Sentences with phrase «score points as»

Captains don't have any special powers that directly affect or anything, but their cards offer breakdowns of how to score points as well as an extra way to score, like how the Archer nets you an extra point per tile lying between the starting board and your furthest outpost.

Not only are you costing your interest, but credit score points as well.

The mayor worked for UTLA years ago — Fletcher was a member of the board that hired him in 1987 — and Villaraigosa's recent attacks on the union have struck many of his former colleagues as political opportunism, the desire to score points as independent of the union at its expense.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

If somebody chooses your submission, then you score a point; if you guess the right answer, you score a point as well.

Not exact matches

Say your spouse has a credit card with little or no balance and a great payment history; if he or she agrees to add you as an authorized user, from a credit score point of view you automatically benefit from her card's available credit as well as her payment history.

Dwyane Wade, while congratulating James for scoring his 30,000 th career point in the loss to the Spurs, referred to the Cavs» recent stretch as «the darkness we're experiencing as a team.»

CBS News recently reported that 40 million Americans have an error on their credit report, with half of these errors significantly lowering the innocent person's credit score, sometimes by as much as 50 points.

(A one point credit score difference — such as a 719 instead of a 720 — could cost you as much as $ 4,500 extra if it means you don't qualify for a conventional loan and must get an FHA loan instead.)

One session with him could yield as many as five seven - letter words, each adding a devastating fifty points to his already hefty score.

Taken to its logical extreme, his research seems to argue that boards should have only female directors, but he's careful to point out that not all women score highly on complex moral reason (sometimes known as «CMR») decision - making, and some men do.

Card debt hit a record high, while credit scores reached their highest point in a decade, as consumers loosen the purse strings.

The expense of air travel ranked as a more significant concern, getting a mean score of 4.9 on a seven - point scale.

Seeing Fillon's scandals as an opportunity to send a strong message and score points with voters, Macron vowed to «clean up», and return «morals» to politics.

Elena Delle Donne's third season was the best of her short career, as she led the league in scoring with over 23 points per game on 46 % shooting, to go with over eight rebounds, a steal, and two blocks per game en route to winning MVP.

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

In the fourth quarter, the two teams together scored five touchdowns and 40 points as Alabama pulled out a 45 - 40 win.

Case in point: Our startups tend to sell early, often to Americans, as they are unable to find senior talent or score enough growth capital.

KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index dropped 32 points, or 1.2 percent, to 2,603 as of 10:35 a.m. Eastern time.

As a blogger for The Economist points out, mid-sized cities score better than megacities because they tend to have less crime and congestion.

And people who scored 3 or less points were more than five times as likely to die within the same period compared to people who scored more than 8 points.

Britain was cited as one of the most improved over the past six years, raising its score by eight points since 2012 to 82.

While the latest technology doesn't immediately identify drivers, it most likely won't be long before the acoustic cameras include facial - recognition technology that links to so - called social credit scores, deducting points for repeated honking just as China plans to do for repeat jaywalkers.

Used correctly, a credit card can not only provide the added benefit of points and rewards, but also help establish a healthy credit score which will be valuable for such things as a lease or mortgage in the future.»

Although we refer to our credit score as one number out of 850 points, you may or may not know that you actually have different credit scores — three credit scores, actually.

Issuers can give smaller increases without any additional steps, but for larger ones, your lender likely will request a copy of your credit file — also known as «a hard credit pull» — a move that will ding your credit score modestly — typically by 5 points or less.

Dun & Bradstreet and Experian both use a 100 - point score as part of the profile, but they don't use a universal method to calculate their scores.

KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 18 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,518 as of 3:09 p.m. Eastern time.

President Donald Trump looks to score political points by lowering America's roughly $ 70 billion trade deficit with Japan, and sees expensive military equipment as a prime tool for doing so.

Qtrade Investor provides the best overall online investor experience in the Canadian Online Discount Brokerage landscape, repeating as the top ranked firm in 2017 with another convincing win and a score of 90 %, 11 percentage points ahead of 2nd place Questrade who moved up one position from 2016.

«A single 30 - day late payment can drop one's credit score by as much as 100 points,» Yates says.

The latest Home Buyer Reality Report from NerdWallet reveals that 39 % of denied mortgage applicants pointed to poor credit history and low scores as the reason for being turned down, and more than 50 % cited high debt - to - income ratios.

KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index rose 24 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,681 as of 1:20 p.m. Eastern Time.

There is a FREE option, it's got the keyword difficulty score which is crucial to deciding where to put your efforts, as well as other data points on your competition.

As mentioned above, LendUp offers courses to help its borrowers earn points to climb up the ladder towards better interest rates and reporting to your credit bureau, which can help you build your credit score.

James has triple - double, Smith scores 20 points as Cavaliers beat Raptors 113 - 112 in overtime to win Game 1.

As shown in the chart, maintaining an open secured card account for two years was associated with a 24 - point increase in median credit score, while being charged off by the lender was associated with a 60 - point decrease in median credit score.

Suppose a man wills the Good simply in order that he may score the victory, then he wills the Good for the sake of the reward, and his double - mindedness is obvious, as the previous section of the talk has sought to point out.

I got fed up with being welcomed as a visitor then I become a mission / charity case in order for them to score points with God.

And using a natural disaster that is costing lives as a chance to score a cheap, not particularly profound political point is just bad form across the board.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

now, you can try and try to show that indeed, no intelligent person does nt believe in evolution as you have defined it, namely necessarily excluding any external entity To which I would simply point to the scores of scientists who believe in ID / Theistic evolution, also including Francis Collins the leader of the Human Genome Project and the author of «The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief»

In doing so we do not wish to imply criticism of the Cardinal, who scored some effective points and gave impressive witness by his willingness as a Prince of the Church to engage seriously with Dawkins on live TV.

Have read many stories about children killing their parents sisters brother in the same way as in the game specially that ice hooky thing... killing people with to score points and sure drugs with such games are behind most crimes...

... some Catholic liberals who saw John Paul II as overly conservative have suggested that his cause is being fast - tracked in order to score political points in internal Catholic debates.

Finally, it's easy to make and relatively quick which — as many of you know I'm sure — scores big points in a busy 3 kid house.

Each spirit entered receives a unique score (on the classic 100 - point scale) as well as detailed tasting notes from the judges.

Gourmet Kona coffee sets the extra fancy standard in Hawaii according to (SCAA) the Specialty Coffee Association of America; coffee which scores 80 points or above on a 100 - point scale is graded as specialty.