Before the 2018 midterm elections, redistricting expert Dave Wasserman worked with the team at FiveThirtyEight to create an Atlas of Redistricting that makes the point well.
One of the main sticking points was it was found that the NSA had hacked Petrobras, the state-owned oil company.
That’s the only kind of endurance I’m going to cosign for at this point.
Despite its massive growth, Snowflake is not without its sore points.
The point of sharing this script is to make it easy for everyone to see the impact of this change on their own accounts.
The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.
Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
:a place of which the position alone is considered; spot: We're leaving for Chicago and points west.
:any definite position, as in a scale, course, etc.: the boiling point.
: a particular spot on the body at which a needle may be inserted, as to relieve pain.
:Navigation. any of 32 separate horizontal directions, 11° 15′ apart, as indicated on the card of a compass or gauged with reference to the heading of a vessel.
:Nautical.Also called point of sail·ing . the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
:a degree or stage: frankness to the point of insult.
:a particular instant of time: It was at that point that I told him he'd said enough.
:a critical position in a course of affairs: Morale had reached a low point.
:a decisive state of circumstances: He reached the point where he could no longer pay his debts.
:the important or essential thing: the point of the matter.
:the salient feature of a story, epigram, joke, etc.: to miss the point.
:a particular aim, end, or purpose: He carried his point.
:a hint or suggestion: points on getting a job.
:a single or separate article or item, as in an extended whole; a detail or particular: the fine points of a contract.
:an individual part or element of something: noble points in her character.
:a distinguishing mark or quality, especially one of an animal, used as a standard in stockbreeding, judging, etc.
:points, the external features of an animal, especially a horse or dog, that make up its conformation: Besides the withers, pastern, and barrel, how many points of the horse can you identify?
:a single unit, as in counting.
:a unit of count in the score of a game: Our team won by five points.
: the number that must be thrown to win but not including 7 or 11 on the first roll: Your point is 4.
:Ice Hockey. either of two positions, to the right or left of the goal, to which an attacking defenseman is assigned, usually in the execution of a power play, to help keep the puck in the attacking zone.
:Basketball. a position in the front court, usually taken by the guard in charge of setting up the team's offense.
:Cricket. the position of the fielder who plays a short distance in front of and to the offside of the batsman.the fielder playing this position.
:Chiefly Boxing. the end or tip.
:Hunting. the action of a hunting dog that indicates the presence and location of game by standing rigid and directing its head toward the game.the position taken by a hunting dog in pointing game.
:a branch of an antler of a deer: an eight-point buck.
:Sports. a cross-country run.
:one of the narrow tapering spaces marked on a backgammon board.
:Education. a single credit, usually corresponding to an hour's class work per week for one semester.
:Electricity. Also called break·er point .either of a pair of contacts tipped with tungsten or platinum that make or break current flow in a distributor, as in an automobile.British.an outlet or socket.
:Commerce. a unit of price quotation, as in the U.S., one dollar in stock transactions, one hundredth of a cent in cotton and coffee, or one cent in oil, grain, pork, etc.: The price of the stock went up two points today. a percentage point, usually of the gross profits, granted to someone who agrees to invest or otherwise participate in a business project: The star of the movie received a million dollar guarantee and five points.
:any of various units used to award credit, benefits, or penalties:You will get points on your license for certain traffic violations. Earn points every time you use the credit card at restaurants.
:one percent of the face value of a loan, especially a mortgage loan, added on as a placement fee or a service charge and paid in advance or upon closing of the loan.
:Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 1/100 of a carat.
:Military. a patrol or reconnaissance unit that goes ahead of the advance party of an advance guard, or follows the rear party of the rear guard.the stroke in bayonet drill or combat.
:Printing. a unit of type measurement in the U.S. and U.K. equal to 1/72 inch, or 1/12 pica.Compare Didot point system. Also called press-point . one of several metal prongs for perforating the sheet so that it will be in register when the reverse is printed.
:a unit of measure of paper or card thickness, equal to 0.001 inch.
:Medicine/Medical.Also called vac·cine point . a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
:point lace.
:any lace made by hand.
:Heraldry. one of the pendent parts of a label.
:Railroads. the vertex of the angle formed at a frog by two rails; the intersection of gauge lines in a switch or frog.British.a tapering movable rail, as in a railroad switch.
: any place where lines intersect or meet.
:act of pointing.
:Archaic. a tagged ribbon or cord, formerly much used in dress, as for tying or fastening parts.
:Obsolete. an end or conclusion.
:Obsolete. a pointed weapon, as a dagger.
:Obsolete. a condition, situation, or plight: to be feeling in good point.
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:to direct at, to, or upon something: The witness pointed her finger at the defendant, and said in a firm voice, "That's him, the man who took my purse."
:to indicate the presence or position of: to point out an object in the sky.
:to direct attention to: to point out the advantages of a proposal.
:to furnish with a point or points; sharpen: to point a lead pencil.
:to mark with one or more points, dots, or the like.
:Sculpture. to transfer measurements of depth from a clay, wax, or plaster model to by means of an apparatus that drills holes to the required depth prior to carving.
:to punctuate, as writing.
:Phonetics. to mark with points.
:to separate by dots or points.
:Hunting. to indicate the presence and location of by standing rigid and facing toward the game.
:Masonry. to fill the joints of with mortar or cement treated in various ways with tools after application.to dress the surface of with a pointed tool.
:to dress with a point.
:Metalworking. to narrow the end of for passing through the dies of a drawbench.to narrow the end of over the head of a pin that is gripped to pull the tube through the dies of a drawbench.
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:to indicate position or direction, as with the finger:She pointed to where she wanted the sofa to go.
:to direct the mind or thought in some direction; call attention to: Everything points to his guilt.
:to aim: The police officer pointed at the speeding car, turned on his lights and siren, and set off in pursuit.
:to have a tendency toward something: Economic conditions point to further inflation.
:to have a specified direction: The sign pointed west.
:to face in a particular direction, as a building.
:Hunting. to point game.
:Nautical. to sail close to the wind.
: to come to a head.
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:point up, to give greater or added force to: to point up the necessity for caution.