Sentence examples for points at hand from inspiring English sources

Should the media feel bad for asking picky questions instead of concentrating on the main points at hand? (Robots making robots!) Are we supposed to wonder whether the school exists at all? Presume it does exist and chide Mr. Lazio for not fixing the problem?

He can perform in paragraphs; like a figure skater completing a series of spins, he returns from tangents to the point at hand.

What has long defined Nadal is his optimism: his ability to play the point at hand without being weighed down by the baggage from the last.

In the new book, he describes David Starkey as "the homosexual historian" when his sexuality has no bearing on the point at hand.

Users can scroll from topic to topic to prepare themselves or, in the heat of a dispute, search for the point at hand — and the perfect retort.

And now his eyes look like laser beams out there: fixed on the point at hand and then the next point".

The larger point at hand is that anyone who listens to the podcast leaves with no greater understanding of what #SquadGoals is besides Taylor Swift's new thing at her concert.

One quibble: Mr Vedral often digresses from the point at hand, so the overall effect tends to be a bit meandering.Mr Vedral's professional interests lie in quantum computing and quantum information science, which use the laws of quantum mechanics respectively to build powerful computers and render codes unbreakable.

Did the decision to try to withdraw from the New York litigation, when there was a very important point at hand — that UBS might have to finance the acquisition at a lower level of cash — leave it in a weakened negotiating position?

Here, examples themselves do a good deal of philosophical work, and their significance is that they give, rather than merely illustrate, the philosophical point at hand.

Regarding so-called "upstream" collection (when the NSA taps directly into the cables that make up the core network of the Internet), the EFF finds the PCLOB report missing the core point at hand — that the "government has access to or is acquiring nearly all communications that travel over the Internet".