Sentences with phrase «attempt at a mass»

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

For all of the lost wealth (which is determined by price changes, not money flows), we really aren't seeing any attempt at mass liquidation by speculators.

While I am very happy for anyone who finds their spiritual or non-spiritual calling in life that makes them feel happy and complete, I can't help but laugh at this attempt at mass hysteria.

The shooter, James Hodgkinson, a former home inspector from Belleville, Ill., traveled to Virginia in March — three months before his failed attempt at mass murder.

He advised them to look into the National Housing Policy and the previous attempts at mass housing to address the obstacles to providing mass, affordable and quality housing for the people.

If this was a whimsical attempt at mass - audience accessibility, no whimsy or lightness is conveyed.

All involved do an incredible job of establishing Thanos» plan as well as the motives behind his attempt at mass genocide.

Who Dares Wins — Douglas Blain reckons the SS100 a real prewar masterpiece — is definitely his type of car / The Bradley Tapes — The first in a new series recalling the life and times of renowned motoring journalist WF Bradley / A Celebration Of Speed — David Venables reports on the ever - popular Festival of Speed at Goodwood / Jumble Giant — Michael Ware previews the grandady of them all — the September Beaulieu Autojumble / Bean's Talk — JonathonWood tells the tale of an early attempt at mass production / Best Buy — Michael Bowler selects some more first cars for under # 10000 / Bespoke Motoring — Malcolm Green's in - depth guide to special bodied MGs from 1929 to 1955 / French Connection — Michael Worthington - Williams on the cars of Marcel Violet.

GM's first attempt at a mass - market fully electric vehicle looks laughable.

The game's overall presentation is best described as Nintendo's attempt at a mass market style.

Not exact matches

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.

At the age of 40, after two failed, previous attempts, the Michigan - born engineer took another shot at building a powerful, but affordable and reliable, mass - produced caAt the age of 40, after two failed, previous attempts, the Michigan - born engineer took another shot at building a powerful, but affordable and reliable, mass - produced caat building a powerful, but affordable and reliable, mass - produced car.

Customers are so adept at filtering out mass marketing attempts, brands need to compel them to open email messages through unique subject lines and email texts that speak directly to them.

His brother Nikolas Cruz is charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at the Parkland high school.

Alice, Christy, Jim and Rob Walton are among the worst - performing billionaires this year, down a combined $ 43.4 billion as the mass merchandiser invests in stores and e-commerce in an attempt to revitalize sales at the retailing giant.

Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, the prosecutor in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, says the case involves «the attempted murder of everyone at that school.»

At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churcAt Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churcat a service of Holy Communion in a great parish church.

Attempting to blame drugs is a lot easier than pointing the finger at the organization that fights to get these weapons of mass killing out to the public — the NRA.

at the risk of reaching critical mass on metaphors, he's missing the forest for the trees in his attempts to get people to pay to see some one finally defeat Brock Clean (the true job of great heel work is to make people pay to watch you get beat)

A mass transit system was needed to move these people from their homes in the suburbs to the city centre, and attempts at using chain - driven buses had already failed.

At a time when only four in ten Americans trust mass media, and only one in four believe the media even attempts to report without bias, Trump's ability to send the media into overdrive fact - checking, debunking, and calling him out likely sends the same signal to voters that his provocation of the GOP establishment did: he is someone who will drive those who have betrayed their trust up the wall.

The tone of the piece hints at the false dichotomy perceived by 38 Degrees: the howling, downtrodden masses vainly attempting to get their voices heard at the highest levels, ignored by dastardly Members of Parliament who are irritated by the representations they receive because it's keeping them from feeling up the intern in taxpayer - subsidised bars.

In the overall scheme of things these pre-arranged little protests aimed at getting media coverage are not too effective and the e-mail blasts sent out by every special interest group to protest changes to their little corners of the budget pie and protect the paychecks of those who are writing them don't quite stack up against the masses that are overwhelming supporting the new Governor and the change he is attempting to bring to the state.

He postulates that two factors may influence the outcome of a mass shooting event: training officers to recognize which mass shooters are most likely to commit suicide by their own hand or attempt «suicide by cop»; and providing officers with detailed information about the attack (such as the offender's number of weapons, number of victims killed, and decision to attack at an open commercial site, factory, or warehouse).

This year, the festival will join forces will NYC - based group meditation movement The Big Quiet to attempt the largest mass meditation at a music festival in the United States.

If you enjoyed being ripped and vascular over the summer, you may wish to resign yourself to a life without ABS for the foreseeable future, or at least, you may wish to resign yourself to a few months without your ABS, as you attempt to bulk up and increase your muscle mass.

While I recommend trying out DoD, I don't believe their attempt at «bringing roguelikes to the masses» was much more than stripping out most the work that went into Nethack and putting a mediocre graphical overlay atop it.

It isn't what was expected, either, instead he gives us an eye - opening and wholly unique look at one woman's attempt to connect with any man in her life: her son, her ex-husband, her mass - murderer father, or even her rapist.

«Our students need more books, art and music programs, nurses and school counselors; they do not need more guns in their classrooms,» Eskelsen García said after Trump, in a listening session at the White House, proposed to arm teachers and school staff in an attempt to prevent mass shootings.

Its tragic story is related by Brian Palmer / Racing at Brooklands — Memories of the 1937 J.C.C. International Trophy and Campbell Trophy races recalled by Fred Hislop / Austin to America — Alistair Bruce tells how in 1927 an English entrepreneur took an Austin Seven to the USA in an attempt to capture a slice of he mass car market / 1901 Baker Electric — On this month's «excursion'the Editor drives an environmentally - friendly electric car / VSCC Wessex and Derbyshire Trials — Tom Threlfall reports on these events and the club's «travelling circus» / Pre-war hill - climbing in the North — Our series by A.B. Demaus on famous British hill - climb locations continues with a description of an ascent in the Yorkshire Wolds / London - Brighton — Commercial Run Pictorial report of this year's HCVS Run by Andrew Plummer.

I understand the rationales, I think, behind this ham - fisted attempt at controlling market quality, eliminating cheating and dulling the influence of mass - marketers like BookBub.

We keep seeing attempts to bring back the mass audience to serialized periodical comics, whether it is efforts aimed at what's left of the «actual» newsstand market (7 - 11's have probably replaced the «general store» in most locales), or whether it's pushes to get material into generalist book stores like Barnes & Noble or Hastings, and none of these experiments seem to garner anything but the mildest of responses.

The reality was actually much less so (drinking cheap vodka and imitation Red Bull in a converted stables building with a bunch of people I'd only just met, and then picking my way through a mass of bodies in various states of consciousness in an attempt to secure a bed at around 4 am) but it was still a fun and novel way start to 2014.

Games for the Masses has always been my attempt at populism, and while I usually take this time to adopt a goofy...

Is this the comic book fighting game we were waiting for or another failed attempt at empowering the masses?

It would be easy to bash this game outright, that is, if I only look at the hype SEGA was attempting to generate throughout the masses about Aliens: Colonial Marines.

After several attempts at reintroducing the series to the masses, it seemed like Nintendo might have given up on Fire Emblem in 2010.

Along with his neo-Duchampian comrade - in - arms Robert Rauschenberg, he provided the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, between serious (if often overblown) attempts at tapping into the unconscious to the canny (if sometimes perspicacious) coopting of mass media.

The spot paintings are nothing more than colour, calculations, sheer surface and mass production — Hirst's dissociative attempt at being more like a scientist, in the way that Andy Warhol wanted to be more like a machine.

These attempts to see — to be in the perfect place during mass assembly, inevitably fail as nothing at all can be seen.

at the Museum of Modern Art — make bold attempts to decode fashion from two opposing curatorial perspectives, by tackling the very premise of fashion's postmodernity, and with it, many of its existential dilemmas: the relationship between form and function, automation and craftsmanship, and the status of aesthetic authorship in the age of global mass production.

His recent body of ongoing work, Tomorrow Land, addresses vacated land mass and mankind's failed attempt at maintaining control of invention gone awry.

Well, crawling out of the ocean probably took millions or billions of attempts... and there were a couple mass extinctions on the way... But this is still right at the top or is the biggest.

This essay is an attempt to link real world observations (the failure of surface temperatures to rise in tandem with atmospheric CO2) to basic physics and thereby show why the radiative characteristics of Greenhouse Gases can not increase the surface temperature of a planet when atmospheric mass, the strength of the gravitational field and the power of insolation at the top of the atmosphere remain the same.

Now of course «skeptics» are going to claim that this is an effort at mass indoctrination and an attempt to force their dogma / ideology / hoax / communist world government onto society.

The reef stress comes from the fact that in elevated temperatures mass bleaching is expected to be more frequent, frustrating coral attempts at recovery, as seen so far (multi-decade trend is decline in cover, admittedly from all causes since mass bleaching at this scale is new).

«State of Fear» is about global warming — or rather about some pro-environment fanatics who believe in global warming and who will stop at nothing, including attempts at murder and mass destruction, to prove their thesis.

A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.

Nikolas Cruz now formally faces 17 counts of first - degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first - degree murder in the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, prosecutors announced Wednesday afternoon.

2 March 2018 A fake tweet was spread in an attempt to smear the reputation of David Hogg, who survived a mass shooting at his high school that left seventeen people dead.