Sentences with phrase «budget efforts like»

For every Hoodwinked turning a healthy profit, there were three lower - budget efforts like Everyone's Hero and imports Valiant and Doogal that were losing money for their producers and distributors.

Not exact matches

The company will likely open - source budget products like Soylent powder, which could be useful in humanitarian efforts to stem world hunger, Rhinehart says.

Scientific research managers coordinate the efforts of other scientists to achieve larger goals, and handle things like human resources, budgeting, and the other managerial tasks necessary to keep a lab — or a bunch of labs — running smoothly.

Like so many domestic budget - cutting efforts, this shows little sensitivity to the human cost involved.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

A speedy passage of Erie County's budget for next year temporarily stalled Tuesday over $ 100,000 to help Visit Buffalo Niagara's efforts to legalize use of ride - sharing services, like Uber and Lyft, Upstate.

The governor, who is also negotiating with the legislature on the state budget and related items, like pension reform, says of the legislature's efforts on redistricting reform «my trust level is low, my skepticism is high».

Under narrow Republican control, the chamber has forced Democrats to compromise on key issues like the minimum wage and taxes, while also stymying efforts to make it easier to vote and bar a woman from having a seat at the budget negotiating table.

The mayor took some precautions for the future: The plan for the 2018 fiscal year calls for preserving $ 1 billion in reserves from previous budgets; efforts to find savings through measures like reducing overtime and using office space more efficiently; and a hiring freeze on some administrative positions (with no estimate of how much a freeze would save).

Like she has throughout her effort, Grant said late Monday she expects to wind up her campaign «by going up and down streets,» reflecting the low - budget effort she has worn like a badge of hoLike she has throughout her effort, Grant said late Monday she expects to wind up her campaign «by going up and down streets,» reflecting the low - budget effort she has worn like a badge of holike a badge of honor.

Elsewhere, the Department's Third Offset Strategy — a touted effort initiated under President Obama to maintain and accelerate superiority in advanced technology areas like hypersonics and human - machine collaboration — makes scant appearance in this year's budget request, even though Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, a key architect of the strategy in the prior administration, has so far stayed on at the Pentagon.

The absence of a coordinated federal supercomputing effort had made it more difficult for agencies like the Department of Energy (DOE) to make their case with the Office of Management and Budget that they needed to boost supercomputing budgets, Simon says.

If you feel like you're hitting your budget's ceiling, all you need is to put some effort into smarter shopping — there are a lot of budget - friendly high - protein foods out there waiting for you to notice them.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

So the actors intriguingly embrace the limitations of the budget while also wholeheartedly putting all of their effort into their performances, much like how their characters accept their lack of qualifications to save the world.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

In particular, it looks like the Metal Gear Solid movie is still being produced by Sony Pictures, meaning that it remains a high budget effort with all the things you would expect from a top film releasing to the cinemas nowadays.

On its own merits, Return just seems like a mediocre TV movie that could have quite a bit better with more effort and a bigger budget.

It's not always completely successful, but it's light on its feet and entertaining, much like Craven's budget - busting effort.

With a silly name, zero budget, no history in Baltimore, and very few personal connections to the educational community, I expected this to be a small effort that would slowly grow over time, much like the slow, steady growth of a mustache,» shared Saha.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

Like any marketing effort it requires advance planning, and a budget.

In an effort to attract budget - minded consumers without lowering their prices, companies may also give you access to special deals if you subscribe to their email list or «like» their Facebook page.

God, criticising an indie title, one that has had a lot of clear effort put into it, for its graphics always feels like a harsh thing to do since the focus for them and their limited budget should always be gameplay, but there's no getting around the fact that Project Temporality is simply visually boring game.

When added to previously confirmed titles like: Fatal Frame 4, Fragile, Tales of Symphonia 2, Monster Hunter 3, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals, Little King's Story and the strongly rumored Castlevania game, you have a list of big budget projects that embarrasses the West's effort comparatively.

This resourceful approach to assisting artists resonates today in like - minded organizations such as Artist Curated Projects, West of Rome Public Art, Summercamp, and basically all the groups that participated in last year's Los Angeles Collective Show, an event showcasing the efforts of artist - run venues who do fantastic things, both inside and outside «art spaces,» on shoestring budgets.

Research efforts on concepts like «tolerable windows» and «pathways» and «allowable carbon budgets» and the such are all rooted in this notion.

Through cell phones, and open - source software like Google Maps, non-profits can track how well their efforts are working and improve their services, and providers can show real - time information about how much water is available, and when it will be available, allowing consumers to better budget their supplies.

It's pretty neat, and when I was talking with Ed Walters from Fastcase about it, because he was helping out with the effort, he explained that when the website was shown there was applause, and he said, «I don't ever want to hear anybody applaud for just slapping together a website ever again, because it's easy and that isn't something that people should applaud for,» and I totally, 100 % understand what he's talking about, but the traditional model would have been like, «Okay, let's go find a budget.

While legal billing codes might seem like an added annoyance to an attorney's billing efforts at first, they can be easily incorporated with automated billing software, and can lead to more streamlined billing / collection efforts, better internal budgeting and management of projects, and happier clients.

Whether your initiative involves a large project like contract management, or a modest effort such as implementing matter budgeting, taking a thoughtful and well defined approach will always lead to a better result.

Folks who are able to find premiums like these very typically can fit in the prices for Cerritos renters insurance into their household budgets without too much effort.

So it doesn't matter if it's a budget manufacturer like Blu or a giant like Samsung — they all have a flagship phone that they're focusing most of their development and marketing efforts on.

This device isn't a budget machine, like most of ZTE's efforts in the states thus far.

It doesn't look like the best designed handset on the market from a visual perspective either, though it's certainly better than ZTE's previous efforts in the budget smartphone space.

It seems like our low budget (50K - 75K) was deterring Realtors from making an effort in helping us find a home.

Proof that when making decisions about items or projects in our homes, it is WORTH the time & effort to educate ourselves on what we really like, how we can get it it within our budget and to think a little outside the box (ie placing your tiles in that herring bone pattern) to trick the eye that the space is larger and wider.