Sentences with phrase «despite great efforts»

Despite great efforts and great intelligence, our happiness seems fleeting and elusive.

Despite your great efforts, the media are not doing this sufficiently, in timely fashion.

Despite great efforts from pharmaceutical companies and academia, no one has managed to find a molecule which can directly bind to it and activate it, except for us.»

Despite your greatest efforts, what actually happens in your company is determined largely by your company's culture.

This lack of results, despite great effort is demoralizing.

Working to this «point of failure,» when another rep is impossible despite the greatest effort, ensures that you pass the «break - over point,» a point in the set below which growth can not be stimulated, and above which growth will be stimulated.

Concentric muscular failure is the point at which you are unable to complete an additional positive repetition of a given exercise in proper form despite your greatest efforts.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

Despite my greatest efforts, the game never gets old: Gun it, giggle like a schoolboy as I charge ahead at warp speed, then hit the brakes, which fills the rearview with the spoiler - cum - airbrake as the carbon stoppers clamp down and scrub away velocity.

Despite our greatest efforts of increasing hydration with more water access points and adding in wet foods - I found the methigel and mixed it into his daily wet food and he eats it right up!!!

Not exact matches

Despite these moves, experts say both social media firms and authorities need to step up their efforts, including ensuring greater collaboration and regulation.

Despite a very low weekly effort requirement, it is a great way to create lasting goodwill for your brand.

Despite all the hype around China's great firewall, efforts to completely shut out international communications are increasingly seen by government actors as unworkable.

Isn't it great when kids succeed despite their parent's best effort to screw them up?

The problem with this picture is that it fails to acknowledge that those two circles are in fact overlapping, despite much of the church's great efforts to separate them.

They demonstrate for us that despite our best efforts and others» best efforts to educate Christians for greater self - sufficiency in their thinking, the vast, vast majority remain comfortably dependent on others to do their thinking for them.

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

Despite his efforts to escape duty, he is conveyed by a great fish to Nineveh so that he can prophesy to the people.

Despite a lot of great efforts from food companies and hunger relief organizations, there is still more food that can be recovered.

Foodtank — Despite a lot of great efforts from food companies and hunger relief organizations, there is still more food that can be recovered.

Although very capable with either foot, Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is a deadly finisher on his stronger side especially, and has hit some great efforts from outside the box despite being more well known as a penalty area poacher.

Campolindo coach Kevin Macy said his defense put together a great effort that night, tightening the gaps at the line of scrimmage, despite being smaller.

In spite of that, Kyle Turris seemed to have scored less than four minutes into the game after his linemates did a great job creating space, but despite his best efforts he was offside on the play and the goal didn't stand.

After withstanding a lot of pressure in the opening quarter - hour, the MU defense was left watching as Georgetown senior Taylor Pak fired a bullet from just outside the box that hit side netting despite Maddy Henry's great diving effort.

Although Giorgio Chiellini looked awkward at times, deserves praise for a great defensive effort despite being played out of position.

Despite Saturday's opponents appearing a great deal weaker at first glance than Aston Villa, Blackpool will still take some beating judging by their most recent effort against Fulham when earning a 2 - 2 draw at the Cottage.

It sounds like you made tremendous efforts and did a great job with your children despite being sick.

Despite my best efforts, I survived the panel discussion with Pat Cleary from the National Association of Manufacturers (whose Shop Floor is a great example of an effective trade association blog), Milo Sybrant from Amnesty International and Eric Rabe from Verizon with dignity and reputation reasonably intact.

Despite my best efforts, I survived the panel discussion with Pat Cleary from the National Association of Manufacturers (whose Shop Floor is a great...

Unfortunately, despite owners» best efforts indoor cats occasionally escape to explore the great outdoors where they are at high risk.

Despite Conley's efforts, clean - room swabbing revealed some 150,000 heat - resistant microbes hitched a ride on Curiosity — a relatively small number, but still greater than zero.

Despite this new direction for identifying targets for pharmaceutical interventions against RP, the researchers underscore that gene therapy still has great potential and possible benefits, and they are actively pursuing efforts with this approach for several forms of RP.

Australia's fragile Great Barrier Reef remains under threat despite efforts to rein in major sources of damage to the World Heritage - listed icon

«We estimate that about 1,700 lives are saved in the United States per year by bystanders using an AED,» said senior study author Myron Weisfeldt, M.D. «Unfortunately, not enough Americans know to look for AEDs in public locations, nor are they are trained on how to use them despite great and effective efforts of the American Heart Association.

Despite more gym memberships sold and a greater effort to engage in regular workouts in recent years, it seems they're not having much of an effect on our nation's collective weight loss — more than half of Australian adults are either overweight or obese, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Furthermore, despite scientists» best efforts, synthetic nutrients are not easily recognized by the body, and often require co-factors (not present in the multi-vitamin) or a conversion process that kids» bodies aren't always great at completing.

It is, quite probably, a second Oppenheimer masterpiece, and was the greatest feature at Doc / Fest this year, despite the festival's noble efforts to make an impact highlighting problems elsewhere.

Despite countless «man - on - a-mission» flicks in recent years, DEATH SENTENCE, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, even Cage's tepid JUSTICE, to name a few, as well as future projects such as Joe Carnahan's DEATH WISH remake or Albert Hughes» MOTOR CITY, I'm always a one for a great one of these efforts in this sub-genre, if done right... and heaps of violence!

Despite Capcom's best efforts at making the series more approachable to newcomers in recent years (and I applaud them for it) there's still a long way to go, and a great need for more concise, useful information on the game's nuances.

Despite having all the pedigree of a good or even great film, this true - ish tale of the effort to save art works from the Nazis falls flat.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

«The parents of McKinley have fought long and hard to get a great school for their children, and today it is clear that — despite the best efforts of Compton Unified — they have won that fight.»

Despite a decades - long effort to restructure schools — in part, at least, to give parents a greater voice in school decisions — we see little evidence that teachers perceive much influence from parents, or from students.48 This outcome probably reflects the wellknown and persistent challenges teachers and administrators face in creating authentic relationships with parents for school - improvement purposes.

Despite its sporting slant and a lot of talk from engineers about efforts to keep the center of gravity as low as possible, the Macan possess greater ground clearance than the Q5.

However, despite all of that power and Mercedes» efforts to keep its heft under control, the GLE 63 is no sports car — its great on fast, smooth roads, but tighter B - roads make the large SUV feel a bit cumbersome.

Despite efforts by even the great Ray Kurzweil to beef up the way e-readers work (why is their pagination and font control so poor?

Conceivably, this adoption of DRM - free content will mean greater access for indie authors in the future to submit their works for e-book lending libraries, but despite the effort and interest in bringing more content to the libraries OverDrive is keeping a tight control over the quality of works in its catalog.

But despite efforts to ensure the safety of synthetic ETFs some issuers — e.g. iShares — only use physically replicating ETFs as this allows them greater control of the quality of the ETFs.

[Bad management's interesting too — if they fail to kill a (great) business, despite best efforts, what's the potential when / if they're gone?!]

If your adult dog is still terrified about being closed in a crate despite your effort in making it a great place, skip this option and confine your dog in a dog exercise pen or an area closed off by baby gates.