Sentences with phrase «point home the point»

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In one of these instances he attempts to drive his point home by pointing to declining advertising revenue.

To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

On stage, He couldn't help pointing out that the U.S. and Britain were struggling with isolationist political movements at home.

Ideology aside, Demographia has a point when it argues that Dallas beats Toronto also because more people in the Texas city can afford to buy a home.

Squeeze in some time outdoors, be it hiking at Lion's Head or Cape Point, spotting penguins at Boulders Beach, or testing your surfing chops in chichi Camps Bay, home to the legendary Twelve Apostles Hotel.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

The two opponents took it as an opportunity to drive home points about who has the strongest conservative credentials.

The initial customer trials will use 28 GHz frequency airwaves for service to fixed points, like a home router, but Verizon also plans to test 5G mobile service later this year.

Advocates for excessive home prices also point out that construction has become a bigger part of the British Columbia economy, equating any effort to deflate Vancouver's housing bubble to act of economic sabotage.

That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

The company offers a big data analytics platform which aggregates private MLS data and analyzes years of home transactions to identify real estate specialists in specific neighborhoods and price points.

Reputation is everything when people are entrusting their homes and beloved pets to your care, Morgaine points out.

Bernat brings this point home with a pointed joke: «You can not cure clinical depression by eating ice cream, which is unfortunate because that would be living the dream.»

The decision riled Republican lawmakers in Delta's home state of Georgia to the point that the state senate on Thursday approved a tax bill that did not include an expected tax break for airlines.

Sweet - Speiss borrowed against her home at one point and withdrew money on two separate occasions to consolidate her debt, but was still left with $ 40,000 on her cards, and it built up again.

When a number of Ontario funds — at one point, the province was home to 46 labour - sponsored funds — started failing due to a combination of poor investments, falling sales and rising redemptions, he scooped up several and consolidated them into the Canadian Fund.

They allow the listener to catch up and may be the very way to drive home the most important points of your presentation.

Searches conducted at Lubitz's homes in Duesseldorf and in the town of Montabaur turned up documents pointing to «an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment,» but no suicide note was found, said Ralf Herrenbrueck, a spokesman for the Duesseldorf prosecutors» office.

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

At one point, Shanghai economist Andy Xie cited local media reports that some 65 million urban homes reported zero electricity consumption over a six - month period, suggesting there are enough vacant homes in China to house 200 million people.

(Driving home that point, China recently overtook Japan to become the world's second - largest economy.)

By this point, Jill was working full time in sales, and Nick's friend Neil Dana was doing sales from his home up the coast.

But it was Yotpo's «shoppable» posts on Instagram and Pinterest that really drove home the point (and the future became all - too - clear).

At one point, demonstrators threw rocks and paint at the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, police said.

Having done it, I can guarantee that working from home will drive you crazy at some point.

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.

What not to miss: As the home of the state government, Austin boasts the Texas Capitol, a towering 19th - century building that sits atop one of the city's highest points.

A fair point made by Wendy's management is that the gap between the price of groceries, or food at home, and restaurants, or food away from home, is increasing.

In one of the most arresting points in the article, the author finds that in the 90s, 83 % of men aged 18 to 25 did not agree with the statement «It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.»

The 13 - bedroom waterfront home, at 235 Middle Neck Road in Sands Point, was once owned by Mary Harriman Rumsey, a railroad heiress whose brother, W. Averell Harriman, was governor of New York.

The Indian Ocean, which borders Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, is home to major sea lanes and choke points that are crucial to global trade.

A LendingTree survey found that customers who received five quotes on its platform for a typical 30 - year home loan of $ 223,000 witnessed a difference of 52 basis points from the highest to the lowest quotes.

Winnebago, known for its premium, big - ticket motor homes (selling for well over $ 100,000), has been introducing new products at lower price points, better suited to the post-recession marketplace.

The introductory post — which makes the excellent point that «experience shows people perform better at work when they're not worrying about home» — is short on details.

The point was dramatically brought home by an expose Thursday in New York Magazine by Kevin Roose, who wrote about his engagement with the house cleaning site Homejoy.

Why it's hot: A big selling point for Home Instead Senior Care franchises is the idea that one is purchasing a stake in a gratifying, rewarding business that will give back to others.

Born hours before a snowstorm and brought home when the temperature was still dropping below the freezing point many days during the week, our infant daughter has already gotten a cold.

Every home goes through a 250 - point inspection.

Virtual office space is no longer just for cool tech professionals — it's for many American employees who work for companies that don't see the point in footing the bill for rent when their workers can just as easily work from home.

As an example, she points to onefinestay, an Airbnb for upscale homes that vets listings and offers concierge services.

We tried to provide transparency to the whole real - estate marketplace, not just the 3 % of homes that are for sale at any point in time.

You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

One commenter on one of the Houzz polls described how she'd set up a really nice home office that she described as her «hub,» and made a point to work there for at least part of each day.

Bolstering her point: Lamborghini, Porsche, and Bentley's SUVs will be built at home in European factories — which, for Chinese consumers, is a big part of the prestige of buying one.

Two of my favorite books on this subject hit home the point.

So if you're making a point of attending an event for business, leave your friends at home.

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

Goldberg uses an analogy from the world of retail to illustrate the point: «Going into Home Depot doesn't let you build a house all by yourself if you haven't done it before.»