Sentences with phrase «because previous efforts»

It was astonishing because previous efforts to promote national educational standards had ended terribly, and after those experiences, any talk of national standards was generally dismissed as a pipe dream.

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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.

Bell's quest seems quixotic: considering all Flaherty's previous efforts to keep a lid on the housing market, it's unlikely he'll give buyers a break just because they asked nicely.

There was particular consternation among Miliband's team, because some of them had argued that he should not attempt to deliver the speech from memory — as he had done, with great effort, for the two previous years.

Hood and Dixon, nevertheless, make a brave attempt which, because it is an amalgam of their efforts to straighten out inconsistent series and the work of previous partial studies, has all the excitement of a PhD thesis.

The new candidate myeloma genes we identified in the African - American population may have been overlooked because of the lack of diversity in previous genomic efforts.»

Previous search efforts might have missed the plumes in part because they are intermittent, says Lorenz Roth of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

There have been previous efforts to locate the axion, but there is greater interest in the Axion Dark Matter Experiment because of recent developments in physics research.

Previous research has suggested that in patients who suffer from both disorders, OCD might show up more in the form of compulsions than obsessions, and these findings support that idea: the increased activity of the precuneus may reflect individuals» efforts and ability to resist obsessive thought, and the motor cortex may be more active because OCD is manifesting itself more physically than mentally.

Previous efforts to link Western wildfires with climate change have hinted at a profound relationship but led to unconvincing results, largely because long lists of factors influence ignition and wildfire properties.

I was a little disappointed by this album because when you stack it up against their previous efforts it's... just a really big departure in a lot of ways.

August 31, 2011 • Because people are more likely to blame public officials if there is a repeat of a previous disaster, officials tend to disproportionately focus their safety efforts on preventing similar disasters in the future, researchers say.

Of particular interest is EM's claim on its web site: «Previous efforts to reform mathematics instruction failed because they did not adequately consider the working lives of teachers.»

Backers of the latest high - profile push for common standards believe it can succeed where previous national - standards efforts have failed, partly because it comes at standards from a different direction.

Dual enrollment has also become a component of many CTE programs because its goals mirror those of a variety of CTE reforms, including upgrading the CTE curriculum and building upon the promise and addressing the shortcomings of previous CTE reform efforts.

And our hopes are high not only because we haven't had the pleasure of previous Focus RS models here in the States before, but because the Ford Performance's recent efforts have been so fantastic.

The proposed amendments approved by the Senate committee would waive compliance for some breeders for up to 3 years if they had satisfactory inspection reports in the previous 3 years and had just made renovations or are making a good faith effort to comply but because of circumstances beyond their control, can not comply without an extension.

And they need to, because when set next to the two Modern Warfares, World At War, their previous effort, pales rather dramatically.

Lost Odyssey sounds very different from any previous work, and because of that, I consider it one of his best efforts to date.

WB Games Montreal have big shoes to fill as their predecessors previous efforts set the bar for this current gen.. However some fans are comfortable with this transition because the Creative Director is Eric Holmes, who is well known for his work at Epic Games on the Gears of War franchise.

Our previous efforts focused solely on partners; we've broadened it because we see all of our lawyers as long - term investments.

Not simply to take advantage of the latest features, but also because the most recent versions represent a long effort by Google to hone its operating system so that it works on much older hardware than previous Android versions.

-- Did your previous employer save lots of money because of your efforts?