Sentences with phrase «poor use of points»

Unfortunately, statement credits are only worth 0.6 cents per point, so this is a poor use of points.

In other words, you can't make a statement like, «I could purchase this for $ 500 but it costs 200,000 Marriott Rewards points, so that's a poor use of points.»

Aside from SPG, transferring points to miles seems to be a poor use of points, considering the ratio.

Consider that Membership Rewards points are typically valued at nearly 2 cents each and it's easy to see what an especially poor use of your points this would be.

Points can be redeemed for gift cards, though this is a poor use of points, achieving values of only 0.83 cents per point.

This is a very poor use of points!

While this is a very poor use of points (you should always look for saver level awards), the ability to book an award seat at any time can be very useful in a pinch.

Additionally, you can transfer points to airlines, but this is a poor use of points (unless you book a Hotel + Air Package, which provides a 7 - night stay and earns you up to 132,000 airline miles).

Additionally, you can transfer points to airlines, but this is a poor use of points (unless you book a Hotel + Air Package, which provides a 7 - night stay and earns you up to 132,000 airline miles).

Not exact matches

However, this is almost always a poor use of hotel points.

As the credit conditions get tighter in Canada it will get harder to get a credit card if you have a poor credit, however don't get discouraged — just check our list of card below and use it as a starting point in your quest for credit card.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.

Jesus never endorsed the idea of using the point of the Roman spear to help the poor.

the point of the joke is nothing to do with the spanking, but with the kid's using his poor interpretation of scripture to defend himself

Until Giroud rediscovers his desire to chase down balls he should be benched, what is the point of having Theo if you don't use him when Giroud is in poor form?

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

The petition pointed out that due to the poor nature of the road network in the district, the Asesewa Market which used to be one of the leading markets in Ghana was gradually dying.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

«This is not simply due to a «watering down» of poor performance through the use of easy points,» says Cotner.

In cheating you will use a self - administered body swing, jerk, or otherwise poor exercise form once you have reached the failure point to take some of the pressure off the muscles and allow them to continue a set for two or three repetitions past failure.

This only serves as an example of the very poor science that permeates medicine and nutrition that unfortunately often is not realized... as does the other study that Jaminet uses to illustrate his point, where a high carbohydrate diet is compared to a low carbohydrate diet, and where the difference in calories is made up by force feeding 65 % calories from corn oil.

In other words, while the common thinking of adrenal fatigue proponents is to point to cortisol abnormalities as a causal factor in the disease, there is much research indicating that it may be a reversed direction of causation — that these symptoms and lifestyle factors (e.g. poor sleep, excess body fat, medication use, etc.) are causing the abnormal cortisol patterns, rather than the other way around.

In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following statistic as proof that the ratings are flawed: Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of the city, has only five percent of the teachers defined as effective under the new evaluation system known as IMPACT, but more than a quarter of the ineffective ones.

It rolls, it has poor base, the wrong part of the car is often used as the contact / lift point.

Bad points, disappointing fuel economy for a deisel car of this size, poor luggage space and the voice activated hands free phone is infuriatingly difficult to programme and use.

Getting a gift card might seem the equivalent of exchanging points for cash, but many credit card reward programs offer a poor rate of return when used for generic gift cards.

Despite the fact that those with poor credit usually face higher interest rates and associated fees on bad credit loans, there is still a ceiling on how much a lender of any kind can charge you by using a points system.

He then tests each of these fundamentals using twenty years of high quality backtesting data from the Standard & Poor's Compustat Point in Time database.

The euro did have a poor start, apparently because of the Catalan independence referendum over the weekend, which was opposed by the Spanish government to the point of using violence.

And remember that although earning points can be exciting, sometimes the risk of poor financial management is greater than the reward — so use those rewards cards wisely!

Any of the other options such as redeeming for a statement credit or merchant gift cards is a poor use of these valuable points.

Points may be used at a value of ~ 0.75 cents per point toward hotel stays using the Pay With Points feature, but this is also a poor value.

Personally, I'd rather simply pay the $ 115 cash fare on AtlasJet or use points from an Arrival card in order to cover the cash cost, but that's only because this many points are a relatively poor redemption value when compared to the obscene value Donna can attain with the rest of her itinerary.

This works out to roughly 1 Membership Rewards point for 1 Marriott Rewards point which is a poor use of Membership Rewards points and should be left when you don't have other better options.

Thanks to the poor transfer ratio of 20 points to one mile, this is generally a poor use of Membership Rewards points.

However, this is almost always a poor use of hotel points.

I'm more than happy with mid-tier hotels so the cash rates I'm looking at are generally low enough to make the use of points a poor redemption.

If you don't have a better use of your RBC Avion points for better value, or you are points - rich and cash - poor then use your RBC Avion points for the flight using the flight schedule.

While it is possible to transfer Hilton points to a variety of airline partners, the exchange rates are very poor and you're better off using points for hotel stays.

Surfers and divers will be occupied with world class spots although others will be captivated by this islands charm.A few points to remember Nusa Lembongan (at time of publish) no ATMs and limited bank facilities with poor exchange rate, exchange money before leaving the mainland and make use of the secure facilities at the hotels.

Just one, I know people think im abit of a grumpy chap but im not really, its just because im quite direct and straight to the point, I have always said text is a poor form off comunication because it does not project any feelings, I have tried to use more Icons to help, not sure if it works or not but hay im never going to get on with everyone.

It's not that the advice given was poor or inaccurate so much as it was beginner - level advice (which admittedly, a lot of indie developers still really need to hear): stuff like use conventions to playtest & network, make sure your game has a unique selling point & sounds exciting when summarized in a single sentence, don't pick a stupid name for your game, etc..

The main point of playing a tactical shooter is having to, and getting to, use tactics, poor AI makes it both unnecessary and occasionally impossible.

The term Arte Povera was actually borrowed from the theoretical performance manual, Towards a Poor Theater, written by the Polish theatrical director Jerzy Grotowski, who called for the removal of excess props and ornament (the moneyed theater of spectacle) from the stage to the point that the actors used only their natural gifts to activate meaning with facial expressions, voice, gesture, and acrobatic movements (hence materially «poor&raquPoor Theater, written by the Polish theatrical director Jerzy Grotowski, who called for the removal of excess props and ornament (the moneyed theater of spectacle) from the stage to the point that the actors used only their natural gifts to activate meaning with facial expressions, voice, gesture, and acrobatic movements (hence materially «poor&raqupoor»).

You are correct up to a point, Bob Dole the former make believe Republican and the lobbies are responsible for stealing our tax dollars in the form of subsidies and forcing us to use an inferior product that actually costs more due to the poor mileage, robs performance from the engine, creates engine and fuel system problems and is environmentally worse.

The article is correct to point out that this is one of the common lines of poor reasoning used but it is not the most common fallacy used in discussing extreme weather as it pertains to climate change.

My point isn't that UK govt should spend trillion dollar on this idea, but rather don't spend that kind money to reduce co2 using foolish methods, as there are better ways of doing it, if you want waste a trillions of dollars - and actually have increased GDP - your citizens becoming more wealthy rather than more poorer.

The climate community does not seem to exercise such care, and when their poor use of methods is pointed out they just ignore it and carry on (I could give scores of examples, from improper use of principal components, data mining, data snooping, spatial correlation, upside down data, single cause fallacy... and now uniform priors).

I prefer to point out the foolishness of anyone using Prof Lewandowski's paper to support any sort of argument, other than poor scholarship.