Sentences with phrase «takes several points»

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As several journalists and bloggers including my friend Mathew Ingram have already pointed out, taking aim at social media is a textbook case of trying to shoot the messenger.

But you can still extract several lessons from King's oration about what it takes to rise to a high - pressure moment — and deliver an on - point message that resonates with your audience.

In their forthcoming book, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey take a deep dive into several companies where employees are expected to learn about their pain points — and promptly address them.

He's taken several trips in recent years to points around the globe and says it's given his retirement a new purpose.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School «to the point of stalking her.»

Going forward I would anticipate doubling the size of the portfolio in 2015, at which point it will really begin to take a life of its own, contributing several hundred dollars each year to its own cause.

In the end, however, things either come together or they don't, and in retrospect you can usually point to several different junctures where your venture might have taken a completely different turn.

Speed is a key selling point, with Bitcoin taking several minutes to, in some instances, several hours to confirm a transaction, Dash processes a transaction instantly.

It is the 1st book of the Bible, Genesis, that gives us how long our Creator, Jehovah God, took in preparing the earth for human habitation (when it reached the proper point of preparation), a period of six «creative» days, with each «day» being several thousand years long.

As it turned out, my point of departure from the «emerging ministry movement» took me more into the missional wing of things, where I've been continuing to work with several virtual, international teams on social transformation projects.

While decisive steps have been taken at several points in your history to place limits on the exercise of power, the nation's political institutions have been able to evolve with a remarkable degree of stability.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing the lead opinion in a 5 - 4 decision in which several justices wrote separate concurrences and dissents, compared the Mojave Cross to a hypothetical highway memorial marking the death of a state trooper to make the point that such displays «need not be taken as a statement of governmental support for sectarian beliefs.»

Several times he was taken away in front of his children at gun point.

The second is that the full growing cycle takes more than a year, and several points of the process are extremely time - sensitive.

Just as the cultural change of the Axial Period occurred more or less simultaneously and independently at several points on the earth's surface, so the new global form of spirituality may well germinate at many different points and then take more visible form as those points form a network.

The literary evidence that the expectation of a «Messiah,» in so far as such an expectation existed at all, took these several forms is indisputable, although at points meager, and can be found cited in Charles and other writers on Jewish eschatology.

Such a concern is echoed by those who point out that the inadequacies of several classical formulations of the significance of the person and work of Christ did not take into account the social setting and the political implications of the ministry of Jesus.

The events in the third novel, Unnatural Causes (1967), take place at Monksmere Head, a point of land on the Suffolk coast where several writers live.

This chapter takes as its point of departure and as recurring touchstones several texts of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The thought of certain dinosaurs running into the wind in an attempt to take off and, after several million years, succeeding like the Wright brothers in flying a few yards, is a fantasy that sufficiently points up the absurdity of evolution.

They've won Games in several different ways at this point and it just seems like they believe they are going to win each time they take the floor..

Kukoc spun inside on him several times en route to a 19 - point performance, while Jordan and Scottie Pippen took advantage of missed defensive rotations to get numerous open shots.

However, there were several exciting parts including De'Anthony Thomas» opening kickoff return, the one point safety, and all the moments of cameramen taking shots of the Oregon Cheerleaders.

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

Daska took a sizeable lead at the race's halfway point and pushed the pace for several miles before Linden reeled her in, using a determined stride to occupy the top spot after cresting Heartbreak Hill.

He's grabbed at and flexed it several times, this half, he has no jump or power there and he is quite clearly from my point of view not putting as much pressure on or taking normal steps with his right leg.

The search for a positive forces us to look to his other jobs: he looks to be taking responsibility as the point man in the defensive press, he had several strong - looking words with the referee and did some excellent pointing.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

Brooks has the unwavering support of star player Kevin Durant, despite taking frequent criticism in the past two seasons for allowing second - team All - NBA point guard Russell Westbrook to dominate the offense for long stretches and going several possessions without passing once.

For a club of our stature, we should be used to winning games like yesterday's, but wenger has taken us so low to the point that we celebrate such victories occasionally.It's been more than a decade since we last beat utd convincingly, yet in that period, they have bested us several times including an 8 - 2 drubbing.

The thing that really bothers me is the thing we've disagreed on in the past and that's imo Wengers apparent lack of Urgency and decisiveness when moving into the transfer window I know that Scheweinsteiger would be a great addition but He is somewhat over the hill in comparison to the others that are being toted about and while I know that we are not the cash Rich Man Poo or Man Sh!tty or Chelski I do know that we are at a point for the first time in ten years where we don't need to replace many players or are being frced to sell the quality ones we have, we are for the first time in a spot where we only need to add two or three players and we are there in terms of being able to compete, Id hate for the financial Exuberance to stop us taking that final stride forward into the competitive team we nearly are IMO spend the money now, get the striker, get the DM and we wont need to look at transfers in a big way again for several seasons and with that in mind Id rather have the likes of Benzema or Lacazetta or even Cavanni than a nearly over the hill Scheweinsteiger.

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In the League game against Spurs he had several chances to earn them a point but didn't take them.

Barker took points from several of the ten intermediate sprints but finished down in fifth with 11 points behind Wild, Belgiums Jolien D'Hoore and Pawlowska.

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.

And with # 2, my husband made a point of coming home right after musaf kedusha to take over and several times during the rest of davening to check on us to make sure i didn't need help with the kids.

Clearly, it pays to be informed when thinking about giving baby juice... and there are several points that you may wish to take into account.

Am notconvinced by this: I take several of the points you make but I think the plea in mitigation misses something more important.

While early predictions that Labour could take Wandsworth proved over-optimistic, Labour sources pointed out that a few hundred votes in several swing wards could have clinched it.

Cuomo, taking a page from the presidential playbook, also invited several guests and referred to them at different points in his speech to emphasize his administration's accomplishments.

He's moving quickly to act on a point often discussed during the campaign, but one that he could easily have let wait for several months until the recently enacted law takes effect.

Day was also one of several legislators who took pains to point out recent incidents brought to light in a press conference with County Sheriff Louis Falco where county prisoners threatened correctional officers by claiming that they knew their home addresses.

Several political analysts pointed out to me that before new congressional boundaries took effect for the race of 2012, much of it fell in the 20th District, which Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, won in 2006 and 2008.

At one point, he was recorded saying that if he was able to find out the identities of several cooperating government witnesses, he could arrange to «take them out.»

At one point, he and several elected officials stopped long enough to take sips out of red party cups, which they joked contained refreshing orange juice perfect for a hot summer day.

Busch and current Bethlehem GOP Chairman Ralph Ambrosio tried to referee the dispute at several points, even urging the political leaders to take the bickering to a less - public forum.

Astorino has taken to mocking Cuomo's several day absence from any public events, sending out a tongue in cheek release asking whether an All Points Bulletin should be issued to find the governor.

Analysis of blood samples taken at several points in time from a group of patients with different forms of advanced metastatic breast cancer found CTC clusters in the blood of 35 percent of patients and that the survival of those with more clusters in their blood was significantly reduced.