Sentences with phrase «point he spent about»

At one point he spent about 20 minutes in the atrium of Portcullis House talking to MPs.

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

As the price of fuel has dropped, it's been taking up a smaller and smaller share of these expenses, to the point that now, he estimates, fuel only makes up about 15 percent of airlines» spending (assuming their other costs have remained roughly equal).

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

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Spend time getting clear about the value you bring to the table and your unique selling points, and build your ability to confidently share that in different contexts.

«But I think the time I've spent trying to figure out what to do with it, how to cope with it, how to manage it, how to embrace it, how to laugh about it, and how to let it be part of who I am has brought me to a point where I think a lot of my creative energy comes from that place.

As another point of reference, the Starbucks app — the most successful mobile payments app in the US — currently accounts for about 1 in every 15 dollars spent in US - company operated stores three years after launch.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

Prior to the rollout of Panera's new tech initiative, dubbed Panera 2.0, in 2014, Hurst and Shaich spent about 100 hours a week in a Massachusetts Panera location observing and pin - pointing exactly what was causing issues.

But that's the point: If I spend time optimizing each decision, I won't have an interesting work - life left to make all those decisions about.

Try spending a day in the life of your customer and see what you could learn about their pain points, challenges and opportunities where you could play a role in helping their business grow.»

That would come on top of a reduction of about two - tenths of a point due to weak construction spending data released on Monday, they said.

True, but I think not enough investors understand this point as everyone has spent 3 - 4 years freaking out about higher rates.

P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard has made pointed comments in recent months about less than half of agency resources broadly being spent on creative resources.

I've structured the figures to allow me to say at this point, «What I'm excited about is this: the machine that meets all your minimum requirements involves an investment of only $ 10,000 — substantially less than the amount you're prepared to spend.»

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In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Applying a 1.5 multiplier to account for the total destimulating effects as those dollars are saved, not spent, this means a reduction of about one percentage point in real GDP growth, from 3.6 % per annum in the 1982 - 2000 years to 2.6 %.

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«If you spend your time in session talking about what God thinks and what the Bible says, you don't get to understand what the patient thinks and what happened in their life up to that point that explains why,» Giugliano says.

From one point of view it does deal with them in the sense that it considers in an abstract way everything people care enough about to spend money to procure.

All of this is only to point out that the church has lots of money, and we should make careful, wise decisions about how we spend it.

I'm not sure I understood your last point, I operate under no such delusion, I will make no bones about the fact that if you choose to spend your life here without God, then you will do the very same in your eternity.

Too many of us «Christians» spend all our time pointing the finger at people we know nothing about.

If you want to make a point about people not having jobs... I think you can do a better job of arguing that CNN and other groups are spending too much time concentrating on a single subject.

We all know about the peacefulness of the so called religion of peace, so to point out horrendous acts perpertrated by its devotees is like kicking in open doors... But spending billions & billions on preventing 1 individual murder by terrorists (on US soil), is that really smart and proportionate?

Yes, my title was intentionally exaggerated to make the point about how Jesus would spend the money IF he had it...

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

So the fantasy of lavish, sit down meals that I spend hours preparing, sitting down in our nice clothes, and having long chats over wine about everything we love about the holiday season — well, at this point is more fantasy than reality.

Well, I've managed to spend most of the post talking about my random views on farmer's markets when I really wanted to point out a couple of my favorite fall products — squash and apples.

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At this point, you might be wondering why a guy who has spent his career fetishizing eccentric and fiercely independent restaurants would want to write a story — with zero irony — about a restaurant chain.

My point about Krychowiak was that I really don't think Wenger will go for him as he's not renowned for spending money perhaps the point was noit put across clearly for that I'll apologise but Ill be happy again to be proved wrong but I can not see it happening.

We are now apparently in a far better financial position, and the purchases of Ozil and Sanchez would certainly point towards this being the truth, we now regularly hear about what cash reserves the club has and there are war chest quotes of 70 million to 120 million in each transfer window and club execs and the like as well as the press tell us how much money we can spend....

Wenger didn't seem to care about spending when Dein was doing it, we competed with the best and wasn't a joke in doing so, I will point towards Pires as an example.

more to the point for an Economics graduate, who doesn't understand inflation moaning about the fact the the price of players has gone up considering annual revenues of the premier league teams have shot up too is incredibly stupid... But hey Wenger knows best; he wouldn't be in a position not having to spend over the odds for quality players if he acted in the first place, that's the icing on the retard cake there for me..

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

you ask???? It goes towards Ranches in Montana and towards paying managers huge sums for not delivering any tangible sucsess you say why should fans care about whats spent cos its not thier money well thats the point IT IS OUR MONEY and it should be spent on getting the right talent in.

it wont change though as Wenger wont spend, the board wont force him and the fans wont boycott the games so as much as it really pains me to admit it NY Gunner has a point when he says why worry about what you cant change?.

You don't get it do you?I'm not even talking about the money.But I agree with you that for the kind of money that will be spent on Mbappe it's a higher gamble.Henry was bought to be a starter and as the main man for Arsenal.He was so young by then and the pressure on him was massive.Looking at the impact he's had in our club if Henry had failed who would imagine what Arsene would have done.To me he's our best player ever.Arsene put a lot of trust in him to be honest but the gamble paid off.However, I think he had a point to prove to world and to Juve hence he succeeded.The same as is with Mbappe with even a higher transfer fee and more expectation.If he's ever signed for that amount he's coming here to be the main man whowill send us into glory.Forget Ozchez for all eyes will be on him.

If the Frenchman was being asked about the struggles of Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson or any of his big rivals, I think he would have been tempted to add a bit of fuel to the fire of media criticism, perhaps pointing to the massive amount of money spent by the Dutchman in the summer.

I agree about not taking the cheap shots at him, BUT he DOES TELL LIES he does make absolute balls ups of things and he point blank refuses to spend money where its needed, and thats why he gets the cheap shots.

From my point of view I have not spent too many moments in the last 18 years worrying about our ability to score — spent most of the time fretting about conceding so I am not concerned or worried about our strike options of Giroud / Welbeck / Sanchez / Walcott and Podolski.

This is the game now and that is how it's played no point in complaining about clubs spending higher than us just because we can not do the same.