Sentences with phrase «attempts at returning»

Superman's attempts at returning to his former glory take an unexpected turn in Greg Pak, Aaron Kuder and Ardian Syaf's «Action Comics» # 49.

Padavan, who suffered a mild stroke in early 2011, has been mulling a possible attempt at returning to the Senate this fall.

The single - player campaign does a bang - up job of imbuing your enormous bipedal buddy with personality: a faltering attempt at returning your thumbs - up is a moment of particular poignancy, as it struggles to understand the complexity of human emotions.

Not exact matches

Your half - hearted attempts would likely not provide any returns at all.

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.

Almost no calls were returned, and those that were produced zero answers to the many questions asked as to what was decided at the three - day meeting, who paid for the meetings, who organized them, and why every attempt was made to keep them secret.

The model shown in the following painting attempts to diagram the three variables of Price, Expected Return and Uncertainty, resulting in a distribution of actual monthly returns shown at the bottom.

In fact, I don't believe that the attempt to forecast these shorter term returns would be of any benefit at all to our portfolio management.

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).

The book is actually a summary of the miseries of the «life of Jesus» movement, concluding with a trumpet call to scholars to renounce all further attempts at defining «the historical Jesus» and to return to the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels.

They sense the anti-Christian value system it carries and counsel believers to return to religious fundamentals which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays, and rock concerts, and attempts at censorship of media, especially films, TV, and books.

The judge ruled in favor of Bowman, saying that at no point did he attempted to conceal his income or file inaccurate returns.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

But in 1530, in an attempt to restore religious unity, returning from his coronation at Rome as Emperor, Charles called a meeting of the Diet at Augsburg and asked the Protestants to state where they differed from the Roman Catholic Church.

When the waitress returned, I ordered in my best attempt at Portuguese: «Frango Piri - Piri, por favor senhora.»

However it's clear to me that the German international has enjoyed his time at Arsenal, despite a lack of major honours and that his only vision right now is to continue with Arsenal, in an attempt to return the glory days to the Gunners.

The Boss has been tinkering with our formation a lot this season after opting to go with a three - man defence at the end of last season when we started grinding out wins as we attempted to return to the Top Four.

To sum up what happened in one paragraph: Chris Paul, in his return to Los Angeles, got mad at Blake Griffin for elbowing his coach and at Austin Rivers for talking shit to Trevor Ariza, and so Paul, Ariza, and James Harden attempted to enter the Clippers locker room through a «secret» backdoor tunnel while sending Clint Capela to the front door as a decoy, which led to the cops getting called and probably suspensions despite no physical altercations actually happening between the two sides.

Benitez's side will attempt to close the gap on second - placed Manchester City when they return to Premier League action at Reading on Wednesday following two frustrating cup fixtures.

Combined with the emergence of Jeremy Lin, the sudden availability of Baron Davis and the imminent return of Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks suddenly have a lot of tools at their disposal as they attempt to climb from their current No. 8 spot in the East.

Toronto Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas will return to the lineup from a sprained right ankle, giving the Raptors a boost in Game 4 as they attempt to even their Eastern Conference Finals series with the Cavaliers at two.

Whilst all other teams strengthen their ranks and at least attempt to make an effort to win things, we are told to expect only challenge for a top 4th position, and then expected to celebrate as if we won the league or champions league... Each year we tend horde our dead - wood / dead - weight who earn too much money for their return in this current climate.

The Rooney in jury should be a bigger help to one Arsenal man at least, the on loan midfield star Jack Wilshere who may well be in line for a return to the England first team in Rooney's absence and that is just what the injury hit star could do with as he travels down the road to full recovery and attempts to save his Arsenal career.

Of course, though the 42 - year - old Woods has had tremendous success at the San Diego course, he got his butt kicked there (76 - 72, missed cut) in last year's aborted attempt to return from back surgery.

The Pats attempt a reverse on the kick return, but Bryan Braman stops Burkhead at the NE 9.

My goal was to begin compiling «percentage returning» data for every level of an offense and defense — passing yards / attempts / completions, rushing attempts / yards, receiving targets / receptions / yards, offensive line starts (because that's all we have), and tackles / TFLs / pass breakups at each level of the defense.

The Premier League champions have thus far been frustrated in their attempts at adding to their forward line as they look to return to Champions League football.

He subsequently returned to East Anglia but has now joined Wigan as he aims to help guide the club back to the top - flight at the first attempt following their relegation last season.

Manchester United have had one season under Louis van Gaal and will be looking to push on to challenge for the title this year after returning to the top four at the first attempt.

It was a bitterly cold return for Benitez, whose attempts at damage limitation against the free - scoring Liverpool lasted until five minutes before the break.

Nicks on why Arshavin's Zenit return in confusing with a capital Q, and an attempt at an angry preview.

Newcastle look well set for their attempt at an immediate return to the Premier League then, but how have the host of new arrivals fared?

2002/2003 A record breaking season sees the Alex return to the First Division at the very first attempt.

The arrival of former - England and Chelsea captain John Terry only enhances their chances of returning to the Premier League at the second attempt.

They have of course played in the FA Cup during that time, progressing to the quarter - finals with a comfortable 2 - 0 victory at home to Blackpool, but to all intents and purposes David Moyes has the exciting prospect of picking from a squad that should be a lot fresher than that of his opposite number, one that will also be boosted by the return of several important figures, as Everton attempt to extend their unbeaten league run to six matches at Loftus Road.

As for West Ham; they have invested heavily this season, in a bid to return to the Premier League at the first attempt.

The midfielder, who has taken over as captain at the Philips Stadion this season, suffered initial disappointment upon returning for his third spell there as PSV were knocked out of the Europa League, but has attempted to make amends for that by showing that he is far, far too good for the Eredivisie.

Burnley, relegated from the Premier League last season but on the verge of returning at the first attempt, will receive # 6.5 million with an additional # 1.5 million in add - ons plus 20 % of any future transfer fee for Ings.

The Frenchman has been a revelation since returning to the starting XI following his attempts at engineering a move away from the DW to a» bigger» club.

But in between those two extremes is a category called chronic understimulation, in which parents just don't interact very often with their children in an engaged, face - to - face, serve - and - return way, ignoring their cries or attempts at conversation, parking them in front of a screen for hours at a time.

Parents stay at home attempting to get better before the twins inevitable return.

Councillors standing down at the election included Gwen Richardson and Erica Shaw, while former Labour group leader David Potter and the former Conservative council leader from the 1980s and 1990s, Stephen Reid, attempted to return to the council.

«I'm pleased to share the Land Bank's success with the Councilors and continue to discuss operational improvements,» Wright said, «The Land Bank is providing a valuable public service at a scale previously not attempted in Syracuse — maintaining abandoned properties more cost effectively than the City has been able to and returning them to productive use at a faster rate than was previously possible.

Dylan Ratigan, a former MSNBC host who entered the race last week, wove comments about the «soul of the country» into his remarks, citing his work with Helical Holdings to help returning combat veterans — including the homeless — and how he attempted to reconcile those efforts with his mounting displeasure with the banking industry, which he said supports concentrating wealth at the top, not helping the country's most vulnerable citizens.

«At about 17:30 hours, the Police Patrol team returning from Sempoa area reported that, on reaching Hweehwee township, they encountered a rampaging youth numbering about 300 who were attempting to lynch two Fulani men, who were on motorbike returning from Sempoa heading towards Nkawkaw.»

Before returning to Binghamton for a 2:30 press conference, the tour will stop at the offices of Cabot and attempt to meet with their representatives.

In two previous attempts in 2013 — one aimed at observing a different galaxy, another targeting the Comet Ison — technical problems affected the quality of the information returned.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

Recently, I've had many conversations with patients weighing the pros and cons of traveling for a relaxing vacation to Mexico, and the unfortunate consequences of delaying attempts at pregnancy for at least two months upon their return.

Check KPIs Done correctly, meditation will quickly yield tangible results — particularly if you've returned from a Vipassana course and are attempting to recreate the technique at home.