Sentences with phrase «similar efforts over»

It remains unclear whether the new drive to repeal state renewable standards will succeed: Similar efforts over the past two years have failed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon and Washington.

Similar efforts over the past five years have lifted the number of Jupiter's moons from 16 to 28 and Uranus» from 15 to 17.

Not exact matches

After some preparation efforts over the course of the last year, she said she's confident that if NASA earth science were to go dark tomorrow, she would be able to keep up a similar level of quality in her work.

I appreciate it is an important issue for some, but more needs to be done If one contrasts the amount of civic campaigning activity and public support behind the Scottish Constitutional Convention in the early 1990s (building on a range of efforts over a longer period), then it is clear that there has been no campaign in England of similar.

Indeed, Paladino himself ran a similar insurgent effort in 2010, besting the preferred Republican Party candidate in a primary based on a largely populist grassroots message based in an anger over Albany's policies.

Though it has been suggested her actions against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio were politically motivated, state Board of Elections enforcement counsel Risa Sugarman has sounded the alarm over similar behavior in the past — and the targets of her previous efforts were not enemies of the governor.

Lund, as Sweden's largest university, may have more of this kind of activity than others, but similar efforts are being started all over.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

Furthermore, our catalyst is able to deliver higher performance without sacrificing durability, which is a big improvement over similar efforts by other groups.»

HOT yoga may just be a waste of effort, offering little benefit over similar yoga at a normal temperature.

Equally, women often have similar troubles, but in a slightly different way; sometimes, when confronted with affluence and success in a man, they have the same mental reasoning block and in a subconscious effort to find and create a stable environment for their children, they will choose the man that can offer them financial stability over one that might actually be better for both then and their children in terms of their spiritual welfare.

The encroachment of the forest animals and the efforts of the Verminator in «Over the Hedge» don't approach the wit and genius of a similar situation in the Academy Award - winning «Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit» (2005), but then how could they?

-- Sony looking to get more people on board with PS Plus — Top tier games will be given for free — Vita exclusive games — DLC and cloud services — Won't have to connect Vita to a PS3 or a PC to back up saves and other content — «The revamp of PlayStation Plus marks the beginning of a wider effort to improve the PlayStation Network across multiple devices over the coming year, and, we've heard, may include a new, redesigned PlayStation Store that also facilitates purchases from a proper PC web store similar to Xbox Marketplace.»

The latter has similar graphics to Audi's «Virtual Cockpit» but, unlike Peugeot's earlier efforts here, regresses from total touch - screen control because having some direct - access buttons actually makes things easier - although it still makes changing the cabin temperature a frustratingly over complicated excercise.

But is has some questionable elements: an interior that fits way too tight; an interior that has a design similar to the lowest of Honda offerings (the prominent parking brake button is the same as in the Honda HR - V); an interior that is as bright as a coal mine - even with the color accents; sticker run - up with weird and over priced carbon fiber options; a cup holder than is less effective than a 911's though doesn't exhibit the effort of Porsche; no room for anything more than your wallet (the front compartment is filled with electrics / electronics).

While the US courts hear arguments about alleged price fixing and anti-trust issues between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.

The fund will make every effort to grant the funds to the designated charity but, like all donor - directed funds, retains ultimate discretion and control over the use of the donations it receives from Humble Bundle, and may redirect funds to a similar qualifying charitable organization if it is unable to follow the recommendation.

The Banking Act of 1933 (Glass - Steagall)-- The Banking Act of 1933, also known as the Glass - Steagall Act, prohibited banks from participating in both commercial banking and investing banking, requiring them to choose one specialty over the other, in an effort to prevent another crash similar to the one that led to the Great Depression.

Over the past few decades, a number of traditions have developed regarding the pet adoption process in an effort to prevent animals who have found themselves homeless and in a shelter from suffering a similar or worse fate in the future.

Over the years Santa Barbara Adventure has helped with similar fundraising efforts for The Friendship Paddle, The Naples Coalition, Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center and many others.

The fund will make every effort to grant the funds to the designated charity but, like all donor - directed funds, retains ultimate discretion and control over the use of the donations it receives from Humble Bundle, and may redirect funds to a similar qualifying charitable organization if it is unable to follow the recommendation.

The project echoes the Artist Project, a similar effort at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which over a period of six seasons explored «What artists see when they look at The Met.»

With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half - century.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

A similar notice was earlier sent to Cambridge Analytica over media reports of questionable practices attributed to the UK - based firm in their efforts to influence elections by harvesting data of Facebook users.

A similar notice was earlier sent to Cambridge Analytica over media reports about questionable practices attributed to the UK - based firm in their efforts to influence elections by harvesting data of Facebook users.

natural disaster relief efforts Rallied community action during the immediate aftermath of floods, hurricanes Risk mitigation and management professional with over 18 years» and similar disaster response efforts have been as an I experiencecalled Operations and Program Management Specialist.

Knox says he has consulted goat owners from all over the country, including Indiana, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, to aid farmers in their efforts to establish similar businesses.