Sentences with phrase «aggressive push at»

The U.S. efforts abroad to tackle climate change have been counter-balanced by Trump's aggressive push at home to increase production of the fossil fuels scientists blame for global warming.

Not exact matches

New CEO or not, the startup is oriented toward aggressive growth, and its tendency to push boundaries likely hasn't vanished after a handful of months without tempestuous Kalanick at the head.

He pushed for an aggressive culture at AIG Financial products, and he got one.

Throughout the turnaround, Banducci has been at pains to keep investor expectations in check, but his aggressive push on price and services has worked faster than most would have thought.

This team is at their best when they are pushing the pace and playing relentlessly aggressive team defense.

In Eric Bailly, Mourinho has already signed his first defensive addition to the squad at Old Trafford, and as a bold and aggressive ball - playing centre - back he could be just what's required to help the back line operate further forward, pushing up to the half - way line.

I followed him and watched him begin to exhibit an unusual level of energy and act in avoidant, ambivalent, and mildly aggressive ways, crawling away from me every time I came near, pushing objects onto me, pushing at my face.

At a 2012 SNA meeting, a Schwan executive and other industry advocates pushed for the group's leadership to be more aggressive in asking for changes in the school lunch program, according to a person who witnessed the exchange but requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it.

Astorino had sought the Business Council's endorsement in September at the group's annual meeting, insisting that the business community should take a more aggressive approach to push state government on taxes and regulatory issues.

Transportation and infrastructure were also at the top of the agenda, with all three presumptive candidates pushing for a more aggressive policy.

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three - year, $ 300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

I wasn't sure why at the time but later realised it was the same passive - aggressive push pull that drew me to Robert Bresson's films.

Still, the president spent mounds of political capital pushing policies designed to pressure schools to help minority youth, and «it puts him in a difficult position to be signing onto something that clearly empowers states to be less aggressive in addressing inequity,» said Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary Arne Duncan.

Under her leadership, Mississippi has initiated aggressive education reforms that have increased literacy skills in pre-K through the 3rd grade, pushed student achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to improve at a faster rate than most other states, and increased the graduation rate to an all - time high of 83 percent.

The fairly aggressive Dunlop rubber helps the car take a set into turns and then increase speed before succumbing to gentle understeer — the front wheels pushing off the intended path — at the limit.

The Alcantara throughout the interior, with carbon - fiber inserts, reminds me at the push of the AMG button that an aggressive sports car is at my beck and call.

The last time we had a specialized version of the Sentra before its discontinuance was in 2012 with the SE - R package, which was mediocre at best which was not very appealing to the eye and pushing out 177hp with a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder engine with a tag of around 27k having a hard time keeping up with other cars in its class, luckily fans of the Sentra and the Nissan brand weren't ready to give up asking Nissan to give the Sentra a more aggressive stance and the Nismo brand tag.

Things are going okay now as it's only been 3 days since getting the puppy our girl is using her paw to push him over when they are playing but late in the afternoon she gets a little aggressive he yelps we separate but don't yell at her because I feel she's tired of him by then.

At this stage you have to push the limits to advance, you have to try new aggressive moves in order to learn from mistakes.

But the key here is that you must start pushing your limits, pushing you comfort zone, surfing perhaps a little bigger waves than you have in the past, trying a new surf spot or two to feel the rhythm of the ocean at a different surf location, and attempt more aggressive maneuvers closer to the pocket.

The finite resources and push to be aggressive is largely because Act of Aggression favors sheer numbers of units produced quickly by whomever has the most resources to throw at the problem and a high click - per - minute ratio over clever tactics and carefully planned strategies, dropping it more into the Starcraft II territory than something like Company of Heroes or even the Supreme Commander series.

He can be your artist on a bad day when some nasty aggressive person pushes you out of line and no one comes forward to help; at a depressed moment when you believe that your life is never going to get any better; at a time when you despair about the realization of the utopian hopes of leftist politics.

Earlier this year, she was in Amsterdam, where she had an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum; there, one of her entourage, the filmmaker Sibahle Nkumbi, got pushed down a flight of stairs by an aggressive Airbnb host.

He and a team are launching a three - year, $ 300 - million climate ad campaign aimed at recruiting 10 million fervent followers willing to push for everything from strict laws capping emissions to aggressive programs for boosting energy efficiency.

In a speech at Pace University yesterday, Veerappa Moily, India's minister of petroleum and natural gas, described how, as part of a government plan for energy self sufficiency by 2030, India is planning an aggressive push to extract natural gas from its large shale deposits.

NRG's application for a new 500 MW gas - fired power plant at Carlsbad was highly contentious because advocates of the renewables pushed hard on their position that no new gas - fired generation is needed in the state because its future power requirements can be handled through a quick and aggressive adoption of the renewables.

• An aggressive strategy for pushing the development and mass marketing of hybrid technologies, including hybrids that give drivers the option to plug them in at night;

But Posner pushes back against that theory, saying that presidents have been «making aggressive claims about their power for at least 100 years.»

At that point, the officer allegedly became so aggressive that as he held the phone up to the man's ear to get him to speak to the girlfriend, he grabbed the man by the collar, pushed him back and forth, and, in the process of doing so, hit the side of the man's head with the phone, causing him to bang his head on the wall six or seven times, and injured his collarbone.

The biggest thread throughout the keynote was an aggressive push to fully move from a mobile - first world to an AI - first world, changing the way we use Google and our devices to look at everything around us.

Aggressive behaviors towards another person refers to any physically aggressive behaviors that might harm another person including hitting, pushing, hair pulling, toy grabbing, throwing objects directly aAggressive behaviors towards another person refers to any physically aggressive behaviors that might harm another person including hitting, pushing, hair pulling, toy grabbing, throwing objects directly aaggressive behaviors that might harm another person including hitting, pushing, hair pulling, toy grabbing, throwing objects directly at someone.