Sentences with phrase «earlier efforts at»

Earlier efforts at reform failed in each of the 2013 - 2017 legislative sessions.

Aaron Wildavsky's book «But is it True» is an investigation of the earlier efforts at projecting «harm» — and he found little evidence of truth in the various scares starting in the late 1950's and ending in the early 1990» s.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

My early efforts at leadership were too much about me.

With our early efforts at potty training my young daughter I learned that potty time has to be really fun.

Since it was first identified in Marin County in 1995, the disease has spread across hundreds of miles of California coast and skipped into southern Oregon, defying early efforts at containment.

In a recent New Yorker, Maria Konnikova returned to an explanation for these gut reactions that has been around at least since the early efforts at genetic engineering in the 1970s: The idea that fear and -LSB-...]

Early efforts at nailing down the time and place of domestication varied wildly.

The early efforts at resistance were passive but as the women faced increasingly aggressive police action, the suffragettes become galvanized — risking their very lives to ensure that women's rights would be recognized and respected.

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

Early efforts at agriculture were fraught and supplies from overseas were scarce.

Whether through aggressive pursuit of a successful verdict or early efforts at mediation, Lou has developed a strong ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a case and plan a litigation strategy accordingly.

Early efforts at risk - retention - compliant deals done in the second half of last year were «well - received,» according to Clancy.

Not exact matches

Corporate venture - capital efforts also have the advantage of involvement with startups at the early stages, when they can most benefit from access to a large, established customer base, credibility through brand association and a larger network of partner companies and advisors.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Further explaining the company's diverse portfolio, Sethi told that Quest Alliance is also making an effort for a responsive education system and help students develop a career mindset at an early age.

In early 2014, it spent $ 4 million on a Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at itself for not adapting to the shift in technology early enough, but it was an expensive effort that may have been too late.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

If a bipartisan effort is attainable, then McConnell could get on board with an infrastructure plan, as he noted at an event put on by the news website Axios earlier this month.

There were a few proclamations earlier this week that wearable technology is dead in light of the news that Nike appears to be shutting down its Fuelband efforts, at least on the hardware side.

The effort is in its early planning stages, the companies said, and the initial formation of the company would be led by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a managing director of J.P. Morgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon.

The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

This would include efforts at the earliest practicable time toward encouragement and negotiation with Class B shareholders to request that they relinquish, for the common good of all shareholders, any preexisting rights.

A California start - up that genetically engineers yeast to produce an acid for fragrances is at the forefront of efforts to reignite a market that fell short of earlier expectations.

At the center of the suit is a former Alphabet executive, Anthony Levandowski, who led its early efforts in developing self - driving technology.

Kathryn Tesija, exec VP and chief merchandising and supply chain officer at Target, also highlighted the retailer's venture into Snapchat earlier this month as an example of its efforts to engage guests in new and creative ways.

Hayden said Zander's CMO at the time had a «brilliant idea» in the early 2000s «to do a co-branding effort with his hero, Steve Jobs, and create a Motorola phone that would play iTunes... I strongly recommended that they not contact Apple, not share any technical data with them, because it was clear Apple would eventually make a phone.

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Announced at the first meeting of a cryptocurrency exchange study group established by the FSA in early March, the data release marks the latest effort by the financial watchdog in bringing greater transparency to the industry following a recent hack of one of the domestic exchange Coincheck.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

«Thus the method which earlier he (Leibniz) wanted, asked for, received, and understood with difficulty, he discovered forsooth either first or at least by his own effort.»

The explanation of this omission is probably the fact that John the Baptist had been interpreted by his disciples as a «Messiah» of that type and had become so firmly established in the Prophet's role that the early Christians (at any rate, before the Fourth Gospel) made no effort to dislodge him from that position.

To the contrary, it was the shocking events at the end of Jesus» life that caused his early Jewish followers to search the scriptures diligently in their effort to understand how God's Anointed One could have been crucified.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Whether or not these works represent a «third Quest of the historical Jesus,» it is instructive to view them in light of earlier efforts to recover Jesus «as he really was,» and to ask whether the second coming of the liberal Jesus is at hand.

The idea here is that, in an effort to fight the Sunday Blues, you convince your friends to come to you with the promise of food — and at an early enough time so you can get many long, lazy, tipsy hours of hanging - out in and still be in bed by 10:30 p.m..

If you caught the first episode of ABC's War on Waste program earlier this year, two things may have jumped out at you: firstly, the scale of food loss and food waste in Australia; and secondly, the incredible efforts that Foodbank and the food industry, including Australian Organic members and clients, are making right across...

Melig was part of the circle of friends and family that Ramos subjected to his early barbecue efforts, a hobby he took up at age 16 because he was tired of his dad burning the meat.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

But for me, Hurst's effort issues, along with the fact that at he checked into the combine at «only» 6» 2 and 282 pounds — which might limit his scheme versatility — mean I'd probably wait until near the end of the first round at the earliest to take him.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

Stoke, who have already beaten Chelsea and Manchester City at the Britannia Stadium this season, were much the better side in the early stages of the match and they thoroughly deserved their lead, which was doubled less than 10 minutes later by a powerful effort from outside the penalty area from Marko Arnautovic.

Early last Thursday morning he collapsed in the house he shared near campus, and efforts by paramedics to revive him failed; he was pronounced dead at Miami Valley Hospital shortly after arriving there.

having said all that, we can offer him a million pound per week if we like, if we don't start wining trophies, and i mean real important trophies (no disrespect to the F.A cup) he will up ad leave because like i said earlier he is a WINNER... none of these» project»,» loyalty»,» building» talks we are so fond of at Arsenal, Wenger and the board has to fork out for world class players to compliment his efforts and help us win trophies otherwise he will leave to win stuffs elsewhere and i will not be one to blame him....

There's a concerted effort to get the game moving at a quicker pace, and the early returns are that it's working.

Sergi Roberto Had an early chance at goal but produced a real tame effort and that summed up his game.

Early last season we had some very good results when played with total efforts like when we beat Chelsea but we played 4 at the back in that game and others.

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden age.