Sentences with phrase «powerful points of»

«The passage of SB 455 to Gov. Malloy's desk represents a powerful point of proof that we can move mountains together when lawmakers and community members rally behind common - sense policies that put kids and educators first,» said Marc Porter Magee, interim executive director of ConnCAN, an education advocacy nonprofit.

Poetry can provide a powerful point of entry into that exploration.

Today, it's not just a payment processor - it's also a powerful point of sale.

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In Agnes Martin: Night Sea, art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson offers a powerful point of entry for this casual viewer, using as its starting point the 1963 painting of the book's title, which Hudson identifies as both an exemplary and exceptional work within the artist's oeuvre, «a shimmering realization of control and loss that the artist would never repeat.»

Divesting from this list has been the default demand for fossil fuel divestment campaigners across the globe and continues to be a powerful point of departure for the divestment discourse.

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He suggests using powerful single words, short phrases or clear and concise single sentences per slide, versus cramming slides full of trailing bullet points and long - winded paragraphs.

A powerful way to create a culture of helpers is to point out this behavior in emails, one - on - ones and team meetings.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Leaders think about the point of having diversity as a check - the - box thing, instead of a powerful business opportunity.

Case in point: Did you realize that LinkedIn is actually one of the most powerful, B2B - themed search engines on the planet?

In his best - selling book «Outliers,» which investigates the psychology of success, Malcolm Gladwell makes a powerful point about what helps people commit to and enjoy their work.

If your startup is retail based and requires the use of a point - of - sale and inventory management system, then Vend is a powerful service to use to help you grow from one client to 1,000.

Part of what makes the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot so successful — besides their size and price point — is that they're no less powerful or helpful than their larger counterparts.

The proportion of Canadians of the age when homes are typically purchased is at a turning point and is set to decline, which historically has been a powerful indicator of housing trends.

That gets right to the point of what you discovered in your reporting, without pretending to be above the fray and reporting what powerful, self - interested «sources» tell you as if it is the gospel?

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Citing InSight Crime's coverage of the case, Olson pointed out that the Kingpin List designation had «struck a powerful blow» against the family's criminal network, but also that it had generated uncertainty among the clients and employees of the family's businesses.

Pope Francis says that divorced and remarried people are «not excommunicated» and should not feel «discriminated against» — he stops short of directly saying they are welcome to take the bread and wine at Eucharist, but then adds in a footnote: «I would also point out that the Eucharist «is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

Some would serve up Donald Trump and Robert Maxwell as examples of powerful men who gambled with their empires at certain points in their business careers in a pathological way.

Those seeds of innovation provide a powerful starting point for developing the valuable innovations that will increase your revenue and market share.

In late December, he said, he had been struck by a strange, disturbing phenomenon — a powerful beam of high - pitched sound that seemed to be pointed right at him.

Lemonis says that Twitter can be a powerful tool for leaders, and the president should get in the habit of consistently delivering both good news and bad news over the platform, instead of using it to vent his frustrations or point out other people's mistakes or faults.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

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Many of the islands that are currently in Maria's path were directly affected by Hurricane Irma earlier this month, so another hit from such a powerful storm is almost unthinkable at this point.

The final point I would make is that the benefits of deregulation are broad - ranging and powerful.

The complexity of mining bitcoin has increased to the point that GPUs aren't powerful enough, and miners are mostly using application - specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, which Nvidia and competitor Advanced Micro Devices don't make.

We produce powerful and entertaining work with a unique, brand right point of view.

«These results and the underlying trends point, yet again, to the unique and powerful competitive position of the bank,» he says.

While these were considered the best and fastest mining devices at one point in time, the reality is that the days of powerful Bitcoin FPGA miners are far behind us all.

Those data points, taken together, build a powerful (and lucrative) profile of who you are and what you value.

While Google + can also have a powerful impact on your search results on Google, the majority of studies at this point suggest that Facebook is one of the most powerful sources for an SEO boost in the search rankings for your website content.

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.

Mark Bauerlein's post on the rhetoric of anti-discrimination points clearly to the problem which traditionalists face: In a world where ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands of the powerful.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deities.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

As already pointed out, culture is a powerful agency in the formation of human personality.

The point is that ideas have powerful consequences for action when there is a direct relationship between their content and the crucial interests of those who hold them already or hear them for the first time.

Kurien, in the above study, points out that today powerful and all - pervasive market has become «a tool of oppression».

Everywhere, as we are well aware, the lines of active phyletic development grow warm with consciousness as they approach the summit; but in one clearly - marked region at the centre of the kingdom of mammals, where the most powerful brains ever fashioned by nature are to be found, the lines glow red - hot; and already at the heart of this region there burns a point of incandescence.

Bill points out that this concept of the fatal power of the disease, provided by Silkworth, became in AA a powerful deflationary tool, shattering the ego at depth and laying the subject open for conversion.

I'm convinced of the critical role leadership must play if we are to be successful in scaling up to reach a tipping point of a powerful public witness.

I am grateful to Wesley J. Smith for making these powerful points, and I'm inclined to agree with him that Charles Taylor understates the sheer perversity and self - destructiveness of militantly secular antihumanism, whose influence seems to be on the rise in our times (as has been the religious antihumanism of al - Qaeda, etc.).

On the other hand, even from a purely natural point of view Christianity, properly preached and lived, is still a match for every other powerful propagandist Weltanschanung, though men's hardness of heart is often an obstacle to its acceptance.

In a pointed statement he said ``... proving that nothing is sacred - not even fatherhood - the President couldn't resist a shout - out to his homosexual base, marring what should have been a powerful acknowledgment of the family's importance in American life.»

Powerful lobbies such as the Pro Israel lobby, American Atheists and many others pay top dollar to have shills come to these forums, spread their agenda and copy whatever info they can get about the people who disagree with their point of view.

More central to Legutko's vision, however, is a different point: the essential loneliness of the liberal citizen, which becomes a powerful engine of conformism.