Sentences with phrase «good attempt by»

Here is the YU Yureka Black review — it is a good alternative, a good attempt by YU.

As this proves, despite best attempts by the fake midwifery industry to hide deaths and injuries like this one, they're out there.

In spite of the best attempts by households and businesses to adjust to these caps, the ensuing higher energy costs impose extraordinary losses on the economy.

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In a statement, Viacom lead director Salerno, among the directors targeted for removal, called Thursday's action a «brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt» by Shari Redstone «to gain control of Viacom and its management in disregard of Sumner Redstone's wishes,» at odds with the board's efforts «to represent the best interests of all of the shareholders of Viacom.»

Facebook, AOL and a new startup called Vessel have attempted to woo YouTube stars away, prompting the company to respond by offering better financial terms, according to the Wall Street Journal.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a divBy analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a divby taking a dive.

The best way to do this is by saying something that makes it clear you know about the person you are attempting to network with.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

Well, if you held Gaspard's rope, he took it as a personal insult and responded by attempting to push you out of the way by sticking his nose in your behind.

It's worrisome too, when executives repeat a question or attempt to buy time by giving a non-answer, such as, «That's a good question.»

But companies have to make more than halfhearted attempts at collaboration: Instead, they're realizing only half of the value of collaboration by creating better ways to discuss ideas, but putting fewer of them in place.

The game's being created by Sonic Team, the folks behind the best Sonic games in years — it looks to be the latest in the series» many, many re-boots attempting to create a great 3D Sonic game.

Love went from one of the ten best offensive players in the NBA to seeing his scoring average fall eight points per game, shot attempts fall by six, rebounds fall by three, and assists fall by two per game compared to the previous year.

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«The sharing of data by big US insurers is part of their attempts to better manage utilisation, health behaviour and outcomes of the insured,» he said.

Stroz cautions that some of these attempts to delete information were in «good faith» to purge their files of proprietary data, but also mentioned that Levandowski knew his devices would be looked through by March 2016.

Unilever posted better - than - expected first quarter revenues and increased its quarterly dividend by 12 % as it continues to appease shareholders after a failed takeover attempt by Kraft Heinz.

Certain provisions of Delaware law and certain provisions that will be included in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws summarized below may be deemed to have an anti-takeover effect and may delay, deter, or prevent a tender offer or takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider to be in its best interests, including attempts that might result in a premium being paid over the market price for the shares held by stockholders.

The move by Senator Moran was well received by the Bitcoin community who appeared to be generally pleased by the Senator's attempt to gain knowledge and perspective on the topic prior to the hearings.

I was intrigued by what is happening in Iceland, so the following is a piece I've written on it. It has some introductory macro-economics in it,  which I think it is good to keep in perspective as we consider the frantic attempts being made to prevent an economic depression.

However, Great Lakes is backed by the Better Business Bureau and does attempt to resolve customer issues in a timely manner.

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

We assess that as South Korea responds to these attempted thefts by increasing security (and possibly banning cryptocurrency trading) they will become harder targets, forcing North Korean actors to look to exchanges and users in other countries as well.

As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.

For investors, learning not to chase performance (by buying funds that have done well in the past) and avoiding attempts to time the market can boost performance over time.

However, these provisions may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a merger or acquisition of our company by means of a tender offer, a proxy contest or other takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider in its best interest, including attempts that might result in a premium over the prevailing market price for the shares of Class A common stock held by stockholders.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

In his four years as CEO the company managed a merger of equals, grew from $ 210 million in revenues to $ 562 million, survived an aborted takeover attempt by Microsoft (msft), and evolved into a company that today is a regular on Fortune's list of Best Places to Work.

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Rather, they represent my best attempt at capturing Mr. Munger's wisdom as faithfully as allowed by the circumstances.

Shaving soap is a prime example of a classic men's grooming essential that's been overshadowed by its canned cousins even though the newer product is actually worse than what it attempts to replace!In today's guide, we'll share how to find a quality shaving soap, why it's better than canned gels and foams, how to use it and recommend some of our house favorites.

Some of this difference can be accounted for by Strategy Analytics only tracking five large countries and Loup's attempt to quantify shipments to other countries as well.

BS: Well, for me, the core of it comes down to the harm created by leveraging personal information and the social graph to enable political advertisers peddling this information to manipulate your prejudices in the same way that a retail advertiser would attempt to manipulate your consumer preferences.

When we are confronted by these people, in addition to simply stating that «now» is always a good time to buy stocks, we will often introduce some contra - evidence in an attempt to make them a little less certain that they can time the market.

While we do believe the New York Agreement (NYA) and Segwit2x proponents have the best of intentions in attempting to improve Bitcoin's protocol and have contributed so much to the development of the Bitcoin industry as a whole, we do not agree with the process by which they chose to enforce these changes.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

I am giving up fast food, or any unhealthy food, lets call it a fresh food fast =) Thus, I will attempt to concentrate on my well - being by working out.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&raWell aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&rawell as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

In that case, attempting to «be good» would simply be trying to be your own Messiah — and the ultimate repudiation of the offer of a relationship that begins by admitting you can not save yourself.

You are attempting to say that «well, sure, you can deter a rock from sinking by stopping it from being thrown in the water in the first place.»

Novices to a group are well - advised to begin their acculturation by attempting to emulate its veteran practitioners, to learn its ways, its affective, effective, and cognitive dimensions, from the inside, in emic mode, by empathy.

Jesus came to save us from our sins, not to make us better people, so attempting to discredit Christianity by pointing out short comings of Christians is by definition, pointless.

Any attempts at a rescue now are being compounded by the new power split that's occurring within Boko Haram, as well as hesitance in the government to take action because of distrust on both sides.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

If God is perfect, why did he consider his first attempt to populate the earth such a colossal failure he wiped out all by eight people so he could start over hoping to do better the second time around?

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

If a person were so utterly opposed to the common good as to attempt to overthrow the very existence of the state (by insurrection, say), then the proper level of correction is one that opposes the preferred good of the insurrectionist by disrupting his life.

Modern expositions of logic have attempted to take account of this circumstance by opposing, — in accordance with a well - known distinction of Hegel's — the abstract universality of the concept to the concrete universality of the mathematical formula.