Sentences with phrase «simply make points»

In 2018 the new scheme will eliminate the tiered chart for flight redemptions and simply make points worth a fixed 1.5 cents each.

You were simply making a point that sharing Christian verses would also be helpful....

I am simply making the point that a symbol can have a powerful effect on people and can be offensive.

, could have simply made your point about the misuse and abuse of religious beliefs for political gain by focusing solely on the NPD Task Force and the political parties without disrespectfully addressing God.

Look, a cult of keeping a child at the breast until advanced age has become a trend among primarily white, educated, affluent women, the blogger is simply making a point that there is no concrete science to back - up the claims being made for the benefits.

He was simply making the point that the calendar is bound by mathematics as immutable as the heavenly spheres from which it derives its regularity.

I'm simply making the point that yes, some bloggers will promote brands for free, but that's because they either aren't sending enough traffic yet, or haven't woken up yet to their value.

I'm simply making the point that it would be difficult for a writer to fully and exhaustively document the causal connections that led them to make any one thematic decision, let alone a novel's worth.

I simply make the point that Monckton's wiki does not say he has a science degree.

I'm pretty sure that Warren was simply making the point that the «catastrophic» signal is not showing up in any of the data that he presented.

I mentioned this before, suggesting you were simply making a point.

Not exact matches

«Many experts are pointing to the South China Sea dispute as the eventual outcome to China's Arctic involvement, but the strategic value of the Arctic simply does not make sense for China to engage in confrontational behavior,» Zhang said.

The first tell was simply that the liars tended to use a lot more words to make their points than the truth - tellers did.

They'll simply assume you made good decisions and give you the benefit of the doubt from that point forward.»

Patient interaction varies from the simply following a point around a circle on the screen to more complex scenarios that require the patient to make a cognitive decision — should the image popping onto the screen be saved (the world) or destroyed (an alien).

It seems unusual to encourage buyers to turn away from trends, because it's such an easy way to continue making money, but Cuyana isn't afraid of you embracing a lean closet; simply because they know that, if you come to them at some point, many of those pieces you love to rely on are bound to be Cuyana - made.

Small businesses now have the power to make a sale anywhere by simply plugging a credit card swiper into their smartphone and charging their customer at the point of sale — whether it's at a brick and mortar location, a swap meet, or in the middle of a festival.

I realized I needed to focus on developing a clear understanding of my customer's pain points and desires, manifest it in the form of a crisp and compelling customer use case, and make sure that the product could demonstrate it simply, quickly, and viscerally.

Which, as David Meyer of Gigaom points out, can't simply «make laws,» so it would be inaccurate to say the country has «officially» made Bitcoin illegal.

Carter makes a point here that absolutely bears emphasizing — vacations are not simply meant to furnish impressive photos for Facebook!

A few times during the session Kogan made a point of arguing that data audits are essentially useless for catching bad actors — claiming that anyone who wants to misuse data can simply put a copy on a hard drive and «store it under the mattress».

Other countries now can point out that if the Fed's plan is for American banks are trying to make a trillion dollars at their expense, their alternatives is simply to end the dollar's key - currency role.

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

I was pointing that out to the readers at large — to make the point that because there is no claim, and many of the sources are unknown, that these writings often simply describe earlier purported events, that's all the more reason to question them.

Like I said, it's simply a thought experiment I used to attempt to make a very specific point, which I think was made for the person I was making it to.

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

@ Don F. Your third paragraph simply re-makes a point the author also makes in his article... albeit you do so in an angry manner as if he didn't make that point.

However, the point simply is Paul is warning them about certain actions they are either committing or they see in society around them being committed — to avoid such actions as a person of the Spirit... so obviously with the Spirit they could still make common mistakes.

He has been a mother... to the point that He heard my heart's cry... to simply want to know how to make a pie.

I find this to be an insufficient conclusion, because they usually simply want to make the point that it's not essential for salvation.

Paul, addressing the big debate of the day, is simply trying to make the point that Jews and Gentiles are on the same footing, that sin and death are universal conditions of humanity.

While concordism leaves the reader scratching her head as she attempts to figure out how there could have been waters above the sky (Genesis 1:7), Walton's approach «maintains that this terminology is simply describing cosmic geography in Israelite terms to make a totally different point.»

You have yet to directly respond to the specific points I've made at least three times now, i.e.: 1) the immutable good nature argument is simply unsupported definitional fiat (god can be equally described as malevolent or apathetic with equal support); 2) the immutable good nature argument presents a source of morality beyond god's direct control placing the argument in the god says so because it is good prong of the dilemma; and 3) the argument suggests god is not omnipotent because god is constrained to only a limited set of potential behaviors.

The people who simply wanted to argue about anything and everything would have stoned her to make a point, except for one thing: Jesus asked each one to judge himself before he judged her.

The designers of the Const * itution were brilliant and knew how important it was for future generations to not view their country as one based on Christianity, but as one based simply on freedom, and so they were very careful to put their own religious views aside and make a strong point with separation of church and state.

I think that this phenomenon illustrates NT Wright's point that «a massive assumption has been made in Western Christianity that the purpose of being a Christian is simply, or at least mainly, «to go to heaven when you die.

NOWHERE has it been shown that God is using an ACTUAL Creature... again God is using things that people KNOW... they knew of MYTHICAL things like dragons... they knew that other religions had drgaons... they were aware of them having dragons in their myths... God simply chose to use that to make a point... show me WHERE it says it was an actual creature...

here, yet again, you simply ignore the points I've made in favor of simply saying «nuh - uh» even louder.

You are simply attempting to make my point something which you know it is not.

You didn't come to «simply offer a statement and point of view» - you make yourself sound so neutral and harmless.

A very sad story with a tremendous amount of pain and anguish turned positive... doesn't change the fact that this is simply adults playing make believe to the point that wishes become full on beliefs

@ME II: My point is simply that you fail to abide by that which you wish others to do when making claims about the Bible.

Dan, i am a big picture guy and I prefer to make my point as simply and understandable as possible.

No one will ever see it, just like no one ever saw three of the four vile posts you made earlier, and you will simply have further proved my point regarding the vanity of the atheist worldview.

My point is simply that you fail to abide by that which you wish others to do when making claims about the Bible.

Also, people have often taken natural phenomena and made it a supernatural occurrence (in their minds anyway), and others have stretched or simply made up stories to make a point, try to be more impressive to others, and for a host of other reasons.

However, if you believe Job is simply a parable, a story of fiction to make a point, I won't argue with you.

Simply put, they made a great point of connecting with their community, even through art in the hallway.

No, Jesus, when pressed to use his authority to make a political point said simply, «Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.»

The point of John 3:3 was made during Jesus» conversation with Nicodemus — he simply could not bring himself to understand what Jesus was talking about specifically because he was not born from heaven; and therefore was not spiritual yet.