Sentences with phrase «picking up points instead»

We need to be picking up points instead of giving Jack these undeserved starts.

Not exact matches

Now, those 10 acres have increased to more than 500 acres, and instead of peddling oysters in a pick - up truck between Seattle and Portland, Ore., Goose Point Oyster ships across the country as well as to a few international markets.

Generally just seen shouting and pointing to give the impression he's influential, when instead he gives needless fouls and picks up cards every game.

And yet she shows no sign of wanting to give up the 2 - 4 feeds a day we still do — she has now picked up the baby sign for milk from somewhere, and has learned to say «bob» and point at my chest, which I love — so why would we stop just because she's a whole number instead of a number of months?

So instead of picking through this with a fine toothed comb and boring you to death or bring up the old and annoying, «well I think this author has ties to the formula company» argument, I will just bring up a few points and thoughts that have come up for me.

At the news conference Wednesday, Cuomo denied Nixon had any influence on his unity efforts, instead pointing to the looming special elections and an opportunity to pick up Democratic seats in November.

Other changes to the English system will remain, including a move towards exams at the end of two years of study instead of pupils picking up points which count towards their final grade through modular exams.

To my mind, if you can stretch to that extra # 20 price point, then picking up the Amazon exclusive G6 instead of the stock G6 is one of the biggest no - brainers of recent times.

Instead of earning points for your purchases, you can pick up a discount just for paying your bill early each month.

Instead, all the weapons are interesting, even the terrible weapons up to a point (my son is forever asking me what I can take out with a tree branch), and unlike any CRPG that could be named, the player can rise — and fall — in power as rapidly as they can locate and pick up a powerful blade and then break it.

I can see sales of point cards massively picking up once the PSN store is working again, I know I'll be considering moving to those instead of using my credit card.

However, after reading comments from people who now say they will pick up a Galaxy S8 instead of the Pixel 2 XL, there's something I must point out: there were complaints about screen burn - in on that device, too (see the image above).

* small other point... instead of fighting with CanWest... how about working with them to not only have us portrayed as CREA wants, but provide them with the tools to entice those watching to pick up the phone and call their local realtor.