Sentences with phrase «blocked most efforts»

In the past, the Assembly has blocked most efforts at tort reform.

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Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

Most importantly, he blocked an Arsenal effort in a chaotic sequence, which even the superhuman De Gea was unlikely to stop.

«This session is perhaps most notable for the fact that, so far, it seems the Republican Senate majority will once again block any substantive effort to regain the public trust that has been so thoroughly tarnished.

This session is perhaps most notable for the fact that, so far, it seems the Republican Senate majority will once again block any substantive efforts to regain the public trust that has been so thoroughly tarnished.

Most recently, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was stymied in his effort to create a plan, which was ultimately blocked in the state Assembly.

Before that, the most memorable examples were the John Major «I'm still Jenny from the block» Brixton poster and the much - copied, oddly haunting «Labour isn't working» effort from Saatchi & Saatchi.

The $ 2 billion tax increase follows months of efforts by Assembly Democrats to hike taxes on the wealthy despite promises by Cuomo, also a Democrat, and the Senate's Republican majority that they'd block any increases in one of the nation's most heavily taxed states.

«We are completely elated,» says Joshua Zimmerberg, a researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development who used most of his annual leave last year to help organize an effort to block the disclosure rule.

In an effort to block emerging threats to online security, researchers at princeton university have developed a method to verify the strength of random number generators that form the basis of most encryption systems.

A group of students ranging from middle school to college will be the most effective in illustrating the various perspectives and stumbling blocks facing Kentucky's students, and will complement the department's current P - 16 Council efforts.

Real dogs not only must be housetrained - most owners are aware of that need; they also must be taught not to chew the furniture, taught not to jump on their owners, taught not to play - bite, taught not to bowl over the toddler, taught not to dig holes in the yard, taught to come when they are called, taught not to eat the homework or the woodwork, taught not to swipe food off the table, taught not to growl at strangers or bark at the mail carrier, taught to walk on a leash without dragging their owner down the block, taught to allow their toenails to be cut and their coats to be groomed without biting the groomer, taught not to shred feather pillows and down comforters, taught not to steal the baby's toys, taught not to growl at their owner's mother - in - law, taught to sit, stay, and to lay down when and where the owner tells them to, and to wait there until the owner says they may get up (absolutely essential commands for the dog's own safety), taught not to escape out the front door or out of the yard or out of the car when the owner looks away for just a second... all of these things and many more are not «natural» canine behaviors; they must be taught by owners who are willing to spend the time and the effort doing so.

To Brooke's comment, as a group of advocates who have attended many of the Ohio dog auctions as part of a coordinated effort with rescue, media and local law enforcement to address serious issues involving the breeders and dogs placed on the block for sale, we can attest that a vast majority of dogs we saw were most definitely frightened, injured and / or ill.

In order to block proactive government policymaking and keep corporate interests unregulated, libertarian groups have focused a significant part of their efforts on climate change on distorting the science to confuse public opinion, denying the seriousness of the problem, and, most recently, impugning the integrity of the climate science community.

The four main goals are to: (1) develop a 13 - acre block in the center of the city as a «Green Arts District» beyond the LEED Platinum level for neighborhood development and use that development to catalyze a prosperous city - wide economy; (2) develop a post-carbon energy system for both the city and the College based on efficiency and renewable energy; (3) develop a 20,000 acre greenbelt around the city to revive local agriculture and forestry; and (4) create the most exciting educational experiment in the U.S. by using the entire effort as an educational laboratory for all students in the Oberlin area.

Objectively, then, the groups who have been most successful in thwarting the much - hyped nuclear renaissance are those who blocked efforts to make nuclear power more cost - competitive.

Most notably, Taiwan's Financial Supervisor Commission moved to block its efforts to launch ATMs in that country, saying that the required authorization would not be granted if requested by the company.

At first, many had the same impression, since bitPico had been a vocal supporter of a controversial scaling initiative, and had continued to espouse the benefits of increasing the block size parameter, even after most network participants ditched the effort.

Neither is Wu's involvement in scaling, which traces back to these early efforts by bitcoin businesses to lift its perceived capacity constraints, most notably the 1 MB limit on block space that can be added to the blockchain at intervals.

We only use very basic hacks that could be launched from a batch file, so most antivirus engines should block our efforts with ease.

Counseling is a unique opportunity to confront the overwhelming issues that can block one's most earnest efforts to «do it differently this time».