Sentences with phrase «only pointing these things»

I'm only pointing these things out for the benefit of the lesser informed that might be reading this blog.

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A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Only one thing is really standing in the way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [wireless] operators to come up with a good way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

At this point, the only thing anyone knows for certain is that the low - volatility environment is over, and dynamic price swings look here to stay.

«I hadn't realized that it was the only thing on my resume that pointed out I was a woman,» recalls Wall, 53, managing director at Franklin Beach Energy, a solar asset advisory consultancy based in Boston.

When you get to the point where you're only spending a few hours a year managing your investments you can move on to the next thing.

«But I keep pointing out: the only thing less realistic is to keep doing what we're doing.»

As Neil points out, it's only a matter of time until we do the same things with our homes.

They don't have to be home runs - they can be singles and doubles, but they need to point people in the right direction and show them that there are big innings ahead and that things will only get better from here.

However, once your business has grown to the point that you can't personally supervise all of the work, documenting your processes is the only way that you can ensure things are done consistently across your company and over time.

Used correctly, a credit card can not only provide the added benefit of points and rewards, but also help establish a healthy credit score which will be valuable for such things as a lease or mortgage in the future.»

The likelihood that things won't go your way and that you will encounter multiple points of failure is high, so it's only people with an extraordinary sense of ambition who will run through those walls and figure it out.

Linens & Things, which at one point had annual sales of $ 2.7 billion, later came back to life as an online only brand.

When stress builds up to a sort of boiling point, that's the only thing that works for a hyper - neurotic control freak like me.

«From a strategic point of view, we also focus on things where software, hardware and services all come together and bring out the magic that only Apple can,» he says.

Purchase while on the low, and things are only going to spike from that point, and you'll be there smiling as you garner a sale later on.

I especially liked a couple of points you raised in the One More Thing section, where you wrote: «What if someone who has a great idea for a project only found out after seeing the calendar?

The only thing the 2011 budget will likely be remembered for is that it may trigger an excuse to call an election, because of a 1.5 percentage point reduction in the corporate tax rate; a trivial economic reason, but, for some, an important political reason.

To put things better into perspective, it's also worth pointing out that PayPal only accounts for 25 %; therefore bitcoin has outcompeted the world's largest mobile payments operator in this regards.

Unfortunately, in the area of tax advice, the only thing we can point you towards are these IRS guidelines, which I'm sure you are already well familiar with.

The only thing that will save the dollar is if its continued decline leads emerging market nations to impose capital controls as they reach the point where adding further to record foreign currency reserves is not productive, according to Gilmore.

Each of the periods below had their own idiosyncrasies, but the only thing we can definitively say is that at some point, they all came to an end.

The only thing I would want to add is that it is written from the point of view of a believer.

If we need to write more songs or design more light shows only to amuse ourselves and keep us focused (nothing wrong with doing those things; I'm pointing to the reason for doing them), then we have not yet understood that a worship tradition — a worship routine, if you will — is how we reinforce our worship desire.

The thing I like about the article is that it does point out the persecution isn't the only reason Christianity became popular.

Because here's the thing: even with the «head of the wife» bit (what I'm sure we can agree is the most solid verse to back you up) you are missing the point and mistaking the analogy, meant to illustrate only, as the thing itself.

In short, you missed my whole point, which was that morality is not the only purpose for faith and, perhaps, not even the most important thing about faith.

The only things that points to any «god» are lazy, underdeveloped minds like yours that just want to conveniently fill in the gap with «goddidit» instead of tracing cause after cause backward to the beginning with provable, empirical EVIDENCE.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

My point here is that your ability to offer explanations as you have done here only proves one thing, that you are well versed on what's in your web.

So, you're POINT is that progress is bad apparently, and only things that were «on the radar» 50 years ago are good?

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.

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.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but the point I'm trying to make is that the drugs, or «medicine», really only blind you to the marvelous things Jesus can do in your life if you only believe whole heartedly.

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.

The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the universe.

Vince Antonucci points out that there is only one thing the church can do better than the world, and that is offer grace.

«Paradoxical instances,» «aleatory points,» «dark precursors»: these, I would suggest, are the only divine elements in the Deleuzean chaosmos, «primitives» in both a methodological and metaphysical sense: «savage concepts» apparently resonating «with «things in their wild and free [not yet actualized] state» (cf. D&R xx).

Every thing in it is types and shadows to point us to Jesus (Yeshua) being the only way back to being in relationship (Covenant) with God.

My point being that taking a member of the set of all things Jesus never explicitly taught on and positing, if only by implication, that his silence is an endorsement of that thing is not a valid foundation for making a sound argument.

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.»

Although I have my personal belief regarding these things here, as long as I can not offer watertight Scriptural evidence for my confidence, I can only copy and paste some verses which could point to the fact that God meets every human being twice or even three times during his lifetime in order to show him the way he should go and to bring him to repentance.

Here is the fourth point, which in my opinion is and most beautiful of all... note that in the end the only thing the father has for the older son is the only thing he has for the younger son — pure, unconditional love.

The notion of an empirical fact, however, as pointing to the present alone, is an abstraction, existing only in the mind or to common sense, for all things in time can not be thought of apart from their futures.

Regardless, the point is that believers simply have to believe, and that's really the only thing they need for certainty.

The * natural * reaction is to demonize the aggressors; after all, as Edmund Burke and others have pointed out «the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.»

When sinners try to construct out of these fragments a natural theology that points to the true God, they succeed only in assembling a picture of what Calvin called an idol, a deity who is not really God but only a cheap substitute for the real thing.

If this is perhaps unfair to the scientific community, it points to a more general truth: A heavily mechanized, technologized society is permanently at risk of forgetting those things which can not be produced or consumed, only delighted in.