bottom line
Speech parts
1. bottom line - Noun
2. bottom line - Phrase
Meaning
the decisive point
the last line in an audit; the line that shows profit or loss
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
In business-every business-the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.