Sentences with phrase «seem much point»

It could still be a long time before interest rates rise but since bonds pay such little interest right now there doesn't seem much point to investing in them.

Doesn't seem much point to buy one, when for the same price point (or very little more) you can buy a full - pledged Android 10 ″ tablet.

I haven't brought my watch away with me because there didn't seem much point.

On reflection, this would have been a better bet and would have lasted us two days; as it was, there didn't seem much point hanging on to just one lone pudding!

Not exact matches

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

McGonigal points out that one of the most replicated findings about willpower is that it seems to be finite — that is, we only have so much and it runs out as we use it.

That said, it seems VandeHei may not have been so much urging Zuckerberg to run as he was commenting that the 2016 race is so outside the bounds of typical U.S. presidential elections that almost few twists in the narrative would be surprising at this point.

Investors seem to be looking at potential positives such as the fact that Trump may roll back regulations of businesses and lower the corporate tax rate by a much as 20 percentage points.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

It seems an obvious point, but the spirit of 20 percent time is to allow as much free rein to your employees as possible.

Much of the debate over Trump's trade policy seems to miss the point that the economic effects of any trade measure depend on how it affects capital.

Because prior to that point — and I know that seems shocking and surprising... the experience of a developer in Facebook is very much like the experience of a user in Facebook.

While the United States and Europe only now seem to be at or near a turning point, there has already been a marked improvement in economic activity in much of east Asia and India.

While Bitcoin integration is still not available to this point, the consensus seems to indicate brave is a much faster browser compared to any other offering in existence today.

As Wolf has pointed out many times earnings just don't seem to matter as much as they used to.

From a central banking point of view, this is a bit disappointing and seems to suggest that inflationary expectations have not come down as much as we would have liked.

The key point is that much like the previous chart this indicator seems to function in a contrarian manner (so I have displayed it inversely to line up with that logic).

The fact that he doesn't seem particularly interested in learning the finer points of policy makes it easier for the North Koreans to convince him that a terrible agreement actually isn't so bad — and after much flattery, he might very well be convinced to make a «great deal.»

It's also a good point brought up in the comment below: what distinguishes Google from the crowd, isn't so much the amount of money it spends on perks, but how deliberate the company seems to be in connecting that spending to overarching goals related to employee productivity and organizational culture.

The cultural aspects of Pope Francis's statement seem on point: Millennials on the whole don't value the marital commitment as much as previous generations.

Jorge Nobo seems to be making much the same point in the following passage from Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extention and Solidarity: «the state of the universe from which C [a given actual occasion] springs — i.e., the state of the universe which gives birth to C — is both outside and inside C.

Mr Bogle seems to suggest that heresy on this point is openly tolerated in publications published with the blessing of the Vatican - and in our own much more humble publications too.

Yesterday the point seemed to be how human Jesus was, how much like us.

Kev — It seems the main point of disagreement between you and people like me, Capt Obvious, and AtheistSteve is whether or not it's much of a big deal that a god «had a rough weekend for your sins» (Capt Obvious).

It seems to me that in the New Testament, Paul is especially adamant on the point (in I Corinthians 10 - 11, for example), that Christianity is no place for the flaunting of privilege or distinction (whether class or ethnic or whatever), and I think that is exactly what happens anytime you have a church were some members are cool and know it (and flaunt it), while others are not so much.

The prospect that second - generation revisions of these will be made seems rather remote at this point, though much of the work of the past decade appears blatantly sexist to present - day eyes.

I guess I don't mind all these things so much except when, as you point out, it seems to be an attempt to get the world to like us.

You would end up backtracking and clarifying your point so much; attempting to account for every possible logical path, that your point would be lost and the article would seem more like a legal contract than an opinion piece.

Way too much time on the fake issue of earmarks — with Santorum seeming shrill and defensive and Newt making the statesmanlike point that it's a fake issue.

On the face of it, these points seem as relevant to America's current travails as they were to Rome's fall and certainly more so than either the utopianism of much modern political theory, or its opposite: a frankly self - interested perspective concerned only with national interests and national security.

Of course, as I have stated so many times before, I am under no delusion that fishon, and now you, or anyone who seems to take great pleasure in pointing out the «error» in the beliefs of others, cares at all how much impact their attitude plays in the debate.

I made a long argument but yours seems much simpler and to the point.

I say all this because it seems to me that many lay - people (who might be excused) and many clergy (who can not be excused) are guilty of great confusion on this point; they try to defend too much.

There doesn't seem to be much point to your comment.

My good wife Lisa, who is much wiser than I, pointed out to me that the post felt negative and seemed to denounce miracles and those who believe in them.

Given the debt that all three traditions owe to Aristotle, it might seem that the Stagirite's views on natural law as the foundation for morality would point the way to greater comity, if not outright amity; but Rubenstein's history of that debt does not leave much room for hope either.

Seems like if you have a point to make it would be much more beneficial to simply make it rather than stand on the side and throw smelly shit bombs on David's blog.

In my assessment of the ecumenical agenda which I presented in Bangkok in 1996, I already alluded to the need of deepening and increasing «analytical capability»» as one of the primordial necessities of social witness in our time, and how this is so important at a time when ecumenical social thought seems to have reached a «dry spell», where it has become in fact thin and redundant, and therefore a point where it has lost much respect.

Likewise this phenomenon has drawn much attention from the mainstream media, who seem eager to point out the apparent discord that religious believers would flock to such a controversial figure, one who flaunts his past moral failings, publicly uses indecent language, and «isn't sure» if he's ever asked God for forgiveness.

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

It is too bad that much of the commentary was written by ignorant, arrogant and neo-violent people, who can not seem to offer alternative points of view with anything resembling intelligce.

At most, all he could do was point to temporality, the ceaseless flow of beings out of nothingness and into nothingness again, and then — in a gesture that often seems as much one of hopelessness as of «piety» — point away toward the mysterious Ereignis, the «appropriating event,» that somehow brings this about.

At this point, it might seem like there's too much chard, but it will cook down quite a bit in the oven.

At some point or other, I think we've all had that feeling of overwhelming stress — the one where your heart is pounding too fast too much, you can't seem to think straight or breathe properly, and frankly, you just look knackered.

As previous posters have said it seems a little much to even comment at this point, but after having this bookmarked for ages I finally got to try it!

I did reduce the amount of liquid I used in the sauce since it seemed like too much and I didn't see the point in reducing it.

It seems the point is to get SOME flavor in it, not so much which flavor.

I never did the smash cake, seems point less, cakes cost to much money to just make a mess out it andd I am not a fan of messy babies or kids and sugar.

None of my business if it is a moral stand point, it just seems like so much of your cooking is about health and I was wondering if that is why you don't post any meat recipes.

There's no point in taking much more than that, because when you reach 50 — 60 grams per day, the excess seems to just pass through.