Sentences with phrase «concerted efforts over»

Canadian law schools have certainly made concerted efforts over the past decade to ensure that their student population better reflects the ethnic, cultural, and sexual diversity of the society it will eventually serve.

«All the public health campaigns in this country required concerted efforts over many years,» says pediatrician David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital.

After making a concerted effort over 30 days to cut waste they now save $ 200,000 / year.

It is the first time the Blues have gone four league games without conceding since early in the 2010/11 season and wing - back Marcos Alonso and one of the back - three, Gary Cahill, both put that down to a concerted effort over the full length of the pitch.

Still, it's surely disappointing to the governor, who has made such a concerted effort over the past several months to shore up his support upstate in time for his re-election.

I've made a concerted effort over the last few years to save $ 12,000 annually from my paycheque — money that goes to buy more blue - chip stocks.

Frontier Defense is a cracking (FREE) addition to the delightfully smooth gameplay package, and it's clear that Respawn have really made a concerted effort over the past few months to make the game sparkle.

JC: I have made a concerted effort over the years to avoid political «messages»; that is not what I am about.

This takes a concerted effort over time, especially with «liquid» inheritances, such as cash or investment accounts.

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That traction results from a concerted effort Amazon management over the past four or five years to convince businesses in the financial services, healthcare, and government that running on shared public cloud infrastructure meets their security and other requirements.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

Over the last few years, Google has made a concerted effort to develop business intelligence and data analysis tools right in the AdWords user interface (UI).

In 2012, Bacardi, along with other leading producers of spirits, wine, and beer, decided to unite in a concerted effort to tackle the global problem of harmful use of alcohol through the creation of five Commitments to Reduce Harmful Drinking for delivery over a five - year period (2013 - 2017).

Over the next couple decades, the market came to reflect the multicultural face of modern Philadelphia, thanks to a concerted effort to seek out and persuade a variety of knowledgeable merchants to open up stores inside — from Amish in Lancaster County to Chinese a couple blocks to the east.

With pre-season training soon to resume, a concerted effort to complete the deal will be made over the next seven days, but there are also fears talks could drag on — especially as the Saints main priority is securing a new manager rather than overseeing player sales.

She disclosed further that though the level of awareness was high on the scourge, the task of eliminating it completely was not over, but with concerted effort, it could be achieved.

The decline in the occurrence of civil war over the last two decades is substantial, and likely due in part to concerted international conflict management efforts.

Given widespread distress over the economy, each candidate also made a concerted effort to prove his private - sector prowess.

The expected approval of the $ 15 wage — which will be phased in over a number of years on a different timetable in New York City and elsewhere in the state — is expected to bring a more concerted legislative effort next year to impact low - wage workers across the board.

In a motion moved by Rep. Diri Douye (Bayelsa - PDP) under matters of privilege, the lawmaker expressed concern over the spread of the disease to other states in spite of concerted efforts by the Bayelsa State Government since its outbreak in Yenagoa.

The GMD stated that the NUPENG's threat could compound the current hiccups in the supply chain over which concerted efforts are being made to bring it under control.

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

Helping people over the hurdles will need a concerted effort by local authority planning departments, developers, housing associations and mortgage companies.

Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4's Grand Designs programme, calls for a concerted effort by local authority planning departments, developers, housing associations and mortgage companies to help people over the self - build hurdles.

Figure 2 shows that every successive budget plan over the past two years has allocated more to nondefense R&D than the plan before, in part because of continually improving economic forecasts but also because of concerted efforts to protect R&D programs from projected budget cuts.

Brackett has presided over countless regular assemblies of SSC's Steering and Executive Committees and makes a concerted effort to get involved in several of the Specialist Group meetings, hopping around the globe to do so.

During Thursday's press conference, officials also touted the updated models and tools they have to produce better forecasts for individual storms, part of a concerted effort that has greatly improved hurricane forecasts over the past couple of decades.

Climate change speeding up the clock Making a concerted effort to expand the «deep time» climate record is especially important because climate models have been constructed and refined using information on conditions over the past several hundred years, the report says.

In what seemed to be a concerted, silently agreed upon effort, the over two dozen designers that showed their Winter 2011/12 collections to an international audience proved that a radical organizational reinvention isn't necessary to make a strong case for Fashion Rio's continued importance.

If you're single and over 50 years old, you know meeting these quality singles can take some decisive and concerted efforts on your part.

Over the past 15 years, there has been a concerted effort in education research to find out «what works» and to share these policies and practices with schools.

Massachusetts did not become a leader in public K - 12 education with any single action, but rather through a concerted effort by many actors over a number of years.

The authenticity of the letter has been disputed, but the National Association of Head Teachers says there seem to have been «concerted efforts» to take over six schools in Birmingham.

The authenticity of the letter has been disputed, but the National Association of Head Teachers says there seemed to have been «concerted efforts» to take over six schools in Birmingham.

Scion will make a concerted effort to reinvent itself over the next three years, introducing a trio of fresh products that will start with a production model of the Scion iM Concept that premiered in Los Angeles.

Over time, the writers who make a concerted effort to bond are the ones who come out on top.

It's also clear that this is a concerted effort, as against the general aimless flailing demonstrated over the previous six months.

In that sense it's still a cross-generation game, but one that makes a concerted effort to deliver a meaningful upgrade over the sub-HD current console versions.

Instead of a lazy and mindless flip of a switch, a concerted and unaccustomed effort is called for: one which will certainly give pause for deliberation, for thankfulness for the pleasure of electrical lighting and a thought for the power source which takes over after your own wind - power activates the lamp.And a pleasure this lamp must be.

imho, from connecting the dots over the years what is going on now in the «public domain» is a concerted and globally coordinated effort.

While there is some pro-northern hemisphere bias, the operators of Landsat 8 have made a concerted effort to distribute the collection of imagery more evenly over all of the Earth's land masses, with the exception of a few large areas that are chronically impaired by heavy haze, dust, smog, or cloud cover.

That is, there is still a fair chance that we can «hold the 2 °C line», if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw - down excessive CO2 (geo - and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.

For over a decade, in a concerted effort to combat the projected consequences of climate change, Architecture 2030 and collaborative colleagues have championed the cause of sustainable and carbon neutral planning and design in the built environment.

There has been a concerted effort in Wisconsin for over 25 years to establish a civil justice system in the state that is based on common sense and fairness.

Over the past few years, there has been a concerted effort to bring the dangers of drinking and driving to the forefront of the public discussion.

«Over the years FindLaw has made a concerted effort to stay on top of trends and to deliver value to myself and other FindLaw customers by knowing the market and helping us to execute properly.»

The Inquiry recommended that Justice Camp be removed from the bench because his conduct had «caused significant harm to public confidence in the judicial role, in an area of the law in which the courts and Parliament have made concerted efforts to enhance public confidence over the past four decades.»

So in this topsy - turvy world, who knows, but you would think that with the amount of business that has gone over to Cuba since President Obama's executive orders and the additional amount of capital that's been invested going forward, you would think that it would be very difficult for whoever it is to be able to just undo all that without a concerted effort from the business lobby to prevent that from happening or at least slow that down.

While Cook didn't offer up any explanation to the increased rate of Android to iPhone switching, Apple in recent months has made a more concerted efforts to lure over Android users.

With concerted, disciplined effort over a period of time, frequently repeated behaviors can become automatic.