Sentences with phrase «points for things»

What they fail to realize is that honesty about what you can do and have done is going to be valued more than additional brownie points for things that you can't really do and never did.

A deep ranking system rates your performance based on how quickly, quietly, and efficiently you complete the mission, and you earn extra points for things like not killing anyone or not triggering any alarms.

Bonus points for things like destroying of certain body parts, decapitation, and getting run over by vehicles.

When I looked up the benefits, it looks like this status allows you to use your points for things like lounge access (requiring 9,000 Asia Miles), extra leg - room, extra baggage, etc..

I've found this to be a very easy way to earn extra points for things I would buy anyway.

The Business ExtrAA account owner can then choose to use these points for things like lounge access or award flights for business purposes or maybe just to reward employees.

As we mentioned above, you can earn points for things outside of what you may normally consider with some American Express Membership Rewards cards or Chase Ultimate Rewards cards.

Why add points for those things?

There's no worry about flying with one particular airline (the airline miles part) and you can use the points for things like car rentals and hotels (the travel rewards part).

Sometimes you want rewards points for the things you buy.

In this case, you can use the points for things like long haul flights and upgrades, which garner much more value than a straight cash trade.

Even though it's not a strict travel rewards card, you have the ability to transfer your points out to certain travel loyalty programs or pay with points for things like hotel stays, airfare, and cruises.

With Gap, around the holidays they offer triple points for things like dining and groceries.

Some cards will only let you put those points towards their affiliates, not even giving you the opportunity to cash out your points for things you need to use them for.

When you redeem your points for things like flights, car rentals, and cruises the point value plummets by about 75 %.

Some cards even let you use your rewards points for things like Uber rides or public transit purchases.

You can trade in these points for things like the ability to email other members (used by free members), sending virtual flowers and upgrading you membership to Silver or Gold.

They also have a super cool reward program where you can earn points for things like joining their newsletter, writing reviews and sharing photos on social media.

When you redeem your points for things like flights, car rentals, and cruises the point value plummets by about 75 %.

Some programs allot points for things like participation and endurance, or for being a reliable workout partner.

Not exact matches

The Drop mobile app helps shoppers rack up and redeem points for all the things they buy through a single interface.

Tim's capital structure is «incredibly important,» and will be a significant point of focus for investors, «but I don't think it'll be the first thing that a new CEO addresses,» Howlett added.

«When you look at what is driving these results for Canada, we can point to some things that are clearly working, and some things on the horizon that it would be good to address now,» says Ed Farrington, executive vice president for retirement at Natixis.

Patricia G. Greene, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, points out that «retirement» may not mean the same thing to small business owners as it does to people who have spent their lives working for other people.

Only one thing is really standing in the way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [wireless] operators to come up with a good way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

For one thing, as Josh Benton at the Nieman Journalism Lab has pointed out in a thoughtful analysis of the project, the initial specification makes it impossible to use any kind of Javascript - based tracking or analytics codes in a page.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

You can point to you kid that while doing nice things for you is wonderful, going to sleep would be the thing that would really cheer you up.

They're as unique and unpredictable as the individuals involved, but one thing's for sure: Partnerships work — to a point.

At this point, the only thing anyone knows for certain is that the low - volatility environment is over, and dynamic price swings look here to stay.

Combine this with another of Twitter's problems — that it's often a source of spoilers for things I do care about, like Game of Thrones plot points, and the alternative of simply not using it looks far more appealing.

The point for me was never to tell my student that things were «fcuked», but to provide the framework and information to form their own perspectives and ideas on what they were learning and to form a dialogue about the issues.

But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

«I think this was just the starting point and for sure we'll do beautiful things together in Kosovo,» she says.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

This could be currency or something else like points that you can redeem them for things within the Facebook ecosystem, like premium content.»

The first point is that even when employers choose to purchase machines instead of hiring employees, that needn't be a bad thing socially, nor bad for labour as a group.

And as Kowitt pointed out throughout her questions, sometimes consumers say one thing and do another — meaning they say they want to eat more fresh produce and incorporate healthier foods in their diets, but still spend billions on snacks and beverages they know aren't good for them nutritionally.

While Whedon maintains respect for the executives, he said things «got ugly» at a certain point.

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.

At this point, you're smart enough to realize that the best thing you can do for yourself is to find a mentor.

The most important thing to consider is whether the chain can come up with a story for the product, a selling point such as the Most American Thickburger's overtly patriotic ad.

«I want to raise a few extra points of income from the top, and use it for the things we need,» he later added.

Here's the thing: I actually agree with many of the points Sinek shared in his talk, and I actively write about them often: don't over-indulge on social media, don't binge on Netflix, don't mistake fleeting social interactions for deeply gratifying friendships and relationships, etc..

They can also integrate things like parking, popcorn and drinks with your purchase so that users can book an entire experience rather than having several different touch points for each of these that increases the friction in the user experience.»

«The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist,» Apple's CEO said, according to Bloomberg.

A Twitter account known as Pwn All The Things, which is popular among cyber-security types, pointed out that an online personality known as Guccifer 2.0 — which is widely regarded to be a front for Russian hackers — has acknowledged giving private documents — including those tied to the Hillary Clinton campaign — to Wikileaks.

Instead, expand to highlight specific things that are important to the job you are applying for, keeping it short and using bullet points.