Sentences with phrase «points of difference by»

With rising levels of competition, however, many products now seek points of difference by combining features and blurring definitions.

Not exact matches

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.
Of course we are all encouraged to leverage the award, which certainly adds to a businesses credibility, gives the team a morale lifting boost and helps attract customers by providing a point of differencOf course we are all encouraged to leverage the award, which certainly adds to a businesses credibility, gives the team a morale lifting boost and helps attract customers by providing a point of differencof difference.
Managing that risk by recognizing and shoring up points of vulnerability is the difference between using data as a competitive advantage and being the victim of a catastrophic data loss.
Companies with less than 25 employees far outpace organizations of any size, besting their engagement by a difference of eight to 12 percentage points.
The CEO talked about the Internet riches harnessing that technology could bring Tribune by pointing to the example of Buzzfeed, though that comparison misses many of the almost innumerable differences between a legacy newspaper company — even if one with the time and money to really «transform» itself — and a venture - juiced, digital - only, social news success, which is itself experiencing a bit of a stumble.
No longer able to rely simply on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and spending lavishly to market directly to consumers.
The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship supports Harvard Business School's mission to «educate leaders who make a difference in the world» by infusing this leadership perspective with an entrepreneurial point of view.
Meanwhile, one measure of the yield curve, the difference between the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate and the 3 - month Treasury Bill rate, fell by 7 basis points.
Each point on the chart is calculated by taking the difference between the number of advancing / declining issues and adding the result to the previous period's value.
At the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobs.
@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.
At several junctures I have pointed to the absence of any framework by which the Oliners can distinguish qualitative differences in the ways persons are religious, the ways they make sense of the claims of care, and the ways they interpret what is their duty or obligation.
Lewis S. Ford has addressed himself directly to the claim for nonphysical (but still temporal) successiveness in the genetic process in his article «On Genetic Successiveness: a Third Alternative» (1: 421 - 25).1 Ford begins by pointing out that the differences between phases in a single occasion can not be mere differences in complexity of integration.
For elucidation of the difference of the repetition of the singular to the forming of laws, Deleuze points to Kant's paradigm of the «Categorical Imperative,» which states a individual standard as general law of the same or similar actions, and opposes it to Nietzsche's anti-legalistic postulate of the «eternal return»: It is the repetition of the singular which can not be understood by any law.
Actually, Katherine, a major thrust of the post, and the point to which I believe is challenged by the verse I cited, is that doctrinal differences should be subordinated to the goal of getting along in «love».
In short, the «war on women» rhetoric and the inopportune statements by U.S. Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock only resulted in a three - percentage - point gain in «pro-choice» sentiment» a difference that falls within the poll's margin of error.
From a Whiteheadian point of view, one expects that bodily differences do have an effect on personality traits, so that the characteristic differences between the male and female body would be likely to be accompanied by tendencies to personality difference as well.
The only significant point of difference between my understanding of the Trinity and theirs is the one which I urged earlier in my critique of their respective theories: namely, that the role of the Spirit within the Trinity as the bond of love between the Father and the Son should not overshadow the fact that God is by nature community or interpersonal process.
What I find so maddening in my efforts to negotiate the barriers between my Protestantism and my seminarians» Catholicism is that while we are united in so many of our convictions and practices, we are divided by differences real enough to make the Omega Point almost as remote as in the bad old days of open hostility between our churches.
Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.
One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.
More important and more difficult to deal with than such differences in teaching on will and freedom, however, is a wall known only too well by those of us who have worked with Omega to help it make its Point: the wall of what Catholics are tempted pridefully to call pietistic faith and what Protestants are tempted cynically to call superstition.
You can't be talked out of that — and Panikker's point is that no one should try: our opportunity and obligation is to speak and to listen, so that heart will speak to heart across and by means of our differences.
Therefore, in light of this and Gunter's arguments, I see no irreconcilable, or even significant difference between Whitehead and Bergson on the point raised by Northrop regarding spatialization and distortion.
That's one of the most fundamental differences, I think, between a deeply conservative position and a strictly libertarian one: conservatives think that for all its merits, the right we have to choose in the marketplace needs to be shaped by virtue and ordered by a moral order (I never tire of pointing out that Adam Smith thought himself a moral philosopher).
«In this room, we have various minor points of difference between us... but we are united by a gospel too great and a mission too urgent to let any lesser thing stand in our way.
The guiding principle of British philosophy has in fact been that every difference must make a difference, every theoretical difference somewhere issue in a practical difference, and that the best method of discussing points of theory is to begin by ascertaining what practical difference would result from one alternative or the other being true.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faithBy the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faithby Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.
George, Christianity took over the world by force, this is no difference (modern weapons maybe), but the idea of spreading religion at the point of a sword is not unique to Muslims.
A strong argument for this point of view is made by Emil Brunner who relates the difference between love and justice to the difference between the I and Thou relationship of persons and the abstractness of justice as impersonal principle.1
Specifically, we intend to show that the crucial point of difference, demanded by Whitehead's metaphysics, is the fact that for Aristotle a proposition contains reference to what is believed to be an actual state of affairs — either positive or negative — as a predicable within the proposition, and that Whitehead's theory does not have such an element.
There were then and have been until the present differences of opinion as to identification by documents of certain passages, sentences, phrases, and even words; and the precise lines of the hypothesis are still with some scholars a point of energetic debate.
It is a type of anti-communism distinguished by the following characteristics: it has no understanding of the causes of communism and emphasizes only self - defeating methods of opposing it; its starting point is a type of economic individualism that can not tell the difference between the modest institutions of the welfare state in this country and the first stages of communism; and it closes minds to the changes that have taken place in the Communist world.
Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).
Then we have emperor T!tus who during a revolt by the jews destorys the 2nd temple and then orders all jews out of the land of Judea and Galilee... it is at this point that christians start calling themselves that in order to show that there is a difference between jews and them... it was just a tactic to not be punished!
Moreover, the joint legal action filed against the mandate by Wheaton College and The Catholic University of America demonstrates that the differences between the two groups on this point are less dramatic than Tooley admits.
He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.
As though by magic, the difference between Gender and sex serves a purpose: in confronting us with what we are not — homogenised states of mind — the ideology named Gender points us back towards the nature of sexual identity, sexual difference, language, and knowledge itself.
They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.
Perhaps this indicates the possibility that we are apt to look at the differences between Sunnism and Shi`ism from an overly intellectual point of view, emphasizing the differences with a degree of subtlety that may well never have been imagined by their common adherents.
By being prepared to think of decisions which Jesus himself made and in which the believer imitates him, they have reached a point at which they are restating a position which Schleiermacher and Harnack would surely have recognized, despite the difference in conceptualization.
Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?
«We're matching prices on milk, but the point of difference at Sainsbury's will always be the values in our supply chain - giving our customers both value for money and the values they expect,» said a statement issued by the retailer.
Kontos Foods was founded 1987 in Paterson, N.J., by Evripides (Evris) Kontos and his son Steve, to manufacture the popular flatbread of the Mediterranean cultures, but they knew they needed a unique Point - of - Difference to be successful.
For comparisons between 1995 and 2011 — 2012 intakes of nutrients, we used means, relative SEs (RSE), and 95 % CIs that were provided by the ABS (20, 21) and showed the difference in the point estimate between years by subtraction.
The draw meant we remained top of the table by goal difference, but missed our chance to extend our lead over Leicester and Manchester City to two and three points respectively.
If you were playing on a Sunday morning and got caught out by that goal you would be steaming 3 players v 1 and not one players actually picked him up, so he turns and runs 60 yards Massive schoolboy error And why is the team virtually the same barring forced changes What's the point of having a squad WENGER OUT and you will hear this again and again One difference in the teams, they play as a team Ramsey and Alexis awful
These two teams were separated by only one point during the regular season, and the difference between them has been razor thin over the last few seasons, with Montreal holding a slight edge of 12 - 10 in the previous 22 games in this head - to - head series.
It definitely seems to make a big difference playing in front of our home crowd at the Emirates, but more important was the urgency which the team showed by trying to put the game to bed as quickly as possible, and as Laurent Koscielny said, our target was just to get the three points.
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