Sentences with phrase «talking point in the past»

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The Times «attorney also argued that Trump's proximity to the nation's highest office, and the fact that Trump's past treatment of women has become a major talking point in the election, mean that the article in question addresses «an issue of national importance.»

Rather than just talking to them, you'll actually listen to them and try to understand their goals, their needs, their pain points and any problems with similar providers they've had in the past.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

In a Celtic XI vs a Petrov XI, the game was awash with a number of stars past and present, and though the game yielded eight goals, the big talking point was undoubtedly Agbonlahor's 53rd minute challenge, which left the One Direction member in a crumpled heap on the flooIn a Celtic XI vs a Petrov XI, the game was awash with a number of stars past and present, and though the game yielded eight goals, the big talking point was undoubtedly Agbonlahor's 53rd minute challenge, which left the One Direction member in a crumpled heap on the flooin a crumpled heap on the floor.

With this in mind I'm not too disappointed to miss out on Wanyama now, despite him being a constant transfer talking point for the Arsenal fans in the past.

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

As someone who has struggled with anxiety in the past (to the point where I couldn't keep even a bite of food down), and whose soulmate fights a daily battle with it, I know how hard it is to actually talk about it.

Most parents I've talked to about their picky eater admit that at some point in the past, they started allowing their child to decide what they were going to eat.

The discussion was exquisitely polite, with the participants talking past one another in an effort to get in their own talking points.

I once read an article that talked about the radical changes in parenting and child - rearing expectations over the past century, and the author used the financial terms of asset and investment to make her point.

But over the past 19 months, that management has moved beyond regulating talking points to selectively concealing the public record, as we in the press have noted.

Hakeem Jeffries, a corporate lawyer who we have supported when he ran for this position in the past, stuck to his «talking points» when he appeared before us.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) asked Democrats at one point in the past few weeks to stop bashing the governor during tense budget talks.

Assemblyman Ray Walter, an Amherst Republican, said many of Cuomo's plans already rolled out the past couple weeks came from «left wing talking points» that Cuomo would have to emphasize if he runs for president in 2020.

I do know exactly what you're talking about and, in the past, I have tried to qualify colors within palettes mainly because I felt that I should be able to point people in the right direction for color matching.

In the recent past, the women from Belarus have become the talking point.

«Black Swan» has been a ubiquitous presence (and hot talking - point) in the UK for the past month, and has a whopping 12 BAFTA nominations to show for it, so it's logical to assume Natalie Portman will add yet another trophy to her cabinet here.

Is there any doubt that each and every one of these folks (and more: best to forget Martin Sheen and the still - execrable Helen Hunt pillow - talking until well - past the point of audience tolerance) will find themselves in the kitchen where / when Bobby meets his end?

President Obama has now succumbed to the firestorm in opposition to standardized and «high stakes» testing that has swept the country over the past several years, even picking up on the talking points — «Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble».

Top - end isn't the talking point either but give the diesel powered Elantra the full throttle treatment and it nudges past the ton from standstill in a respectable 10.56 seconds.

2 min readAs Mozilla's Ryan Merkley points out in his TED talk, the nature of video on the web hasn't changed much over the past few years.

First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.

He also talks about their differing views on religion and I sensed that this subject may have been a point of conflict between the two in the past.

The original point - counterpoint attempt by Eisler and following commentary — which includes self - publishing author Joe Konrath in a wrily fun Congreve - worthy interchange with Gottlieb — are a study in folks talking past another.

many of which are not even exactly sure why after getting past the «annuity hater talking points» described further in this article.

Foster had me in tears at one point, during one of his many visits with Callie, when he talked about how lonely the past year had been for him since his dog had passed last September and that he had only really made strides to recover from his depression a few months ago.

And I'm a second year physics student at university so yeah I have some notion what I'm talking about when it comes to optics, check back with me in a few months if I still hold same opinion when I should know even more specifically about that kind of different) I also hate to point out the footage I saw looked like a ps2 game past destruction.

Corruption, political oppression, gendered violence and homophobia are things that African artists like Ousmane Sembene or Zanele Muholi have talked about through their work in the past, sometimes to the point of said work being banned due to controversy in their respective countries.

Smith, who has embarrassingly been called a «bad boy artist» by some people at some points in the past (there is no way for that term to not be embarrassing, unless you of course are talking about Puff Daddy), had a lot to say, including a couple of shots fired about the current state of painting.

As noted above, 1997 - 98 saw an exceptionally strong El Nino, producing a consequent temperature high that has only in recent years been equalled - hence it being a popular start - point for the «global average temperature has now been flat for the past 15 years» talking - point.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

Thomas Kuhn pointed out 50 years ago that talking past is common in scientific debates.

When someone talks about climate change and warming in particular it would only make sense if they meant that the average temperature accross the earths surface is warmer than it used to be at some point in the past.

«She has played a particularly pernicious role in the climate change denial campaign, laundering standard denier talking points but appearing to grant them greater authority courtesy of the academic positions she has held and the meager but nonetheless legitimate scientific work that she has published in the past,» he said.

assuming what you say about skeptics changing topic as you describe is accurate, and at this point I do we are talking about data that is less than 200 years old, out of which extraordinary claims are made as to how that data relates to distant past and future trends tough sell assuming that all adjustments to the data are scientifically sound, It is very difficult for me to believe that measurements that have gone through so many iterations can be trusted to.0 and.00 in most other sciences, I doubt they would tough sell (the photo of the thermometer is downright funny) in terms of goal post moving I observe predicted heat being re-branded as «missing» a prediction of no snow re-branded as more snow a warming world re-branded to a «warm, cold, we don't know what to expect» world topped off with suggestions that one who thinks the above has some sort of psychological disorder extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence especially when you are teaching children that their world is endangered

A process that has, in the past, been delivered one to one with experts talking to clients can now be bundled up in an application to deliver in a one - to - many model that runs a user's scenario against a multi-jurisdictional inventory of the rules and regulations and provides situational guidance and highlights risk points where the company or individual may be in or out of compliance with rules, regulations and laws.

The big example of pictures that I am really interested in seeing more about is Google Lens, which I think we've talked about on the podcast in the past where you're going to be able to point your camera at a flower; it's going to tell you what flower it is.

In the past six weeks, Bitcoin Cash, another Bitcoin hard fork formed in August, has become the central talking point of the industry, as it sees remarkable growth and sparks shifts in mining and investment behavior, affecting Bitcoin's pricIn the past six weeks, Bitcoin Cash, another Bitcoin hard fork formed in August, has become the central talking point of the industry, as it sees remarkable growth and sparks shifts in mining and investment behavior, affecting Bitcoin's pricin August, has become the central talking point of the industry, as it sees remarkable growth and sparks shifts in mining and investment behavior, affecting Bitcoin's pricin mining and investment behavior, affecting Bitcoin's price.

Two of the top three comments in the thread point out the hypocrisy that countless Apple (and Google) fans have been talking about ever since Google's press conference this past Wednesday.

Some great talking points in job interviews are your past work experience, your specific academic accomplishments, or your career goals.

In bullet points, talk about your accomplishments and achievements in the past job, not your responsibilitieIn bullet points, talk about your accomplishments and achievements in the past job, not your responsibilitiein the past job, not your responsibilities.

Over the past two or three years, I seem to have developed a crippling case of social anxiety in certain work situations (namely, talking in meetings) to the point where if I'm asked to share an update with the group or even introduce myself, I have a panic attack, start trembling, quite literally can't speak, etc..

For example, you could point out physical observations that you've noticed in the past when your teen is not telling the truth, such as talking faster, slower, etc..