Sentences with phrase «attempts at his colleagues»

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While demonstrating empathy is one thing, attempting to equate your own experiences — particularly when they aren't at all relevant to your colleague's situation — will always come off as condescending.

In an attempt to cast light on this issue, my colleagues at Plexus Asset Management have updated a previous multi-year comparison of the price - earnings (PE) ratios of the S&P 500 Index (as a measure of stock valuations) and the forward real returns (considering total returns, i.e. capital movements plus dividends).

They are potential colleagues in our attempts at media jujitsu.

A spokeswoman for Golub Capital similarly parried attempts to reach his colleagues at the accounting firm, though a receptionist did observe that her phones had been ringing more often than usual this morning.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

But his attempt to cast himself as in the same boat as marginal Democrats in a Democrat - dominated state is certainly an interesting approach — one some of his more conservative colleagues might look askance at, and the Democrats more than likely won't let go unchallenged.

The IDC will oppose any law that attempts to disenfranchise labor unions in this state and I urge my colleagues at the national level to do the same.»

This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander the results of the next general election.

As my colleagues, Dana Rubinstein and Laura Nahmias, wrote on Tuesday, de Blasio has been frustrated by the politics of Albany when he's tried to push his progressive agenda at home and is attempting something of an end run.

After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.

After the briefing, a bemused dozen or so colleagues - some, as you would expect at this hour, well - refreshed - attempted to file copy on assorted bits of electronic kit such as BlackBerrys and other fancy gizmos.

And for all the «my honourable friend» parliamentary etiquette between coalition parties (the early attempt at «honourable colleague» quickly abandoned), Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs have usually chosen to sit separately on the government benches.

The Ogun State Police Command has nabbed two herdsmen for allegedly killing their colleague in an attempt to steal his cattle at the Itadodo area of...

Microbiologist Wendell Lim and his colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco are attempting to control living cells by rewriting their internal programming.

After two controversial attempts, the biological anthropologist at the University of Florence, Italy, and colleagues claim to have successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the fossils of a Cro - Magnon, a 28,000 - year - old European ancestor of living humans.

Animal - borne camera reveals that alligators may attempt to capture prey most often at night, even though the calculated probability of catching prey is highest in the morning, according to a study published in PLOS ONE on January 15, 2014 by James Nifong from the University of Florida and colleagues from other institutions.

Previous attempts at stopping light by Georg Heinze and colleagues from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, showed it was possible to stop light for an entire minute.

In an attempt to settle the debate, Yuki Oka, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and colleagues searched for water - sensing taste receptor cells (TRCs) in the mouse tongue.

Carsten Nowak, a conservation biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museum in Gelnhausen, Germany, and his colleagues have made a first attempt to understand how global warming might affect this form of diversity.

He and his colleagues plan an experiment that will attempt to measure how information, matter and spacetime behave at the tiniest of scales — the Planck scale.

Albert Edge, a stem cell biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, attempted to identify the exact type of supporting cells that transform into sensory ones and fill in the gaps left by the damaged cells.

In an attempt to locate and boost the brain cells responsible for motivation in rats, Melissa Warden at Stanford University in California and colleagues inserted electrodes into two brain regions thought to control the feeling.

So, endocrinologist F. Xavier Pi - Sunyer of Columbia University and his colleagues at 64 U.S. and 8 Canadian institutions enlisted more than 3,000 obese volunteers, mostly women, who agreed to take a daily pill while attempting to diet for 2 years.

When I, with some colleagues at NASA, attempted to determine how clouds behave under varying temperatures, we discovered what we called an «Iris Effect,» wherein upper - level cirrus clouds contracted with increased temperature, providing a very strong negative climate feedback sufficient to greatly reduce the response to increasing CO2.

This coming April, Örjan and Gustaf, who are being supported by our Mongolian colleagues Puji, Ghana, and Miji, will make another attempt at catching ibex and fitting them with GPS collars.

I clearly did not want either to happen in front of my colleagues, especially on my supposed last day at the office, so before I set to meet my boss to explain that was going to leave the firm, I took myself to the ladies room in attempts of composing myself.

My colleague at Education Sector, Anne Hyslop, attempts to do just that, in the accompanying post.

The book chronicles an attempt to address these issues in Chicago's public schools led by Anthony Bryk and his colleagues at the University of Chicago in the early 1990s.

I now understand that talking about suicide is up to me, my colleagues at SFSP, those who have survived thinking about or attempting to take their own lives, and all of us worried about depressed and possibly suicidal friends or loved ones.

Hansen and his colleagues were not (at least in that particular paper) attempting to convince us of anything more than that their approach held promise in the development of future models — and they freely admitted both the complexity of their undertaking and the drawbacks of their methodology.

At the weekend, Christopher Booker at the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More&raquAt the weekend, Christopher Booker at the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More&raquat the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More»

Attempting a cross-country tiny house sustainable lifestyle education tour at age 67, alone, was described by some friends and colleagues as «plumb crazy».

Finally, in attempting to assert that I am creating a «false narrative» and «dismissing» the impact of Fox News or conservative media, Romm again tries to pit what I wrote in the chapter against the findings of research by two colleagues and collaborators — Ed Maibach and Lauren Feldman — who both reviewed the chapter, Maibach as a formal reviewer and Feldman informally as my neighbor across the hallway from me at American University.

When I, with some colleagues at NASA, attempted to determine how clouds behave under varying temperatures, we discovered what we called an «Iris Effect,» wherein upper - level cirrus clouds contracted with increased temperature, providing a very strong negative climate feedback sufficient to greatly reduce the response to increasing CO2.

Schnare and Horner, along with their colleagues at E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and similar groups have spent years attempting to use the legal system to attack climate scientists.

New research from glaciologist Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues published in Science attempts to better estimate the possible sea level rise over the next century by measuring the speed at which the world's glaciers — in Greenland and Antarctica but also the many mountain ice sheets throughout the globe — are actually speeding to the sea as well as how swiftly they may melt.

At his blog Counsel to Counsel, Stephen Seckler points to an article by his colleague Gloria Cannon which «suggests that a ticket out of a law firm is likely to be a one way ticket — so think long and hard before you attempt the move.»

Yet his «just a joke» for those who weren't in on it, his bringing his colleagues into this by suggesting they were Hillary supporters, his ultimate acknowledgment that it was all «totally inappropriate» and that «what I did was wrong, a misguided attempt at humour...» felt like minimizations.

If you are not interested in these developments then you likely do not have someone close to you in university in Canada nor are you interested in copyright, fair dealing or open access, that last one should be a hook for many that haven't paid attention up until now because, as my Slaw colleague Michael Lines pointed out back in April, this model deal is a swipe against the the free flow of information and an attempt to cut open access off at the pass, so to speak.

While Wylie has gone public, his former colleagues have remained quiet and are still attempting to capitalize on the skills they honed while at SCL.

Other new research echoes the Canada research, suggesting that the mental health effects of divorce may linger well into adulthood and put the children of divorce at greater risk of suicide, according to Dr. Dana Alonzo, an associate professor at Columbia University specializing in social work, conducted a study along with colleagues to determine whether or not having parents who divorced or having parents who abused alcohol would lead to an increased likelihood of a suicide attempt as an adult.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.