Sentences with phrase «while gaining points»

From East to West Coast, you'll compete against NBA stars, NBA legends, and street hoopsters while gaining points to unlock even more players.

Not exact matches

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

Sales for clothing stores like Reed's grew a particularly strong 1.2 percentage points over the prior month, while electronics and appliance outlets saw a sizable 0.9 percent gain.

In other words, since December 2015, it has gained 62 basis points, while the three - month yield has gained 174 basis points.

The former more closely - watched data have pointed to steady and healthy job gains in 2015 while the latter indicator has struggled to post even negligible growth.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day up 421 points, or 2.4 %, while the S&P 500 gained 48 points, or 2.4 %, and the Nasdaq composite added 104 points, or 2.2 %.

For example, between 2000 and 2009, Korea posted a 15 - point gain in reading on the OECD's PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) while Canada posted a 10 - point decline.

She is down 2 percent from a week ago, while Trump gained 2 points.

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The market found its footing this past week, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 427.38 points, or 1.8 %, to 24,360.14, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2 %, to 2656.30, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.8 %, to 7106.65.

The Dow posted a triple digit point gain while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all gained as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicated that economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions.

The net gain from Dow reporters was about 7 points, while the Dow declined 29 points.

The key point is this: while monetary easing has been positively associated with stock market gains over the following 10 months or so, the essential driver of those gains has been the recovery of preceding losses in the months leading up to each round of QE, rather than de novo returns.

The Chinese indices trade mixed, with the Shanghai Composite erasing early gains to now trades -0.30 % lower at 3,142 points while the Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index is up over 0.40 % at 22,050.

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While data so far is pointing in the right direction for imetelstat, investors won't see any gains from recent levels until Johnson & Johnson agrees to license the drug.

According to an article in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the U.S. economy has been expanding at a rate greater than 3.5 percent for four of the last five quarters, creating enough freight demand to significantly boost trucking revenue while tightening supply to the point where carriers can gain considerable rate increases.

While orthodoxy gains it no points» there are pious retellings of Bible stories that no one cares to reread» might apostasy cost it?

«The tasting room is the key to survival while your brand is gaining traction,» he points out.

While consumers may just now be gaining awareness about GMOs in cosmetics, Pineau points out that informed shoppers will support brands with shared values beyond the grocery department.

I had been a long time «points» member, and was gaining weight while eating my whole grains and fruit by the pounds!

Kappa Sig would follow in 2nd place for the first hour gaining 12 points in the Standings while ZBT JR took 3rd and ZBT SO Levenfeld took home a few points in 4th.

It's a bizarre case of two points dropped and one point gained following our 2 - 2 draw with Tottenham, as while we really should have got the win over our north London rivals, we were forced to come from behind having been reduced to ten men in order to salvage a point.

All we can hope at the moment is those in front of us drops points while we gain and we do not owe mancity a thing, they needed that win.

Last week, Wyoming allowed 624 yards and 56 points in a 59 - 56 win over Hawaii, while Utah State scored 13 points and gained 191 yards in a 13 - 0 win over Colorado State.

Saturday sees the Gunners take on a struggling AFC Bournemouth side at the Emirates Stadium and there is no doubt that the boss will be fielding a strong and Arsenal side as possible as it is vital that we add another three points to those gained in the opening game against Leicester, while also getting the home fans back on side after a slow start and a frustrating transfer window.

Arsenal beat Brighton 2 - 0 at the Emirates earlier in the season, but at the time the Gunners were on an unbeaten run of ten games at home, while Brighton had gained only one point on the road and were favourites for relegation, but this match has a completely different complexion looking at recent form.

While Team Maione (Tamales) is on a roll since gaining their first points in Week 4.

Three points gained while most of the relegation rivals lost has put some daylight between the Hammers and the bottom three.

Swansea and West Brom lost while fellow strugglers Newcastle, Southampton and Stoke could only manage draws limiting their point gain to one.

While the home loss to Manchester City and away draw to Watford amount to a loss of five points, a home win against Crystal Palace and an away win against Leicester City amount to a gain of six.

Which is why Saturday's clash with out of sorts Blackburn is monumental, as while Norwich are enjoying their lofty position, avoiding the drop remains their primary objective this season and so every point taken from their survival rivals will be a point gained.

All the group stages qualifying matches for the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup have concluded and some national sides have managed to earn their ticket for the approaching competition while others have not been able to gain enough points to actually qualify and compete at the approaching international competition.

My data point: I gained 4 - 5 lbs while trying to get pregnant, then gained 40 lbs with pregnancy.

Some pregnant women may notice that they have gained a few pounds by this point, while others may have actually lost weight.

From this point until labor, baby will pack on a weight gain that can range from one pound to many pounds, while also accumulating copious amounts of baby fat that is making their little bodies plump, soft, and perfect for you to hold in your adoring arms.

The nice thing about this video is that while it definitely has fun with and gains emotional punch through stereotypes, it makes its points with facts.

While Labour support is ebbing away, the Tories still need to be a good 10 percentage points ahead to gain a workable majority.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

For example, while the Q poll and SurveyUSA showed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a surprisingly tight race with her GOP / Conservative challenger, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, Siena found DioGuardi has failed to gain any post-primary momentum and trails her by 26 percentage points (57 - 31 with 12 percent undecided).

While the race has narrowed to about three points in Pennsylvania, Trump still hasn't shown he is gaining enough working - class white voters to offset the moderate suburbanites he has driven away.

While pointing out that the Commission was mindful of the enormous task of conducting elections in a country with the largest database in Africa, Prof. Yakubu also revealed some of the steps already taken by the Commission to consolidate democratic gains.

Coons said that while Diamond Point homeowners have faced the inconvenience of producing identification to prove they were local residents, out - of - area renters were gaining entry with beach passes provided without much scrutiny by the town — and some of the cards were being shared freely among non-residents.

The researcher suggested that this may point to a possible explanation for the phenomenon that some persons seem to gain weight after only one extra piece of cake, while others can gorge on sweets without gaining at all — different body weights despite having the same diet.

Again, this provides assistance with the lifter's weakest portion of the lift, while increasing the challenge at his / her strongest point, ultimately providing a substantial increase in strength gains.

First of all, as it turns out, building muscle is not so much about the amount of weight that you lift as it is about reaching the point of muscular fatigue, so you are free to drop the heavy weights once in a while without worrying that your gains will be at risk.

While the sample Henry Cavill workout above will help you gain muscle like a mother * ucker, it will only work if your diet is on point.

Once you've reached the above mentioned «I've gained as much excess fat as I'm going to allow» point, it's time to switch from a muscle building phase (where your goal was gaining muscle while keeping fat gain to a minimum) into a fat loss phase (where your goal will be to lose fat while maintaining all of the muscle you just built).

While at first the gains of muscle mass come rather quickly, soon after you hit a plateau (a point where gains -LSB-...]