Sentences with phrase «way point of the year»

June will be very interesting as the half way point of the year and will give me a clearer picture of my total 2017 passive income potential.

We may have barely approached the half - way point of the year, but it looks like we already have a hearty contender for the best film of 2017.

As we reach the half - way point of the year, here is a review of the top six stories from 2016, based on page views and social media engagement....

We have official reached the half way point of the year and are about to begin the third quarter of game releases.

Not exact matches

For evidence, Ratner points to the way the rolling monthly trading volume of the Russell 1000 index has doubled in the past 20 years and become more spiky.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

Put another way, the investment would lose almost a fifth of its value in 30 years if the fees were only 0.65 percentage points higher.

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientOf course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patientof drawing blood from patients.

Just a few weeks after the market finally had come around to the Fed's way of thinking that three quarter - point rate hikes would be appropriate this year, the day's trading changed sentiment.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way from 1970 to 1986, at which point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area) rose drastically during the next three years.

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency industry has gained rapid exposure within the last few years, and with the crypto - community growing at a expeditious rate, the vast majority of blockchain enthusiasts have at some point questioned, if there is a way to earn cryptocurrency, without buying it.

Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, debuted his fourth signature shoe on June 1 during Game 1 of the NBA Finals, on the way to the team's second NBA championship in three years.

That's — we didn't sell much in last year because we had way too much Session and were — we expect that to be well in EMEA, in particular, where we see — as Nick had mentioned in his remarks, we see more competition at the lower end of the price point range versus the upper end.

Martin Feldstein, a long - time euro skeptic, in this month's Foreign Affairs magazine made the point this way: «During the past year, Germany had a trade surplus of nearly $ 200 billion, whereas the other members of the eurozone had trade deficits totaling $ 200 billion.

Wall Street is arbitraging the Fed's monetary policy by borrowing overnight money at 10 basis points and investing it in 10 - year treasuries at a yield of 200 basis points, capturing the profit and laughing all the way to the bank.

The only way Investing works to change your life is if you live to 300 years old like Warren Buffett grinding out the earnings potential of GE every quarter to gain a few percentage points in your portfolio.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

I could sit here and point out how stupid you are for believing in science, a group of people that once believed the Earth was flat as early as a few hundred years ago, or believed that bleeding someone out was the best way to cure the flu... or as early as the 40's and 50's that it was okay for people to drink water with high levels of radiation because it would give you energy and cure what ails ya.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

That was true because, as Romney advisor Jonathan Gruber pointed out, liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy «had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year» in order to fund Romneycare.

If you compared my writing from ten years ago with the writing I do today, I use different terminology, different approaches to proving my point, different vocabulary, and I even have different theological beliefs, supported by reading passages of Scripture in different ways, all to accomplish different goals in the minds and hearts of those who read.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

«Meditation research, particularly in the last 10 years or so, has shown to be very promising because it points to an ability of the brain to change and optimise in a way we didn't know previously was possible.»

To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper impact on ordinary mothers and fathers of a sick child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the other.

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

As essayist Katha Pollitt points out, the tendency to ascribe «particular virtues — compassion, patience, common sense, nonviolence — to mothers» is an overdone, and in some ways oppressive, cliché; telling yourself that toilet training a string of two - year - olds is good for your soul may keep you away from other worlds.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

The only way un-righteous domination, by those who would force their religion on others, has been changed over the years is by those people or risked speaking out and pointing out the flies in the ointment of religion, and thank God for them.

He develops his argument against atypically atheistic Darwinism around the fact of evolutionary convergence: «The central point is that because organisms arrive repeatedly at the same biological solution... this provides not only a degree of predictability, but more intriguingly points to a deeper structure to life...» His viewpoint is quite clear: «Metric - sized animals that are the end - result of many billions of years of prior stellar and biological evolution may be the only way to allow at least one species to begin its encounter with God.

I used to drink my coffee with tons of sugar, but I went on Weight Watchers a couple of years ago and that was a quick way to cut points so I just got used to it.

So this year I have made a point to get more creative with my breakfasts (in the same way you would with a workout) so that I have a good rotation of recipes to hand, to ensure my body and mind doesn't get bored and lazy!

With a year - round temperate climate, there is no better way to experience the magnificence of Temecula Valley Wine Country than from the vantage point of a hot air balloon.

«Then we need to transform the quality of the preparation into points and that is of course a pragmatic view, but what matters is we win the next game and start in a strong way, which we didn't do last year.

Big Ten Player of the Year Draymond Green led the way for the Spartans with 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.

Teams are taking points off each other so it is going to be tight all the way through and it is important to keep ourselves in the race for this busy time and into the New Year and it was a good way to start ahead of December.

Unfortunately the only people that can remove him is the ones that put him in charge of arsenal and the only way the board will move against wenger is when he does not meet their expectations, have you heard any one of the board members come out and say fourth is not acceptable, for several years he has guarantee the board money from the champions league, they also have several agreements or contract signed with major companies, all that points to money coming back to the board.

In no way is it contingent on the Bears drafting your selected pairing, however, it may score you bonus points at the end of the year vote from your fellow WCG contributors.

The number of teams wanting QBs is relatively constant as you point out, but this year's talent pool is unique in a bad way.

North of this point lies the «potato patch,» at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, where a few years ago a wine tanker foundered after a particularly large dollop of water fell off a wave and found its way down the tanker's stack, flooding her engines and sending her to the bottom.

Scholes had claimed in his article in The Independent that Ozil had taken an easy option by coming to the Emirates and pointed to the fact that a lot of our best players in the last 10 years have gone the other way.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

I do take «Break - on - through's» point that a change in system under a different manager may of helped him, but looking at the way he has played over the years I do not see that happening.

Another talking point is that Arsene Wenger is currently in the last year of his contract, so unless he is to sign another extension, he really needs to achieve something big as a way to end his 21 year legacy at the helm of the club.

liverpool is 3 nil up against west ham away and theres no way they will drop points in the last game of the season... worst season for 10 years

Disappointment in the pre-season transfer window, followed by rationalizations of why we should give the team and Wenger a chance and not write them off before a ball is kicked in anger, followed by analyzing each set back as «too early to panic» followed by excuses about injuries and referees, followed by anger and disappointment after the inevitable reality sets in and Arsenal are effectively eliminated from the PL race before the year is even finished and the PL has reached its half way point.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

If you assume next year's 2nd is worth an average third this year, should put us within 30 — 40 points of even and since a first rounder carries the 5th year option, they might just bite (I honestly don't think GMs worry about a handful of points one way or the other at the top of the draft if they can get «their guy (s)»)...