Sentences with phrase «working against point»

I know it feels super convenient to have him able to handle the night time trips the potty all by himself, but I think it's working against point # 3: He just might need more involvement / coaching on getting back to sleep.

Not exact matches

By collecting data points from users» bikes, including revolutions per minute, speed, and distance, and matching it against other Peloton cyclists, the company says it motivates customers to work harder.

One alarming theme of the book for a lot of business owners is that once you reach a certain point of success or a certain point of wealth, it actually can work against you and become a disadvantage.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

[108] Upon learning how the plan would work, New Jersey native residents railed against it, comparing it to using one credit card to pay off another, pointing out that it would create hardship for commuters and noting that it would actually increase the state's $ 32 billion debt.

The problem, for Aristophanes, is that there's no argument against incest from the point of view of pure reason that works on the individual level.

On this point, then, I look forward to Smith's continued work on articulating a criterion for identifying the secular liturgies that cut against the Gospel.

My point is rather that the justification of bigger and bigger corporations with less and less commitment to any geographical community, even the nation, works against community and true human welfare.

Although the classical economists pointed this out in order to support national markets over against local ones, the argument works equally well for a global market over against national ones.

So the Church working through the churches faced the question of revolution and came to the conclusion that there was a point where people might and should rebel against their Government.

It's funny when your points work against you.

After that point I feel like I was shown that I had been working against God all along and His people....

The writings of Irenaeus, (c. 130 - 200), especially his massive work Against the Heresies (Adversus Haereses), is a case in point.

While all of these factors will not operate equally on every level, a combination of one or more will be found at work on each of three levels: (1) factors which make one vulnerable to alcoholism; (2) factors which determine the selection of alcoholism as a symptom, as over against all the other types of psychopathological symptoms; and (3) factors which cause alcoholism to be self - perpetuating once it has reached a certain point.

Earlier today before I departed for work, I pointed out the Biblical truths regarding the prohibitions against gay marriage in the BIble.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

The religion of a company or its owner is not the point, it is when Dan Cathy «came out» and publicly proclaimed his position that gays should be deprived of the rights everyone else has, invoked the «wrath of his God» against gays, and it was discovered he was providing millions of dollars to groups working to deprive gays of their rights.

this blog is not working with me... I'll have to catch you guys on another post... it will not accept long post... This is my main point against the scientific method argument; it is consensus in the scientific community that most of our Universe is unseen.

It was, I suspect, at the point when the penny finally dropped, that this Pope was as anti-relativist and anti-secularist as he had ever been, and that the battle against the secularisation of the modern world was going to be the great work of his pontificate, that the secularists began to think of actually organising against him.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

At this point Barth is fully in line with the Reformation message when he declares (against Rudolph Bultmann) that redemption is wrought by Christ «outside of us, without us, and even against us» and yet, because this is true, also for us and even in us.

3 points is 3 points, whether it's against Dinamo Zagreb or Bayern Munich, so now we are going to have to work a lot harder to make up for lost points.

Now consider what that combination has wrought thus far: Among the 30 wins the Lady Vols have collected this season, by an average of 31.3 points, 12 are against Top 25 teams.

The MVP has had plenty of success against Deng this season, averaging 28.0 points on 63.8 percent shooting in the four games, however, the Bulls» All - Star always makes James work hard for his points.

United fans will no doubt be disappointed things haven't worked out better with Pogba, though for this weekend their focus will surely be on Mourinho picking a team that can get three points against Chelsea.

Fielding the top team we can is obviously a priority... But the same fans who seem to preach that, are the same ones who will relentlessly berate Wenger if an injury occurs or we pull up sluggish and drop points against a very organized, hard - working Everton..

And as you point out, he has faced a myriad of styles against decent opposition since and nothing seems to work.

Talking Points Now, let us not be delusional of the fact that Arsenal play possession based football, which, some days, does work against you.

2 points today against Everton is the order of the day then you can go into work head held high.

Liverpool won't win against Westham, the best they will get is a draw, we just have to take that chance when it comes... however, we have serious work to do, beat Stoke and Everton... I wish Stoke was coming to the Emirates, it would have been a sure 3 points...

So I can understand why the pundit and former Arsenal striker Charlie Nicholas is looking at the way the Gunners got that point against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and suggesting in a Sky Sports report that Arsene Wenger drops the club's two big name stars Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, because they were absent from that game as well and it seemed to work out pretty well for us.

Some may point to the fact that Chelsea only had 3 but if you assess the situation, Chelsea were never going to come out guns blazing at Arsenal, Chelsea thrive on controlling the game and counter attacks, having a free flowing game of attacking football is in Arsenal's best interest not Chelsea's and as such they would do everything to break up the play, seek for one off opportunities to get a goal and or get goals from set pieces and it worked like a charm against us.

It worked brilliantly vs man city but failed against tottenham but i wouldn't blame the philosophy, if you compare the two you see we were missing OX who i think would've tore the spuds a new one and who in my opinion has at this point surpassed walcott defensively and offensively.

Hoping Swansea get some points against Manchester United tomorrow... #Great weekend but there's still work to be done @ Arsenal.

against a poor side but the team worked hard together to earn the three points......... they deserve our collective adulation............ not focusing on individual mistakes.........

Until we balance midfield and he applys what worked for him before we will do that same things, lose against the big guys (literally) and fall a half dozen points short.

INSHAA ALLAH this season we will the win the league of we just keep focus, treat one game at a time, don't be afraid of man city, man utd, tottenham, Liverpool, Everton when we we play them away just be patient and respect them at their home grounds sit deep and work hard and we wil get the important results in our favour in these games and also don't underestimate small sides because these games can give you points and if we you lose or draw against these sides then it can cause huge dent in our title ambitions... COYG!!!

i know im not the only one who suspected this whole relationship going public was a work for the shows on E! The constant arguement made against that was something to the extent of «what does john gain from that» and thats a fair point when you take physical attraction out of it.

A managers responsibility is: 1) To assemble a team with the right mental, physical and technical ability 2) To develop the players individually 3) To select the team best suited to get the result against the opposing team 4) To implement the right tactics against the opponents in all matches 5) To create team spirit 6) To motivate then players to work 100 % always 7) By way of the first 5 points to get the best possible result for the club

New owners are coming in, with Derek Jeter fighting against Jeb Bush, unless they're working together to stop Mitt Romney, unless that's Tagg Romney, unless Michael Jordan is about to dunk on all of them, or form partnerships, or... look, it's a mess, but the larger point is that Jeffrey Loria is going to turn $ 158 million into about $ 1.5 billion.

The No. 2 seed Bearcats held a 22 - point lead with 11:37 left in the second half against a Nevada team that — working with a six - man rotation and barely two days of rest after an overtime win in Round 1 — would have been forgiven for looking up at the scoreboard, coming to terms with Cincy's penchant for squeezing the life out of opposing offenses and calling it a day.

And while the marriage of Hurts and coordinator Brian Daboll worked well enough to torch iffy defenses in 2017 — 8.2 yards per play and 66 points against Ole Miss, 7.8 and 41 against Arkansas, 7.3 and 59 against Vanderbilt — it again labored against the best defenses on the schedule.

Gurriel is Tanaka's second strikeout victim of the game: it's been grounders that are working for the righty so far, as he's induced nine of them against one out in the air to this point.

The Broncos are six - point home favorites against the Colts though they may need to work on their defense.

Next month's Coppa Italia final against Juventus will be the defining match of the campaign for Milan but they won't have to work too hard to defeat Benevento, who are 11 points adrift at the foot.

Chelsea's ambition in regaining their second place spot in English Premier League standings didn't work as planned with Antonio Conte's men only picking up a point from their midweek clash against Arsenal.

«We've had some tough games so far but we had that win against Southampton, we've got five points from four games and it's something we can work with.»

Talking point: Northern Ireland showed more attacking intent than against Poland after manager Michael O'Neill made a number of changes from the opening game against Poland, including dropping striker Kyle Lafferty to the bench, Conor Washington came in and worked hard to close down Ukraine's defenders, while his team - mates closely marshalled Ukraine's wide man, Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka.