Sentences with phrase «who drove this point home»

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The two opponents took it as an opportunity to drive home points about who has the strongest conservative credentials.

«He'll look at me and say, «Don, let's talk about that second point you had on Sunday,»» said Wilton, who drives up at least once a week to Graham's home.

Jesus never condemns civil authorities for executing murderers but builds on existing legal penalties to drive home the point that much much worse is coming down the pike for those who are unrepentant — eternal judgment.

Whether we're talking about who's better, Gerrard or Fabregas, or discussing which play was more batshit crazy, Paul Gascoigne or Eric Cantona, we like to drive our point home until the person listening to us HAS to agree with our point (because we are always right).

Suzanne at The Joyful Chaos who co-sleeps, but also says she's «not actually an advocate for co-sleeping,» drives the point home that you have to do what works best for your family in her post The Cosleeping Edition of my Attachment Parenting Freako - ness and sometimes that may very well differ from child to child.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a public hearing on March 20.

Sen. Catharine Young, an Olean Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, drove the point home during a legislative hearing with Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, telling him the idea, if enacted, will make both lawmakers and the governor «extraordinarily unpopular» with taxpayers.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a recent public hearing.

To drive the point home, imagine that we had a party in the USA whose economic policies were co-written by someone who had written dozens of articles for CounterPunch over the years.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

Margaret Chan, director - general of the WHO, drove the point home, telling the Council: «This is a threat to national security, beyond the outbreak countries.»

An intellectually grizzled Liev Schreiber plays the new editor Marty Baron, who makes this case the paper's mission on his very first day — in fact he invests Baron with an enigmatic quiet that drives home the film's point about how it sometimes takes an outsider to be able to get inside a local story.

Driving the point home, it claims, «Educators, for example, protect children from the rigors of testing, ban dodgeball, and promote just about any student who shows up.

(To drive this point home, Runyan - Shefa's predecessor, Neerav Kingsland, liked to tell the story of a class valedictorian who failed to graduate after flunking a math competency test five times.)

Other educators have pointed out to me that the Accelerated Reader program has a demoralizing effect on students who don't read as fluently as their peers, driving home their relative failure in a painfully public way.

To drive the point home, a plaque located at the front of the engine, near the oil dipstick, bears the name of the individual who constructed the turbo V - 6 for each GT - R.

A number of carbon - fiber adornments will come standard, and those who really want to drive the carbon - fiber point home can add a carbon front spoiler, diffuser and mirror housings.

A recent report really drives home the point that Android Developers who submit their apps to the Amazon App Store tend to make more money lately than on the official Google Android Market.

To drive the point home, Vettese ran the calculations for two employees:» Sally,» who invests 3 % of her salary in her company's DC plan of low - fee mutual funds (MER of 0.5 %), which her employer matches.

That's the point I want to drive home to those of you who are considering a move in the next few years.

But there's no age minimum for handlers in the breed rings, a point driven home to Thanksgiving Day TV watchers who saw (emphasis on the «awwww») 6 - year - old Mackenzie Huston and her long - coat Chihuahua in a semifinal round at the Kennel Club of Philadelphia's National Dog Show.

Kids who have a passion for playing Minecraft definitely won't need any convincing on this one, but we'll drive home the point for all you gamer parents out there, just in case.

FLAG Art Foundation's latest exhibition, «The Times,» drives that point home in presenting the work of more than 80 artists who incorporate physical (and ideological) aspects of the New York Times.

Americans and others who appreciate the moral horror of having stupid violent people kill very smart peaceful social marine mammals need now to follow up on this small victory and drive home the point that this is just the opening salvo of what they can expect if they continue to engage in their morally deprave, hypocritical behavior.

I think it's notable that the phenomenon that Grist is lampooning here — people defending their otherwise consumptive lifestyles by pointing to the green things that they do (and perhaps winkingly at the kind of folks who show up in support of Earth Day, plant a tree, and drive home and leave it at that)-- is a relatively new phenomenon.

Our From Home Driver Improvement program was designed specifically for Apopka, Forest City, Goldenrod, and Wekiva Springs drivers who need to dismiss negative points from their driving history.

This point was driven home to me years ago by a colleague who came to the United States as a refugee from Vietnam.