Sentences with phrase «before recent efforts»

Before recent efforts, for example, SFMOMA had almost no works by Beuys: now there are drawings, a vitrine, a blackboard.

My beginning teacher colleagues definitely have a higher level of expertise than they would have had before recent efforts to emphasize assessment literacy in educator preparation.

Not exact matches

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

«We're creating a lot of structure that wasn't there before, but it is by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.

Before the groups were set, there were four English teams (Chelsea, Man City, Man United, Arsenal) with 20:1 or better odds to win the Champions League despite overall disappointing efforts in recent years.

That, in a nutshell, is precisely what I was arguing in my recent op - ed in the Houston Chronicle: If you introduce a more healthful entree on a day when pizza, nuggets or some other «safe» Kid Food is offered, you may as well scrap the effort before you even start.

By allowing us to conjure in our own minds the worst things possible before exposing us to that which we haven't quite thought of yet, his sophomore — not sophomoric — effort becomes one of the more inventive horror films in recent years.

But also, compiling these recent efforts reveals that what is a fun novelty before a film or on its DVD doesn't necessarily add up to outstanding entertainment when watched in succession.

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.

Sony has tried before - the Xperia Tablet S, Sony's most recent foray, was a decent if uninspiring effort.

The ancient villain has been hunting for thinkpieces for aeons before mankind was born, and thanks to recent efforts of pop culture and gaming websites, is now closer than ever to achieving his goal.

In the face of recent megastorms and other extreme climate events, an historic effort to address carbon pollution in DC gained new momentum on Wednesday, October 25 as three Councilmembers spoke in favor of the bill before a cheering crowd at the Wilson Building.

In terms of the implications of climate change for soil conservation efforts, a significant realisation from recent scientific efforts is that conservation measures must be targeted at the extreme events more than ever before (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2003).

According to a recent study by an environmental watchdog, it appears that despite the Indian government's efforts to tackle pollution in the capital of New Delhi, harmful particulates are once again reaching levels before its CNG (compressed natural

Before you launch that effort, however, you'd better take a baseline of your recent traffic patterns to measure against.