Sentences with phrase «significant point made»

The other very significant point made in my piece is that public perception actually does matter.

The fourth significant point he made was that students and teachers discussed and demonstrated just how easy those courses were to cheat.

Nor should we neglect the way that the cult clearly achieved prominence by the negative way that it disrupted and displaced competing focuses of religious allegiance (a significant point made by Susan Alcock).

I think the most significant points you make are Nos. 3, 6, and 8 (tell / show, grammar, edits).

Not exact matches

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

There are numerous strategies to help take your email marketing to the next level, as well as to eliminate significant pain points from your current process to make it more efficient.

Making an investment in a business is a significant decision that should never be made lightly, but it is not outside of the realm of possibility that you will face this decision at some point.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

The key turning point came a decade ago, when Smith made significant changes to Winters» management structure after reading Jim Collins» bestselling business book Good to Great.

For instance, on his blog Baseline Scenario, University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak makes many of the same points as Quittner — the Zuckerberg - Chan donation isn't really a donation at all but a newly formed LLC that will have significant tax benefits for the couple, who will retain almost complete control over their money.

Windows automatically creates a restore point each day, and before making significant changes to the system.

«As a result of the significant growth in our production rate, we made as many Model 3s since December 9th as we did in the more than four months of Model 3 production up to that point.»

«I make a point to have a significant conversation with one to two employees every day to learn about what they're working on and get to know them better.

You could also make the argument that, at some point, there is a significant increase in the per barrel cost of transportation and that the cancellation of Keystone XL would shift more barrels onto that more expensive, marginal means.

On the salient legal advice point, the memo concludes that US laws prohibiting foreign nationals managing campaigns — «including making direct or indirect decisions regarding the expenditure of campaign dollars» — will have «a significant impact on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term».

Warren B has previously made the point that he considers bonds to be riskier than equities over any significant timescale.

Stephen Todd made a significant amount of money in the huge January rally, got out before this February crash, then got back in on Monday February 12th and after a 747 Dow point rally in two days is up nearly 8 % for February too.

«Part of our Sector Weight thesis longer term has been the view that at some point, investors might start to care that a significant portion... of the company's gross profit pool was no longer growing, and so while investors largely care about Model 3 for the moment, that S / X continue to point toward these trends makes multiple expansion arguments more challenging,» analysts Elliot Arnson and Brad Erickson said in a Wednesday note.

When you talk about a loan as big as a mortgage, even 1 or 2 percentage points on your interest rate makes a significant difference.

If you have a long time horizon, I wouldn't be compelled to make any significant short - term tweaks at this point, given the current favorable market environment.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

They often straight for the jugular, making a significant point about the Christian life while making you laugh at the same time; which is what good humour should do.

While there are significant philosophical inconsistencies inherent in Mbiti's description, he still succeeds in making the essential point that among traditional Africans a deceased individual, while physically dead, is not thought to be reduced to a mere corpse.

«We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love another» wrote Jonathan Swift.4 He may be pressing his point, but it seems as if religious language is more specific articulating the role, place, needs, concerns of its own people and is if anything rather general when addressing the other as significant other.

The case of Adnan Syed — made widely known through the first season of the Serial podcast — has reached a significant turning point.

We will not make this kind of move until we really decide that happiness is more important than the quantity or quality of the goods consumed, and that the latter is not, beyond a certain point, a significant contributor to happiness.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

I do remember very significant points in my life, knowing the risks and costs, where I had to make the very specific decision to be true.

He found it significant that at no point does the Bible make it lawful to take one's life.

Donald Smith In his study of Indian Secularism points out the significant contribution made to the idea by the attitude of toleration arising from the Hindu doctrine of equality and unity of religions.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

This latter explanation would jibe with a point that SB Nation recruiting guru Bud Elliott has been making all year, which is that the quality of quarterbacking in the conference had taken a significant step back.

At 22 years of age, Shaw has plenty of time to develop his game and make significant improvements, and so it seems a little harsh from a Man Utd perspective to consider a sale at this stage of his career regardless of the frustration with his displays to this point.

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

More importantly, that extra point moves into the key number of «6», which is not only critical to grab if you want to make a contrarian play on the Dolphins, but it is just as significant to get off of «6» if you're instead considering the Patriots.

Extrapolating from available statistics, researchers estimate that British - supplied tanks made up 30 to 40 percent of the entire heavy and medium tank strength of Soviet forces before Moscow at the beginning of December 1941, and certainly made up a significant proportion of tanks available as reinforcements at this critical point in the fighting.

Whilst Max Verstappen's success makes a huge argument for youth, drivers like Alonso make a significant point from the other end of the F1 driver age spectrum.

Victory puts PSG equal on points with Bayern Munich at the top of the group, with Celtic's goal difference taking a significant blow to make for an uneasy start to their Champions League campaign.

Adopting the Toyota wind tunnel for its development at the end of 2014 was a significant turning point, and the team made great strides with its unique development of the 2014 - 16 aerodynamic rules.

Talking point: Roy Hodgson made significant changes for England's final group game, resting Wayne Rooney, Dele Alli and both full - backs, Kyle Walker and Danny Rose, as well as starting with Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge, the strikers who had such an impact as half - time substitutes against Wales.

I don't see them winning the league at this point unless they make significant reinforcements.

The sportspersons category of Tier 2 of the points - based system is for elite sports people and coaches who are internationally established at the highest level, whose employment will make a significant contribution to the development of their sport at the highest level in the UK and who intend to base themselves in the UK.

While Adebayor certainly makes some reasonable points I believe that any Arsenal supporter who followed his actions and those of his manager before the start of last season and during this one will be able to pick significant holes in what he has said.

The point of this whole post is that we can not MAKE our significant others change.

While I agree with your overall point that there is a value of differentiating arguments of principle and ultimate values from political strategy and tactics about how to make change happen, I am somewhat sceptical of the implication that a significant problem has been that modern political philosophy has been too pragmatic or applied.

Cross-posted on techPresident and K Street Cafe At a New Organizing Institute presentation this morning, former Obama new media director Joe Rospars (last seen in these pages talking about the importance of good content to the campaign's work) made a really significant point — his...

At a New Organizing Institute presentation this morning, former Obama new media director Joe Rospars (last seen in these pages talking about the importance of good content to the campaign's work) made a really significant point — his department was NOT a part of the campaign's tech team.

It's slightly below the weight of the country (GDP and / or population) and makes a point in not participating in oversees operations but it is nonetheless very significant.

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