Sentences with phrase «point of pride»

The Dating Awards serve as a stamp of approval, a metric of legitimacy, and a true point of pride for the winners.

He finds it a particular point of pride when employees feel an even stronger affiliation with their firm than their chosen profession.

Charitable giving is traditionally considered a great point of pride — and a civic responsibility — by presidential candidates.

The Kings, like every other American sports entity, traffic the idea that teams are a focal point of pride, an economic engine for each city.

Standing tall as symbols for their states, official state trees are points of pride from coast to coast.

Achievement among Latino students is a particular point of pride.

Federico's biggest point of pride in the Encore is that, even with a four - cylinder engine and a one - box interior, «it's Buick quiet.

One source of the din, and a major point of pride for Lakey, is a microwave - oven - sized robotic assembler that is snapping plastic widgets together and laser - etching them with serial numbers.

It's having to budge on one of its biggest points of pride and identity, its language, to hold on to them.

Innovation is a craft point of pride.

And EpiPen is a huge point of pride for Mylan as well as for Bresch herself.

The success of Brad's Raw Foods is an obvious point of pride for Gruno, but it also has been the source of the company's greatest challenge.

Maple Lodge Farms» community involvement and family oriented culture are high points of pride for McCullagh.

What's kept her there is the people, who, she says, are approachable and friendly — a Memphis point of pride.

Mann said his intent is to preserve the Tappan Zee name, a local point of pride for some, which combines the name of a local Native American tribe and the Dutch word for sea.

It's a small point of pride being able to re-use this meal, because it's typically relegated to the compost, and that «thunk» noise as it drops from hands to bin has really started to settle into my guilty conscious!

As a minor point of pride (and still an Instagram newbie), I was pretty excited when the incomparable Micheline Pitt featured my photo below on the PUG page in January.

The privilege of producing America's best - selling car for the last 41 years is a significant point of pride for our associates.»

The Webtop initiative was spearheaded by former Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha and was a frequent point of pride for him when speaking to the tech press as Motorola launched both the Webtop software and the former flagship in the Motorola Atrix 4G during the International CES in January of 2011.

In fact, it's often a real point of pride to complain about the appalling dearth of large cap value.

The grounds, maintained by a staff of 30, are a major point of pride here — and culminate in the 35 - acre formal French garden known as Versailles.

The Phoenix Points of Pride are 33 landmarks and attractions within the Phoenix, Arizona, city limits that are claimed to represent the best features of the city for both residents and visitors.

Nowadays, Rua Goncalo de Carvalho's internationally recognized beauty is a special point of pride; it was recently named a site of Ecological, Cultural, and Environmental Heritage.

At a time when Android rivals were embracing phablets, the 4 - inch display on the iPhone 5s was an odd point of pride for Apple and its users: their message, that iOS was so well designed, that it didn't require a vast screen in order to be functional.

Rushing yards had always been the greatest point of pride for Ryan, a former defensive line coach.

The nominee diversity is a particular point of pride for Broadway this year, when Hollywood has been convulsed with controversy over the lack of Oscar nominations for non white performers.»

Every console needs a hero, a totem to rally fans around and use as a focal point of pride.

They're injection - molded stainless, we were told, as though that fact were a particular point of pride for the Bentley folks.

The project has been a point of pride ever since it opened, and Gillam believes it established the company's brand.

Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.

Some professionals wear a heavy workload as a kind of badge of honor, considering it a point of pride or evidence of job security, but that isn't a valuable long - term strategy to deal with the increased load.

Not having to take on debt or live like a monk has been a point of pride — but it has also been a necessity.

We received several sales inquiries after the article ran, and the article was also a point of pride for our staff who worked so hard to get us to where we are today.

Drinking a lot of coffee shouldn't be a point of pride.

This has long been a point of pride for the company.

Bezos noted this program as a point of pride in his closely watched annual letter to shareholders, released on Wednesday, where he wrote that the company funds education in the areas regardless of whether they are related to the employee's current operations.

Although Tyson, who was Yancopoulos» friend and classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, was quick to point out that he was not a winner or semifinalist in the competition (in fact he didn't even enter), knowing other students who were was a point of pride for him.

That Google managed to ink deals with the major labels — companies that Apple has had a long relationship with — and launch before Apple was clearly a point of pride at the company's Mountain View headquarters, where the company announced the service at Google I / O, its developer's conference.

It's a point of pride, according to Horn, that ScriptSave has no limit on how long a conversation with a customer can last.

Patent grants are a point of pride for tech companies including Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Google, who point to their patents as proof of their ability to innovate.

In her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her area.

Making people happy has always been among my highest priorities, a point of pride.

This, like the high salaries that Dartmouth graduates command — the sixth - highest in the country, according to the most recent estimates — is a point of pride.

It rightly pointed out that while Canada's healthcare system remains a point of pride for Canadians, there are a number of areas, including financing prescription medications, home care and mental health, where Canadian Medicare lags behind many countries in the OECD.

Membership often becomes a point of pride and a community develops around the exercise.

«It was a point of pride.»

Once a point of pride, Greater China remains a soft spot these days.