Sentences with phrase «said big points»

Flores said a big point of confusion involves future changes regarding the Affordable Care Act.

Not exact matches

«But it seems that launching low - cost long - haul flights without connecting services is challenging,» Gagey said, pointing to Norwegian Air Shuttle, which on Thursday reported a bigger than expected loss for the last quarter of 2017.

Shilling does not say when the stock market will crash, or how big such a crash will be, but he does emphasize the importance of shifting wealth into cash at such times — a point he's been making for much of his career.

«When you look at why people are still getting hacked or breached, I think a big contributor to that is either not knowing if you were patched or if you were patched and you were secure at one point, but something happened in operations that caused you not to be patched again,» Mong said.

«If I had the wherewithal to wave a wand and have policy - makers pay attention to the real job creators in this country, I would point out that finding qualified people is the biggest impediment to growth,» he says.

«It's about information, it's about transaction, it's about e-commerce,» says Tang, pointing to the big question hanging over all these plans.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

While «brick and mortar [retail] is a much bigger business... we have reached the tipping point» he said, as in - store purchases defy steep discounts and foot traffic falters.

«At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price,» said John Legere, moved attribution up president and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

«It's bigger in functionality, has more sophisticated coding, and it's trickier about hiding,» compared to other recent [point of sale] malware attacks, she said.

How much to spend on a wedding gift is a big stress point for guests, said Jen Glantz, founder of Bridesmaid for Hire.

«My big issue with money belts or taping it to yourself is that at some point you're going to be needing that money,» said Frommer.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

«Partnering with those big companies helps us get closer to that point of being trusted,» Balestrieri says.

«Some of the large retailers who are big importers have been some of the most vocal opponents,» Rosenberg said, noting they haven't been the only ones who have come out against the proposal, but also pointing to support the plan has from companies such as Boeing, General Electric, and Johnson and Johnson.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld says the numbers are falling because big projects are wrapping up and not being replaced, a trend that he says also points to Canada's failing competitiveness with the United States.

Maybank - KimEng said both companies likely needed the deal to gain access to «a bigger playground,» noting Geely's potential in China was capped by moderate growth and Malaysian auto sales appeared to have hit a saturation point.

It's at this point, management experts say, that leaders should shift from the skills - based, reactive approach of «horizontal» leadership to big - picture strategies, known as «vertical» leadership.

On Wednesday, Morneau made a point of saying he sees a very big difference between a national pharmacare «strategy» and a «plan.»

Simmons says one of the biggest benefits you can get from the daily ritual is obtaining a single - pointed focus.

«That's the big fear (for businesses) at that point,» said Aguilar.

One thing that might help in this respect is to have a better service experience for customers than the big players offer, said Heger, pointing out that American provider Sprint made this a major priority and subsequently improved its financial performance.

Entrepreneurs in the field say that focusing on the price of Bitcoin is missing the point — its value is as proof of concept for a new kind of payment system not reliant on third parties like governments, big banks or credit - card companies.

«Innovation's a big part of our whole corporate culture and part of what helps differentiate us,» says Carlson, pointing out that oil and gas companies can be risk - averse and sometimes late to exploit opportunities presented by technical advances.

More specifically, Dorsey said the Register solves a big pain point by coming with separate screens for the buyer and seller.

Kogan described it as a «big leap» to connect the piece of research to Kremlin efforts to use online platforms to interfere in foreign elections — before essentially going on to repeat a Kremlin talking point by saying the US and the UK engage in much the same types of behavior.

Rather, «the big news today is that they are being extremely pointed about the fact that there is no sugar in this product,» he said.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

At issue is what the relevant European law says should be done — and, more to the point, what should have been done on October 6 2008, when Gordon Brown closed down the UK operations of Icesave, an online subsidiary of Landesbanki, Iceland's second - biggest bank.

«The most important strategy that we have used to build Medly was listening to our customers and implementing the biggest pain points they have regarding managing their medications and improving their health in the process,» says CEO Marg Patel.

«Bigger is better, and Marriott will be closer to being a one - stop shop for consumers in terms of geography and price point,» said Michael Bellisario, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. «Before, you might not have had a good Starwood option in a secondary or tertiary market, but now you do.»

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

I'm not a big fan of live blogging at conferences since there is no point in posting word for word what was said at the session.

But this year is on track to be even bigger: Birinyi has tracked $ 201 billion in buyback announcements so far this year, the «record highest» at this point in time compared to other years, Chris Costelloe an equity trader there, said in an email.

Peabody said the company's refineries helped «shield» it from the big discounts other Canadian producers face, which have been as wide as $ 30 per barrel at various points this year.

She says the bigger idea is to help them get to a significant «value inflection point» within four months, which is how long the program runs.

«In the past, at the start of these big secular bull markets, you have really cheap stocks... I'm not sure we ever got to that point,» he says.

And Thursday, Canada said it's preparing new talks related to autos, signalling a potential breakthrough in one of the biggest NAFTA sticking points.

«To some degree, BMO being a co-lead in the Canopy deal legitimizes the sector for some institutional accounts where they can now point to their risk committees and trustees that one of the big five is co-leading a large financing,» Cusson said.

He said the ConocoPhillips and Crescent Point deals are likely examples of big companies «looking for scale» in a specific play, as major producers need large parcels of land to meaningfully increase their production.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

You said: «Second, and this is the big point, Rome was destroyed.

Fair enough, I mean, you make a valid point that one of the biggest things about the democractic party is trying to legislate so many different things when there are certain aspects of my life that the government should have 0 say over.

The fact is that Abelard was trying to say, with his own passionate awareness of what love can mean in human experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.

Creation wasn't some one - time thing at some point in the past as, say, Locke or the Big Bangers teach.

Randy, I take your point — is this the idea: as you hand over the $ 4 water you say «you think this is your biggest need right now but actually your biggest need is for the LIVING water that Jesus can give you — and it's FREE!»

I'm not a big fan of slippery slope arguments, and this is borderline, but in what the justice said it boils down to «Will the person who leaves on personal views of religion, also have their points and objections dismissed as not being noteworthy» because they chose to leave during the opening prayer.

He theorized that religious thinking evolved at some point (ironically, you might say) and that in some cases tribe leaders were able to use this to get people to stop fighting and to form bigger, more powerful political units, which in turn won out over isolated tribes, thereby facilitating the spread of a particular religion.

Well, saying «God» caused the Big Bang is not necessarily in the realm of being able to prove one way or the other... at this point.

Glad to hear «Big Faith»; Clive, hate to put myself on the spot but was basing my response on scripture where it says something to the point of not blessing a person on a journey or path or on their way etc. leaning towards I believe that unbelievers are on a path outside of Christ.