Sentences with phrase «attempts at control»

This finding is congruent with Patterson's coercion model (Patterson, 1982), suggesting that youth who perceive caregivers as critical or coercive regarding diabetes tasks may resist parental attempts at control by refusing to appropriately adhere to their treatment regimen, causing increases in HbA1c.

The best attempts at control are based on a grading scheme for identification of the defect and a breed policy of recording and publishing the results for as many dogs as possible.

P. falciparum is a top target of gene sequencers because it has thwarted all attempts at control.

One of the Persian converts to Islam, the famous man of letters Ibn al - Muqaffa, advised the Caliph al - Mansur, who founded the new capital at Baghdad, to promulgate a code of Islamic law, but the lawyers, theologians and scholars, inspired by the general sense of the community, resisted all such attempts at control of belief by the ruling powers.

There are always certainly attempts at control.

For some analysts, the latest crackdown is a backhanded attempt at controlling capital flight.

Banning certain things is just a last resort and desperate attempt at control.

We need, therefore, to be aware that these attempts at controlling us are the alcoholic's characteristic way of asking for involvement.

He regularly bungled attempts at controlling the ball and misplaced passes when not under much pressure.

Any attempt at controlled crying / controlled comforting resulted in literal bloodshed (she would scratch her head raw in distress or beat her head against the cot bars).

Let's not forget the most famous attempt at controlling public access to alcohol: prohibition in the United States between 1921 and 1933.

Light, its interactions with materials, and our attempts at controlling those effects have held fascination for centuries.

How do attempts at controlling a child backfire?

My «new» attempt at controlling the issue was to educate students about the dangers of smartphone use and to let them set their own classroom guidelines collaboratively with me so that... Continue reading The Cell Phone Struggle: Part 2

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.

The service competes with UltraViolet, and while it offers convenience, some see it as another attempt at controlling one's media usage with even more digital rights management (DRM) involved.

Not exact matches

In a statement, Viacom lead director Salerno, among the directors targeted for removal, called Thursday's action a «brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt» by Shari Redstone «to gain control of Viacom and its management in disregard of Sumner Redstone's wishes,» at odds with the board's efforts «to represent the best interests of all of the shareholders of Viacom.»

Comments: «One thing is clear that this is the beginning of an attempt to bring the fiscal deficit under control or at least start to address it.

United Airlines and CEO Oscar Munoz made some huge mistakes in their attempt at damage control after a passenger was involuntarily dragged off of a flight, says strategist Mark Macias.

Each attempted to influence the debate, and at various times eachseemed to be, briefly, in control of the narrative.

After several failed attempts at taking control, Brian came home one day and pitched a vision to Cherie of what their family's lives could look like without the debt.

In quick succession, Murdoch closed the 168 - year - old News of the World and abandoned his multibillion - pound attempt to take full control of the lucrative British Sky Broadcasting, while Prime Minister David Cameron appointed a judge to conduct a sweeping inquiry into criminal activity at the paper and in the British media.

At the time, Pai said it was «sad... to witness the FCC's unprecedented attempt to replace that freedom with government control.»

For all the misplaced criticisms aimed at lawmakers» attempts to unpack Zuckerberg's brain — or push him off script — the CEO's testimony told a chilling tale of an immature company seemingly untended and out of control, scrambling to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing the bad stuff from ever happening again.

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.

This is why the Obama regime has intensified its attempt at global military control both domestically (Jade Helm) and abroad.

At first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regimAt first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regimat Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regime.

This puts central banks in a position where they will have attempt to control interest rates not by discounting lending, but by buying debt from the government directly, so that markets don't price the new issuance at a level that would destroy the nation's ability to service a debt load that is growing larger all the time.

When Uber puts its modified Volvo XC90s on the streets of Pittsburgh, it will be the first, fledgling attempt to commercialize vehicles that drive themselves without the need for a human being at the controls.

Here are 4 things to know from the attempt at damage control: 1.

Colina — What David said is true — you keep trying to control the narrative by pulling the conversation back to it being about a «divorce», when nobody really talked about that at all until you initially brought it up, then David addressed it (everyone else ignored it because obviously they weren't interested in the «sordid details»), and you again directed the conversation (attempted to direct it) right BACK to an over simplification of it being about the divorce between two people!

In conclusion, I do find it interesting that those who are raising concerns about all that happened and is happening are doing so unafraid in the public forum of my post with a lot of emotion and intelligence, while those who are trying to silence the discussion or at least control it are contacting me privately outside of the public forum with words that attempt to direct, intimidate or shame me.

Theology has usually had a high stake in truth, so high that it has refused all play of the imagination: through creedal control and the formulations of orthodoxy, it has refused all attempts at new metaphors «trying their chance.»

If birth control or fertility treatments were important to me, I would attempt to work at a company that provided that health benefit.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Christians are just more subtle today but they still use their belief system or at least attempt to use it for power and control.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

Now it became increasingly clear that «the historical Jesus», the scholarly reconstruction of Jesus» biography by means of objective historical method, was just such an attempt to build one's existence upon that which is under man's control and invariably at his disposal.

Attempts at nuclear fusion are not part of some biological adaptive «survival of the fittest» process but show our transcendence of a merely material law of control and direction.

As it stood, he told them, their demand to control tithe money was simply an attempt at «theft and highway robbery».

One common expression of the fear of getting involved with one's own hurt is to play «leader», this is an attempt to keep others controlled and at a safe distance by being «helpful.»

In an attempt at portion control, I brought over some of the sweet potatoe brownies to my omnivore neighbors.

And while pumpkin — like all squash — makes for a very healthy high - fiber low - fat dish, when converted into dessert form (in particular, my mom's awesome pumpkin pie) it totally blows any attempts at practicing self - control, and I pay for it on the scale throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.

RiceBran is under attack: a dissident group purporting to hold 9 % of our Company's shares is attempting to launch a last minute proxy contest at the Company's annual meeting to take control of your Company without payment of a control premium.

Game 2 was especially lopsided, with the Caps controlling almost two - thirds of the total shot attempts and scoring chances at even strength.

Dear friend, come join me here and enjoy laughing with me at our teams two legged donkey called Danny as he attempts to control a football with his shins, it is most amusing.

The cultural inertia of the NRA, red state politics, and kids raised to love guns will stop every attempt at gun control.

They controlled 65 percent of the shot attempts at even strength and had a 25 - 14 even - strength advantage in scoring chances.

I only looked at raw numbers, and I did not attempt to control for how general athletic department revenue might bleed into football resources.

IOW, Hoke was willing to gamble in an attempt to score as many points as possible at SDS but once he arrived at Michigan was more concerned with ball control, using the clock, essentially using the offense as defense.