Sentences with phrase «of the few points in»

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.