Sentences with phrase «points as miles»

Not exact matches

Less than 10 miles outside of Washington, D.C. it counts proximity as a selling point.

They both accept points as opposed to miles travelled as payment for seating, and each had availability for 100 percent of requests.

And while a rewards credit card might net you extra points or miles and some extra consumer protections, charities pay extra fees to accept credit cards, so your contribution may not stretch as far.

If you exchanged your Chase Ultimate Rewards points for cash to purchase the ticket, or if wanted to use fixed - value points worth one cent each — such as miles you can earn with the Capital One Venture card — you would need 120,000 points to cover the whole trip.

Great rewards credit cards will award perks such as cash back and points for gift cards and airline miles, but the APR will be rather high.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

If you simply save these rewards up, and cash them out once you want to book a vacation, you can think of a reward program like this as being equivalent to one based on points or miles, except you are given much more freedom.

With the mushy value propositions of some rewards, such as airline miles, airport lounge access and concierge service, calculating a break - even point can be cumbersome, inexact and changing.

Points and miles, however (particularly when redeemed as travel rewards), can be worth 3 to 5 cents per reward.

Musk also pointed out that it takes 15 minutes for traditional diesel - powered semi-trucks to fuel up, where as a Tesla Semi can charge 400 miles in 30 minutes, which is provided by «Megachargers ``.

You'll probably want rewards such as points, miles or cash back.

It is a gateway to the Black Hills to the north and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche as the geographic center of the United States in 1959.

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

You also have the option of transferring points on a 1:1 basis for valuable miles at frequent travel program partners such as British Airways, United MileagePlus, and Marriott Rewards.

In contrast, frequent flyer miles and hotel points invariably lose value over time as companies change their award charts.

In general, these hotel points are not considered to be as valuable as airline miles at the ratios offered, but the exchange rate for Hilton Honors points can be worthwhile in some cases.

You're going to be presented by cards with various perks associated with them, such as airline miles, points - per - dollar spent, discounts, and cash back bonuses.

You'll want to assess your spending, both the typical amounts as well as where you do the bulk of your spending; decide what type of rewards — cash back, miles or points — will be most beneficial to you; and crunch the numbers to see whether you can offset an annual fee.

You can get 3x points (up to 50,000 points maximum, or 15,000 airline miles) for the rate of the rental, as well as for any guest rooms booked because of the event.

As for the airline miles, transferring points will be a good or bad value, depending on how you choose to redeem your flights.

The former allows you to transfer points to a number of popular airline loyalty programs, and the latter allows you to use miles as statement credits.

The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a distance of 347 miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.

In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse's bridle (Rev 14:20).

But the Coens do their best to keep the puzzle and possibility open, as we later learn that the first cat Davis lost miraculously made its way from Greenwich Village back uptown to Washington Heights, and at one point Davis's eye fixes on a poster for Disney's INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, the one where pets find their way home across hundreds of miles of wilderness.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

A.T. Kearney's study, «Firmly Rooted, the Local Food Market Expands,» reports that consumers today have redefined the meaning and 96 percent describe local as products grown or produced within 100 miles of the point of sale.

My point here is that in as much as Chelsea are being hailed as having had a super season and their team rated as being miles ahead of other teams, their success was also down to having the same first 11 for very long periods in the season.

This is 100 % wrong, we are third in terms of injuries this season; last season we ended as 1st by a mile with 289 injuries (1 player out for 1 weeks = 1 point)(about 80 extra weeks of injuries more than # 2).

The track, a 2.52 - mile road course wrapped around a quarter - mile drag strip that can pack in 100,000 fans on its busiest days, opened in 1968 and for many years was known as Sears Point for the spit of land it lies on.

As he hunts for marlin in the Kona waters off Keahole Point, Skipper Henry Chee can see, above him and far away — 25 miles away — sunlight shining on a different kingdom of hunters.

But I wouldn't rule out, that our results will continue to be as bad, as they are, so we in a month or two find ourselves lying no better than sixth and with 12 - 15 points to the leaders and also miles behind the likes of spurs.

They are just1 point behind us and we are acting as if we are miles ahead of them.

As Charles Proctor, a member of the 1928 U.S. Olympic ski team, pointed out, although regulations called for a downhill race to be at least a mile long, «usually there was no terrain with a hill long enough to give a full mile.

Wenger will never go the «extra mile» to reinforce the squad... We always «seem» to miss something and, as usual, will end up paying a «hard» price for it at one point of the season.

By this point, Giancarlo Fisichella was leading by a mile, but on a wet setup was struggling for ultimate pace as Raikkonen chased him down, setting lap records on the way.

He is every bit as much as responsible as is Pochettino for the fact Spurs have left us miles behind, in points, talent, ambition, artistry, desire, fitness, hope, expectation and enjoyment.

Kos is better than squillachi by a mile and i think he will make a fine player for us, but squillachi is not gonna cut it at arsenal, too error prone, as long as he's there, we'll still be droping points.

The offer to test drive a car did not interest me at first, as I only drive a few miles each day, but when my husband pointed out that we might be able to time the car borrowing with -LSB-...]

We embarked on a 3 - week, 4000 - mile road trip with Tommy when he was a few months old, assuming that dining out would be no problem as up until that point he would usually happily doze in his car seat carrier while we ate.

Officials pointed out that all but 1.2 miles of the route as it passes through the Chilterns area of outstanding beauty would be in either tunnels, in cutting or alongside the A413 main road.

As The Times pointed out, only a little tongue in cheek, for that money you could extend the Jubilee Line 1200 miles to Sicily or send every child in the land under the age of 15 to Eton for 18 months.

As the Tri-State Transportation Campaign points out, the original documents included everything from new «climbing lanes» to interchanges going out 30 miles around the bridge — plus 22 bus stations.

«As state legislators representing millions of New Yorkers who live within the 50 mile blast radius surrounding Indian Point we demand that FERC respect New York's authority and jurisdiction in this matter,» reads a letter sent Friday from Democratic Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, Democratic Assemblywoman Sandy Galef of Westchester and three dozen others to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

As G2 swings closer to the black hole's event horizon — the point past which even light can not escape — gravity has already stretched its leading edge into a ribbon more than 90 billion miles long, pulling it away from the tail, which isn't yet feeling the black hole's full effects.

And it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight days.

Farmers are seeing the same trend in voluntary FDA and Agriculture Department standards called «good agricultural practices,» which include several common - sense measures such as hand - washing but can dock farms points if they sit within 2 miles of livestock.

Pointing out that «no human being... has ventured further upward into space than 386 miles» in the last 30 years, President Bush proposed new goals for NASA as 2004 began.

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

The ice stretches over these sticking points twice per day as the tide lifts up and sets down the Ross Ice Shelf, a 1,100 - foot - thick slab of ice the size of Spain that hangs over the ocean several hundred miles away.

«As length scales become smaller from several hundred miles to a few tens of miles, we discovered the point at which geostrophic balance becomes no longer valid — meaning that sea level is no longer useful for calculating ocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).