Sentences with phrase «among other attempts»

It looked a tad nuts among the other attempts at depth around it, but an amusing curiosity nonetheless that brought some smiles.

Both were lauded for their charter school laws among other attempts to improve education.

Clearly, all of Michelle Obama's digging in the White House garden, among other attempts to steer the nation's children toward fresh fruits and vegetables, just got clobbered.

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In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodations.

During that visit, he said he saw no signs of Soviet religious persecution, a misguided attempt at diplomacy that brought scathing criticism from author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among others.

Among other things, a grand jury alleges the suspects, along with another Illinois man, put a bomb on railroad tracks near Effingham, Ill. in an attempt to extort money from the Canadian National Railway.

The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious sto...

In 1986, a Democratic Congress passed and the Republican president signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which attempted to close the back door of illegal immigration by, among other measures, imposing sanctions on employers for hiring unauthorized aliens.

I'm accustomed to whispering campaigns in church among people who know each other, not out in the worldwide webs attempting to manipulate someone else» publishing.

This was, among other things, an attempt to show mercy to the priest — by protecting his reputation and allowing him a second chance.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

Among other things, I have attempted an answer myself in The Scripture Principle (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).

Also, regarding where you switch topics to attempt defense another aspect of our conversation being «not an opinion'than the original... among some other heated statements..

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the human person.

If you are referring to the CERN complex and the experiments they are doing right now, they are not claiming to have proof of god; they are simply attempting to find out more amout the beginning of the universe, among other things.

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

After the reign of Antiochus III, his son Seleucus IV (Philipator, 187 - 175) succeeded to the throne, and, among other insults to Judaism, attempted to confiscate the Temple treasury in Jerusalem.

Whether the other early attempts to «compose a narrative of the facts that were accomplished among us,» to which Luke refers in his preface, had the same character, it is impossible to say.

She attempts, among many other things, to assess Jewish and Christian approaches to forgiveness, which in some respects she finds wanting.

Among many other more obvious things, apartheid is also an attempt to restore the legal and social bondage of the darker - skinned that had been self - righteously diminished by the long arm of Victorian conscience, eager to «improve» natives.

During the past year, I have attempted to answer this question (among others) in a book - length manuscript.

(The misguided attempt to take down Stanley Fish in The New Republic for, among other things, not pursuing more esoteric research is an example of this.

On the other hand, the series of Italian renaissances was furthered by the French and German classicist movement, and by the nostalgic passion for Greece among the German and English romantic poets, not to speak of the more recent attempts by Nietzsche, and into our time, Heidegger, Leo Strauss, and others.

Also as among some other peoples, the death of the masterful king was followed by a pagan reaction which was an attempt both to return to ancestral ways and to revive local autonomy.

The first is that I attempt to show that the revelation of God in Jesus Christ isn't just one revelation among many others in Scripture.

Wigg had said, among other things, that «the Jockey Club's discipline is so soft that the rules are ignored and derided;» that «jockeys have developed the business of «covering up» or disguising an attempt to lose into something close to an art;» that «bookmakers, as a profession, are not very intelligent — neither was the dinosaurus and the dinosaurus got stuffed; if they are not careful so will the bookmakers, for the same reason;» and that jockeys «are not as fully developed as the average young male of the same age, so it is quite likely that if their bodies are not fully developed, then their IQs will not be very high, either.»

Among other lit groups, defending champ Sergio Garcia, reigning PGA champion Justin Thomas, and top U.S. amateur Doc Redman, will tee off at 10:53 a.m.; two - time Masters winner Bubba Watson, Jason Day, and Henrik Stenson go off at 11; 04 a.m.; Rory McIlroy will launch his latest attempt to complete the career grand slam at 1:38 p.m. with 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott, and the fiery Jon Rahm; and Jordan Spieth kicks off his effort to earn a second green jacket at 1:49 p.m. with Alex Noren and 2010 British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen.

«Among other investigations were those launched into attempted manslaughter, breach of the peace and breaking laws on explosives and laws on assembly,» the statement said.

Bullying during the middle school years is especially common as children attempt to establish their place and their social circle among others.

She shares her attempts at simplifying, among other things, at her blog, Meg Acts Out.

The consolidation of Asia as the new engine of economic growth; the rise of new economic powers such as the BRICS; the negotiations of extensive Free Trade Agreements in an attempt to benefit from access to growing markets and to US to maintain an upper hand in setting global standards (among the others the EU and South Korea FTA and the on - going negotiations between EU and Canada, and the EU and the USA).

Mr. Schneiderman knocked previous attempts at reform as falling short, and called on Mr. Cuomo to press the legislature to ban outside income entirely and drastically overhaul the per diem system, among other proposals.

Schneiderman has sued Trump over his executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, his attempts to repeal former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youth brought to the United States in their early childhood, among other issues.

Americans must also fight back against voter suppression attempts, among other things, by demanding automatic voter registration.

Aside variously branding former President Mahama and his family incompetent and corrupt, Mustapha Hamid was later to accuse the former President and his brother, Ibrahim Mahama of attempting to bribe the Northern Regional Chairman of NPP, Bugri Naabu with cars and money among others.

The MP accused the Chief Justice of «conniving» with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in an attempt to reverse the election results in 2008 and in 2012 among other allegations.

Among other things, he unlawfully solicited and obtained client referrals worth millions of dollars in exchange for SILVER's official acts, and attempting to disguise this money as legitimate outside income earned from his work as a private lawyer.

The petition, which was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya - Abbas and Umar Sanda - Sani, alleged among other things that the party's National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, was complicit in an alleged attempt to impose a candidate on the zone.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

He said the Amnesty International had indicated, among other things, that; «There are ongoing cases of withholding of staff salaries, rejection of authentic excuse duties and attempts to dismiss some staff.»

Since then, there have been several other attempts among board members to remove one another.

But the Transparency International (Nigeria) and a chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, among others, described the judgment as sad and a calculated attempt to frustrate the war against corruption in the country.

The Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce is managing the Adirondacks Teleworks Project, which among other things, is attempting to promote a partnership the public and private sectors to «advance the availability of high speed broadband service throughout the (Adirondack) Park.»

Couple that dismal showing among Democrats in the Marist poll with other recent data that suggests state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo would soundly defeat Paterson if he ran in the primary and the White House's attempted intervention, and it's clear that the governor has lost the confidence of his own party.

«Also, he has acted contrary to the provisions laid out in the second schedule of the constitution by attempting to, among others, create a police force in the guise of Green Police, Homeland Security, which are in the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government.»

Yet attempts to create a Wikipedia entry were repeatedly rebuffed because, among other things, editors said the topic lacked notability.

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

At present, attempts are being made to build quantum computers using, among others, trapped ions, electron spins in diamond, quantum dots, superconducting electric circuits, and atomic clouds.

To some people this will appear particularly cockeyed in the run - up to the Earth Summit in Rio when, among other things, the international community will be attempting to hammer out a climate treaty.