Sentences with phrase «point of my development as»

And it was just the starting point of my development as being — and Chris Petersen would say this — it's different from being a quarterback and the quarterback.

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«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

The combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).

As you grow, however, there will be a point when the cash flow gets complicated and is often overlooked in favor of focusing on sales, business development and other tasks.

But the developments on Monday make it clear that, as this and the other threads surrounding the multiple investigations into Trump and his associates continues, the boundaries of legal precedent are being tested in ways unlike any other point in modern history.

An independent panel has endorsed the proposed development of a liquefied natural gas precinct at James Price Point near Broome, but the recommendation may have little impact as project developers led by Woodside Petroleum have shifted their focus to floating LNG developments.

As Manaus shows off its state - of - the - art developments, it has also become a focal point for the controversy surrounding the World Cup.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

As Metzger points out, the most easily and thoroughly automated industries on Earth today are also those most necessary for space development — the manufacturing of electronics, transportation equipment, and machinery.

While some point to Saleforce's ownership of two different development environments as a point of confusion, it may actually end up being an advantage.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

Like the one Jinwoong's Scott Reeves points to as a current favorite, a simple project - management tool he calls a «product - development system,» a calendar that enables managers to keep better track of key deadlines as they create multiple new products.

As scholars who study gender and humor have pointed out, women's humor ruffles feathers, with «gender stereotypes» hindering «the development and recognition of women's humor.»

The goal is to have all of our efforts align, as he is focused on processing our work from an operational stand point, while I am mainly focused on new business development.»

He pointed to a string of Coinbase's top - level hires as evidence of the trend: Asiff Hirji, formerly of Hewlett Packard and TD Ameritrade, as chief operations officer; LinkedIn's Emilie Choi as vice president of corporate and business development; Twitter's Tina Bhatnagar as vice president of operations and technology; and Facebook's Rachael Horwitz as vice president of communications, to name a few.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

While Google's arsenal of perks — which includes everything from «stock equity,» to «free 24/7 gym access,» «aaaaaamazing holiday parties,» and «mini-kitchens, snacks, drinks, free breakfast / lunch / dinner, all day, errr «day» — are notoriously cushy, the company wins real points with employees for attracting «the best talent and best people to work with in the world» as well as providing abundant «opportunities for career growth, and tons of career development resources.»

McFarland points out that many of the great fast - growing companies of the past few decades relied on Market Development as their main growth strategy.

He met hundreds in his previous job as president of Export Development Canada, and he makes a point of meeting business leaders when he travels.

Other potentially suitable spots exist here, such as the Tradepoint development at Sparrows Point and some potential redevelopment sites in the city, but none can match Port Covington in terms of both the speed with which Amazon could move forward and the attractiveness it presents for potential employees.

He also launched business development for Check Point Software Technologies as one of its top four executives.

Their sample included a lot of small OPEC countries, who necessarily had high growth and low interest rates when oil prices were high, as well as a lot of Asian countries that followed the Japanese development model and themselves practiced financial repression, which of course made them pretty useless as points of comparison.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

That point was reinforced just after the build concluded when a mother who lived at the development came over as volunteers were cleaning up and said she hadn't been able to get out of work to help build, but throughout the day she received pictures from her kids who were watching the build happen with growing excitement.

At each point where the company was ready to move to the next phase of development, the Polaris team has been there as an anchor, and will continue to be as we seek to help millions of patients worldwide.

But at some point if you really want to test market your ideas, spend some of your time learning other aspects of inventing such as marketing and product development.

It is completely appropriate to point fingers of blame at politicians and so - called «economic development agencies» — especially the failed Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. — that were asleep at the switch as the Kraft Heinz food - processing conglomerate prepared to shutter its almost 100 - year - old Oscar Mayer plant development agencies» — especially the failed Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. — that were asleep at the switch as the Kraft Heinz food - processing conglomerate prepared to shutter its almost 100 - year - old Oscar Mayer plant Development Corp. — that were asleep at the switch as the Kraft Heinz food - processing conglomerate prepared to shutter its almost 100 - year - old Oscar Mayer plant in Madison.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

These points are all, of course, interrelated: Apple's organizational structure, focus, and release - focused development cycle enable it to create highly differentiated products, even as the exact same structure, focus, and development cycle underly the company's struggles in iterative services.1 Similarly, Amazon's highly modular structure, varied businesses, and iterative approach to those businesses enable it to create services with itself as its first, best, customer, and then extend those services to developers and retailers, even as the exact same factors lead to product disasters like the Fire Phone.

About California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creatiDevelopment The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creatiDevelopment (GO - Biz) was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve as California's single point of contact for economic development and job creatidevelopment and job creation efforts.

Unless these developments escalate to the point of impacting global growth, we do not expect a sizeable impact to the commodity complex as a whole.

Some observers, such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, have ranked Canada's housing market as among the world's frothiest, but Canadian economists and the Bank of Canada don't see a problem at this point.

Many now see this as more than just a temporary development, with wage increases of 2 point something per cent now the norm.

Reported development margin increased 600 basis points to 15.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012 as compared to 9.4 percent in the prior year quarter.

Rule 1: You Can't Make Them Up Rule 2: Don't Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile Rule 3: Get the Right People with the Right Attributes and the Right Skills Involved Rule 4: Buyer Personas Are a Translation of Goals Rule 5: A Buyer Persona Offers Insight into the Unarticulated and the No - So - Obvious Rule 6: Buyer Persona Development is Not a Quantitative Process Rule 7: Avoid Building a Wire Mesh of Data Points When Developing Buyer Personas Rule 8: Goal - Centered Qualitative and Experiential Analysis is the Foundation of Buyer Persona Development Rule 9: The Purpose of the Buyer Persona Development Process is to Inform on Goal - Centered Customer Strategies Rule 10: Buyer Persona Development Serves as a Communications Platform to Tell the Story of Customers and Buyers

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources, specifically point - source non-renewable resources like minerals and fuels, tend to have less economic growth and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.

As they point out, increases in general education and economic development are strongly correlated to family planning, not the availability of contraceptive technology.

Popularly regarded as progress, this colonizing process has reached a point where it does not lead to authentic development in the country, but leads instead to its impoverishment and to the eventual biological and economic death of the land.

The editors clearly hope so, but they express that hope with a sober realism: «To the extent that the Constitution still matters — as a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouAs always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautious.

As with liberation theology, feminisms elsewhere are a point of reference for an indigenous development, the nature of which has yet to be adequately described.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

C.T. Kurien points out that the countries of the Third World regard the 1980s as a «lost decade in terms of their development opportunities.»

Apparently, then, this specialized group of nerves is the material locus for a «critical node,» as Whitehead puts it, at which point bodily feelings are transmuted so that «there is an increasing development of special emphasis» (PR 477).

Everywhere, as we are well aware, the lines of active phyletic development grow warm with consciousness as they approach the summit; but in one clearly - marked region at the centre of the kingdom of mammals, where the most powerful brains ever fashioned by nature are to be found, the lines glow red - hot; and already at the heart of this region there burns a point of incandescence.

The theology of the Mass is another area which we think is ripe for development, especially given the affirmation in Gaudium et Spes that «in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man, as well as of all human history» (n. 10).

The priesthood became hereditary, a separate, professional class, and the sacrifices so increased in number and in the complexity of their attendant rites that one scholar points to the change as «perhaps the most striking and convincing proof of development the Old Testament affords.»

Those who knew Bonhoeffer found that the development of the spiritual life as he outlined it was not exciting to begin with, but as time passed they reassessed their views and came to regard their six - month stay in the Finkenwalde experiment as a high point of their lives.

The whole of this passage of Isaiah was of great importance to Christians as pointing to the fact that the paradoxical death of the Messiah was part of God's plan, and later on this particular verse may have influenced the development of the detailed story of Nicodemus and the burial of Jesus.

Any scientist on earth knows that the overwhelming body of evidence points towards h om os exu ality, hete ros exuality, and bis exu ality as normally occurring phenomenon within the spectrum of innate human (and hundreds of other animals) se x ual development.