Sentences with phrase «at decades of efforts»

Trump has pledged to eliminate what he considers unnecessary regulations, chipping away at decades of efforts not only to control global warming but clean air and water rules as well.

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The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade - long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

An awareness of this requirement resulted in a program for the «Decade of Spiritual Renewal of the Nation,» open letters by Cardinal Tomasek, and the effort at a new and more positive evaluation of Jan Hus.

(FOOTNOTE: We have made no effort to include all of the New Testament in this survey, but a word or two at least must be said about the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is probably to be dated in the last decade of the first century.

The first third of the decade saw my last efforts at unsnarling the puzzles of religion, taken as puzzles of language.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

The beverage industry has been at the forefront of conservation and sustainability efforts for decades and has a long list of eco-friendly innovations.

Fans of any program that has played at an elite level in the last decade or two don't want to face the thought of a rebuilding effort.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

A quick look at immigration laws in the last decade suggests that there has been no shortage of efforts to do something.

Mr. Lander believes that the effort late in the campaign to discredit candidates linked to Data and Field Services, the consulting wing of the Working Families Party, was fueled by resentment that the «WFP has been so successful at promoting progressive issues for over a decade, and has supported very good candidates.

It is unclear whether replacing Ms. Finkle will have any significant impact, given a history of extreme violence at Rikers that stretches back decades, as well as a strong correction officers» union that has resisted even minor efforts to toughen oversight.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan dismissed the Democrat's efforts to portray behavior that earned him millions of dollars over the last decade as innocent conduct that, at most, stretched the limits of ethics rules.

The government poured $ 9 billion and decades of effort into the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, with little to show for it.

«In summary, these encouraging data build upon the real success of our translational efforts in myeloma over the last decade, and provide exciting new options with the real promise of improving patient outcome,» said Richardson, who is also the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

In 2000, Costa joined forces with Barbara Block at Stanford University and others to launch the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, a decade - long effort to track the movements of top marine predators in the Pacific Ocean.

The program is planning a luncheon and panel at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting to celebrate its two decades» of work, coinciding with new efforts to bring together alumni who can act as mentors to the new cohorts of EntryPoint!

Despite decades of efforts, precisely controlling phase transformations at the atomic scale still poses a significant challenge due to the intricacies of governing thermodynamic conditions with atomic precision.

Search and recovery efforts for at least two dozen victims of Japan's worst volcanic eruption in decades were called off on Tuesday due to worries about rising volcanic activity

Efforts to combat the rapid spread of Zika virus got a boost this week as researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (UTMB) announced the first peer - reviewed publication of a mouse model for Zika infection reported in decades.

So they were pleased when President Barack Obama last night pledged a new, long - term effort aimed at repairing what he called «decades of environmental damage» to the region.

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

At the forefront of this effort is Stanley Coren, a behaviorist from the University of British Columbia, who draws on decades of research to explore the psychological motivations behind dogs» everyday behaviors, as well as what science says about their barks, thoughts, and dreams.

Over the past two decades, research scientist Rachel Whitmer at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dementia.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

But almost all fluids are viscous in nature and, despite decades of effort, no one has managed to come up with a generally accepted way to handle viscous fluids traveling at relativistic velocities.

«California is committed to deploying at least 100 hydrogen refueling stations in the next decade, and the H2FIRST effort is a big step toward the development and deployment of a broader, consumer - friendly infrastructure for us and the rest of the United States.

Given this strategic direction, the CCP4 Core Team and funded developers at the University of York are putting a major effort into updating CCP4's aging user interface, which was developed a decade ago.

Penn Medicine has been at the forefront of rare disease research for decades, and these efforts — as well as many of its other research and clinical milestones — are being honored this year as part of the Perelman School of Medicine's 250th anniversary celebration.

Understanding normal social functions and their variations at a detailed, multilayer neural level is a long - haul effort that will take decades, but is the only route to inspire new and principled treatments and a powerful example of the ambitious fundamental research that the NIN is so uniquely poised to address.

«This technology represents decades of effort from Dr. Croteau and his paclitaxel research team at Washington State University,» said Keith Jones, executive director of the WSU Research Foundation.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

The research and development effort at the IA includes most of the topics presently, and for the next decade, at the forefront of research in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, from the Solar System to the large - scale properties of the Universe, complemented by work on instrumentation and systems with potential use in Astronomy and Astrophysics projects.

The group questioned the motive of the new research pointing to the deceptive research, and it also defended its clandestine efforts by reaffirming findings over the last several decades that concluded sugar does not contribute to heart disease — a point that's only half - true, considering sugar contributes greatly to obesity, which can put one at a higher risk of developing heart disease.

Kristin Stark, who has spent two decades at Amblin (DreamWorks), has been upped to senior VP, marketing and communications for Amblin Partners and will now manage all aspects of Amblin's marketing efforts.

Foster has been a regular presence at Cannes throughout the decades and presented her last directorial effort — the bleak comedy «The Beaver,» starring Mel Gibson — in an out - of - competition slot in 2011.

Perhaps for their future efforts, Vaughn and Wilson, as well as director Levy (Night at the Museum, The Pink Panther), can learn from the example of Google itself by trying to innovate with their material rather than stick to the same old ideas that were popular a decade ago and think they will always work.

Early efforts It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, The Seven Year Itch and Breakfast at Tiffany's regaled viewers for decades; however most of their modern counterparts are too awful to endure.

Roman Coppola «s «A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,» his long - awaited sophomore directorial effort (arriving more than a decade after «CQ»), finally premiered this month at the Rome Film Festival.

Larry Cuban is a prolific and insightful chronicler and analyst of our efforts at urban school reform and improvement over the last few decades.

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

Mitchell spent decades at the center of this era's efforts to improve schooling.