Sentences with phrase «wins points by»

This one also wins points by being almost completely silent in its function.

The old TV series, with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby, had a nonchalant humor and won points by not making too much of its then - audacious interracial partnership.

A simple game to win points by finding eggs or a bunny.

Then play stirring whole - class game with it (You read a sentence and they try to win a point by saying the colour — in German — that the phrase is written in, before you finish.

If they are making the specific effort to get that message across, you won't win any points by ignoring it.

Not exact matches

Enter to win The new Sprinter by completing a short essay or submitting a video to tell us how a new van would take your business to the next level (extra points for submitting a video!).

«I think that it's one of those things where a team wins the Super Bowl and maybe you want them to win by a few more points, but it's a Super Bowl winner.

Gill said she was encouraged by what AB Inbev (BUD) had done with its other craft brands, which include Goose Island, Blue Point, 10 Barrel and Elysian, and that Golden Road wanted to be with «the winning horse.»

The suburban Chicago district is solidly blue — Hillary Clinton won it by 15 points in the 2016 general election — and both Lipinski and Newman supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary.

Mitchell's poll had Clinton winning by 27 points over Sanders of Vermont.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, down in public polls by more than 20 points to Hillary Clinton in the state, stormed to an upset win over the former secretary of state.

The past 15 polls listed for Michigan on RealClearPolitics had Clinton winning the state by at least 10 points.

Another recent poll from Mitchell had her winning by a whopping 37 points.

But he missed the central, rural part of the state by 20 points: He had polled a 10 - point Trump lead while Trump ended up winning that area by 30 points.

The new plant — in a state Trump won by 28 points in 2016 — could be a political boost to the Republican president, who has urged automakers to build plants in the United States and add jobs.

Bloomberg maintained high approval ratings for nearly all of his 12 years as New York City's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic city.

Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.

This is all a guess, mind you, but I'd rather take the points and hope than find myself in the second quarter hoping that Brian Hoyer and the Patriots second unit and win by two touchdowns.

Employees «win» by accumulating points via various dietary and exercise mechanisms, though not necessarily for superior athleticism.

Biles won gold in four of five events and routinely smashed her competition by several points.

Larson ranks second this year after being docked points by NASCAR for a violation on his car, but at this rate, he's at the front of the pack so often he has to be considered the favorite to win his first Cup.

In every scenario they back - tested, various portfolios of CHAA — winning companies substantially outperformed the returns of the S&P from 2001 to 2014 — often by 200 percentage points or more.

«Guys like Conor Lamb in districts that the president won by 20 points are gonna need room to say some things that in a place like Fairfield County, Connecticut would be problematic with the so - called base — not so - called base but the base.»

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

Trump had won the Arizona district by more than 20 percentage points in 2016.

At the start of the week, the Eagles were favored by nine points, meaning that Philadelphia would have to win by at least 10 points for Eagles backers to cash their bets.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.

From the city's point of view, the process of presenting a challenge and being offered an in - depth solution by a group of enthusiastic, creative students seemed like a big win.

Trump, who won the state by nearly 30 points, watched Tuesday as Republican Roy Moore lost to Jones by 1.5 points — an incredible swing in just a 13 - month span.

The Lakers shot 27 free throws in the fourth quarter and scored 16 of their last 18 points at the free throw line to win by four points.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Murphy won handily each time, beating his opponent by at least 15 percentage points.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

And yet exit polls show he carried veterans, 60 - 34; Romney won them by 20 points, McCain won them by 10.

More to the point, politicians seek to win votes by placating labor on the eve of elections.

Pollster Frank Graves of Ekos Research points out that Jean Chrétien's 1993 win wasn't followed by any «post-election swoon,» while Paul Martin after 2004 and Stephen Harper after 2011 suffered declines which, far from being short - term slumps, proved irreversible.

The first hotels will open in Mississippi, where Trump won by 18 percentage points in the presidential race.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

Opinion of the tax reform plan is divided in «red» counties that Trump won by at least ten percentage points in 2016 - 34 % approve and 37 % disapprove.

«Government documents revealed that B.C. taxpayers have been fronting legal fees for at least six of Christy Clark's current and former employees in connection to the so - called «Quick Wins» scandal and the ongoing criminal investigation by Special Prosecutor David Butcher,» said David Eby, MLA for Vancouver Point Grey.

«The GOP has pinned their 2018 strategy on marketing a delusion, and voters see through it — including the 2016 Trump voters in Pennsylvania's 18th district who'd been calling the tax plan a «giveaway to the rich» weeks before Republicans were trounced in a place Trump won by 20 [points].»

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

During the 2014 Winter Olympics your signing bonus was increased depending on the number of medals won by Team USA — 500 points for every gold, 250 for every silver, and 100 for every bronze.

Trump spoke as his White House tried to pick up the pieces after Democrats» apparent victory in a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

Cartman (the Jew - hating, selfish, supremicist) was on the Debate Team, and he never debated a single point, he would win by insulting the other speaker into submission.

I get that you see this outside of religion but my point here, finisher is basically stating that we are wrong by insulting and indirectly fighting for christianity... you don't win people over with hate.

Unless we are to adopt a standard under which the religious freedom claimant always wins, then we must pick a point, by some method, at which the claimant loses.

Please respond with as many emoticons as possible by the way, personally I count each point you make with an emoticon as a win, so the more emoticons you use, the more I know I'm right.

If the pro-life side truly wins a basic point, for example, by persuading people of the dignity of every human person» then that principle will begin to inform other life issues.

Messengers who observed a battle from different vantage points could differ greatly on how the battle was won, and still all be correct in reporting that the country has been saved by a great victory.