Sentences with phrase «point the tips of»

Elves» most recognizable features are the pointed tips of their ears and their sunny dispositions.

Standing on the banks of the Beaverkill River near her fabled fishing school in New York's Catskill Mountains, she raises and points the tip of an 8 1/2 - foot rod just over her shoulder, gives a sudden backward snap of the wrist and sends 40 feet of line sailing straight back behind her.

Try to point the tips of your elbows forwards at all times but do not lean back to achieve this.

Also, while the film overall boasts bold visuals, certain wide shots of the ship at sea look hopelessly CGI'd and I'm certain that at one point the tip of a boom mike was visible in frame.

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The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

«The tipping point where boring work becomes detrimental occurs when the mental drain prevents you from experiencing the positives a majority of the time,» said Shawn Achor, happiness researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage, in an email.

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

However, anonymous tips can put you at a severe informational disadvantage when starting your investigation, so you should also have a couple of point people for face - to - face complaints.

It wasn't until 2017, though, that Bitcoin hit a tipping point of mainstream popularity.

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

We've had roughly 20 years of hand - wringing about this tipping point, but now it's here.

Very few people will join Netflix just because of a single title, but there is a tipping point.

Regardless of the countless rejections, you sense a tipping point around the corner.

Tipping the top or bottom of a market is never smart, especially at a time of volatile trading; but a series of recent events point to confidence growing in the start of a recovery in the Western Australian economy.

«We are, with many other industries, at a tipping point of cybersecurity posture of products and connected services,» said Massimilla.

«We found $ 2.75 was the tipping point for about 20 percent of drivers,» Sinclair said.

According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping point; we're not yet stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.

Keeping tip number five in mind, color is one of the best ways to add emphasis to particular data points.

In The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell argues that for us to understand why some products succeed, we must think of each as part of an epidemic.

Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

«Also, since this «tipping point» was reached in the late»90s before warming really took off, it indicates that these peripheral glaciers are very sensitive and, potentially, ephemeral relative to the timescales of response of the ice sheet,» he added.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

We felt that we were past the tipping point in terms of video technology and comfort with it — most applicants would have used Skype or FaceTime.»

Gladwell calls the big moment of change the «tipping point» and explains how companies can deliberately infect the market with a «virus.»

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

Our tipping point varies depending on a number of factors, but we all have one.

Today, there are a fair number of gene - silencing drugs in late - stage development and dozens of companies working in the space — and it feels like we could be close to a tipping point.

I advised a lot of them and I look at that moment as a real tipping point.

Lately, there has been more than our fair share of news suggesting that the retail industry is at a tipping point.

Liss - Riordan attempted to show the judge that it met seven of the nine points of the test, and told journalists after the hearing that she hopes he sees that the scales tip on that side.

The formula has become familiar: take a catchy, easy - to - grasp concept — «the tipping point,» or «the 10,000 - hour rule» — and then use a series of expertly plucked and beautifully told anecdotes to advance that thesis.

Given growing doctor shortages and increasing pressure for cost control, more medical care will be pushed downstream to nurse practitioners, mini-practices inside retailers» locations, and in mobile - van and in - home practices and via online, where diagnosis and issuance of prescriptions is an evolving business very near the tipping point of a boom.

«The Tipping Point» was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon customers, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian, and was Barnes & Noble's fifth bestselling nonfiction book of the decade.

In an analysis penned by Andrew Warford, who is chairman of Maverick's stock committee, the fund set out its thesis for why the smartphone market has hit a «tipping point.»

«The combined finances in the federal and provincial spheres are very near the tipping point,» argued the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in a recent report.

But with broad and efficiently concentrated giving, you reach (if you'll forgive another social science buzzphrase) a tipping point at which your reputation as a giver and your accumulation of grateful pals grows to the point that positive effects ensue.

The 2016 elections are widely seen as a tipping point opening a flood of new investment in the cannabis industry.

Or it could be a tipping point signaling the end of Nike's basketball dominance.

Grandma Mira's death was a tipping point event that convinced me I needed to pursue the opportunity in front of me or I would regret it on my own deathbed.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

For example, create a series of tips, articles and how - to points related to your product or industry to inform customers.

«I definitely think it has the possibility of pushing us over the tipping point,» said Felicia Griffin, executive director of United for a New Economy, a Colorado nonprofit that has opposed the Amazon project.

But there is definitely such a thing as too much of a good thing and I think we're getting pretty close to the tipping point.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

But Kutcher pointed out that in addition to safety concerns for drivers carrying a lot of cash, tipping goes against Uber's design.

Toronto - Dominion is the latest major bank to declare a recession in Canada, saying the «balance of probabilities» has tipped in favour of another quarter - point rate cut next week.