Sentences with phrase «point was in the first place»

But after his second - straight MVP season, I can't help but wonder what the point was in the first place.

Not exact matches

That's why the best solution to burnout isn't the many tips out there for recovering from the condition, but to avoid reaching that point in the first place.

«They became the proof point that you could be involved in an organization that would provide a support centre without cannibalizing the entrepreneurial culture that made the agency successful in the first place.»

The point is to first try, then learn, and be sure you have mechanisms in place to measure and improve.

As a result, their costs would go up, possibly dramatically, which was the whole point of UBB in the first place.

«If you purchase a home but can't make the payments if interest rates go up by two percentage points, you probably shouldn't be buying that home in the first place,» he says.

Food and some non-alcoholic beverages are typically included in the overall package, but that doesn't mean your cruise is all - inclusive; expect to pay for alcohol at a standard restaurant price - point, and don't try to sneak in your own booze — you're not the first genius to come up with this plan, and there are due procedures in place to prevent you from succeeding.

«All trade is mutually beneficial or they wouldn't have engaged in the transaction in the first place,» he says, pointing to a protectionism piece written in 1986 by Murray Rothbard of the Mises Institute, a libertarian organization of Austrian economics.

If you're running to the point of pain, you're only doing your body a disservice and honestly, you're just defeating the point of going to the gym in the first place.

The point is that Subway was the first fast food place to position itself as «healthy» and because of that it became the fastest growing, most recognized sandwich company on the planet, all because it copied the winners in a different industry.

With the mileage points we get, we've been able to book 10 international, $ 5,000 first - class flights to see clients in places such as the Persian Gulf since last year.»

Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making profits from attendance and TV revenues are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer interest.

This could manifest itself in several different ways, but a key point is to rent out rather than sell the high - tax state property and buy a place in a lower - tax place outright, and give it a year first.

The first - and most obvious - reason is that the exit will start from a point of extraordinary policy accommodation, and will involve gradually reducing the amount of stimulus in place, as opposed to initiating a rapid and severe policy tightening.

Direct marketing has always been well - suited for digital advertising; the point of the ad is to drive conversion, and digital is very good, not only at measuring if said conversion occurred, but also at targeting customers most likely to convert in the first place.

If a virtual currency is to become widely used in nations, it will be one that governments can control, which would defeat the purpose of the virtual currency in the first place, from the point of view of their citizens.

Regarding the insider dealings by which these firms were acquired in the first place by Russian financial - industrial groupings (FIGs), Michael Bernstam has pointed out that a legal basis exists for re-acquiring them.

It's true that the trust I speak of comes from the overall collection of inbound links I've earned over the years in the first place, but the point lost in this is once you have such trust, don't ignore it as a driver of rankings for... yourself.

Use language appropriate to the visitor based on the target audience Heat maps show an F pattern is used when scanning content, so using bold headings and sub-headings to make it easier to scan and break up a copy Change paragraphs to bulleted lists Put the main point first (inverted pyramid) Use personal pronouns Put yourself in the place of the visitor and consider questions the visitor may have, then get to the point with the answer Add links, if appropriate, to keep the visitor engaged on your site and to keep them from searching elsewhere Name links (and anchor text) in a way that the visitor will know what to expect when they click Find out what keywords visitors are searching for to reach your site and write with these keywords in mind These tips are a great starting point for anyone wanting to optimize their website content.

With all due respect to Dimon, some might point out that «inventing a currency out of thin air» is how we got Federal Reserve Notes and other forms of paper money in the first place.

but forgive me, they were more likly closer to us being om.niv.orous, so for that I'm SO sorry for pointing out that they were eating veggies before man was, I'm the liar I guess... We also have theorized that it was the neandrathals lack of hostil.ity that they died out in the first place.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

They point to the priest sex scandals as proof positive that chastity is too much to ask of people — completely ignoring that it was the randy absence of chastity that created the scandals in the first place.

But the point of that passage is that everything belongs to God in the first place.

Finally, if the point of this author's essay is to conclude that we shouldn't waste our time on whether Judas is in heaven or hell, why bring it up in the first place with a headline that begs the question?

Igaftr, I have read that before; the who celibacy thing is supposedly voluntary in the first place, and as you've pointed out, is rather untenable for either gay people it hetero.

It is just this illusion of sex without consequences, she maintains, that brought us to the point of needing widespread access to abortion in the first place.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Dealing with «it all» and trying to do so while including every point of view is no small order, and according to Anderson, the key to doing it well starts with who you hire to create the show in the first place.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

Involving God in our sexuality means holding on to what it means to be sexual in the first place, and what that sexuality points us toward.

Using a father / son analogy to describe gods relationship with humans is wrong and misunderstanding the whole point of the analogy in the first place.

In the first place, communication has come to be considered only from the point of view of its instrumental character.

We discussed the whys and whens of my loss of faith in the first place (I was raised a devout Catholic, at one point considered holy orders as my life's work).

Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....

Perhaps, my point was that you asking such a question in the first place was clear evidence that you understand neither.

He took a long look at the room of would - be pastors and ministerial leaders, each of us zealous to earn our future roles in churches, ministries and on the mission field and delivered his first teaching point: «The wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time always results in the wrong thing happening.»

How could paganism point to Christ when it was never intended to point people to Christ in the first place?

Quite obviously he might have been ambushed and beaten to the point of death by the same set of robbers who rolled the traveler in the first place.

Perhaps that's a pittance, but the point is that if Jesus was more interested in being politicized, and just being a political ruler — he had his opportunity and knew it, still choosing to die to take our place in judgment, to bring God to us first.

Nowhere is the author making the point that if people sin willfully, or even if they return to an empty form of religion which accomplished nothing, that this proves that they do not have eternal life, lost their eternal life, or never had it in the first place.

In the first place, and I believe that from the point of view of a religious interpretation of narrative this is exceedingly important, process thinking opens the way for a new grasp of infinity or totality as a religious concept.

As Christopher Lasch also points out, new therapies» solutions are tautological, self - defeating to the extent that they advise people «not to make too large an investment in love and friendship, to avoid excessive independence on others, and to live for the moment — the very conditions that created the crisis of personal relations in the first place» (New York Review of Books [September 30, 1976]-RRB-.

In the first chapter of The Concept of Anxiety Kierkegaard is at pains to make the point that Adam and Eve must not be placed «fantastically on the outside» of human history.

Case in point: The attempted assassination against Pope John Paul II a few decades ago, which is what prompted the Popemobile in the first place.

LET's Religiosity Law # 3 — If you habitually spout off verses from your «holy» book to make whatever inane point you're trying to make, and not once does it occur to you to question whether your book is accurate in the first place, then you are definitely mentally retarded.

Values must be defended by appealing to other more fundamental values and beliefs that are also yours (perhaps you will refer to the Bible or the Qur «an or some other sacred text) which are not going to be accepted by those who have basic disagreements with your point of view in the first place.

Of course from my stand point I refuse to accept that he will be pay in the after - life, thus the reason we don't leave this sort of stuff for «god» to deal with, the courts see it similarly... if god is all powerful and all knowing he would never have allowed this to happen in the first place.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

She didn't seem to care about losing her virginity to someone she barely knows (another way these movies typically frame young men), and there's a point when she asks her father (John Cena) why society makes such a big deal out of virginity in the first place.