Sentences with phrase «point attempts on»

It's a far cry from the Warriors» 43 three - point attempts on Sunday, but it counts!

Walters then went out and hit four of his five three - point attempts on the way to a game - high 24 points.

Haney was fouled on a 3 - point attempt on the next possession and made 2 of 3 free throws to make it 73 - 70.

Not exact matches

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

Liss - Riordan attempted to show the judge that it met seven of the nine points of the test, and told journalists after the hearing that she hopes he sees that the scales tip on that side.

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

On the show's opening night, with thousands of attendees and reporters in the audience and video cameras rolling, an Emotiv team member named Zachary Drake attempted to move a cube and more, which by this point was something anyone at Emotiv could do in his or her sleep.

As a starting point, I will attempt to recreate the NDP's results, by using the same study on federally regulated workers.

At several points on Friday night, the document was inaccessible because too many people were attempting to view it concurrently.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D - IL) pressed the executive on privacy in an attempt to make the point that he appears to value his own privacy and not necessarily that of his users.

While he took great pains to point out that it's still months away from his July start date and by that time «the UK economy might be in an entirely different place,» he did attempt to clarify his position on specific points such as inflation (he supports a continued course of «flexible regulation») and further stimulus (he's for it, should the British economy need it).

At one point, the pigs claim that dissent is an attack on the entire farm instead of reasonable attempts to preserve the original goals of the farm.

«Mr. Speaker, as I said, on the subject of credibility which was raised by the NDP, my point is this,» Mr. Moore offered, attempting to segue from a question about the shuttering of the Health Council of Canada.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

Mark Whitmore: This is Mark Whitmore, I keep forgetting we have two Mark's on the line here, and Chris you absolutely interpreted what I was trying to say correctly, and kind of to follow up a little bit, I think one of the things that the other Mark pointed out is the issue of timing, and whereas the two prevailing investing paradigms out there seem to be this notion of efficient market theory which attempts to just buy and hold the market no matter what, completely price indifferent.

Even more interesting is that fact that the mining stocks (HUI Amex Gold Bugs Index) rejected repeated attempts to take them into negative territory and they finished up over 6 points — 3.6 % — on the day.

We will plot a Fibonacci retracement that extends between the low recorded on the 16th of July ($ 1.825.5) and the high recorded earlier today ($ 3,420.7) to determine key support levels that will be the target reversal points of potential downwards price correction attempts.

Ironicus, you can consider me a friend up to the point when you start infringing on MY rights to perform my duties, and begin attempting to express your opinion about a subject on which you are not well - educated in such a way as to pretend you have authority in that arena.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a....

Actually fallacy, not, but you make the obvious fallacy of attempting to impute implication of strict Bayesian constraints on what should have been obviously an intentional exaggeration to make a point.

Maggie, distraught over all that she's lost, asks Dunn to end her life, and everything that happens from that point on — from the festering ulcers on her body, to her attempted suicide — is intended to justify Dunn's decision to help her.

@tea: i still do not understand why all you jesus freaks insist on making darwin the point of your anti-evolution propaganda when he only placed the first stone; hundreds if not thousands of other sciectists have refined and attempted to debunk the progess of evolution along the way and all have failed to.

Keep in mind that as I reply, I can't possibly say everything I need on the subject, but here goes my attempt at a couple of key points:

The problem Brigitte, when you go on these long philosophical journeys, is that you show not the slightest ability to pay attention to (or even comprehend it seems) the very valid points being made by all the commenters who have attempted to reason with you.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

The Massachusetts Proposals, 1705, advocated by Increase Mather and his son Cotton, represented an attempt to exercise discipline on all pastors and churches at some point beyond the local congregation.

Reflecting on their experiences at the «Suicide Prevention Center» in Los Angeles, E. S. Schneidman and N. L. Farberow point out that all suicides, whether attempted or committed, «involves tremendous disruption of life, emotional turmoil, social discord.»

My dear, read for your self and before you throw such statements, attempt to tackle the points I made throughout this form on merit basis, not whims and desires (or ignorance as is the case in your comment).

That person would surely acknowledge (even if wincing while doing so) that preachers, in attempting to interpret Scripture and guide the faithful, are free to draw on a variety of resources to make their points, and that such attempts will not always please everyone.

In particular, Paul means to point out the exact parallel between those persons who opposed him by attempting to compromise the gospel and those who were putting pressure on the Galatians to be circumcised.

As C. S. Lewis pointed out in his reflections on the Hegelian versus the Christian approach to history, history does have an ultimate telos, but that is known to God alone and therefore any human attempt to explain it fully is doomed to failure.

The pressure to succeed was illustrated by one couple who devised a ten - point scale on which they each attempted to rate the intensity of their orgasms.

The point I am attempting to make is that a necessary condition for evolution at all is an increase in complexity which can not be accounted for on a materialistic view.

Also sometimes it is an attempt to educated on the faithfuls point of view not unlike referencing versus secular facts and opinons to support the secular point of view.

Sayer's biography has more detail than Wilson's, disagrees with Wilson on some points, is not as readable or as witty and does not attempt to probe Lewis's psyche in the way Wilson does.

Then I shall attempt to say — and this is the principal point of my paper — what kind of discourse on freedom philosophy can articulate, beyond psychological and political discourse, that will still merit the name of «discourse» on religious freedom.

I have given special attention to the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, and I hope that the attempt to state an alternative to his position on many points does not obscure my debt to him.

I will not attempt to detail all of Willitts's points, but she adds great force to her approach by relying on Bible verses which are relevant to the subject, well - known, and widely mentioned.

When humans persist in sin despite God's frequent attempts to call them toward obedience and to warn them of what will happen if they continue down the path they are on, there comes a point where sometimes, God simply withdraws His hand of protection and allows people to suffer the consequences for their sin, for chaos to reign, and for Satan to bring death and destruction.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»

No attempt is made to take sides in the controversy, except on one particular point — viz., in the essays which have been selected for inclusion.

Other work on the history of the synoptic tradition will be mentioned in the course of our own work; at this point our concern is simply to argue that the reconstruction of the teaching of Jesus must begin by attempting to write a history of the synoptic tradition.

I think he's merely pointing out what is going on in America, after these tragic events, and attempting to make his point.

Doc answered the point you attempted to make on slavery very nicely.

Numerous Catholic politicians attempted to excuse their pro-abortion stance by pointing out that they were «right» on other issues supported by the Church.

I do not wish to father on Bishop Dun what I am trying to suggest in these pages, but I think that the point which he made at that time is highly relevant to what we are attempting to do here.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

A notable attempt to bring moral values to bear on international politics was President Wilson's peace program at the end of the First World War, with its famous Fourteen Points.

I point out, however, that even Christian does not fully explicate Whitehead's doctrine of the relational essence of eternal objects as is attempted in this paper, for he chooses to focus on the internal relatedness involved in objectification rather than the internal relatedness that also obtains between eternal objects themselves.