Sentences with phrase «style points in»

Don't get me wrong, if the cop doesn't show and I can get a case dismissed, I'll take it every time (there are no real style points in traffic court).

This Shadow fan came by the booth — and made sure to pull down her hat a bit for extra style points in the pic.

PRICE AS TESTED: $ 23,235 The 2014 Mazda 3 wins style points in our comparison test, but it gets nicked for its lack of attention to detail.

The movie has a lot of decent CGI and make - up effects, but lacks major style points in fight choreography and flair.

Score some serious style points in our offering of women's ruched tops.

Easy on, easy off with lots of style points in between.

Not exact matches

Both mentors and coaches will evaluate you on your natural speaking style, critique where you fall short and fill in any blanks by walking you through the finer points.

In our experience, it's better to come off as a little too sprightly than too brusque: style and punctuation matter, and even something as simple as an exclamation point can lighten the tone.

He points out that in a 3,000 - square - foot store, Country Style can do $ 600,000 per year in revenue and, say, Thai Express another $ 750,000, thus raking in $ 1.3 million from a single venue.

And critics are also quick to point out that the promised benefits to Main Street of Trump - style tax cuts — faster job growth, higher wages and a boost to the middle class — are very much in question.

The style is as classic as it gets, too, with a standard point collar that works with just about any tie and one that can easily be worn tieless in more casual settings.

Both are wealthy, big - talking New York businessmen and many have pointed out similarities in both mannerisms and speaking style, with Scaramucci on CNN Wednesday morning parroting one of Trump's Trumpiest lines: «We're going to win so much you are actually going to get tired of winning,» the Mooch told Chris Cuomo.

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

Citing recent student movement protests, some of which involved 1960s style sit - ins at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that motivated official review of the school's investment policies, she pointed to Yale.

At the Detroit auto show in January, Infiniti showed a concept car whose styling points towards a not - so - distant future when most cars are going to be electrified.

ThirdLove's 24/7 now is produced in six styles (and price points), ranging from lace to strapless.

Twitter says it wants to do more NFL - style deals — and it points out that it aired more than 800 hours of live - streaming content in the first quarter of this year, including sports, news and entertainment.

It looks at home in either scenario, and that means that it's a real contender for replacing my winter puffer that has the same high functionality but low style points.

And although the gritty metal takes away from some style points (in some people's opinion), the added grip is definitely worth it.

A case in point: Tincup, a new and much acclaimed bourbon - style whiskey that sells for around $ 25.

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«At one point I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham, but rather set out on his own path, and ran money his way, by his own rules...» I have just quickly glanced at Bronte Capital's blog post, but I am sure Todd Combs and Ted Weschler were not hired because they lived and died by Buffet's word but rather because they manifested the teachings of value investing in their own styles.

McFarlane writes in a style that points out the opportunity costs of every financial decision you make, often in a style that people don't want to hear.

But in his trademark cautionary style, Marks also pointed out that no economic recovery has lasted more than 120 months, or 10 years.

Campbell points to a cultural shift in the style of the mid-week Bible studies for children.

The opening scene is in Champion City, a metropolis in a slightly altered (but not enough to really work) comic book - style reality, where costumed crimefighters (many with mediocre «powers») are in oversupply, to the point that many of them are out looking for work.

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Please anyone who responds to this don't name names; those of us familiar with the writing styles know which posts we're talking about and there's no point in stirring things.

I know the Wittgenstein inspired bullet point presentation style leaves something to be desired, but just keep in mind it's not meant to create the impression of any real exactitude.

No matter the style of evangelism, crusade, one on one, or whatever, non of it has much lasting value unless it points to a deeper relationship with Christ, and leads to a relationship with His body in this world, the church.

The palaces and forts constructed by the Mughals are a mixture of Indian and Muslim styles, but the mosques and mausoleums are chiefly Islamic in conception and execution, with the dome and the pointed arch as their most characteristic features.

Whether in style, out of style or creating our own style, we must choose to be image bearers of Christ that point the attention of others to our great Creator, rather than ourselves.

The Magisterium is clearly using Tertullian's lucid and succinct style from his Catholic writings to express the ancient orthodoxy of the Apostolic faith on these points without in any way endorsing his other, heretical, views.

I'm not advocating for a particular party or style of politics, I'm simply pointing out the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has been the most successful leader in a long time to engage young people in his cause.

The most dramatic change was the Catholic transition from Latin to English, but there was a sense in which almost every denomination's «Latin» was being translated into «English,» at the point of music, liturgy, symbol, color and style.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

And the evidence of social relevance, even in the style of William Sloane Coffin, Jr., has its points.

In fact, his mental instability tempts me to point out that the Left has generated rhetoric that has underwritten all sorts of violence perpetrated by seemingly sane people who style themselves «revolutionaries.»

In a 2009 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated booIn a 2009 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated booin the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated booin that celebrated book.

We all love to point and say how awful the rantings are of people like Terry Jones, Pat Robertson, and Fred Phelps but are they really different, except in style, than what mainstream Christians say?

Why America Doesn't Work is written in a popular, conversational style, in which the authors move quickly from point to point.

«It's not really Benedict's style to come in with specific negotiating points,» said CNN Senior Vatican analyst John Allen.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

In any event, the point of this chapter, intended to prepare the way for further discussion of what I have styled «another» (and I am convinced a better) theological approach, is simply to insist that we can only be loyal to our ancestors in the Christian tradition, but above all loyal to the chief stress in the faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the whole theological enterprisIn any event, the point of this chapter, intended to prepare the way for further discussion of what I have styled «another» (and I am convinced a better) theological approach, is simply to insist that we can only be loyal to our ancestors in the Christian tradition, but above all loyal to the chief stress in the faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the whole theological enterprisin the Christian tradition, but above all loyal to the chief stress in the faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the whole theological enterprisin the faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the whole theological enterprise.

This is true of many entrepreneurial endeavors, not simply women's ministry; but if the majority of female leaders are operating in the marketplace (as opposed to the institutional church), women's ministry as a whole can reach a point of critical mass where an audience - centric philosophy creates wider expectations about style, topics, and content.

But it probably is intended to point to what I have called firmness, and what others have styled «adamant demand,» in the expectation of, as well as in an insistence upon, the best from others.

The point is not that such appraisals are made «in time» and not «in eternity», as some would like to phrase it; I have already tried to make it clear that such a dualism will not serve us and that God himself is «temporal» although in what we may style «an eminent manner».

First, then, a processive view of the world and everything in it; and along with that, what might be styled, perhaps daringly, a processive view of what - it - is or who - it - is that the term God points towards.

I should agree with Buri and I should say that the point of the Christian gospel is to «re-present», as Ogden puts it, that possibility; to «re-present» it in starkly human terms, under human conditions, in Jesus as what I like to style «the classic instance» of what God is always «up to», rather than the totally other or the sheer anomaly, as so many (including Bultmann, presumably) would wish to regard him.