Sentences with phrase «which point things»

For example, this spring it took Laurel over a month to tell us about the fact that she was getting bullied at school (at which point things had escalated badly).

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When negotiating, the biggest thing to consider are the pain points on each side, which could be personal or professional.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

At one point, the game's outsourced code became so problematic that they had to scrap the whole thing, which delayed the launch by a year.

In that same vein, they also tend to want things that are scarcer, which is why limited - time offers tend to be a big selling point.

A clear summary of your points is possibly the best thing you can do to not just deliver value to the reader, but also make the book memorable, which helps you sell more books.

Irving pointed to Hulu's experience in the market and a partnership with streaming tech company MLB Advanced Media — which works with Vue — as reasons to think it'll avoid those troubles, but also said it is investing in another «set of partnerships» related to streaming tech to make things faster.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

At which point, a thought crosses my mind: Isn't this whole cupcake thing a total fad?

Today, signs point to the emergence of a new era, driven by the rise of «big data» — the 2.5 quintillion bytes produced each day, which represent the collective output of every person, organization and instrumented thing.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

If that sounds like a familiar point, it's the exact conclusion of the 75 - year Harvard Grant Study, which found that the number - one thing people need in order to be fulfilled and happy is to develop relationships with other people.

If the Internet of Things is like social media, we're at the point in which Friendster and MySpace were still relevant.

If Samsung, Microsoft and every other tech company really is interested in having their own smartwatches, the field is going to get really crowded, really fast, at which point the same thing will happen as in tablets — the bottom will fall out of prices.

A Twitter account known as Pwn All The Things, which is popular among cyber-security types, pointed out that an online personality known as Guccifer 2.0 — which is widely regarded to be a front for Russian hackers — has acknowledged giving private documents — including those tied to the Hillary Clinton campaign — to Wikileaks.

The leader's social media presence offers guidelines and boundaries, making clear the limits of the company's online personality and the point at which things get inappropriate.

Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.

Used correctly, a credit card can not only provide the added benefit of points and rewards, but also help establish a healthy credit score which will be valuable for such things as a lease or mortgage in the future.»

The Howards have been pleasantly surprised at the number of customers who fill out BizRate's 10 - point survey, which covers things like customer support.

Gawker pointed out that Zuckerberg's donation is going toward furthering the things that he thinks would help the world, which are not necessarily the things that other people think would help the world.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

As my friend Andrew Crane points out there are many dimensions along which to evaluate the ethics of any product — including not just the intrinsic properties of the product but also things like the process of production and nation of origin.

Linens & Things, which at one point had annual sales of $ 2.7 billion, later came back to life as an online only brand.

You'll get 2x points on every purchase which you can redeem for a variety of things - travel, statement credits, and more.

When the central banks take the bonds out of circulation the supply and demand dynamics naturally kick in (which is what they want, until things turn south, as you point out).

At some point, though, things changed — to the point where the Fox sitcom, which aired its 100th episode Tuesday night, was able to replace its star entirely with another character played by Megan Fox, to cover for Deschanel's maternity leave.

The framework contemplates an enhanced child tax credit that will make things better, but there's no detail here at all, including on the income point at which the enhanced child credit will start to phase out.

You'll be spending the money on the things that earn the most points — dining and travel — and you can also enjoy that 1:1 point transfer with all your favorite airline and hotel loyalty programs, which, for those of us who are really into our loyalty programs, can be a big deal.

As Google continues to turn the screw towards a fully fledged pay - to - play model my bet is that we'll see even more keyword inflation over the next few years, though ultimately there may be a point at which things start to plateau.

Management is pleased with how things are going, pointing once again to a book - to - bill ratio above 1, which signals a rising order backlog.

1 Assuming the Fed trims the balance sheet by approximately $ 1.5 trillion, and that quantitative easing and quantitative tightening are reasonably symmetric in their effect on treasury yields (which may or may not be the case), you could surmise that all things being equal, long - term rates will react by rising around 35 basis points in the coming years.

Paul Graham points out that sometimes doing what does not scale is essential to enabling critical mass which does allow a business to scale: «One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.

Unfortunately, in the area of tax advice, the only thing we can point you towards are these IRS guidelines, which I'm sure you are already well familiar with.

On the reward side of things, this card provides 1 point for every $ 1 spent, which comes out to a rewards rate of 1 %.

Mark Whitmore: This is Mark Whitmore, I keep forgetting we have two Mark's on the line here, and Chris you absolutely interpreted what I was trying to say correctly, and kind of to follow up a little bit, I think one of the things that the other Mark pointed out is the issue of timing, and whereas the two prevailing investing paradigms out there seem to be this notion of efficient market theory which attempts to just buy and hold the market no matter what, completely price indifferent.

He pointed out that Mayor Steve Adler's communication to Amazon, which is thinking about locating its second headquarters in Austin, lacked all the things Bellm felt it should have: An appeal to Amazon to come, a pitch about all the advantages, a list of things Austin would do if Amazon came.

So the point is, we would've had a somewhat higher return if we hadn't been cautious, but our caution gave us the courage to be fully invested, which was the right thing.

Another thing to note about American Express's rewards program is that there are no differences in points redemptions based on which card you have.

His stance caught the attention of Wall Street analysts and reporters, becoming a point of high controversy until the crash of 2008, occasioned by many of the things of which Byrne had warned.

his whole point was that those who * feign * humility in claiming «no one can make such exclusive claims» are actually DOING the very thing to which they're objecting.

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

Many things are discovered at a point in time, before which time no proof existed.

why not diabetes or blood pressure medicine which has more universal and might I say LIFE SAVING need????, because contraception, and anything that addresses a women's «choice» are things that would win brownie point among the liberal democrats.

Neither can they become disposable accessories — a point Coughlin makes clear in one of the book's essays, «What Truths We Hold,» which also appeared as a First Things web column.

It is a question of faith — faith that the truth of Christ, for which he gave his life, points beyond the narcissism of plausibility to the one thing necessary for our fulfillment as cognitive and loving human beings.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

In short, you missed my whole point, which was that morality is not the only purpose for faith and, perhaps, not even the most important thing about faith.

Please anyone who responds to this don't name names; those of us familiar with the writing styles know which posts we're talking about and there's no point in stirring things.

You may say you don't give a flying flip about those things, which is exactly the point.

This means, says Isaac of Nineveh, «the mind detached from earthly things and the whole heart pointed to that on which it hopes».