Sentences with phrase «most previous efforts»

Most previous efforts at solar - powered phones had the cells on the back, meaning that the device had to be facedown to get a charge and that the cells, being external, could more easily be damaged.

The governor has nibbled at New York's multi-layered governing structure for years, but most previous efforts — including voter referendums — have yielded little fruit.

Not exact matches

Though the timing of the Swiss decision proved a surprise, most foreign exchange experts thought the peg would have to be abandoned, just as previous such efforts had.

The year 2006 may for most people mark the tenth anniversary of the 1996 Welfare Act, signed by Bill Clinton, after he had vetoed two previous efforts, and just before crucial midterm elections that November.

They done so by the skin of their teeth in previous seasons, but last season Bolton finished a clear nine points above the drop, with the teams results definitely improving in the second half of the season under new manager Owen Coyle, so there were promising signs from the Reebok club that they can do a lot better than they for the most part last term, when positive form was almost non-existent and despite some valiant and brave efforts against some classy opponents they just couldn't convert their courageous performances into points which would have propelled them up the Premier League and into a more respectable finishing position.

She intends to endorse the MoveNY plan (she was a supporter of the previous congestion - pricing effort), and will continue to work with stakeholders and the communities to transform Amsterdam Avenue, one of the most dangerous streets in New York City, into a complete street.

But the most ambitious effort yet to find traces of Yersinia in the remains of Black Death victims has failed, and the researchers involved argue that a previous study that did report finding Yersinia was flawed.

Most programs don't target this properly, screwing up the loading parameters so that you're cheated out of the strength gains that you've EARNED with your sweat and effort under the bar during the previous phases.

Haynes often recalls his previous work with new films, and Wonderstruck recalls his most structurally inventive but least accessible efforts, Poison and I'm Not There.

We begin this entry with The Starving Games, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's irreverent take on the Hunger Games franchise — plus, if previous Friedberg / Seltzer efforts are any indication, all of the top 20 most Googled subjects of the past 12 months.

Cody's most recent effort, Tully, reunites her with star Charlize Theron and director Jason Reitman, with whom she made the majestic Young Adult (a previous subject of this column) and demonstrates a newfound maturity.

I really did not like his previous effort A Dangerous Method and it was his most conventional film to date.

The direction is very similar to his previous effort, Prince Avalanche (that I reviewed), in which the acting and story are most important.

The film's greatest strengths are Eddie Redmayne, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score, Benoît Delhomme cinematography and, at risk of crowding the list of highlights, one must credit James Marsh's helming of the project entire, which echoes his previous Oscar - winning effort, Man on Wire, in a most joyful manner by presenting Professor Hawking as a man who's physically the yin to that films uber - athlete's (tightrope walker Phillipe Petit) yang and yet a kindred spirit in terms of sheer zest for life and experience.

It just didn't seem to match the quality of most of the previous Marvel efforts, which is a shame.

He's probably the most entertaining action star working today, and although «Safe» isn't much better than his previous direct - to - video efforts, it delivers some pretty awesome action beats along the way.

In his fifth feature as a director, Clooney — in what should could been his most serious picture — loses the dramatic prowess that marked previous efforts like Good Night, and Good Luck and The Ides of March, two serious features about serious topics.

Based on his previous work, and now this most recent effort, it's clear that this guy enjoys crafting crowd - pleasing entertainment that leaves audiences feeling all tingly inside as they exit the theater.

Of course, very few of these moments match - up towards the more classic moments of The State, but most of them equal or eclipse Wain's previous effort, Wet Hot American Summer (although nothing here measures up to Christopher Meloni's mumbling camp chef).

In an effort to create immediate and enduring improvements in student outcomes, most states have adopted Common Core State Standards or other content standards that reflect higher expectations for student learning than previous iterations.

In previous STRIVE convenings we have talked about how most backbone efforts focus around schools — improving mentoring or helping attendance or measuring engagement.

If test results show significant widespread gains in student results temporally associated with district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that district reform efforts are having a positive impact on student learning.

Therefore, trying to wait and predict based on previous trends is most likely a wasted effort.

Like Kirito's expedition, it's a preposterous undertaking, but for the most part, previous Sword Art Online games have offered commendable efforts.

Following on from Fallout 3 is an unenviable task that few would attempt, as it is quite rightly regarded as one of the most accomplished games on the previous console generation, a master class in compulsion gaming, which was debatably only eclipsed in Bethesda's later effort Skyrim.

The game was highlighted as a strong earner in Nintendo's most recent shareholders» meeting, and a quick glance at the charts show that it's hanging on better than Nintendo's previous efforts.

The major difference from the creation of previous Sudden Strike games, the production team points out, is that most games today are created for multiple platforms, «which of course makes it necessary to put special effort into each version so that every player gets the best version possible on his / her respective platform.»

While Naughty Dog's previous efforts on the PS3 have all been outstanding, especially Uncharted 2, it's safe to say that The Last of Us will be the one that leaves the most resounding impact.

In contrast to the previous two leaks which were brought about by hilarious gaffs at the production level, some come about despite a publisher's most iron - fisted efforts.

Quite possibly; after all, while the previous effort at a movie adaption fell through, Nintendo has since expressed interest in expanding their properties, most recently when Nintendo's own Shigeru Miyamoto revealing he'd like to see anime based on Nintendo works (Star Fox, Yoshi and Pikmin were cited as examples).

Two machineguns seem to make light work of Helghast infantry, and it also appears to be fairly maneuverable compared to most previous FPS efforts (Duke Nukem 3D was the first, if I recall).

Assuming the game catches on as well as The Behemoth's previous efforts (2008's Castle Crashers sold millions and remains one of the most popular XBLA games ever made), there's every reason to believe that fans will keep making and playing new user - generated BattleBlock Theater levels for months and years to come.

There's always been some dissonance when it comes to Microsoft and its gaming brands - it alienated many of its PC gamers by focusing most of its efforts on the Xbox, and previous attempts to unite their console and Windows audiences have led to the disastrous, but thankfully now defunct, Games for Windows Live.

Previous evidence that permafrost is warming80 has been confirmed and enhanced by more recent studies.81, 82 The most recent modeling efforts (for example, Avis et al. 2011; Jafarov et al. 201283,84) extend earlier results85, 86 and project that permafrost will be lost from the upper few meters from large parts of Alaska by the end of this century.

There's satellite imagery and then there's satellite imagery: as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) GlobCover project, the most detailed pictures ever of the Earth's land surface (ten times sharper than similar previous efforts) have been

Not simply to take advantage of the latest features, but also because the most recent versions represent a long effort by Google to hone its operating system so that it works on much older hardware than previous Android versions.

As in previous quarters, the numbers most of us pundits are going to focus on revolve around Microsoft's cloud efforts.

The game, which tells the story of a 17th - century Englishman who must leverage a mystical power to save Japan, does indeed feel a bit like Team Ninja's previous efforts, but it owes most of its inspiration to Dark Souls.