Sentences with phrase «secured a point in»

Teams were ducking, diving and whatever else they needed to do to secure points in the Standings.

Getafe had lost five games in a row, but manager Luis Garcia Plaza secured a point in an entertaining 2 - 2 draw against Real Sociedad in the first La Liga game of the day.

Fenerbahce saw off Feyenoord 1 - 0 in the other game in Group A, with Emmanuel Emenike's goal enough to secure the points in Turkey.

That goal was scored by Colin Calderwood in April, 1998, to secure a point in a 1 - 1 draw at the business end of the 1997 - 98 Premier League campaign.

Not exact matches

«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.

At that point, sellers will need to be exceptional in order to secure a good price for their business.

The important point is to be transparent to your employees so that they can feel secure in their jobs.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

Bitcoin loyalists argue that Ethereum's fatal tradeoff is that it's not as secure, and they point to the DAO hack as Exhibit A. Even in the Bitcoin community, though, there's some envy for the flexibility of Buterin's creation.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Elford points out that Secure Energy has a track record of «substantial» growth on an absolute and per - share basis; it has a relatively clean balance sheet and it's in an industry with high barriers to entry.

Belmont points out that IT security companies like Sophos and Trend Micro have extensively detailed the ways in which iOS is more secure than Android.

James had another masterful performance on Wednesday night, in which he scored the Cavaliers final nine points to secure a 113 - 108 win over the Denver Nuggets, including two final fadeaways that you'd only trust him to make.

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.

He distinguished himself enough to make it into West Point's preparatory school and was even offered a spot in the prestigious US Military Academy — something that would have all but secured him a long, successful career in the armed forces.

However, we have been getting jerked around by the SBA for nearly 9 months now and we are at a point where we may have to cut our losses if we can not secure the remainder of necessary funding in the very near future.

To get to this point, St Jude and a few other research hospitals that are piloting similar schemes have had to develop a great deal of infrastructure, train their clinical staff in how to respond to genetic data, and secure the significant funding these schemes require.

Founded in 1995 as ACS Merchant Services, TransFirst's comprehensive range of merchant products and services includes point - of - sale systems, online and mobile credit card processing, telephone processing solutions, payment processing equipment, secure payment processing, small business credit card processing, and more.

The five - point harness also comes with a leg securing system to make it easier for your child to stay in the setup without being disrupted.

But the point is simply that in meeting the challenge of securing growth in the near term, the stability of future economic performance can't be dismissed as a consideration.

While I do agree with many points in your post, I still do think dividend growth investing can be a great and lazy way to secure extremely early retirement.

These solutions are highly open and secure, and offer enterprise - grade performance in an integrated one - stop environment, aspects of functionality that are designed in direct response to customer pain points.

Increasingly, businesses are turning to cloud storage for their backup needs, though some security hawks might point out that in - house magnetic tapes are still uniquely secure since they're not connected to the internet.

A discount point is a form of prepaid interest — you pay a certain amount at closing in order to secure a lower interest rate over the long term.

In summary adopting and securing Android can become the inflection point for Blackberry and can end their device woes, provided they get the pricing right.

As part of the renewal agreement, Chase Paymentech will continue providing Scotiabank business clients in Canada with secure, innovative technology to help process payments — from countertop, mobile and integrated PIN pad point - of - sale solutions, to robust ecommerce capabilities and gift card programs.

The need for deeper advisor awareness and understanding of the broader role Social Security claiming strategies can play in creating a secure retirement was becoming abundantly clear and it was at that point I realized a firm dedicated solely to the education of financial professionals made sense.»

In recent months, the interest rate on secured fixed - rate personal loans has been reduced by 2.1 percentage points to 9.9 per cent, and that for unsecured fixed - rate loans has fallen by 1.2 percentage points to 11.1 per cent.

With this strategy, the borrower pays a certain number of points (or even a fraction of a point) up front, in order to secure a mortgage lower rate.

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.

There's no point in securing the planet's future if it's at the expense of our own.

People who profess their faith in Christ as a means of securing «life after death» are self - centered and missing the point.

Anatol Lieven, writing recently in the London Review of Books, points to a 1996 policy paper «A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,» by Perle and Douglas Feith, which advised Netanyahu to abandon the Oslo peace process and return to military repression of the Palestinians.

You never once brought any point that would exclude humans from being animals... not one valid point, but you did secure you place in the ignorance hall of fame.

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

The degree with which you honor me brings me to ask of God that at this point of life... I spend myself to the end in the service of humankind — as the most secure means of giving glory to our Lord.

But, as Rubin points out, this attempt to create a post-human hunter - gatherer who lives in mystic harmony with the whole remains deeply reliant upon the blessings of civilization, especially the peace secured by the Enlightenment.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

There were Jews in Rome; but their own position at the moment was not sufficiently secure to enable them to persecute the followers of Jesus, had they wished to do so (we are thinking of the point of view of Marcus and his readers).

I did find it but wasn't matured to the point that I was secure in my new found freedom.

In such situations the apostle reaches, as it were, back of himself and back of his hearers, gets hold of the given core of what commands him and them, - and strides into the point at issue as from a secure beachhead.

You are not credible because your starting point is that there are no errors in the bible and you will do whatever verbal gymnastics necessary to make yourself feel good that your beliefs are secure.

As disciples speak and live their faith and hope grounded solely in Jesus Christ, they become for others signs of hope, pointing not to the future secured by human hands, but the one intended by God.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

I agree with Bill Maher, but then again I'm a lifelong atheist... I have never believed for one minute that the god as portrayed in the bible or koran has any possibility of being real to everyone, otherwise that god would make itself obvious and not hide behind man made lies and cultural practices that self perpetuate thanks fo fear... otherwise there would not be several thousand man made religions trying to claim that god as their own... yes, it is an opinion, only valid to the opinion holder and no one else... Bill, thanks for so strongly making that point, not that it makes any difference to god fearing people... they will hold on to their opinion as strongly as they hold on to their shotgun, thinking that each provides them with some form of security... to intelligent people, neither is secure and neither leads to true freedom of the mind...

Regardless of how I live after the point of trusting in Christ, if the bible is true then I am secure in God's hands (1 Peter 1).

Moltmann in his discussion on the doctrine of creation points out the significance of oikas, living space for our understanding of group identity He says any living thing needs a space, a boundary for its secure living; but if that boundary is absolutely sealed and closed, the living thing dies.

Usually it's fatherly advice stuff like «the 10 habits of financially secure people» or a list of the safest cities in America... sometimes it's cautionary stuff like how my cell phone might explode in my ear type of thing — he usually circles the title of those to make sure I get the point — but lately he's gotten into sending me recipes, and I love it.