Sentences with phrase «rallying point of»

The death of 14 people became the rallying point of courage able to shame our legislators into finally dealing with gun violence.

SP - Arte is an essential component of the latinamerican art landscape, and is positioned as a rallying point of the arts, that also strengthens and supports the country's creative economy.

What might have been a quiet show of Alice Neel portraits of her multiethnic friends at David Zwirner became a rallying point of sorts for empathy.

Today, they are a political rallying point of opposition for a multitude of special - interest groups that claim that they are the first step toward a national government - run curriculum, will generate an increase in standardized tests and / or unfairly link teacher performance to the results of just one test.

the rallying point of the World Council of Churches is the common confession of Jesus Christ.

From such a (conventional) perspective, states are seen as the «natural» rallying points of national discourses of self - determination and their geographic manifestation.

In the movie, Saunders is on duty during when the bombing happened and his instinct to risk his own life and protect his city is the rally point of this flick as he joins the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, the terrorists who orchestrated the bombing right under their neighbors» noses.

Not exact matches

«The brand rallying against the impersonal nature of the world and bringing people and communities together is the point of view that Tim's has always had and will continue to have.»

On a chart of the dollar index going back to 1983, Gordon points out every big rally and fall in the currency and then connects the peaks of each rally.

For example, she points to Peter Grower of Bloomberg as one individual who has been rallying to encourage more board diversity in the US.

Hopefully this exploration of brand tribalism will give you some launching off points — building an open line of communication, providing for your tribe, and getting actively involved in your tribe's interests — for rallying members to your group.

Yamada points out the momentum indicators are negative, so odds are in the favor of a very short - term downturn before going back into rally mode.

After that came a massive anti-Keystone rally in Washington and John Kerry's two pointed mentions of global warming during his congressional hearing to become America's next secretary of state and in his first public speech as such.

«Put it all together, and Lang says that Red Hat really just needs to rally less than three dollars from here, to $ 100, at which point he expects the stock to roar higher before temporarily running out of steam at the $ 110 area.»

The future pattern of rally, retreat and rebound rally will set the first anchor point for a new uptrend line.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

The round was co-led by Rally Ventures out of Menlo Park, and Grotech Ventures out of D.C., with participation from Correlation Ventures and prior investors including Point Nine Capital, Middleland Capital, Bull City Venture Partners, and real estate influencer Tom Ferry.

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

As Jim Stack of Investech (www.investech.com) points out, insiders often sell on 10 - 15 % market rallies.

Getting a better understanding of your customer and prioritizing your business to match your customer's pain points can help you «rally the troops» and bring your employees together for common goals.

The Juscutum Attorneys Association, a Ukrainian law firm, is rallying NotPetya victims to join a collective lawsuit against Intellect - Service LLC, the company behind the M.E.Doc accounting software, the point of origin of the NotPetya ransomware outbreak.

People point to the rally that occurred after the market crash of 1929 as an example of an echo bubble.

: A classic point of contention for risk parity is that interest rates, in general, are too low, and that while the approach may have performed well in the past, it is only because of an historic bond rally, which is unlikely to happen again.

That was the message behind Emma Gonzalez's viral speech at a weekend rally, where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior called «BS» on all of the NRA talking points.

«The IBEX has had such a decent rally that now the one that's kind of on the cheap, that would go up the most due to the so - called inflationary fix, would probably at this point be the Shanghai.

The signs still point to the former, as the recently lagging Asian and European markets didn't show signs of resilience amid the sell which would have pointed to an orderly rotation in the ongoing rally.

Stephen Todd made a significant amount of money in the huge January rally, got out before this February crash, then got back in on Monday February 12th and after a 747 Dow point rally in two days is up nearly 8 % for February too.

But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.

In spite of the fact that the purposes behind the late rally are misty, investigators point to an upsurge in bitcoin exchanging in China as one explanation behind the developing force, saying the surge may reflect endeavors to move cash out of the nation as the economy moderates and monetary markets vacillate.

At this point we think most of the damage is done and we can expect a first - quarter rally that may not begin until late January or February.

Our US strategists have also noted the risk of a 10 % drawdown in 2014 following a large and low volatility rally in 2013 that may create a more attractive entry point later this year.

Granted, stock prices rallied strongly in the final two weeks of our measurement period, which stretched from September 16th to October 28th, bringing most of the leading benchmarks back to within a percentage point or so of the heights reached in mid-September.

All signs were pointed toward an upward breakout leading us into the end of the year with a nice Santa rally.

The last point of supply is essentially a false rally where those who didn't have an opportunity to sell on the previous LPSY now have an opportunity and will begin to sell into the more bullish traders who fall victim to a false breakout.

Price is testing key areas of interest that could serve as take - profit points, spurring a much - needed pullback from the latest rally.

As an example, banker - approved Ripple (XRP) became a favorite plaything of speculators — at first it quadrupled between December 24 and January 4; alas, by January 16 it had done a complete round - trip, returning to the point at which the late December leg of its rally had begun:

After my trip to San Francisco, an important rallying point for the 1960s counterculture movement, it only seems fitting that I traveled to Colorado, one of the first states to legalize cannabis for recreational use.

At a point in Tietjen's account where he speaks of a number of people rallying to his cause, he includes this footnote:

For the same reasons they should not show the pictures of his body because they would be used as a rallying point for killing the nearest American within reach.

In such circumstances — our circumstances — what's needed are consolidating motifs, to rally people to causes that are worthy of their loyalty, even to the point of self - sacrifice.

And David, (supposed author of the Psalms) far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

However, as James Sanders wrote in Torah and Canon: «The true prophet does not engage in political diatribe to provide a rallying point for a particular course of action... he questions all the powers that be in the name of the one power beyond them.»

Humans need to sacrelize / make idols of things in order to create rallying points to leverage the economies of scale.

Look at this blog from a biker's point of view (I ride a Harley to bike rallies and hang with some Boozefighters so I'm not picking on anyone here).

Not Christian or any of those silly rallying points... just human with a love for the Master of All Things; The master has authority over all things including their so - called devil... ha!

Atheism was never a major part of communism except as a rallying point for Western nations to oppose it.

At this point it's not so much anyone believing, because a lot of them won't, but simply saying God is right, while they rally against him.

At one point, he organized a rally of 10,000 to fire up Christians to take back the nation.

Just about all of what I see in common «Churches» either separates people from God or leads them into some false fantasyland full of divine mascots and rally songs, pointing them squarely away from honest, discerning, spiritual study of scripture.