Sentences with phrase «decades of effort by»

OTHER ADVERSE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT DIETARY GUIDELINES ON HEALTH Decades of effort by government officials to reduce salt intake by the U.S. population have met with limited success due to the natural salt cravings that kick in when salt intake is not adequate.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Prince Mohammed's consolidation of power has upended decades of efforts by previous Saudi rulers to build loyalty and consensus within the royal family.

«Sending this information in plain text undermines decades of efforts by libraries and bookstores to protect the privacy of their patrons and customers,» Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry wrote in a blog post about the issue.

«Sending this information in plaintext undermines decades of efforts by libraries and bookstores to protect the privacy of their patrons and customers,» said Corynne McSherry, the EFF's intellectual property director.

Without the concomitant human capacity to use architecture to better serve humanity, we would not have had the arts and crafts and garden city movements, the Bauhaus, decades of efforts by enlightened architects to provide housing solutions for the poor, and, today, Sinclair's Architecture for Humanity...

At the moment in the US, polling data suggests that the public's opinion has built up against AGW as an important problem, this being the result of decades of efforts by the denialist camp.

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The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

As a result of CPA's efforts, political disclosure has been adopted by 130 large companies and is becoming a mainstream corporate practice.In his work with CPA, which he founded in 2003, he has drawn on his three decades of experience in journalism, Congress, and strategic public affairs.

The letter notes that the current backdrop of strong and balanced global growth is underpinned by a resilient global financial system that is the product of determined efforts by the G20 and FSB over the past decade.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

The couple also plans to spend $ 3 billion in the next decade in an effort to end all suffering from disease by the end of the century.

The administration took credit for launching «a new era in American trade policy» by reversing decades of multilateral trade policies that it said had damaged U.S. workers and intensifying enforcement efforts.

The couple also plans to spend $ 3 billion in the next decade in an effort to end all suffering from disease by the end of this century.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

An awareness of this requirement resulted in a program for the «Decade of Spiritual Renewal of the Nation,» open letters by Cardinal Tomasek, and the effort at a new and more positive evaluation of Jan Hus.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Stung by decades of controversy over its monitoring of antiwar and civil rights groups, the FBI has been wary of post-9 / 11 initiatives that would draw criticism that its anti-terrorism efforts are based on racial profiling of Muslims.

And unless the very availability of modern contraceptives by itself stimulates a revolution in attitudes toward family size — as over a quarter of a century of family planning efforts have failed to do in Nepal, and three decades of programs have not done in rural Pakistan — the demographic impact of family planning would be a discrete and self - extinguishing adjustment, as the previously «unmet demand» of motivated users is progressively satisfied.

On the contrary, during the decade after the World War heroic efforts were made to maintain intercourse by organizational devices of one kind and another.

«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

These tactics serve to keep global breastfeeding rates low over decades despite various efforts by the Ministries of Health in countries, and by breastfeeding advocates,» notes Sarah Amin, Executive Director of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).

Over the past several decades, he has been called to service on numerous occasions by governors and mayors during times of crisis and today, I too am turning to him to assist me in my continued efforts to stabilize New York's economy.»»

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

Mr. Lander believes that the effort late in the campaign to discredit candidates linked to Data and Field Services, the consulting wing of the Working Families Party, was fueled by resentment that the «WFP has been so successful at promoting progressive issues for over a decade, and has supported very good candidates.

The Clean Energy Standard was part of an effort by state regulators to shift the state's reliance from fossil fuels to renewable energy over the next several decades.

The NYT supports the new bill introduced by Assemblymen Sean Ryan and Jeff Aubry to close the so - called carried interest loophole, calling it the «most innovative» of several efforts to address the issue over the past decade.

Despite the decades of tough talking and billions of dollars spent in waging this war, the global drug problem and the criminal markets that underpin it remain all but untouched by our enforcement efforts.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group's annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade - old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this -LSB-...]

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

And, in an effort to reverse decades of discrimination against blacks and Latinos, Mr. Cuomo pushed the government - sponsored banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy more home loans taken out by poor and working - class borrowers.

Nearly a decade later, there has been no legislative action on these aspects of the recommendations of the Uwias and Lemu reports, making the present effort by the Senate and the concurrent effort by the House of Representatives a welcome development.

The Tappan Zee replacement project is frequently touted by Cuomo as one of his signature achievements after it was stalled for decades and he frequently refers to movement on the project as a bipartisan effort.

But in the last decade, the Japanese government has sought to counter this by internationalizing the country through a series of administrative innovations, alliances with foreign government agencies, financial support for foreign scholars, and programs that bolster top universities» international recruitment efforts.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

For less than $ 50 million, the effort's planners say, a telescope small enough to fit in the trunk of a compact car could launch by the end of the decade on a historic mission to image another Earth - like planet.

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner workings of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner working of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

Led by cybersecurity researchers from SRI International and ISI with decades of years of experience designing, building, and operating large cybersecurity testbeds, the effort involved more than 150 experts, representing 75 organizations.

The manifesto calls for more money for civil research and a greater effort to recruit young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.

The current weaning study is part of a much larger, decades - long effort by Fisher and a series of graduate students to extract «life history» information preserved in fossil tusks.

For more than three decades evolutionary psychologists have advanced a simple theory of human sexuality: because men invest less reproductive effort in sperm than women do in eggs, men's and women's brains have been shaped differently by evolution.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

As China accounts for almost one - fifth of global catch volume, it has made great efforts to carry out conservation and management of fisheries resources by adopting and practicing various measures over the past three decades.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.