Sentences with phrase «stuck the point on»

According to The Sun, two players that could be Manchester bound this summer are Carvalho and Martins, although there is seemingly a sticking point on the combined fee that will see Sporting accept the offer.
When Diehl finds that he's hit a sticking point on a painting, he may view it in a mirror or upside down.
So needless to say, training these terribly neglected muscles will help you reduce the risk of injury and even overcome sticking points on the big lifts.
The bottom part of the range of motion is inarguably the most common sticking point on the bench press and the most effective way to overcome it is with the «dead bench press», or «paused bench press».
The advent of using pressing boards to work through sticking points on bench - press has been done for years.
Be aware that when you reach a certain point in the rep (it coincides with your regular sticking point on the way up), your leverage will decrease and the weight will get a whole lot heavier.
The sad truth for many disadvantaged students is that there isn't a caring person to help them when they get to a stuck point on their homework.
If you are too, and you want some help getting past those stuck points on your journey, get in touch with me!

Not exact matches

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.
Verheul reiterated the sticking points: the U.S. positions on autos, a proposed sunset clause, access to U.S. government procurement and the American desire to opt out of a dispute resolution chapter.
The Fed chair stuck to her script in remarks to Congress on Wednesday, but she did manage to point out a few economic warning signs to keep in mind.
South Korea has said Kim may be willing to compromise on this traditional sticking point, but no new details were announced at the summit.
The key sticking points remain with the owners wanting concessions on many issues, most notably an 18 - game regular season, a rookie salary cap, and a pay cut in the players» share of the overall revenue.
The report points out that, although 68 % of billionaires hold at least a four - year degree, a sheepskin «is not a prerequisite to then go on and amass a billion - dollar fortune,» since one in three billionaires either never went to college at all or didn't stick around to finish.
Negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico wrapped up the seventh round of Nafta talks this week in Mexico still hoping for a breakthrough on the biggest sticking points.
But whether ownership of MDA's Radarsat - 2 satellite — the presumed sticking point, since the government has spent $ 445 million on it — resides here or abroad is moot.
Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.
And this is the most important point: When we talk about the qualities of a great leader or read their words on paper without truly understanding the enormous challenges they face and the rare strength it takes to overcome them, we may as well be two - dimensional stick figures trying to imagine a three - dimensional world.
That sticking point comes with other hard issues still on the horizon, including dairy, auto parts, the dispute resolution system and the U.S. push for a review of NAFTA every five years.
Given all of the above information, let's now compare all of the platforms on each of their major sticking points.
A further sticking point in discussions is the length of time that the U.S. government wants to impose conditions on what AT&T can and can not do after a deal.
One of his views that always stuck with me on that subject, at least as a starting point for thinking about it, was that it was somewhat nonsensical to talk about what «equilibrium exchange rates» should be in a world of fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.
«So every network has that dilemma, but on the other side if you have a network that gets past that sticking point you have these tremendous network effects where it just starts to build and build and build and that's why you have networks like Facebook.
Many project creators on GoFundMe do not offer backers any perks, and this could potentially be an upside, but it could also be a sticking point if you're trying to incentivize more people to back your project.
As economist Jack Mintz has pointed out, the Trump tax reforms mean U.S. taxation on new investment will soon encounter the third - best rate among OECD countries (a dramatic improvement from the 14th position), besting Canada, stuck in 12th place.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al - Shahristani said in a televised interview late on Wednesday that the Kurds had agreed to export through SOMO, which would have removed a major sticking point between them over oil exports.

Behavior on social media, particularly Instagram, has become a sticking point for...

@ Chris At this point in my life I am comfortable with my current conclusions and, barring any new earth shattering evidence or sound deliberation, I will stick to this and focus my time and energy on other disciplines and studies.
Once in a while, people are given a third - person point of view and are asked by the author to act on that knowledge, but for the most part, we are stuck in first - person.
Thus Evangelical Catholicism challenges the proscription - centered understanding of the moral life into which both Catholic traditionalists (who insist on hard - and - fast rules, and lots of them) and Catholic progressives (who want to loosen the rules, to the point where they often disappear) are stuck.
Actually, JD, your formula applies to almost every thread on any site; whatever the subject, the posts come in from all directions, with little to no concern for sticking to the point of the original article...
If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.
The sticking point occurs, however, when one considers the use that Locke makes of the insight that all entities are thus interrelated, Locke's intent in this chapter is to point out the essential limitations imposed on our knowledge of corporeal substances.
The primary sticking points, it seems, have nothing to do with the five solas, but center instead on issues like Mariology, the veneration of the Saints, and papal authority.
But both of us can agree that it is «A small wooden stick with a black something that comes to a point on it.»
Of course, neither Chipotle nor Panera are known to offer Salsa Verde Beef Nachos or Mozzarella Sticks for $ 6.99 which seems like a real point in Applebee's favor, so who knows what's going on.
Observers said it is unlikely Benedict will comment publicly on Gross» imprisonment, which has largely become a symbol of the intractability of U.S. - Cuba relations and a sticking point for American diplomats.
If that point is going to have any chance of resonating, let your listener come to that conclusion on his own, which will make it more likely to stick.
She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.
This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.
Wasp you are right in away It did all come from the point of a spear, stuck into a man on a cross to ensure his death, this scenario set up a scene where within 3 days many folks were talking about this same dude raising from the dead healed of all wounds.
So, shame on you HGTV for not affording the view point of a person who sticks to family values according to their faith!
And I think they speak simply, and stick to simple points, and leave the grey areas for personal opinion, though they are prepared to speak on it.
I was stuck on this point the longest so I'm glad you've asked.
The RCC was in a bind because it got to the point that evolution was proven beyond all sane doubt but it was stuck with having so much of its doctrine built on the idea of Jesus dying to save us from original sin.
You got stuck on the difference between «to» and «too,» I don't really have the time to value the importance of spelling while blogging in a hurry to the point of editing constantly like you do.
The points below are the rules that I stick to when I'm photographing everything you see on the blog.
At this point the dough probably won't stick together on it's own, so add in 2 - 3 tablespoons of water and process a little more to make the dough stickier.
We're likely going to be making this again at some point in our meal - prepping gatherings, so stay tuned, but in the meantime, read on to find out what we stuck in our DIY Instant Noodles!
The book is based on a 30 - day challenge, which isn't really a new concept when it comes to vegan books, but I think the approach is one that works, so it's not a sticking point for me.
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