Sentences with phrase «after decades of trying»

: Witnessing the Impossible After decades of trying, one company has done the impossible.

As a result, Rafter says, criminologists are now shifting their attention toward biological reasons for delinquent behavior after decades of trying to define crime mainly on the basis of sociological factors.

Five years ago, Modha concluded that if the world's best engineers still hadn't figured out how to match the brain's energy efficiency and resourcefulness after decades of trying using the old methods, perhaps they never would.

Now, after decades of trying, physicists have precisely compared atoms and antiatoms.

But, even after decades of trying, «beat - tracking» algorithms can't approach anything like the automaticity and flexibility that humans show to feel the beat across different speeds, genres, and instruments.»

Physical science is highly constrained by what is known about energy budgets, paleoclimate and radiative transfer in gases, and alternate hypotheses are hard to come by as the skeptics well know by now after a decade of trying.

Not exact matches

If social media today, a decade after Facebook's founding, presents a warped, cracked reflection of the world around us, RelSci is trying to map that world, especially the professional part of it, with increasing detail, precision, and context.

Chinese leaders are trying to replace a growth model based on exports and investment that has run out of steam after delivering three decades of rapid growth.

It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

But «metaphysics» means nothing in American public life today, and after three decades of trying to explain the Christian «anthropology» of John Paul II to various audiences, I am still being asked what «anthropology» is, and what the behavior of primitive tribes has to do with Christianity.

Then after decades of struggling trying to do it my way I finally submitted to the Lord.

After decades of making my grandmother's recipe I was looking to try something new.

Mythology of the Devil's Pepper I tried to discover what Capsicums the gardens were growing while Lord Harris was governor, but the only documentation I could find was a catalog from 1865 to 1870, more than a decade after he left.

van Persie famously pined for that title after failing to win it with Arsenal after nearly a decade of trying, and following his best individual season with the Gunners, his status as a superstar confirmed with a fully healthy year and a league - leading 30 goals, he forced his way out of losersville and joined Manchester United, a club actually known for winning things.

After a couple decades of writing books and articles about parenting, homeschooling and adoption, speaking to homeschoolers and other parent groups, and reaching out to the mom in the trenches who was trying to make the best of it - my kids grew up.

«After decades of having a system that what it wants to do is strip away the dignity of individuals that have had some level of interaction with the criminal justice system, we're trying to put some humanity back,» she said, though she equivocated a bit when a reporter raised the possibility of a jail in her district, before concluding, «I wouldn't be against it.»

«The IDC has disbanded and Senate Democrats are united and after nearly a decade of turmoil anyone trying to divide that does so only to the betterment of Republicans.

After Decades of New York Mayors trying to house the homeless all we have to show for it is a dramatic increase in the number of homeless.

«Democrats, desperate after more than a decade out of power, are trying to nationalize this election,» Reynolds told the National Press Club yesterday.

After decades of not collecting fees or updating billing on more than a hundred special lighting districts, Syracuse is trying to update its regulation of ornamental street lights, but it means bills for thousands of city resident could skyrocket.

It is the city's third - largest business district, after Midtown and Lower Manhattan, but it is still trying to define its identity after decades of fitful, relentless redefinition and rebirth.

A decade after his death, his son was in Nicaragua, working in support of the kind of socialist government his father's old colleagues tried to prevent in Latin America.»

After decades trying to directly detect the waves, the recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, now known as Advanced LIGO, appears to have succeeded, ushering in a new era of astronomy.

After more than 3 decades of trying to increase the number of minority biomedical researchers, officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a raft of anecdotal evidence that the programs are working.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

After several decades of trying to address these challenges, researchers have amassed a considerable molecular tool box of tags and fusion proteins to aid in the expression and purification of recombinant proteins.

then i tried it five years ago, after decades of struggling with low rep programs, and i'm 50 pounds heavier now.

I tried on a pair of flares at work not too long ago also after a decade and I was surprised at how good they looked, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to buy them yet haha.

After a decade or so of her mother trying to beat the evil out of the girl, the woman remains in her childhood home.

After a rocky start involving an intentionally unrelated and surreal dream sequence (a painfully unfunny, extended bit involving the gang as a rock band, trying to elude some cops), the guys of Broken Lizard, led by the movie's director Jay Chandrasekhar, do find a good excuse for making a sequel over a decade and a half later.

Set a decade after the events of the first three films, the story follows the one - and - only survivor who has been trying to get people to believe his story for years.

For decades South Korea has tried to deescalate its relationship with the North, not infrequently expressing its desire to end formal hostilities, which legally never ended after the Korean War, and move toward the long - term goal of a united Korea under a single government.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

But for two decades, Mr. Myers had been trying to convince Mr. Gordon to let him tell his life story, after encountering him on the set of «Wayne's World.»

Soderbergh spent the decade after this auspicious arrival trying out many different kinds of films, from intriguingly off - kilter studio projects like King of the Hill (1993) and Out of Sight (1998) to independent experiments like Schizopolis (1996) and Gray's Anatomy (1996).

After three decades of trying one improvement effort after another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schAfter three decades of trying one improvement effort after another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schafter another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schools.

After more than two decades of work in the school reform trenches, Mr. Wolk retired in 1997 and moved to Rhode Island, where he has continued to remain active in trying to improve public education.

After more than a decade of trying, Virginia lawmakers have finally approved legislation giving state voters the right to elect school - beard members.

They were, after all, trying to reverse decades of inadequacies.

Parents and teachers have until April 18 to email comments on the state's draft plan to overhaul special education, as Texas tries to reform its services after more than a decade of denying children access.

Let's create regulations that can work for any innovation, so we don't have to worry about the problem of trying to define «distance education» and «competency - based education» after decades of experience with these modalities.

After all, with one days notice to try to recover a decades worth of threads (and no support from anyone at the mag or tech team, nor an apparent realisation that we all posted in the Any Other Business forum...), what else could we do?

HIGHLANDS, North Carolina — After a couple of decades trying, Buick designers figured out how to properly modernize its classic, toothy chrome grille look with the new - for - 2008 three - row sport / utility flagship, the Enclave.

There aren't many large mainstream sedans that get respect from the younger set — try that, Toyota Avalon — but even after more than a decade of production, the 300 still has wide and enthusiastic appeal.

As local ordinances try to restrict the best of our hobby breeders, and after decades of pressure to reduce the numbers of litters produced, the prospective puppy buyer has less success in finding a local breeder that suits their needs.

After a tumultuous decade of trying not to euthanize any of its unwanted pets, Los Angeles has finally set a record for the fewest number of dogs and cats put down.

Staff had tried for decades to get rid of the rats, but in 1999, after just two months, four cats succeeded where they had failed.

After more than a decade of focusing 100 percent of his energy on helping dogs and their owners at the Dog Gone Smart canine center, Onthank was inspired to strike off in a new, albeit related, direction when a Swiss fabric finishing company asked if he would try out a dog bed it had developed.

It doesn't exist on Switch yet, and Rockstar would have an uphill battle trying to make the existing fanbase on other consoles care for the Nintendo version, after decades of third parties just like them doing their best to ignore Nintendo, and convincing their fans to do so in the process.