Sentences with phrase «term called point»

Second, they have a term called point spread.

Not exact matches

If you don't have time to analyze the transcripts of conference calls, as Loumioti does, there are other signs to watch for that point to a short - term focus.

In an email to Term Sheet, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya called the 42 % data point «simply fucking awesome.»

The point of this call should be you asking final questions on what they expect, and reviewing contract terms.

In the book, Sugar, Salt, Fat, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Moss writes about a food industry term called «the bliss point».

The term «public safety answering point» means a facility that has been designated to receive emergency calls and route them to emergency service personnel.

Some commentators call for further stimulus, citing faltering recoveries, while others point to medium - term debt paths that look very troubling as a reason for fiscal consolidation.

To find out whether your miles, points or cash back have an expiration date, you'll need to refer to your credit card's terms and conditions or call customer service.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

There's a term in chess called zugzwang, which describes the point in a game when it's your turn to move but every move you could make would worsen your situation.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

When we add the obvious point that the term itself is very frequently to be found in the synoptic tradition and comparatively infrequently outside it, then it becomes clear that we are fully entitled to claim that the real and significant differences between the use within the synoptic tradition and outside it call for an explanation.

Passing over the fact that calling atheism a religion is a contradiction in terms, whats the point of your statement?

You are watering down the meaning of the term «slave» to the point where anyone and everyone can be called a slave.

But from the frequency with which he calls himself the Son of man, he may have used this term, not solely as referring to his own humanity, as at some points seems its natural interpretation, but with the apocalyptic connotation it has in Daniel 7:13 - 14 and in the intertestamental Book of Enoch.3

Starting with an aspect of love In terms of Cardinal Bertone's helpful summary of the Open Letter, the theological ground upon which we are being invited to build includes: «belief in the one God, the provident Creator... (and that) we are all called to commit ourselves totally to him...» From the point of view of the Catholic faith the latter is an aspect of love for God, an aspect even of communion.

We must therefore, from the experiential point of view, call these godless or quasi-godless creeds «religions»; and accordingly when in our definition of religion we speak of the individual's relation to «what he considers the divine,» we must interpret the term «divine» very broadly, as denoting any object that is godlike, whether it be a concrete deity or not.

In this talk I shall, however, describe in general terms how the quantum theory, understood somewhat more imaginatively than is usually done, can point to a new order in physics, which I call the enfolded order, or the implicate order.

My point in calling attention to use of the term «values» in Notre Dame documents is not to criticize the anonymous author of a public relations brochure, but rather to point out the depth of the confusion concerning ethics at Notre Dame today.

As an alternative to such a disreputable point of view, however, we might understand purpose in the universe in terms of what has sometimes been called a «loose» teleology.7 By this I mean that the cosmos may be a significant, value - laden process without needing to be strictly directional in its advance through time.

The No. 2 seed Bearcats held a 22 - point lead with 11:37 left in the second half against a Nevada team that — working with a six - man rotation and barely two days of rest after an overtime win in Round 1 — would have been forgiven for looking up at the scoreboard, coming to terms with Cincy's penchant for squeezing the life out of opposing offenses and calling it a day.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Sometimes, even amid the chorus of women who do support extended or long - term breastfeeding (or whatever you want to call it), I feel like I'm alone on this point.

However, I want to add that while I certainly see Annie's point about formula «calling her name» when things were rough on the nursing front, I don't see that as sufficient reason to make formula a controlled substance (that might be too strong a term - but you get my point).

Up to the point where the election was called they have been mostly arguing for softening the terms of Brexit.

ALBANY — Republican state Sen. John DeFrancisco kicked off his gubernatorial campaign from a hotel in suburban Syracuse on Tuesday with a pointed critique of two - term incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, calling him a «bully.»

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

At one point, members of the crowd started calling on Cuomo to run for president in 2020 — a proposition he's sought to quiet and once against insisted he's running for re-election next year, seeking a third term.

Meanwhile on Monday, Astorino unveiled a 10 - point ethics proposal, calling for term limits, a shorter legislative session and other changes that he says will help combat government corruption.

The six - point plan, which also called for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

He then called on Bratton, who said, «The overall percentage of those being stopped in terms of race or ethnicity has not changed dramatically — only by a couple of percentage points.»

But physicists often carry out their calculations in terms of momentum space (also called reciprocal space) rather than ordinary three - dimensional space, Lu explains, and in that framework magnetic monopoles can exist — and their properties match those of Weyl points.

While calling on the government for a five - year subsidy on British coal, the Labour MP Richard Caborn, who chairs the committee, says: «There would be little point enlarging British Coal's market in the medium term if it were to collapse after 1988.»

Kemp also calls the idea of a 100 - year storm a «mythical measure», pointing out that we only have about 100 years of reliable data to work with, which isn't necessarily enough to reflect long - term hurricane patterns.

A terrible tragedy occurs towards the end of Act I — something that, in screenwriting terms is called a «plot point» or «inciting incident» — and all I could think was, «Really?

Hurt has worked with Von Trier before, on Dogville, which Melancholia superficially resembles at this point in terms of its large cast of recognisable names and faces (Von Trier called keeping them all in check «like a children's nursery, only twenty times worse!»).

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

We've decided to call what your son did «uncooperative behavior» — and we'll point out to him in no uncertain terms that he won't be very popular with his friends if he keeps acting this way!»

There are different points in the year which expose the condition known as «teacher tiredness»: the festive, nativity filled run up to Christmas; half way through the year when the mornings and evenings are dark and daylight is at a premium; the long, long summer term stretch and any time when there is an imminent phone call from some friendly inspectors.

The first - term High Point Democrat, co-sponsor of House Bill 1080, perhaps the most controversial K - 12 education bill in the legislature thus far this year, was bristling when he rebuffed a fellow Democrat's calls for teacher appreciation moments ago.

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The royalties (or whatever you want to call it, but again I'm using royalty because that's the generally accepted term) on ebooks sold in Japan, India, Brazil, and Mexico is 35 %, unless you're in KDP Select, at which point you get 70 % as long as it meets the price requirements.

Speaking on an investor call about the deal, Microsoft's Andy Lees said neither company would be talking product roadmaps today, and pointed out that Microsoft has not done a teardown on the NOOK devices to see where they are in terms of Windows 8 requirements.

The Visa card's terms & conditions refer to a tiered redemption system («the amount of Points needed will vary by transaction»), but our calls to Barclays representatives did not confirm this.

(A term called as «Basis Points» is often used in monetary policy reviews.