Sentences with phrase «smaller amount of points»

That is to say, you get a greater value for a smaller amount of points, when you redeem for a business or first class ticket.

When thinking of redeeming Starpoints for stays, look into the two lower most categories — they require a small amounts of points in exchange for a free night.

If you have a small amount of points with either program, you can use these points for the purpose implied by the phrase «Combine my Avios,» and put otherwise orphaned Avios to use.

While you might not have enough reward points or miles for an award flight or for a free night's stay, many hotel programs and some airlines allow you to use a small amount of points or miles toward your reservation, and pay for the rest in cash.

Fixed an issue occurring in Port Mackerel where inking the top of an uninkable container near the center of the map earned a small amount of points and filled the special gauge slightly.

Every AI minion slaughtered contributes a small amount of points to your team's total, albeit much less than slaying a pilot or Titan, while also reducing the amount of time until your next Titanfall, although for obvious reasons taking down a player offers a far bigger bounty.

Cheering gives you a small amount of points that when you get enough, your partners can do a more powerful attack that can finish off an opponent.

The points system is worked differently by combining the positions of two riders from the same nationality, therefore two riders finishing a race in third and seventh position will have 10 points; resulting in each rider and nationality racing for the smallest amount of points to represent positive finishing positions, although in a further stipulation the worst result across the three races from each nationality will be removed which is a positive as it increases the chances of any nationality winning the three race event per track as it does not mean that a single collision could cost the nationality you are representing the MXoN championship.

Not exact matches

If you do get to the point of investing, invest a small amount at first, so you're comfortable with your advisor and how he or she communicates.

Further reinforcing my thesis that the average household has largely reached a point of «saturation» on the amount of debt that it can support, the Federal Reserve reported that credit card delinquencies on credit cards issued by small banks have risen sharply over the last year.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

And, while I care a lot about my entry point as an early stage investor, I've learned not to optimize for a small amount in the context of a pricing negotiation.

the point made about free will [albeit not in those terms] made by Doug [while misusing a word and placing it in incorrect context... which goes to show, a small amount of dross doesn't ruin the whole] is accurate.

I'm particularly pleased as I don't have the most powerful food processor (it's only a Kenwood) so the poor thing did get a bit hot but I left it to «do its thing» for about 10 minutes and helped it along at one point by adding a small amount of water but it managed it.

«Olive oil is very good for you but some olives have a very low smoke point, and produce small amounts of carcinogens when heated,» nutritionist Dr Glenys Jones told The Telegraph London recently, suggesting we should only use olive oil for salads and not cook with it.

I haven't done much food styling / photography for clients at this point, but the small amount I have done has been a lot of work.

I often point out that the amount of sustainably - grown coffee that various large corporate coffee roasters purchase is a very small proportion of their total coffee purchases.

You should start with a very small amount of flour and water because at a certain point you'll be discarding * some of the starter.

Finally this squad has shown over the years to lack character and fighting spirit resulting in an ever predictable amount of dropped points against small teams and an inability to deal with pressure.

At this point you can slowly introduce them to small amounts of shellfish or seafoods, like tuna.

Since the amount of domperidone that gets into the milk is very small indeed, from the baby's point of view, there should be no issue in the mother taking it to increase milk supply for several months.

So by increasing the mount of ammonia by a pretty small amount they are able to raise the pH to a point that kills pathogens.

At this point you'll likely be expressing small amounts of colostrum, and you may not even see anything in the bottle.

My understanding is that they inject a small amount of water into four points in the lower back that block the pain signals to the brain.

When I pushed back and pointed out that 1) some women experience supply issues if they attempt to restrict calories enough to allow weight loss, even when they really * want * to lose weight and 2) not everyone is, in fact, overweight, and those women will indeed need to eat more to produce enough milk without causing nutritional problems for themselves they instead argued that it's such a small amount of extra food that it's inconsequential.

As Adam Barnett pointed out, surely this was the first «expenses scandal» story to expose an MP for claiming very small amounts of money.

De Blasio and his campaign have often touted the mayor's record on policing as a strength, pointing to the drop in crime, improvements in police community relations and reductions in the number of arrests for low - level crimes, such as possessing small amounts of marijuana.

Although, I suppose that without a budget to operate on, the Treasury may in fact have more cash on hand then it otherwise would, thus allowing the actual point at which it runs out of money to be pushed back (albeit a small amount).

«There was vociferous rejection of the initial proposals particularly from smaller businesses for whom the removal of the UK VAT exemption would have defeated the very point of MOSS, since the amount of VAT they would pay on their domestic turnover would likely have been greater than the cost of the services they would provide in another state.

And Skelos himself was the redistricting point man for the GOP majority back then, so technically, he bears no small amount of the blame for the current 31 - 31 threat.

Much like the City of Plattsburgh, whose Common Council last month imposed a moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to concerns over energy consumption and fire suppression, the Village of Rouses Point is allocated a comparatively small amount of cheap hydropower each month, around 13,844 kilowatts.

Despite the relatively small amount of property involved, Mazzoni said, «It's strategically smart at this point to focus on city owned property.

We have an incredibly small amount of time; we have already passed the threshold points in some respects.

Steve: And for those of you who are very uncomfortable with this singularity idea of basically an infinite amount of matter and energy in an infinitesimally small point of space, again, this does away with that and you only have to deal with the concept of the massive, a trillions suns in a volume of space the size of a proton.

But critics point out that subsistence farmers in developing countries often buy small amounts of improved varieties and breed them with local varieties to bolster yields.

But although some evidence points to past water oceans on Mars, only small amounts of carbonates have been found there — in Martian meteorites that landed on Earth and in atmospheric dust and bright soils on the planet.

But those smaller totals still amount to an average annual increase of 7 % over the promised doubling period, Gordon pointed out.

«There are smaller bioparticles that contain very rich amounts of information that we don't currently have the ability to access in point - of - care [medical testing] devices like microfluidic chips,» says Wardle, who is a co-author on the paper.

At this point, the beans are surrounded by an unappetizing white, gooey, pulp composed of sugars, proteins, water, pectin, and small amounts of lignin and hemicellulose.

There'd be no urgency to any of [this] if we had 100 years in which to do that; but the science would indicate that we don't have 100 years and the results that we're already seeing from the world would indicate that we have incredibly small amounts of time, that we've already passed the point in some respects, and we best get to work, trying to force the spring as it were.

The researchers developed a diagnostic system they dubbed the DNA Endonuclease Targeted CRISPR Trans Reporter, or DETECTR, for quick and easy point - of - care detection of even small amounts of DNA in clinical samples.

Essentially, the JL lemma showed that for any finite collection of points in high dimension, there is a collection of points in a much lower dimension which preserves all distances between the points, up to a small amount of distortion.

A wine base, such as a spritzer, gets bonus points for its small but not totally insubstantial quantity of antioxidants and its relatively lower amount of alcohol.

Today, there is a growing body of evidence pointing to the reality that consuming these water additives, even in small amounts, is terrible for our health.

It allows you to gradually put on small amounts of muscle until you have the toned appearance, without too much size, that you desire, at which point you can modify your strength training program to simply maintain the small amount of muscle mass that you have gained.

After this point, small amounts of carbs can be added back to your diet very gradually, as long as ketosis is maintained.

I think the point was that refined carbs are bad, and the sub-point was that some people have trouble with even small amounts of carbs.

Yet what Dr Greger has been pointing out is: We have a need for a small amount of daily protein (say 50g), and beyond that it just doesn't do much (except maybe make you sick).

And forgot the minimum serving amount of rice for the week, who even eats such a small amount and what's the point?

Why it's also a fantastic cooking ingredient: «If there is a dish that you would like to cook with a small amount of oil, coconut oil is a great choice because it has a lower smoke point than other oils.