Sentences with phrase «control effort at»

The bugs and problems with the programming in this game are not just technical issues but a clear sign that this company has made no quality control effort at all.

But Flanangan pointed out that de Blasio as a city councilman opposed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mayoral control efforts at the time.

And the dictatorial way he imposed the SAFE Act backfired and arguably had a chilling effect on national gun control efforts at the time that subsequently went nowhere.

Conklin, who doesn't own a pet but has owned dogs in the past, said animal control efforts at the complex have been fruitless.

Not exact matches

In a statement, Viacom lead director Salerno, among the directors targeted for removal, called Thursday's action a «brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt» by Shari Redstone «to gain control of Viacom and its management in disregard of Sumner Redstone's wishes,» at odds with the board's efforts «to represent the best interests of all of the shareholders of Viacom.»

Bloomberg had read a draft blog post in which SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung explained that the company was letting go of 173 staff, and shutting down its offices in London and San Francisco (leaving only offices in New York City and Berlin) as part of an effort to reduce costs at the company whose losses have been spiralling out of control.

At IO, Google announced a slick new smart speaker and a jacket that controls your phone, but didn't make a peep about its Glass efforts, which now fall under a division called Project Aura.

If you don't have a clear strategy and editorial calendar for at least a month ahead — and your efforts are sporadic at best — now is the time to take control of it.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

Son, founder of Sprint's controlling shareholder SoftBank, is «not involved at all» in efforts to complete the $ 26 billion all - stock deal, Claure told Reuters in a phone interview.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

At the time, the DEA's Diversion Control Division was ramping up enforcement efforts against the nation's wholesale drug distributors — including Sunrise — warning them and drug manufacturers that they would be held accountable if they failed to report suspicious orders.

Perhaps in an effort at damage control as regards their core audience, Ashley Madison today announced that there will no longer be a «Full Delete Fee.»

AMI apparently buried the story, Ronan Farrow reported at the New Yorker, possibly in an effort to protect or control Trump.

So, while I wish the sponsors of the present legislation good luck with their efforts so far, I hope they'll follow them up with some reforms specifically aimed at replacing the present, unreliable, and inefficient monetary control system with a more old - fashioned, but nonetheless better, alternative.

Precisely where God comes out for the building of Israeli settlements on land formerly controlled by Palestinians is not clear to me, but the Republican parade to the Holy Land seems united in its view that Obama's efforts to curtail those settlements are wrongheaded at best and sinful at worst.

Another surprise event at this year's convention was the decision to reject the effort by some to change the auxiliary status of the Woman's Missionary Union, a missions - support group, and bring it under the direct control of the convention.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Indeed, when compared with my situation at most times, this is an extreme case of conscious effort and control.

A paid pastorate with all of the demands, unrealistic expectations and efforts at control exerted by those who really run most churches (usually led by those who give the most money) has destroyed many, many a pastor and often his marriage and family.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

At the midrange level, control is achieved by moving the tyrant inside the individual — Maggie Scarf refers to the «Invisible Referee,» Efforts to control thoughts and feelings as well as behavior refer to rules for behavior and cultural stereotypes, especially regarding gender.

All the demands for unneeded preference in admissions and hiring, all the absurd litigation, all the efforts at speech control and thought control, and most important, all the programs to manage and «improve» the behavior of the men in her life, whether husband, boss, roommate, or date, have left her more disaffected and more mentally self - indulgent than before.

I decided to take a different approach than the usual hand wringing and calls for increasingly intense efforts at population control.

Community organization as a political methodology and the drive for «community control of schools» in large urban areas are further instances of hope in that they strike me as strong efforts at — in Arendt's phrase — constituting or structuring

If one who has never made any systematic effort to lift and control the thought - forces will, for a single month, earnestly pursue the course here suggested, he will be surprised and delighted at the result, and nothing will induce him to go back to careless, aimless, and superficial thinking.

U.S. and European wine regions step up campaign to protect online wine names American winemakers were joined by their counterparts from Champagne at a conference on deregulating internet domain names in an effort to boost awareness of how weaker controls would negatively impact the wine business...

On the subject of efforts made to optimise and adapt packaging to emphasise healthier products Andy added, «yes we have looked at portion control, labelling, highlighting calories and it does make a difference to what people choose.»

Elneny was everywhere he was the boss of the midfield he ran after the ball he closed down players very well I do nt know what match you were watching but I suggest you watch it again and keep an eye on elneny and what he is doing debuchy was commanding and even took a yelow for the team have a look at the stats and how many balls we intercepted and how many fowls the game was pure tactics west ham had no chance this is the level of football for me it is top level because you go out there you control the game you boss it you win it for me the team effort was 100 % the work rate was 100 % and if you want to learn football this match is a text book match to observe learn and execute

And yet Wallace is still atop the Rookie of the Year standings, has run better most weeks than he's finished — he had top - 20 efforts going at Atlanta Motor Speedway and ISM Raceway ruined by circumstances beyond his control — and has injected much energy into an organization that badly needed it.

In at least seven seasons he didn't have much goals to go with his no creativity and his no backbone that goes with his non existent control and his do not tackle or make contact that in turn goes with his useless effort which happens to suit his I give up they want it more than me.

Zaza did put in some effort (at least in the first half) but looks wanting as a Premier League lone striker; did he have the ball under control at any point in the game?

• Two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo — the second a stunning overhead effort — were added to by Marcelo at the Juventus Stadium on 3 April to put Zinédine Zidane's side in control of the tie.

Iwobi toe - poked a 21st - minute effort straight at Dubravka with the home side riding their luck, although had Shkodran Mustafi not got in a vital touch as Dwight Gayle controlled Jonjo Shelvey's ball over the top seven minutes later, they might have been back on level terms.

The left - footed forward, who moments before had brought a diving parry out of Ulreich with a long - range effort, got ahead of Juan Bernat at the far post to control Escudero's cross before firing home.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

I realized at the time I was being obsessive and controlling in an effort to right past wrongs.

Even refusal to eat or toilet train can be efforts at maintaining control at all costs.

I was abused as a child and found myself lashing out at my child despite all my efforts to control it.

I agree with the «most helpful critical review «er that if you can find a value fleece at the fabric store - like I did for $ 1.75 / yd., then you have control over the width / length and if you don't mind hemming / stitching the edges (really quite simple and worth the effort to make a custom liner), then you can have an adundant supply of fleece liners that cover the entire width and length of the cloth!

In part, the clash pits residents concerned about preserving recreational space at a neighborhood park against Park District officials with a broader ecological interest in improving the quality of area waters and contributing to flood - control efforts.

Mass Audubon's efforts to control common reed at Rough Meadows complement similar efforts by others to control and prevent the spread of common reed and other non-native invasive plant species throughout the Great Marsh ecosystem.

At this stage, your baby is beginning to have more control of his or her grasp, and will make an effort to hold onto objects.

Also at 11 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer launches an effort to push the House of Representatives to quickly pass the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2017, Old Grist Mill Restaurant, 69 Hamilton Rd., Burlingham.

Schumer spent his re-election airing region - focused TV ads and, at the same time, seeded key Senate races nationally in an effort for Democrats to gain control of the chamber.

The Republican - controlled state Senate put up a potential roadblock to a growing effort to speed up repairs at the NYC Housing Authority.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made gun control a signature issue for him following the shooting at Connecticut elementary school, said he would back additional gun control efforts, but insisted the SAFE Act remained the best gun control law in the country.

At the same time, this is one of the more formalized and concerted efforts by Cuomo, harnessing the state committee that he controls, to aid Democrats who are running in down - ballot local races as he seeks another term later this year.

With the GOP in control of the House, Log Cabin Republicans has said it would push for the legislation and has maintained it has a shot at passage because it relates to lowering taxes, an effort that Republicans traditionally favor.