Sentences with phrase «point win for»

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

This should be a routine three point win for Arsenal.

The best game of the day, might have been between a No. 7 and No. 10 seed, the Wichita State vs. Indiana showdown the ended in a five - point win for the Shockers over the Hoosiers.

That was a 13 - point win for the Rockets, who were able to put up 40 points in the first quarter.

«To do what Gaz did last year was sensational, with some of the goals he scored and the points he won for us.

Based on the different feats you accomplish in the level you're ranked along with your team and the one with the highest points wins for the game.

Not exact matches

«It wins huge game - changing brownie points for both the giver and the recipient.»

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The economist, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, points to income inequality as a key consequence for global social unrest.

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The point is, you need to leave the customer room for a «win.»

Physical retail is that necessary point of differentiation for retailers and brands to win against pure play threats like Amazon.

The past 15 polls listed for Michigan on RealClearPolitics had Clinton winning the state by at least 10 points.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

Sculley told Business Insider editor - in - chief Alyson Shontell that Jobs won him over with a simple, pointed question: «Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life?

Edwards also points out that over 70 % of the athletes that won a gold medal in track and field events did so while wearing Nike gear, a helpful marketing buzz for a business that generates $ 5 billion in revenue for Nike at wholesale channels today.

Bloomberg maintained high approval ratings for nearly all of his 12 years as New York City's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic city.

Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.

Sagan won the green jersey for points at last summer's Tour de France and followed it up with an even more impressive performance at the Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, which he won in crafty fashion — surging on an uphill cobblestone section and never looking back.

The Oiler became the youngest captain in the history of the league at just 19 years of age, and in 2016 won the Art Ross Trophy for recording more points that any player in the NHL, netting 30 goals and 70 assists on the year, and won MVP.

Employees «win» by accumulating points via various dietary and exercise mechanisms, though not necessarily for superior athleticism.

Larson ranks second this year after being docked points by NASCAR for a violation on his car, but at this rate, he's at the front of the pack so often he has to be considered the favorite to win his first Cup.

Further, there had to be someone out there down a point in his or her championship with Jake Elliott as the kicker who for a brief moment thought he or she had won in a miracle, only to be crushed as the Eagles chose to kneel.

At the start of the week, the Eagles were favored by nine points, meaning that Philadelphia would have to win by at least 10 points for Eagles backers to cash their bets.

To get to that point, you've got to be willing to play the long - game, rather than constantly looking for short - term wins and gains.

He had crunched the numbers, looked at the demographics and predicted a landslide victory for Obama in North Carolina and a slim two - point Clinton win in Michigan.

They may not be the most romantic locations your city has to offer, but if you play it right, you could win points for originality.

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.»

«I can think of no one more deserving of this extraordinary opportunity to win a 7 - Eleven franchise than one of our military veterans who has given so much for our country,» DePinto, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point and former U.S. Army officer, said in a statement.

Doing this requires establishing a clear point of view on the trajectory of the health - care segments in which they compete, a candid assessment of the assets and capabilities they would need to win in those segments, and, most importantly, a detailed plan for how they could uniquely add value to any potential targets.

It's going to be a tough slog to fix this one, it's one of the relatively few things that Harper can point to as a win for his base.

That strength allows us to curate exceptional data and content, and build a platform focused on actions that above - all win grants, all for an unparalleled price point.

They also examined moves after the news of an FBI investigation into Clinton emails, and when Trump won key Republican primaries.PredictIt.org on Friday put the odds of a Trump win at 31 percent and a Clinton win at 74 percent, an improvement of about 6 points for Clinton over Thursday's level.

This last point was a win - win: developers would have access to enterprise - level computing resources with zero up - front investment; Amazon, meanwhile, would get that much more scale for a set of products for which they would be the first and best customer.

Today, it's perched atop global currency markets as Canada wins acclaim for its economic outlook and handling of the public debt, a point driven home Wednesday when a Russian Central Bank official confirmed that the Canadian dollar would be added to its international reserves.

«Government documents revealed that B.C. taxpayers have been fronting legal fees for at least six of Christy Clark's current and former employees in connection to the so - called «Quick Wins» scandal and the ongoing criminal investigation by Special Prosecutor David Butcher,» said David Eby, MLA for Vancouver Point Grey.

«My point is that it wasn't an across - the - board win for health care,» Leedom said.

During the 2014 Winter Olympics your signing bonus was increased depending on the number of medals won by Team USA — 500 points for every gold, 250 for every silver, and 100 for every bronze.

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In contrast to Trump's effusive praise, Xi appeared reserved and spoke in carefully scripted language about «win - win» cooperation and a «new starting point» for the bilateral relationship — language Beijing has employed in a bid to get the United States to agree to allow China to operate in its «sphere of influence» in Asia without meddling.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Big win for the author's points, there.

When we no longer have to win people over to our point of view, for example, realism can become an impediment.

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

I get that you see this outside of religion but my point here, finisher is basically stating that we are wrong by insulting and indirectly fighting for christianity... you don't win people over with hate.

In other words, Love Wins serves as a good starting point for engaging in better conversations about heaven and hell, but a poor ending point.

When Lin drained a bomb at the buzzer for three points and a Knicks win, I found myself cheering, almost against my will.

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

Case in point: the previous season ended with Barney's surprise romantic Playbook play to win Robin's hand in marriage, resolving months» worth of dramatic irony about what he was doing with her coworker, and serving up the narrative fulfillment we'd all been waiting for.

Parkman, like Foote, wrote history from a point of view: in Parkman's case, the Whiggish conviction that, when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, North America was won for liberty against popish authoritarianism.