Sentences with phrase «which at least pointing»

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Most Canadian graduate business schools require you to have completed a bachelor's degree before applying, and the majority expect you to have earned a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 / 4.0, which is roughly a B average.

This card, which carries an $ 95 annual fee after the first year, also doesn't assess foreign transaction fees and offers 25,000 points if you spend at least $ 3,000 within three months of opening the account.

The report points to September 2015 data released by the Government Accountability Office, which shows about 330,000 people, or roughly 11 % of the Americans who've taken out Parent Plus loans, have gone at least a year without making a payment.

But at least we can make a start, and I am going to urge that we bring back those bills, maybe reconfigure them to center on mental health which is a point where we can agree that we need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped and the Congress will be complicit if we fail to act.»

Wozniak could at least enjoy a handsome return on his undisclosed investment, which, alas, wasn't the point: «I've never been into money in any way.

They have a point, but if we are not going to do that, which we are not — at least not yet — then we must get the oil to market.

100,000 Marriott points is good enough for at least two nights at the Wailea Beach Resort, which start at 40,000 points a night.

20,000 bonus points if you make at least $ 1,000 in purchases in the first 90 days of your account opening - which can be redeemed for a $ 200 statement credit toward travel purchases

At this point, we would require at least a strong rally in bonds or a significant improvement in market breadth, both which have stalled latelAt this point, we would require at least a strong rally in bonds or a significant improvement in market breadth, both which have stalled latelat least a strong rally in bonds or a significant improvement in market breadth, both which have stalled lately.

Last week I noted that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I expected the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

The card offers a bonus of 25,000 points when you make at least $ 1,000 in net purchases within 60 days of your account opening which can be redeemed for a $ 250 statement credit towards travel purchases.

For one, infrequent travelers or restaurant diners won't earn enough in points with this card to justify its $ 95 annual fee, at least after the first year (for which the fee is waived).

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

But, Alberta does not have the constitutional authority, at least so far as I can tell, to regulate the point and method by which exports take place, nor does it necessarily have any authority to interrupt specific exports which would otherwise be permissible with respect to aggregate export restrictions.

Bottom Line: The current sign up bonus is 50,000 Chase points (which is worth at least $ 625), but the most value comes from transferring to their partners.

At the very least, they might have noticed that Mr. Trump isn't showing the same level of concern for hurricane damage in their island as he did for earlier damage to Texas and Florida, both of which he had visited by this point.

Those who earn at least 110,000 qualifying Rapid Rewards points within a single year can earn a companion pass that is valid through the remainder of the year in which it's earned, plus the following calendar year.

I'm currently locked into a 5/1 jumbo ARM at a juicy 2.35 % with 0 points and around $ 3,100 in fees, which is at least 0.15 % lower than anywhere else I've found.

At the same time, 2 - year notes were enticing with 58 basis points, which at the very least was more attractive than the 14 basis points you could have gotten in 201At the same time, 2 - year notes were enticing with 58 basis points, which at the very least was more attractive than the 14 basis points you could have gotten in 201at the very least was more attractive than the 14 basis points you could have gotten in 2011.

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad defined flash events as occasions on which prices moved by at least 200 basis points within an hour but returned to within 75 basis points of the starting -LSB-...]

In practice, that means that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I would expect the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

Jeff makes the point that the classic bubbles of yesterday gained 1000 % or more, but they did so over at least 10 years, which is why they became so embedded in the economy and so widespread across investor portfolios.

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

But it is noteworthy that Reno also, at least in this book, never gets to that originating Christological point toward which he set out.

Straus has pointed out that effective therapy for homeless alcoholics «must offer substitute reward values for abstinence which will be at least equivalent to the reward value of excessive drinking and which will not require greater effort than is required by drinking.»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

But every responsibly acting physician will give an at least implicitly correct answer in which he reaches an absolute ethic at least at one point.

So while yes, the meme DOES attack religion for demeaning and victimizing women (which was the original point of the original cartoon), it ALSO attacks (or at least shifts blame to) the victim herself.

An interesting point to take is that Saturnalia, the god of the sun, was their god for Christmas celebration, and later turned «Worship the sun'to «worship the son», which would have occurred after they adopted Catholicism, and wanted to keep the traditions of their old religion by making parallels to the Bible (at least it sounds reasonable)

It is, however, basically compatible with a Whiteheadian world view, in my judgment, provided that one accepts a key point on which I differ, if not from Whitehead, at least from some Whiteheadians.

will have to be assumed and telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think are critical questions — critical in the sense that they represent, at least in my opinion, points on which greater clarity is required if the community of Christ's discipleship is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.

It also ignores the sheer chances brought up by the Fermi Paradox, which would seem to point to us being special, or at least the process leading to us begin different from the process that many atheists believe led to our existence.

The president's giant turnip of a campaign in 2008 is perhaps a trap from which a mere reliance on the auxiliary precautions of the constitutional form of government could withstand — at least from a conservative point of view.

The frequency with which these conditions or circumstances are in place is not to the point; what is to the point is only that there be some such conditions or circumstances, and that they be of the kind that (at least logically) may not be in place.

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

But the fact that the form in which this treatise is clothed is what it is, is at least the result of due reflection, and at all events it is certainly correct from a psychological point of view.

But at least, and however illusionary it may be, the appeal to nature posits a vantage point from which a radical critique of culture becomes possible.134

That, at least, is the jumping off point for a very intense questioning of the role of the Cross in Christianity that takes place in the Fall issue of Tikkun magazine, which should be received at your home this week if you are a suscriber (and if not, you could subscribe now on line at http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/purchase-or-renew-a-subscription-to-tikkun).

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.»

To push this point a bit further, I think there is at least one strand of the New Testament interpretation of Jesus which illustrates this conception of power.

The debacle of the Nixon presidency, which Graham had strongly supported, signaled a turning point, if not consistently in practice, at least in aspiration.

The hope that continues beyond the point of death is that one's life will be accepted by God as having fulfilled some part, at least, of the purpose for which one was created.

Not, it is true (at least not yet, here below) synthesis pushed to the point where it calls into being some new kind of autonomous super-center in the depths of the synthesized, but a synthesis which at least suffices to erect, as though it were a vault above our heads, a domain of interwoven consciousness, the site, support and instrument of super-vision and super-ideas.

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

But it is just this supposedly impenetrable envelope of pure «phenomenon» which the rebounding thrust of human evolution pierces, at least at one point, since by its nature it is irreversible.

But, allowing for considerable oversimplification, I can at least try to make clear the essential point: the understanding of reality expressed in this kind of metaphysics is one for which all our distinctive experience and thought as modern secular men is negative evidence.

On the other hand, if find out that God does exist (something I believe in), you'll at least have scored some points for your faith which could help your candidacy for heaven.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

A major turning point was Iraq war, during which the group al Qaeda in Iraq staged attacks that killed huge numbers of civilians, tarnishing the al Qaeda brand in eyes of Muslims who had expressed at least tacit support for the organization.