Sentences with phrase «despite concerted efforts»

Despite concerted efforts, it was not always possible for all of these people to attend the meeting in each jurisdiction.

Despite the concerted efforts to develop metrics and the urgency to inform policy, management plans, and actions, few metrics have been empirically tested with field data for testing their predictive ability, refinement, and eventual implementation as predictive tools.

Olly's much hoped for success at the Rolex 24 at Daytona will have to wait for another 12 months, despite the concerted efforts of every driver and team member within the Leighton Reese Performance Group team.

Despite some concerted efforts — especially on the part of Steinfeld, a talented young actor often given lesser roles, and the always reliable Paxton — this is the kind of material that can't be elevated without help from behind the camera.

Despite concerted efforts, scientists have been unable to convince blue tangs to breed in captivity.

My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.

Yes, 80,000 of the Jews in France were murdered, but 250,000 survived — despite the concerted effort of the Nazi war machine and despite the collaboration of the Vichy administration and its police force.

Despite a concerted effort to increase student attendance, the number of LA Unified students who missed 16 or more days of school in 2015 - 16 grew by 1 percent from the previous year, this month's budget documents show.

Given the lack of available motion and trial dates in Toronto courts, counsel are well aware that the options they can currently provide their clients are extremely limited, despite a concerted effort by our judicial system to promote expediency and efficiency.

Not exact matches

Despite the lack of female leadership, concerted efforts are being made to change the status quo.

Such thinking would appear to eliminate organized religion from any concerted effort to deal with world hunger, poverty and illiteracy, public health and sanitation, and prison reform, despite the disturbing implications of Christ's warning:»... for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me....

It was difficult to know how Arsenal were going to approach their FA Cup third round tie with Sunderland as, despite being the holders and looking for an historic third FA Cup win in a row, it is down the priorities list given where the Gunners sit in the league table and there seeming to be a concerted effort to target the Premier League this season.

A concerted effort to eradicate invasive plants, or to remove a dam in a surface waterway are both examples of how our staff and volunteers can boost the resilience of a given landscape — helping the creatures that live there sustain long - term, despite the impacts of climate change.

The Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, noted that despite legislations and concerted efforts by government agencies, road traffic unions and associations to halt such accidents, tankers and trailers contributed a good number of deaths recorded on the roads.

Despite concerted policy efforts, legal paternity is not established in a significant number of cases.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

Can't get the hang of it, despite a couple weeks of concerted effort.

Village Underground, London Despite the efforts of Simon Russell Beale and Janet Suzman, this concert performance lacked theatricality and felt too comfortable

We should not be surprised, then, if this weekend sees both the Los Angeles and New York groups throwing their weight behind «The Social Network» — already cast, despite the patronage of a beleaguered middlebrow institution like the National Board of Review, as the cooler, more credible alternative to «The King's Speech» — in a concerted effort to keep the ball in its court.

Instead, despite the faculty's best effort to keep that day's concert a secret, the word was out: boys were on their way.

And I contributed to this thread despite having withdrawn from this blog because there was a concerted effort by people — including you — who hounded me with comments of the kind I am now replying.

Despite the real gains seen in some species due to concerted conservation effort, these are outweighed by the overall number of species deteriorating in status.

Still, a number of talks showcased that, despite a seemingly ever - increasing diversity of ideas, the bitcoin community is demonstrating that it can direct a concerted effort toward attacking problems.

Sometimes you're lucky, and job interviews come easily, despite your lack of focused and concerted effort.

Further, as approximately 7 million students do not gain admittance to the university despite committed and concerted efforts, many may feel that the process is hopeless.