Sentences with phrase «despite efforts made»

The price of TheStreet has been remarkably stable for the past five years, despite all efforts made...

Girls are more likely than boys to never set foot in a classroom, despite efforts made and progress achieved over the past two decades.

Despite all efforts made to worm his way into the heart of his successor, Benue State Governor - elect, Dr. Samuel Ortom, yesterday vowed to probe the outgoing...

Despite the effort made to establish Tsubasa as an adult, a cutscene where she models in a swimsuit to impress a photographer has been changed to have her wear a completely different outfit.

Not exact matches

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Despite your best efforts and intentions, mistakes happen and it doesn't make sense to dwell on them.

What Google hasn't done, despite much publicity around its automotive efforts, is make any moves toward selling its self - driving car.

So «not your daddy's oil» is not sinking in with Millennials and Generation Z, and with many of them, it never will, despite the oil lobbies» marketing efforts to try to make it sound like an attractive career path.

Despite the lack of female leadership, concerted efforts are being made to change the status quo.

Despite the big - effort, these corporate programs will likely do very little toward making a dent in the country's persistent unemployment problems.

If a business leader, teacher or coach is stubborn and refuses to make changes despite evidence that what they're doing is not successful, then their efforts will eventually end in failure.

We acknowledge that, despite making significant strides in the areas under our direct control, there is work to be done to reduce the carbon footprint of our supply chain — and Apple has accepted its responsibility to lead that effort.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

Despite making efforts to diversify, AXL is heavily exposed to trucks, General Motors and the North American market.

Despite his goofy pronunciation, he made every effort to support me.

The reason we don't have to make that effort is because we trust that the history between the apostles and the Church today is all of a piece (despite its obvious tragic tears and seams).

Despite such efforts to instill doubt in voters, a recent CNN / ORC International poll showed that a candidate's Mormon faith made no difference to 80 % of Americans, and that 51 % believed Mormonism was a Christian religion.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

What a fine tragedy it would be if those with the most Christian and promising option proved unable to make good their case against many objections so that the shift away from classical faith continued despite their work and effort.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

It is not; it is a nation of religious freedom, despite the religious right's daily efforts to make this a Christian theocracy.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and...

One showed humility, the other arrogance; one practiced sincerity, the other hypocrisy; one made efforts at cultivating unity, the other seemed to delight at encouraging division: and one succeeded in becoming more and more a man of the people, while the other, despite his harsh populist appeals, has grown more distant.

Unfortunately, it did not lead the lovers to God» on the contrary, it led to death without God» but the yearnings - against - their - will, their overwhelming attraction and desire despite their efforts to avert them are of the very same emotional and spiritual and factual material that dramatic religious conversions are made of...

This reputation was confirmed during the Kosovo conflict when, despite Serbian criticism, his church made major efforts to assist Muslim refugees flooding into his country from Kosovo.

Despite determined efforts to recruit Lutheran students, the Lutheran composition of the student body remains low — about 8 or 9 percent — mainly because our region is sparsely populated with Lutherans (but Lutheran students seem to make an impact beyond their numbers).

(Recently it has been reported that a representative body of the German Evangelical Church has made a courageous statement acknowledging not only Germany's guilt, but also the Church's own share in that guilt, despite its efforts and its loyal witness to the truth.)

The first night I made this I found it to be so incredibly alluring and tantalizing and despite my best efforts (though that's not saying much re: food), couldn't persuade myself to stray from the kitchen counter for too long before I returned, elbows down, toes curled, lustily devouring every morsel of bagna cauda - swaddled veg.

California Waldorf salad](http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/california-waldorf-salad-gelatin-mold) made with a Jell - O mold that was not won on eBay, despite our best efforts.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

As expected Bayern dominated the possession and despite playing an attacking 3 -3-4 formation could not manage a single decent effort on goal all match and their task was made all the worse by Alonso's red card.

Despite his efforts at Euro 2016, the French midfielder has featured in pre-season and is expected to make his debut for Chelsea against West Ham United on Monday night.

Let us greet the boss, to say welldone and thank you for all your efforts in making the Gunners to still have a chance of challenging thefor title despite the calamiteous injuries suffered by some Gunners.

Let us greet the boss, to say welldone and thank you for all his efforts in making the Gunners to still have a chance of challenging for the title despite the calamiteous injuries suffered by some Gunners.

The Bulls players see what Portis did as wrong, but they've also seen that he's tried to make amends with Mirotic despite his efforts being rebuffed.

Here are the problems we are having... Despite the fact that Wenger clearly made an effort to bring more quality (add) to the squad (even though they are post for post replacements... Except Sanchez and Campbell), we still have those parts of the team that are «really» weak.

To say you want to keep Giroud despite the blatant obvious truth that the player has never been top drawer, is not making an effort, are there no better strikers we can reach for?

This Philippe Coutinho effort sums up their efforts — unable to make the breakthrough despite plenty of industry.

But, with Ryan Bertrand having stayed beyond the last United defender, the linesman chalked Gabbiadini's effort off for offside, despite the left - back not making contact with the ball.

Cheick Diabate's arrival has come too late to save Benevento despite the Malian striker scoring his third consecutive brace, after previous efforts against Juventus and Verona, to make it seven goals in six games since joining the club on loan from Turkish side Osmanispor in February.

The second was a headed effort which just made it across the line after he'd found himself in a good position at the far post, getting enough on the header to see it cross the line despite de Gea's best efforts to keep it out.

The pressure increases on the front office, from both the fan base and the media, to 1) sign ANYONE to at least give the appearance of being «active», and 2) make a «name» signing... which explains why the signings of a practice - squad LB (Marcus Dowtin), rotational DT (Alan Branch), and a LB whose own team made no effort to resign despite his supposed versatility (Manny Lawson) were spun as «fantastic» — and why the signing of an oft - injured QB who flamed out on two teams (Kevin Kolb) was hailed.

Maddox saw a penalty appeal waved away despite contact seemingly being made by goalkeeper Ross Treacy before Uwakwe came close with an effort that struck the inside of the post before being hacked clear off the line by defender Mael Davies.

The Reds fans were a slight worried when they saw Philippe Coutinho limp off the pitch despite his best efforts to continue after a challenge from Watford centre - back Sebastian Prodl and he was subbed off for Adam Lallana who made his first appearance since March following a thigh injury.

Despite all of Arsenal's efforts Liverpool remained in the lead, and Jordan Henderson made it 2 - 0 on 60 minutes.

What do you think we need — a law that makes divorce harder, or marital models to marry smarter and support for couples who, despite their best efforts to salvage their marriage, end up divorced anyway?

In fact, some evidence suggests that focusing on weight loss can actually be harmful to an overweight person's health by tying too much concern to how much weight they lose or keep off — and then making them relapse when the scale doesn't budge despite their best efforts.

However, if signs of pain persist despite your best efforts, talk to your pediatrician to make sure there isn't a more serious problem.