Sentences with phrase «of points or»

Each day, children will earn awards or privileges for their points — including being on the honor roll for highest number of points or being the group's best sport for the day.

Not because of points or trophies, but with the moves Arsenal made the team looked ready for a title run.

Note: in response to momoya, I think you have confused some of my points or cited them out of context.

All you need to do is look at the number of points or miles needed to earn a certain reward and divide that amount by its value (in dollars).

And with Bournemouth losing just one of their last nine in the league at Dean Court, the home side will be confident of a point or three.

Tonight's YouGov poll has topline figures of CON 40 %, LAB 39 %, LDEM 9 % — a Tory lead but still in line with the recent average of a small Labour lead of a point or so.

«I love using brushes that have a bit of a point or dome shape to them as it helps to give a smarter shape to any eye!»

To her office troop hordes of angry parents, insisting that she raise their child's grade - point average by a fraction of a point or that she classify their daughter as learning disabled so she can have extra time on the SATs or that she push their son to apply to the father's alma mater even though the boy lacks the grades to get in.

Not exact matches

If you're traveling for business on one of Emirates or Etihad's A380 planes and you have some points to spare, consider redeeming them for a first - class ticket so you can try out their showers.

It's used to move electric energy at «high voltage between points of supply» and points where it is either delivered to other electric systems or «transformed to a lower voltage» and sent to consumers.

Boeing is the recipient of as much or more government assistance as Bombardier, but that is beside the point.

Active management of the meeting, while it is in progress, can keep it from getting off track or dwindling too long on unnecessary points.

Srinivasan continued, pointing out that, «Seventy - four percent of all women who joined our firm during that period, and 80 percent of our new female sales hires, said that Lever blog posts had influenced their decision to either apply or accept their offer.»

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

At a briefing with journalists last week in Toronto, BlackBerry executives said that capability is coming at some point, either through DTek or Android itself, or possibly a combination of the two.

As the study points out, the cheapest cities to live in may have the lowest average of combined expenses, but that doesn't mean everything there is cheap, like transportation or groceries.

Without my directly saying yes or no, I've thus bounced the question back to the customer (s), forcing them to consider what they're asking and to give them a chance to point out something that could be of value to me.

At the same time, he makes a point of not committing to either the Democratic or Republican party.

It doesn't need to be revolutionary, but it should deliver a new point of view or approach.

As a resident of Kedgwick, N.B., 25 kilometres south of the nearest point of the Quebec border, St. Pierre says he is under no obligation to abide by the Quebec provincial rules or limit his purchases to authorized producers.

Facebook (FB), of course, also makes a point of talking about the «interest graph» that it has developed around all of its billion or so users.

The best ones make it a point to either speak or visit their clients mid-year to get a sense of what's going on so that they can strategize the best approach for tax savings with enough time to take actions.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

The companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

The point of XRP, similar to bitcoin, is that it enables financial institutions to transfer money across the country or around the world quickly and cheaply.

The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.1 % age points.

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.

This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

Say your spouse has a credit card with little or no balance and a great payment history; if he or she agrees to add you as an authorized user, from a credit score point of view you automatically benefit from her card's available credit as well as her payment history.

Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

And put that way, it seems a bit more daunting from a taxpayer's point of view, especially when there's very little governments can or need to do to fix Canada's affordable housing crisis — other than get out of the way.

However, if you've reached the point where you are spending too much time on the non-critical stuff, can't keep up with demand, or don't have some of the skills needed to take the next step, it's time to reach for the calculator and figure out if an extra pair of hands can be justified.

The forum, it's worth pointing out, is viewed by many to embody the very ideals that led to the populist uprising, including the surprise victory of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. presidential election in November; it brings together the global elite, or those who are typically first to reap the benefits of wealth creation.

Steve Jobs was famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for his «reality distortion field,» his ability to make other people believe the seemingly impossible was actually possible.

The idea behind it is to coach speakers out of pointing, pounding their fists or looking too aggressive.

This agenda should reiterate the purpose of the meeting, as well as provide a clear set of discussion points or action items to tackle as a group.

I don't have to scout out the best advertising deals or the best point of sale terminals, which are tasks that would probably bore me anyway.

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

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

The current outlook for the S&P 500 at 2,787 for the end of this year is now 150 points, or 5 percent, below the outlook in January.

When setting off fireworks this weekend, or any other weekend, be sure to follow safety precautions, including keeping fireworks away from children, keeping a bucket of water close by, and pointing the fireworks away from other people.

She credits a mentor who gave her a fundraising «compass» — or the four points of one's «story» to keep in mind, and to convey clearly to investors.

And they are the most advanced generation of credit cards, equipped with small microprocessors, or chip, that secure point - of - sale transactions by encrypting the personal information of the cardholder.

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.

I should note, the goal of the second point is not to solve the world's problems or anything external, but to give an active experience and to feel the emotional results of living by one's values.

Recognize the fact that eventually at one point or another you'll have to give up some control of the business.

Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, pointed out that personal medical data goes for five times the amount that financial or other data does on the dark web.

From a purely financial point of view, there may have been companies and investors who were willing to buy a stake in Gawker before Peter Thiel's involvement became public on the assumption that it might win the Hogan case on appeal or that damages might be reduced.

At that point, they might want to talk to somebody but 85 percent of people reaching out to businesses at that point — whether it be about pizza or plumbing — are dissatisfied.