Sentences with phrase «as earlier efforts»

Following the obstruction of research communication, as well as my earlier efforts to obtain compliance with my contract, Macquarie modified my professional duties.

It has been a while since his films have hit the laughter highs as the earlier efforts BILLY MADDISON, HAPPY GILMORE, THE WEDDING SINGER, BIG DADDY and MR.DEEDS did.

The film is very much a festive follow - up to director Michael Dougherty's vastly underrated 2007 Halloween film Trick r» Treat (which I stupidly didn't spotlight in my October Horror series) so fans of that film's darkly comedic tone should be right at home here, although, in my view Krampus is not quite as good as that earlier effort.

I had previously mentioned the Mannheim palatine as an early effort to document temperatures.

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Earlier it quoted Foreign Minister Wang Yi as telling his North Korean counterpart on Wednesday that China fully backs the North's efforts to develop its economy following...

Compliance officers should keep a very close eye on early enforcement efforts, as they will provide critical insight into how to allocate compliance resources going forward.

And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.

Onboarding plans are intended to make new employees familiar with the overall goals of a company and support them as they embark on early projects all in an effort to achieve the perception of success (and productivity) quickly.

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

However, Mariotti added, prosecutors sometimes bring charges earlier if it's part of an effort to coerce a defendant into «flipping» as a witness and cooperating with the investigation.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

You might be tired of your current career after decades of effort, wanting to part ways before you burn out entirely, or you might be a youngster looking to get out of the workforce as early as possible.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

Two earlier efforts were struck down by the courts as lacking adequate backing in law, until the most recent 2015 plan was upheld last year.

If a bipartisan effort is attainable, then McConnell could get on board with an infrastructure plan, as he noted at an event put on by the news website Axios earlier this month.

As high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencAs high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencas high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violencas My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violence.

An early effort to bring order to the chaos of the Internet, Yahoo served as a sort of Yellow Pages for the web, with human editors selecting links to news stories and other sites.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

Magnacca also outlined various efforts the company is taking, such as revamping its product mix and working to identify trends in electronics earlier.

Kalanick hired Levandowski as a consultant to Uber's fledgling self - driving effort as early as February 2016, six months before Levandowski publicly got his company off the ground, according to three sources.

Early plans include meeting with government customers as well as those in the financial and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe in an effort to «stabilize» those relationships.

Stroz also found texts between Levandowski and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick about recruitment efforts and working with Uber's self - driving arm dating back to as early as February and March 2016 — just weeks after Levandowski left Alphabet and launched Otto out of stealth.

LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters, a former employee of the data - science firm said Tuesday.

Every one of our strategists has a keen understanding of traditional marketing practices as well as email, digital, social, and mobile platforms: combining multiple channel marketing and messaging efforts is vital for early stage and established brands to thrive in an online world.

Earlier this year, Marriott and other large operators began a new effort to attract direct bookings to reduce commissions paid to online travel agents, offering discounts to loyal guests and providing perks such as free Wi - Fi.

Sarasota Herald - Tribune: Environmentalists Say The Changes «Were Tailor Made For Polluters Like Georgia Pacific, Just As Were Earlier And Failed Efforts To Reduce Water Quality Standards On The Lower St. Johns.»

They say the weakening changes were tailor made for polluters like Georgia Pacific, just as were earlier and failed efforts to reduce water quality standards on the Lower St. Johns.»

KCSourceLink has served as a leader in an area effort to improve early - stage firms» access to capital.

The Argentinian peso tumbled more than 15 % against the dollar in early trading as the South American nation's central bank stepped back from its efforts to protect the currency, forcing the bank to reverse course to stem the slide.

Kathryn Tesija, exec VP and chief merchandising and supply chain officer at Target, also highlighted the retailer's venture into Snapchat earlier this month as an example of its efforts to engage guests in new and creative ways.

This latest recruitment effort follows similar job fairs hosted by Walmart Canada in late 2016 and early 2017, as the company continues to roll out additional departments within the Cornwall Distribution Hub.

He writes that «most of the namers of this periodical and their successors had early second thoughts as bad things began to happen, among them world wars, depressions, and Christian rightists» efforts to name America a Christian country.

As Matthew Schmitz notes in an earlier post, a furious effort is now being mounted to challenge the official proposal for an Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

Furthermore, as Pentecostals looked to the Acts of the Apostles in an effort to follow the apostolic patterns of the early church, they noted that converts were baptized in water in «Jesus» name.»

Having discarded as exaggerated the dialectical theologians» division between theology and the history of religion, Barr is less than convincing in his own efforts to prevent biblical theology from collapsing into the history of Israelite (and early Christian) religion.

An effort to analyze the authority of the ministry as this was exercised and recognized in the early and medieval Church and in the centuries immediately after the Reformation would lead us deep into social history and psychology, into theology and political science.

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Archbishop paid tribute to the early missionaries who brought Christianity to the region and the efforts of British troops in Malaysia during the 20th Century, including combating the communist insurgency known as the Emergency.

On the other hand the effort to translate Christian faith into a socially useful force entails the suppression and transformation of some vital elements in it, just as the effort to make it serviceable to individualistic success in the era of early capitalism entailed the deformation of the Reformation into the sort of thing that Tawney has described for us.

The explanation of this omission is probably the fact that John the Baptist had been interpreted by his disciples as a «Messiah» of that type and had become so firmly established in the Prophet's role that the early Christians (at any rate, before the Fourth Gospel) made no effort to dislodge him from that position.

Unity in the oikoumene is a continuous task, as Panikkar well stated in an early text: «Ecumenism has to start with suffering arising from diversity; in a further step, it should unveil the deeper, common striving; and it could well culminate in the religious effort to bring closer this unity of Reality.