Sentences with phrase «point than at the beginning»

Thus no generation has learned from another to love, no generation begins at any other point than at the beginning, no generation has a shorter task assigned to it than had the preceding generation, and if here one is not willing like the previous generations to stop with love but would go further, this is but idle and foolish talk.

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At 0847 GMT, the FTSE index was up 0.57 percent to 7,563.38 points, a high since the beginning of February, when sterling was however about 5 percent higher than it is now against the dollar.

During a 15 - year period that began in 1963, he sold more than 13,000 Chevrolets at a local dealership»» at one point selling 18 cars in a single workday.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

The 30 - year average was 43 basis points (0.43 %) lower at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of that year, when the stimulus was going strong.

For instance, you made a point of deciding that you would speak at the end of the FOMC meeting rather than at the beginning as your predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

I did make the point that life begins at conception, and that there is no ground of principle on which the embryo or fetus could be regarded as anything less than human at any stage of its existence.

George Fox expresses well this isolation; and I can do no better at this point than read to you a page from his Journal, referring to the period of his youth when religion began to ferment within him seriously.

In the smoke point values presented above at the beginning of this section, we suspect that the coconut oil and EVOO were less refined than the safflower oil and canola oil, such that the much higher smoke points of the safflower oil and canola oil were not due to the plants from which these oils were obtained, but to the way that they were processed.

At the behest of my son's nutritionist, I began modifying the waffles I make for him a little bit here and there, to the point that it is now a completely different recipe than the one I first posted.

Wehave to get moving, obviously, but I for one am somewhat reluctant to pull on apair of frozen boots and venture out into a raw and moody landscape that moreclosely resembles the surface of Jupiter than anyplace else on earth.Self - discipline at this point is a superhuman virtue, and after considerableshouting and mutual beratement we begin moving.

And all things being equal, Chelsea will drop all three points to Liverpool at Anfield on this same Saturday night to start a cave in journey in their Premier League campaign this season that will see Arsenal overthrow them eventually form the top of the table to begin to sit on it sooner than later.

On the pitch, we've gotten to a point where we understand one another better, better than at the beginning.

Look i'm not a medical expert but at this point I'm seriously beginning to feel more compassion (regarding le proff health) than distaste for his decisions.

Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called «ordered probit estimates» do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: «Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.»

My husband and I also shared childcare responsibility equally until our daughter was well over a year, when he went back to work full - time and she started daycare (up until that point, we'd both worked part - time) and he's much better at many things than I am (mealtimes and bathtime and bedtime, pretty significantly, while just personality-wise, I'm a lot better at stuff like, having hydrocortisone cream for bug bites, and remembering to put on the bug spray in the first place, etc.) But, especially at the beginning, it really did seem as though I was much more attached?

At this point, you might begin to experience after birth pains that can last for a few days after delivery, but more often than not it will not last longer than a few hours and it is very mild.

Although they take different approaches, their goals are similar: to have kids begin to make conscious food — and life — choices by showing them that there's more to it than pointing at a supermarket shelf, opening a box or waiting in a fast - food drive through.

At some point, a baby will begin to «taste - test» foods, learning through oral exploration about the textures and tastes of foods other than breastmilk.

If the next feeding he doesn't nurse as well then he may need a little bit, so it's a gradual decrease of supplementation as the babies feeding better and many times that supplementation at that point if mom is using a breast pump is breast milk and so if it's formula to begin with then as her milk supply increases in volume we switch it over, Some moms are under the impression that it's the formula that treats it, no, it's the milk in general, the feeding that treats it, it's not that breast milk is better than formula, I mean, we know that breast milk is better than formula but it's not that formula is better, it's just that sometimes the quantity is the key, absolutely

Greeks have witnessed discussions shift from $ 1 billion in additional measures (last proposal put forth by the New Democracy - PASOK government following demands from creditors), to over $ 10 billion in additional measures last month, to today's «Greekment» according to which Greece will undergo harsher austerity (for next three years) than at any other point since the crisis began.

Singers 1 month in reported being nearly two points closer to their classmates after 2 hours of class, whereas those in art or writing classes were only about half a point closer than they had been at the beginning of class.

In September 2007 less sea ice covered the Arctic than at any point since the U.S. government began keeping records of its decline.

«We have long known that men begin to lose their sense of smell some years sooner than women, but this is the first study to point to racial or ethnic differences,» said study author Jayant Pinto, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

How to regulate amateur life scientists is not really a new issue at all; just an issue where the possibilities of genetic manipulation have recently elevated the stakes to the point where the scientific community is beginning to share concerns expressed by the humane community for more than 200 years (beginning before there were actually any organized humane societies.)

She stopped exercising for some time early in her treatment, and began adding more calories to her diet — at one point, she joked, «more than a 400 pound man» eats.

Westerners began consuming more sugar and carbohydrates and less fat than at any other point in history.

... than the rowdy crowd at the beginning, and b) they mostly seemed to be clapping politely due to Hammer being a (magnificently played by Rockwell) smug, condescending, uncharismatic jackhole... until Iron Man showed up, at which point shit went bananas, B - A-N-A-N-A-S.

Moreover, there's far more going on at that point than we can be aware of, so instantly your mind begins to race with questions and potential answers... which usually just cause more questions to be asked.

However, if you have always been a fan, then you are probably going to like it more than I did, and will want to at least check it out on DVD at some point before the next prequel comes out (production on it begins next year).

While the story is nothing to write home about, and the gameplay is beginning to feel more than a little played out at this point, you know, definitively, if you want to play this game or not just based on the title.

At this point Disney has more live - action fairy tales in various stages of development than we can count, but the movie that kicked off that whole craze to begin with was 2010's Alice in Wonderland.

As the duo begin to cackle, director Bennett Miller («Moneyball») points at the dark heart of his stranger - than - fiction drama — one that's almost all wick, burning slowly but brightly.

And, rather than expecting all students to master the same curriculum content and to be at the same point in their learning at the same time, excellent learning progress (or growth) is an expectation of every learner — even those who begin the school year at more advanced levels of attainment.

Popularity begins to decrease at lower GPAs for young black men than young black women (3.25 GPA compared with a 3.5), and the rate at which males lose friends after this point is far greater.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

When DeVos was testifying before the Senate in January 2017, the federal government still had a greater hand in public education than it did at any point before No Child Left Behind, but it had also recently experienced the greatest rollback in its oversight since an era of almost continual expansion that began in 1965.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

For instance, depending on how your course is structured, you may want to invoke the principles behind event # 1: Gain Learners Attention, at several points throughout the course rather than just at the beginning of the course.

Beginning generalist teachers reported more negative past experiences of the arts at the survey points of interest in the study than positive experiences, including their current experience as a beginningBeginning generalist teachers reported more negative past experiences of the arts at the survey points of interest in the study than positive experiences, including their current experience as a beginningbeginning teacher.

I certainly took a gamble by beginning the story in the way I did: chronologically, the book begins at the end of the story, so at this point we have no clear idea of why Glyver has felt it necessary to take the life of a completely innocent man, other than as a vaguely described preparation for the murder of his enemy.

Now, the September 15th date loomed ahead for residents of California to begin paying sales taxes on Amazon purchases, collected at the point of purchase rather than at a later date and on an «honor system» method of reporting online purchases to the government.

It is supposed to be 1951 or»52 at this point in the book, and it wasn't until 1958 that this sexually - transmitted disease (which is now a silent epidemic in the USA) was discovered to be a bacteria rather than a virus; it also was not until a couple of decades after that when women's magazines began to warn about this possibly asymptomatic STD.

And that's a good point about how some stories have better editing at the beginning than anywhere else.

The 30 - year average was 43 basis points (0.43 %) lower at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of that year, when the stimulus was going strong.

According to the nationwide industry survey conducted by Freddie Mac, mortgage rates have fallen steadily for the last five weeks are are currently 23 basis points (0.23 %) lower than they were at the beginning of 2017.

The spread touched a bottom point of 136.6 at the beginning of July, 11 basis points tighter than the December 31st value of 147.58.

However, at this point, most people find themselves beginning to trade more than they normally would; more than they were before.