Sentences with phrase «against my best efforts»

So, against my best efforts, I've become something of an expert on what to do when your baby gets sick.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb welcomed the 40 % drop in early exam entries and said the changes were necessary to «correct» a system that had «worked against the best efforts of teachers and the best interests of pupils».

It doesn't matter if the dog escaped without the owner's knowledge or against their best efforts, or that the dog had never bitten anyone before.

Not exact matches

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

It's likely, however, that Buffett would have disagreed with Fox's efforts to reportedly sweep the allegations under the rug, silencing women who leveled accusations against O'Reilly as well as former Fox chairman Roger Ailes with settlement payments that ran in the millions of dollars.

It seems like the world is completely against this person, and despite their best efforts, the world will continue to hold them back.

For smaller retailers to have a better chance against these giant brands, SMBs are recommended to leverage their marketing efforts early, focusing on social media, email and loyalty programs.

However, building links too quickly can work against you, because doing so often decreases their quality; instead, it's better to slowly escalate the authority and frequency of your link posting efforts.

But HP's decisive obliteration of its tablet effort, and discontinuation of its mobile operating system, webOS, is a fairly good indicator of what it's like to go up against the mighty Apple Inc. and its iPad, which dominates the tablet category with about 30 million sold worldwide.

The ensemble methods that came out of our stress - testing efforts performed better across history than any other approach we had ever tested (including against holdout validation data), but we missed a market rebound in the interim.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

It is much easier, therefore, to inoc - ulate people against Christianity in advance, using well - developed educational efforts, rather than attempt to ext - ract them once they've already suc - c - umbed.

What a fine tragedy it would be if those with the most Christian and promising option proved unable to make good their case against many objections so that the shift away from classical faith continued despite their work and effort.

In his more recent efforts, Remnick has deployed his talents in bashing the Pope and celebrating Elaine Pagel's polemical outbursts against Christian hangups about good and evil.

Their position does not in fact preclude a concern for, or efforts to achieve, the common good, but it is a warning against supposing that there is one common way for all groups to relate to the nation and the common good of its people.

In their reaction against the modern responses to diversity, some resist any effort to identify a common good for the society as a whole.

The signers emphasize that they have no illusions about the brutal threat posed by the enemy, as well as the moral temptations and threats inherent in the necessary effort to protect ourselves against that enemy.

This rescue effort was not for him to toss some teaching our way and hope we would live better lives, but rather Gods rescue effort is that he came down himself to communicate in the most clear form possible his intentions and desires, and to make a sacrificial provision for pardon for mans crimes against God.

Therefore, our Christian attitude toward whatever is evil is a firm rejection of it and an earnest effort against it, to the end that it shall be overcome, negated, removed from the world or transformed into an occasion for good to emerge.

Jesus also cautions his followers against assuming good of everyone and wasting their efforts on those who are too indifferent to appreciate them.

The problem is mainstream muslims are clueless about how to stop them, we are doing out best to report them to the authorities but sometimes it is not easy even for US to tell and I think perhaps it is going to take a collective effort of all of us together to rid ourselves of this scourge... rather than a «Its us against the Muslim world» approach which only alienates more people, and is contribute to the problem spreading.

thanks for the tofu cheesecake recipe, mine is in the oven as i write, i have sent this site to two of my sisters and i am going to send it to my daughter i returned from a 2wk trip to chula vista where my 3 sisters live i was there for my sister to help me take control of my eating and exercise since living in the pac nw is similar to what youve said about ny, we're originally from buffalo, ny... anyway, now i'm back in olympia, an hr from seattle, and continuing to work on the eating better and exercise, thanks for your great website and the inspiration you are giving those of us who are coming across it and enjoying it, you have a beautiful family and you are radiating health and beauty, some of what i am aspiring to — my daughter is 25 and i'm 56 now, so the battle is on for me against the yrs taking their toll... God Bless you and thanks for all the time and effort you've put into this!

The former Shakhtar Donetsk winger clearly has a good shot on him, but sometimes lacks that finishing touch, as he showed with some well - struck but ultimately wayward efforts against Barcelona.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

However despite Giroud's best efforts, as well as a goal in the midweek clash against Ludogorets, Alexis still kept his place for the following Premier League match against North London rivals Spurs.

Team Rudy fell 23 - 16 to # 2 Apuli on Thursday Night but it was a nice effort from this group against a very good Team.

I think their effort against one of the League's best just proved that.

He might be a better fit elsewhere, and you would hope to get every ounce of effort he has knowing his back and career is up against the wall.

... Coquelin played great again considering that he was too often left too protect the back four against 2, sometimes 3 players... our team effort was poor after our goal... we needed to do better and the next few games will give us that opportunity I hope... Alexis please be back!!!!!

Chris Sale is a little easier to root against now that he is in opponent colors, but Q will be like Buehrle where I will always appreciate his efforts and wish him nothing but the best.

Gilgeous - Alexander followed up his career - best 24 - point effort against Louisville with another 20 - point game, hitting 12 of 13 free throws.

Good thing Washington isn't in the AL Central: The Nats lost all six games they played last week, against Detroit and Chicago, wasting not only Strasburg's effort but also a seven - strikeout outing by second - year righty J.D. Martin.

but a damn good effort to get a point against the # 1 team in the West that just lost their last three games, and didn't want to lose 4 of 5 for the season to an upcoming playoff opponent (maybe).

Rationale: Consistent long - range efforts will get the job done against Arizona, but not against a better New Mexico team.

All I am saying is that, if the reason for fatigue in UCL was the extra effort our players had to put in Liga and CDL (due to lack of rotation), then we better win it.Nobody is saying that Valverde was not stupid against Roma.

and if we somehow grab 4th or secure a champions league spot at the season's end, many (mostly AKBs) will be like «Wenger have done his best despite the fact that he had lil at his disposal» and will remain satisfied with his mediocre effort...... then they will all fail to look back at this day and recall how Wenger's complacency turned the tides against our favour!

Jackson's best game of the season came in a losing effort against Kentucky, when he scored 36 points on 59 percent shooting in 38 minutes.

Oklahoma City put forth the best effort imaginable against the best regular season team in NBA history.

Allen's effort was reminiscent of one of the best goals that Anfield has ever seen from Luis Suarez against Norwich City in 2013.

(Note for any Mexicans reading: despite FIFA's best efforts to screw - up the scheduling, Guillermo Ochoa's masterclass against Brazil counts as part of the second round of fixtures.

What is certain is that Arsenal will have to produce a better performance this time round compared to their lacklustre effort in midweek against Swansea City, a defeat that leaves them in sixth place in the Premier League table and eight points adrift of the top four.

U will be like «wenger has done his best despite the fact he had Lil at his disposal»...... u will remain satisfied with a mediocre effort...... then u will fail to Look back at this day and recall how Wenger's mistakes turn the tides against our favour!

It's remarkable that this Cavaliers team could blow a LeBron effort this great on this stage, even against the best basketball team on the planet.

Before the Hull gift, we were devoid of any creativity and against a well drilled defensive unit we were finding it hard to carve out anything (accept Theo's offside effort).

You go through this much effort to win that many games against this many good teams and it's, I mean, I hope to get to this point again.»

«We had good spots in the game but against a team that's not in the playoffs and (if) we want to stay atop our division and the league we need the same effort we had against Toronto (on Monday) with the emotion and desperation and it just wasn't there tonight.»

Arsenal finally got a decent and well deserved reward for their efforts in the Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund and while Jurgen Klopp was not happy with the performance of his players, Arsene Wenger suggested that it was the Gunners getting the balance of the side right, as an Arsenal.com report shows.

So, as I said on a number of posts, good team effort against Chelsea, loved the pressing and discipline and now let's hope the boys can reproduce that for every game because that is what it takes to get back to the top 4.

I'd argue a better defensive effort all game against Dallas puts us well within control of the game (not letting a for sure pick six become a first down the other way) and leads us to another win.