Sentences with phrase «saw little point»

I bought them, but I saw little point in using them.

However, when I talked to the pediatrician, he saw little point in my writing the article.

The framers saw little point in designing a «new order» for saints.

Many saw little point in buying expensive new PCs and signing up with service providers to access content that was not only less secure but rarely French.

Editor Richard Meade told readers he saw little point in «sustaining a format that can not match our, or our customers» demands.»

I'm an Atheist... I just see little point in arguing this unless taxpayer dollar is funding it but I was under the impression that was not the case.

While some in Labour also advocate tough talk on immigration, Ed Miliband has charted a different course; he wants to reconnect with Ukip's left - behind voters but sees little point in trying to out - Ukip the party.

But what we see in many of the kids we test or tutor is motivational patterns that are at the extremes of one, an obsessive drive to succeed and two, seeing little point in working hard.

Although I agree with the criticisms of Amazon, I see little point in Amazon bashing — seeing them as the root of all evil in the publishing world.

But as long as investors remain relatively uninterested, I see little point in an earnings - based valuation — let's just tot up assets instead.

Now, in light of this blog performance, I see little point in focusing on winners here (but I raise my glass!)

[Response: I'm not a fan of false precision — since the uncertainty range on this number (as given by IPCC) is 1.13 — 3.33, I see little point in calling it 2.29 with three significant digits.

I can see little point in making vague unquantifiable statements of the above kind, beyond establishing your position on one side or another of the argument.

But I see little point, really, seems a battle hardly worth fighting.

While as a Rabett we see little point in abandoning my nest for the blorg model like seed or grist, Eli would be happy to post the occasional post on request.

Well, we can argue whether your «reaction to the same forcing] = my use of «feedback» but I see little point.

He sees little point in changing lightbulbs if you still drive a car, but because he does not in fact practice what he preaches and live in New York, he is doing what he can to «apply the Manhattan template to their own lives» - work from home, drive less, turn down the thermostat, insulate his basement and attic.

If it's common knowledge that an association's hearing panel routinely splits awards, brokers may see little point in investing the time and energy needed to work out a mediated solution.

Not exact matches

But I would love to see some of our female leadership be a little more pointed about exactly what is going on here, rather than chiding Millennial women for supporting Sanders.

In them, she would make a point and see it receive little attention — but then, a white boy would be praised for saying something similar.

«I think all new technologies have an element of being a little bit scary, and I think it's easier to see the downsides than the upsides because the upsides require a lot more imagination, but in every point in the past, new technology has had many more upsides than downsides,» he said.

To get our point across, we're going to get a little geeky and see how your willpower relates to implementation intention and ultimately wealth.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

«Looking at a long - term average, defaults should peak at about 10 %, and you will see very little issuance at that point,» he says.

Now that you've seen the pros and cons of the credit card points world, we hope you're ready to dive in a little further!

Christopher Whalen: I think it's a lot simpler than you put forward which is: go ahead and keep your little quarter point march and if you see spreads start to widen, you stop.

The GDP and retail sales data, pointing to more cautious expenditure by US households, contrasted with readings for consumer confidence, which generally showed little sign of dipping from the elevated levels seen since the US election.

So at some point I suspect we are going to see inflation start to pick up a little bit.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

It's not the same point you are making, but I see it a little differently - to me the demon represents evil and chaos and pain and lies that attack our hearts and minds.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madLittle by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madlittle, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

Allison also makes the important point that nearly all of what we know about Jesus comes from his disciples, and, if those disciples completely misunderstood him or even deliberately falsified much of what they saw and heard, then there is little hope we will know much at all.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

The unique person and moment can be seen as unique because the story does not have to return to a certain point; but on the other hand, the end symbolizes closure, the cessation of the intolerable new, and the little story of the believer's life is subjected to these same tensions that appear in the overall story.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

This little academic exercise should help us see that a good deal of talk about education as primarily a «bringing out» of latent knowledge, with consequences for the entire process of instruction, is beside the point.

A little note: Some of my four preferred companies sell a number of products and whilst I'm sure they're all pure and delicious, I have not seen them all nor reviewed their ingredients so please note my support at this point is solely for the almond milks.

I think there was a point where I looked back and saw Casey drinking the juice from the little bowl I put it in.

Once your side dish is cooking to the point where you've added the last ingredients and it's winding down to the lowest setting (see below), you'll want to heat your second skillet with a little coconut oil on medium high.

It's what this is all about; it's the point of being here on this earth and he's half of my little brother — seeing them like this, how could I not?

Case in point: these bone dishes we've seen a little too much of:

You will see that lovely little frittata at some point, I'm sure the notes will turn up, but it won't be today.

I also added a bit of applesauce because the batter seemed a little dry to me (I used Greek yogurt and see that people point to that as the culprit).

I have a little doubt on these two, they are surely will have to prove their capabilities big time, but I can't see any points that we should aiming lower target than the title it self.

There is little point in having strong opoinions but not seeing them through.

For the previous two years, whenever Michelle was frustrated or angry on the court, whenever her high school coach yanked her midway through the third quarter because he didn't believe in stars or 40 - point scoring nights, all she had to do was look up in the stands and see her mother forming that little T with her forefingers.

«No one ever sees that score [in Little League], because no coach lets it get to that point.

Stauskas, the No. 8 pick in the 2014 Draft, has seen the court very little during his rookie season in Sacramento, averaging just 3.6 ppg while shooting only 27 % from the three - point line.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though