make a point of getting my 96 year old mother a shopping cart in the parking lot to use as a walker,» Mudhall wrote.

The industry's hope is that once businesses upgrade from their old magnetic point - of - sale terminals to smart, EMV - compatible ones, the ability for merchants to easily add a pay - by - phone option will turn mobile payments into the new normal.

For his part, Barry Glassman, CFP, founder and president of Glassman Wealth Services, pointed out that it's crucial the financial advisory community — dominated by older white men — evolve to better serve and ever more diverse U.S. market.

Ahead of the launch, Walmart has been ironing out some kinks that come from integrating the app with several older point - of - sale systems.

At the moment, everything in a car from a design point of view is based on a 100 - year - old package — engine in the front, and a driver holding a steering wheel behind.

Many point to the a fifteen year - old book called The Alchemy of Growth as its origin.

(At one point, the elder sister mentions a documentary that compares P.J.'s succession woes to the story of Job in the Old Testament.

As many have pointed out, the video may have just ended the 22 - year - old's career, standing to deplete his following of nearly 4 million Twitter users, 16.1 million Instagram followers, and 15 million YouTube subscribers.

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientOf course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientof drawing blood from patients.

Even as they dissented, several readers admitted that having to charge a phone every day is starting to get old and agreed with at least some of my points.

The shooter, whom police have identified as 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, using the elevated vantage point to fire into the crowds across the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

From the driver's point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old, with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

Too many of the also - rans are already stuck in the proof - point pudding (moving sideways instead of forward) and finding that they can no longer sell the same old «just wait and see» story as easily to the guys that totally fell for it the last time.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

There, I meet Louis, a garrulous 22 - year - old from New Haven who claims to have mastered wrapping flowers to the point of ennui.

What it does mean, is that once kids are old enough to understand the finer points of language (and according to Bergen, that's probably younger than you imagine), there's no cause for guilt if you use (and they pick up) some less - than - demure language.

The old Wall Street cliche «sell in May and go away» hasn't applied in recent years, and futures were pointing to gains ahead of the first session of May 2017.

As Melamed points out, this is a way to have peace of mind as older people take showers while protecting their privacy, because there's no camera.

In contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouses.

By the end of 1996, John McManus, cofounder with his wife, Gloria, of Magellan's, a seven - year - old travel - gear catalog company, had reached the point where he could take no more.

«I was fifteen years old,» Sotomayor writes, «when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.»

I understand that the point is to reintroduce consumers to the Hanson of today, but for old times» sake, I couldn't help wishing the song had been «MMMBop.»

In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.

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.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

Countries and other public and private sponsors have traditionally presented opportunities in an old - fashioned word - of - mouth format, and infrastructure investors lack a point of access into bankable investment opportunities.

«At one point, I leaned out of my pod at one and caught this older guy's eye and he looked at me like, «what is this all about, are we going to Vegas or Beijing?»»

Because customer experience is such a huge point of emphasis, the old saying «the customer is always right» is truer than ever.

As the new senior director for client services at Loyalty One, a Toronto marketing firm specializing in rewards programs, 37 - year - old Marshall Warkentin is the company's point of contact with clients.

«Every morning I make it a point to leave my phone on airplane mode for a minimum of an hour after I wake up so I can spend quality uninterrupted time with my wife and 11 - month old daughter.

He himself claimed to be» «an old school point and click prop trader» who had «always been good with reflexes and doing things quick,»» and the «Layering Algorithm» that he used was a customized version of «a program that allowed non-programmers to engage in automated trading using spreadsheet commands and functions.»

IQ drops of 15 points for multitasking men lowered their scores to the average range of an 8 - year - old child.

Data from the Census Bureau released last week showed that in 2014, 9.7 percent of the businesses in the St. Louis metro area were startups less than a year old, up three percentage points from 2009.

The possible county locations suggested for Amazon included: the Tradepoint Atlantic redevelopment of an old steel mill in Sparrows Point; the mixed - use Baltimore Crossroads development near White Marsh and the Spring Grove Hospital Center campus in Catonsville.

Points North is a firm founded by former executives with analytics experience going back to the old Jupiter Research digital ad measurement business, as well as with the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (now part of the Association of National Advertisers) and such influencer networks as CrowdTap and House Party.

Bill Gross thinks conditions are ripe for a significant liquidity crisis in the markets, and he points a finger at his old firm for its potential to be at the center of the storm.

This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»

Four firearms and 267 rounds of ammunition were ordered removed from a 56 - year - old Lighthouse Point man who was determined to be a potential risk to himself...