Sentences with phrase «only given points»

(Amex not only gives you a point for using your card, but a second point for booking through their portal.)

Guys, just like in every other blog post, I can only give you my point of view about the Whitsunday Islands tour.

Also, the most beneficial cards are going to be the ones that not only give you points with your spending, but also offer a significant bonus on top of that, somewhere in the range of 50,000 points.

Not exact matches

But after composing only five Tweets, Gervais gave up on January 9, telling his 13,000» ¨ followers he was going to stop his updates because «I don't see the» ¨ point.»

I work well under pressure, and my brain's gotten to a point where it will only give me an idea while I'm talking it out with my best friend, who's my makeup artist.

Not only do all these channels constantly point to each other and give customers reason to engage with the company, Eat24 social media manager Patty Jordan says they make customers feel like they're talking with people, not a robot or business.

After all, you can probably only make around 40 flights in a given month, which just gets you to your break even point.

In order to find the potential turning points that will take an industry in a new direction, leaders must give their employees permission to stop focusing only on what needs to be accomplished by the end of the day or week.

«I was given this book at the beginning of my manager journey, and the main point is that you're only as good as the team you surround yourself with.

If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money,» said the owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai who only gave his surname as Huang.

Some of the fake participants would give up lots of points and only take a few vouchers — a rather altruistic behavior.

She adds that even the book's critics «are making a deep if inadvertent point: Only in women is success viewed as a barrier to giving advice.»

To give a point of comparison, the iPhone 7 Plus, with a display 0.4 inches smaller, is only 2 grams lighter and 0.2 inches thinner.

One of my colleagues makes it a point to only meet one person at any given event and spends his time really getting to know that one person.

Venezuela's only hope at this point would be more assistance from Russia or China, two countries that have loaned large sums of money to the South American nation, a lot of which was given in exchange for oil cargoes.

Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.

Reports from CCN point out that: To explain the Plasma Cash model, Buterin gives the example that if a user deposits some amount of ether to a crypto exchange or any third party service, a Plasma coin would be created with the same value of ether and a unique ID that can not be merged or split.In contrast with Plasma, Plasma Cash would only require users to pay attention to the blocks that contain coins they want to keep track of:

But give credit where credit's due — Woodside was the only large oil & gas company in Australia to record a profit in 2015 and continues to operate with a strong balance sheet and sufficient buffer at a break - even point of US$ 28.40 a barrel.

Given that Starpoints are worth on average 2.4 cents per point, you should transfer points to an airline loyalty program only if you're able to use the resulting rewards for better value.

The initial LA Times report «sparked widespread public outrage,» and so news that some California National Guard troops are receiving a waiver met with positive reaction among the public — but many point to the to repay their student loans, where veterans and soldiers are still being made to pay back their bonuses, since California is the only state given a waiver at this time.

This was slightly surprising to some, given that the Federal Reserve raised rates, by 0.25 percentage points in late December, for only the second time in a decade.

Even though this point of order only exists in the Senate, it de facto governs the House too, given that it can be applied to any conference report.

This points out that everything that you explained as being only aplicable to god, which is an explanation given because no other explanation is seen, saying this is amazing so god did it, is nowhere near close to looking at these phenomena, observing and collecting the data on it and saying this is our best understanding of it to date.

Besides never saw the point of giving up something just for 40 days only when I was Christian.

The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»

«Care,» they point out, «can only be given by a human face.»

I give religion only one point; It's dictation on who is worthy of living makes for great population control.

At one point, for example, Carter describes beautifully the creedal portions of the Catholic belief in the sacraments, only to end by claiming that «the entire purpose of the sacraments was to give an outward sign of belief.»

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

The first thing that must be said, however — a point only faintly adumbrated in the WCC statement's suggestion that Jesus had redefined the family — is that the fellowship of the kingdom of God, though it may be spoken of as a family, is neither generated nor sustained through biological transmission of life nor by the love given and received in the history of our families.

It seemed to be an obvious and necessary truth that through a point not belonging to a straight line it is possible to draw one and only one line parallel to the given line.

Judge: Let me point out one thing for you Mr. Jones, Jacob said he would Give God a tenth, ONLY if He blessed him first.

Instead, he is making an ecclesiological point: At any given place, there should be only one Eucharist celebrated to which all Christians «in good standing» should be admitted.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

I may be missing the point of your post, but it seems to me that if those things are given to us by God then we are only enslaved by them if we believe we are the means to bring them to pass.

You have successfully followed a reductionist understanding of christ that ceases to give new life and only furthers to support your point of view.

YOU: My point was that if they hadn't charged in here, complaining... attacking... and had followed the procedure Jesus gave us, -------- I came in this blog about 2 years ago complaining and attacking, and I am not the only one.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Whitehead did work out a complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding human beings as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues as to how to do this.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

xx4zu1 - «the point that was made is that religion is the only thing that is given to you, in most cases, at birth that you can chose not to accept.»

The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.

On this point we will only remark that Christ gave his Church such a plenary power and duty because without it a common life in the Church and concrete pastoral care by the Church for the salvation of the individual would be quite impossible.

«3 The ironic point for the loser is that if you are now suffering from adversity only then can you be certain that the Lord has not given up on you.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

One might well question, at this point, the validity of nonreligious interpretation, asking whether Bonhoeffer has given us any example of non-religious interpretation rather than speaking only of its importance.

From a general as well as from the pastoral point of view it would be wrong to assume that the Church in the various countries needed only to follow the directives of the Council willingly and exactly in order to fulfill her God - given task in this time.

God the Father gave His only son, a son who become obedient to the point of death.

But when spoken in the company of non believers, you should reasonably expect to have pointed out to you that your affirmative statement gives the impression to us that you KNOW something that we KNOW that you really don't KNOW, and that you seem incapable of recognizing that your BELIEF can only be confused as KNOWLEDGE in your own head.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.