Sentences with phrase «abandoned such efforts»

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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.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

With neurological disorders affecting approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms largely abandoning their R&D efforts in neuroscience, the work of academic research institutions such as CSHL is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.»

By making such an abrupt budget change, NASA will mothball or abandon half - built (in some cases, fully built) hardware, lose expertise developed at great effort, and leave gaps in data coverage, notably of the earth's climate.

The effort to create a national market for such CO2 emissions received a serious blow when the U.S. Senate abandoned the effort to pass a climate bill this summer.

Once the virus is spreading widely, such efforts to limit the spread of individual cases are abandoned as pointless.

With such big - budget major studio efforts as Con Air (1997) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the fledgling director has indeed proven his keen ability to shoot entertainingly jarring action scenes that place filmgoers in the eye of a frenzied storm of chaos with such gleeful abandon that he has become a solid staple in the Michael Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer cannon.

Maybe you can take this as minor commentary about how the «normal» characters» excessively - masculinized relationships are no less screwed - up than the Farmer's efforts to play house with his victims (the appearance of the latter forcing the two brothers to mend old wounds), but you have no choice except to abandon such thoughts the moment Tracey's curse - laden diatribes are cut short by a shovel crammed into her mouth — which really has nothing on its mind besides «that oughta shut the bitch up.»

Nevertheless, it would be a huge mistake to abandon those efforts as other challenges, such as the Common Core, loom.

Project Pigeon worked beautifully in a number of tests for the Navy, but it was abandoned partly in favor of more promising research efforts, such as the Manhattan Project, and because the idea of pigeons guiding a bomb was a difficult sell to the academic review panels and the military brass.

However, with so much time and effort undertaken at the state level in the implementation of accountability measures such as Student Learning Objective (SLOs), prescribed teaching standard frameworks or rubrics, and student achievement data, I can not imagine a scenario in which states would abandon their new methods for grading teachers.

The formula, which took into account the number of students and factors such as poverty levels and local tax effort, was abandoned in 2011 when Governor Corbett took office.

It is part of our company mandate to help those less fortunate within our communities, and as such, Forward is proud to support and sponsor rescue efforts for feral and abandoned cats as well as dogs and cats in shelters and rescues.

A herculean, and very laudible effort is being made, but the resources that institutions such as NOAA have available, are simply overwhelmed by all the tasks that are required, once the decision is made to abandon the * raw * data, and begin to massage it for the purpose of «standardization».

It would be much better to abandon such a foolhardy effort before we go any further down that road.

That seems a dim prospect given the current condition of politics and Republican domination at the state level, but such efforts should never be abandoned.

While there would be advantages to legislation regulating such third persons directly, we can not justify abandoning any effort to enhance privacy.