Sentences with phrase «back previous efforts»

Having beaten back previous efforts to update the rules, Wall Street now has more at stake.

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I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.
He has been paid handsomely for his efforts of the back of his early years successes that are in part to a impenetrable defense and core of leaders he adopted from the previous manager.
Cuomo told reporters there was no «look - back period» in the freeze proposal, but in order to be «reasonable» the state will consider previous efforts to share services in the rebate program.
The town board authorized the trap program in April after a public hearing on a proposed law that would allow cats to be taken to shelters if complaints are received from property owners, and while they unanimously backed the motion, there was some skepticism among councilmen that the process would be successful, especially as a previous TNR effort in the neighborhood had failed.
Schneiderman has filed legal challenge to previous Trump administration actions, including efforts to scale back regulations and limit travel from predominantly Muslim countries.
And it seems unlikely that this year's abbreviated legislative session will produce successful legislation to roll back the marquee climate rules when previous efforts to do so have failed.
And Australian scientists have their fingers crossed, hoping the directive from Greg Hunt, revealed this morning, really indicates the federal government is reversing a previous decision to scale back climate research efforts.
Most previous efforts at solar - powered phones had the cells on the back, meaning that the device had to be facedown to get a charge and that the cells, being external, could more easily be damaged.
Back in Beijing, his previous experience designing complicated weapons systems and rockets for the United States became integral to China's budding efforts.
Previous efforts in the field have been held back by difficulties in distinguishing between normal and cancerous T - cells.
The following videos show examples of power efforts, where the athletes have to overcome resistance (in these cases their own body weight) as fast as possible as opposed to the previous videos of Back Squat examples.
Her only previous effort as a director — the concert movie Home Of The Brave — was released way back in 1986, and there was no indication that she'd ever make another.
Smith adheres to the formula of his previous similar efforts in that the two would - be lovers initially find reasons not to be together, then they have a lapse of judgment that explores the possibility of romantic entanglement, a pulling back completely, and then a coming to terms.
The scene is riotously funny, yet it also reminds me how those previous movies were first - place efforts and «Cars» belongs near the back of the pack.
Krasinski's previous directorial efforts have left a bit to be desired and any voice that he established with 2009's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men was walked back with the more generic The Hollars.
Inevitably, there's no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo's previous directorial efforts, which date back to the early 80s.
In many states, previous overturn efforts have been beaten back, often narrowly.
Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.
Perhaps in an effort to play that down, where the previous Ridgeline had unusual flying buttresses between the back of the cab and (odd - looking) tapering box sides, the new model looks much more conventional, right down to having a visible parting line between the box and cab.
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For those of you who missed our previous article about this game, Record of Agarest War is a tactical - style RPG which was originally a collaborative effort between a couple of different game development studios back when Record of Agarest War was originally made.
When I first purchased my Xbox 360 way, way back in 2008 I came across a simple little twin stick shooter that, despite a relatively steep learning curve, enthralled me to the point where I would eschew big triple A titles like Gears of War in order to spend time trying to master the Robotron: 2084 inspired gameplay, frantically diving back into the fray time and time again in an effort to top my previous score and gain one of the coveted top spots on the global leaderboard.
«Soul Calibur VI almost didn't even happen; there was an opportunity to bring back the franchise but the previous team Project Soul was disbanded,» he recalls, «so this was really a last - ditch effort to see whether or not people would still have interest in the game.»
UFC 3 is definitely an improvement over the previous EA efforts but there are several drawbacks holding the game back delivering that crucial knockout blow.
The Abbott government's efforts to wind back some of the the subsidies are blocked either by a recalcitrant Senate or by long - term contracts entered into by the previous government.
By filling a Supreme Court vacancy and other judicial appointments, Trump will put his mark on the courts, where environmentalists have successfully fought previous efforts to roll back protections.
At her previous firm, she was a member of the team representing Shelly Sterling in her successful efforts to claw back marital property, including real property, gifted by her husband to his mistress without Ms. Sterling's knowledge or consent.
In an effort to claw its way back to the top of the Android superphone heap, HTC overcompensated with the One and left behind some of the elements that made previous handsets great.
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