Sentences with phrase «attempts at change»

But with Los Angeles kids circling the drain (and remember the frightening fact that LAUSD educates one in every eight or nine kids in all of California) and with the union fighting most attempts at change, those days seem over.

If you don't allow letdowns along the way to drag you down, you'll be free to keep up your attempts at change, and you may see progress faster than you think.

It also helps to create awareness of lessons learned from less than successful attempts at change in a way that helps develop new ways to approach their problems.

The RR's and other believer's attempts at changing abortion laws for everyone is just another example of their collective hypocrisy!

To alter significantly the shape of such a universe is to engage in what can be called a process of «totalistic» transformation, for attitudes and motivations are a crucial part of what needs to be addressed in any attempt at change.

Nuzzi comments «The Curia is like a soft belly, absorbing and normalizing any attempt at change.

A few less serious forms of racing would do a lot to improve to the experience and catapult it into the same realm as the greatest of arcade racers, but what's on offer represents a commendable attempt at changing the way we think about how competition is served in a racing game.

The Moto X was, under new owner ownership of Google, Motorola's great attempt at changing the way Android could look.

The attempts at changing the play style does take away from what was a well - established style in previous titles.

However, her über - professional attempt at changing the conversation from «Topless Teacher» to «Charity Marathon Runner,» rather than, say, «Survivor» is not an option afforded to her by everyone.

The public launch of sponsorships — basically a riff on Twitch's own business model — is a significant attempt at changing that.

«No random attempts at changing BTC... and also no SegWit indicators,» kano said when asked which software the pool supports.

«Are you someone who feels that despite several attempts at changing things in your life, you've feel as if you're «running in place»?

Not exact matches

For poor nations, providing fuel to their citizens at below - market prices is a crippling trap — any attempt to change them can cost a politician an election or cause riots.

Startup founders aren't especially worried, though, because they see the law as a nod to change rather than a realistic attempt at reform.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

However, Hari felt her attempts to create change at Starbucks behind the scenes were not producing any true results.

TJX sells an ever - changing assortment of branded goods at discounted prices a formula that's become increasingly appealing to value - oriented shoppers and has led to some copycat attempts from the likes of Macy's and Nordstrom.

CNBC's Meg Tirrell discusses the failed attempts at Pfizer trying to acquire two companies in the past but how the Republican tax reform plan could change that.

One recent catalyst for change at airport checkpoints was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whom U.S. federal prosecutors accuse of attempting to detonate explosives stashed in his undergarments as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Dec. 25, 2009.

The bipartisan Senate plan would attempt to maintain TPS in return for ending or changing a «diversity» lottery program that has been aimed at allowing up to 50,000 people a year from countries with few emigres to the United States.

But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.

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.

Holacracy is ostensibly an attempt to change that — or, at least, provide a veil of empowerment (or some combination of the two).

The reason for this is that the nation's ideology had changed where it had once trumpeted the ideas of non-intervention and peace (except, of course, for the people of the South during their heroic attempt at independence) to those that glorified empire and war, largely based on the British model which, ironically, was the system that America seceded from in 1776.

Kevin Grandia, a noted climate - change blogger, observes that this time around, Canada has adopted a passive, do - nothing strategy: before, it had actively blocked attempts at real progress.

A company who has been turned down by banks or investors will have to work at changing their financial statements to reflect that they have been attempting to pay off their debt.

This book attempts to answer these questions by looking at the innovators, entrepreneurs and inventors who changed our lives.

It seemed Cohn hadn't given up quite yet, and in fact he was planning to make a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind by bringing leaders of industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is making a desperate final attempt to change Trump's mind on imposing the tariffs by bringing leaders of industries that will be hurt by the tariffs to meet with the president at the White House on Thursday.

In this pioneer form - critical work the first attempt was made to write a history of the synoptic tradition and to isolate the influences at work in and on that tradition as it changed and developed.

To attempt to change a teaching about swift and sudden judgment to become a teaching on sexuality is grasping at straws to find — some / any — justification for homosexuality.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

Changing circumstances, new conditions, and differing ways of seeing things are a fact; they require of us some attempt at reconception.

Michael Behe (in The Edge of Evolution) points out that there is abundant evidence for «microevolution» (smaller population change), but there is a boundary at which the evidence for microevolution stops and evidence for macroevolution either doesn't exist, or any clues that do exist are beset with problems so serious that explanatory attempts boil down to «just - so - stories.»

It is obvious that nothing significant is going to happen between us and the alcoholic if we attempt to change his way of life without at the same time permitting ourselves to become genuinely involved.

What is again needed today — and remember that I am attempting to describe a position which will regard Christianity as a living, growing tradition, continuous with its past yet open to the present, ready for critical investigation and concerned to restate the faith for those who live in our own day — is precisely this fearless attitude about the faith, this honest effort at enquiry, and this constant willingness to relate the gospel to the changed world of a new age.

At the time, gender - neutral language usage was by no means the norm; to the contrary, the mandate marked an attempt by a small elite of scholars to normalize a change that they wanted to see in the English language by imposing that change on the Bible.

My changes reflect an attempt to incorporate more whole grains; at some point I will probably try this with some rye flour.

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My first two attempts at this recipe, inspired by Sarah's Life Changing Loaf and Green Kitchen Stories» bread, were a hot mess.

As a rule, holistic nutritionists attempt to look at the body as a whole and the changes you can make to various systems and not just one program.

The recipe should've called for a teaspoon garnish on top for each dish and it's a change I'll make on my next attempt at this.

Having persuaded the International Olympic Committee to change the schedule at the Atlanta Games so he could attempt an unprecedented men's 200 - 400 double, and having then won the 400 meters masterfully in an Olympic - record 43.49 seconds, he had put himself in a place where, in his words, «winning isn't enough.»

Not communicating with your team in an attempt to proactively change things at effect the course of the game.

The Circus Tavern at the Emirates will change it's motto from «roll up, roll up» to «Roll on, Roll on» in an attempt to make the sentence (Wenger's extension) Look more bearable.

At least I can go into my summer just wondering if the drop from cl, and attempted Usmanov bid will cause any change within my beloved arsenal.

He is up from 58 % at the rim to 61 % at the rim, but both are < 100 attempts, so that is within margin to say he hasn't really changed.

Losing a star coordinator can frequently lead to a change in fortunes, but it's not hard to see Norvell's attempt at continuity paying off.