Sentences with phrase «despite few efforts»

The Department of Health (DoH) has since made it a stated aim to reduce levels of smoking - despite few efforts from the Home Office to criminalise tobacco.

Not exact matches

Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

But despite all your efforts, you're almost guaranteed to have at least a few less than perfectly satisfied customers.

Unfortunately, there are also a fair few projects which do not even have a working livenet at this stage, despite having raised millions of dollars through an ICO or other crowdfunding effort.

Thus many of us declared ourselves to be radicals; but despite a few feeble efforts in the direction of play - acting at social transformation, our radicalism was to be found not in our lives, not even our political lives, but in our heads.

There are a few ingredients that, despite our best efforts, have remained shrouded in mystery.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

The two were rarely separated by more than a few tenths and despite Di Grassi's best efforts, he couldn't find a way through.

His all important headed effort gave us the lead in the first leg, while his acrobatic finish in the second proved to be nothing more than a consolation.Regardless, Giroud is still the holder of an impressive record, despite many Arsenal fans feeling he's nowhere near good enough to be playing for the club.Few strikers get the better of Manuel Neuer — a player widely regarded as the best goalkeeeper in the game — and even fewer score against him with regularity condolence to the families affected by the Paris terror attack - the whole world let's pray that no more life goes down

Despite our best efforts a few may remain,» said Director of Public Works John Ingram.

But a few babies remain unhappy and despite their parents» efforts to meet their needs.

Notwithstanding all their efforts, Chairman Afoko, Secretary Agyei Agyapong and a few others emerged winners despite the visible stiff opposition from the Akufo - Addo led militants.

Despite the fast pace of innovation online, few political organizations are grasping the potential impact of rapid response efforts on the web.

Despite their agreement on the need for voting and election reforms, there is no indication, other than a few vague comments, that the two will coordinate their efforts to push the issue in Albany.

Some early targets are obvious: Despite all of former Chancellor Joel Klein's best efforts, city middle schools remain an academic black hole; our high schools have a higher graduation rate, but too few graduates are ready for the academic rigors of college.

Despite heroic efforts to protect the nesting beaches of green turtles, fewer and fewer of these endangered creatures reappear every year.Researchers have been stunned to discover that shielding young turtles is only half the battle

Even if the jobs are out there, with a few exceptions — such as the pharmaceuticals industry — those jobs are not on the radar of most scientists - in - training, despite our (Next Wave's) best efforts.

«Despite huge efforts in the field of nanomedicine, fewer nanoparticle technologies than expected have made it to clinical trials.

Despite these efforts, the HIV epidemic in Botswana shows few signs of abating.

Despite predictions decades ago of the baiji's decline, few efforts were made to preserve the animal outside its main habitat in a few reserves.

Despite their best efforts to stabilize abdominal wounds sustained on the battlefield, military first - responders have few options when it comes to stanching internal bleeding caused by, for example, gunshots or explosive fragments.

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

But despite all this effort, there have been few returns.

Despite their stalwart efforts, for a few people three bites become two pieces.

In this study, despite intense efforts to get bystanders to give CPR and use automatic defibrillators, few patients survived, he noted.

In fact, a few researchers from Cornell in 2007 brought up the issue of health halos and some of the fast food restaurants that wear them in an effort to identify why the obesity epidemic continues despite the fact that more «healthified» foods seem to become available by the day.

I have been tested for hashimotos and antibodies and they've been negative, but I have been reading / trying to determine if there is something I could take to aid immune issues re; getting pg (potential immune rejection w / 3 early miscarriages, difficulty getting pg despite repeat efforts / years and few if any Repro Endocrinologists in the country aware or interested in determining if I have immune issues in this area — I've been diagnosed with «idiopathic infertility»).

This is understandable, since we are so used to the traditional dating method that tends to produce few results despite how much thought and effort we put into it.

Despite a lack of noble intentions, at least Disney put some effort into it by tossing in a few side jokes aimed toward adults, and spiffed up the effects to theater - worthy levels we would expect for a major summer release.

Despite countless «man - on - a-mission» flicks in recent years, DEATH SENTENCE, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, even Cage's tepid JUSTICE, to name a few, as well as future projects such as Joe Carnahan's DEATH WISH remake or Albert Hughes» MOTOR CITY, I'm always a one for a great one of these efforts in this sub-genre, if done right... and heaps of violence!

The former remains a lesser effort, despite a few prize moments like Blair's infamous «spider walk» down the stairs.

A group effort between writer / director Alison Bagnall (who has acted, like Gerwig, in a few Joe Swanberg films), writer Andrew Lewis, and actors Gerwig and Olly Alexander, the film is slight but somehow enchanting despite the standoffishness of the main character and a few odd plot turns.

That helps to provide some sensation for viewers because despite many efforts, there are very few laughs to be found both in and out of this bulky span.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Yet despite volumes of policy guidance, on - the - ground effort and research over the past decades, few comprehensive and representative portraits of teacher and teaching quality in U.S. mathematics classrooms exist.

A Democrat will now hold a U.S. Senate seat for Alabama for the first time in 20 years despite the state having a strong Republican majority and the efforts of President Donald Trump in the last few weeks to help Moore into office.

Teachers and school leaders know the improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams, imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.

Despite the last few decades of intensive school reform efforts, «even the most ardent reformers must admit that public schools and student learning have improved only slightly, if at all,» writes Wolk.

Yet despite the investment and focus, research studies show that many of these efforts fall flat, producing few, if any, gains in student achievement and interest.

Despite our best efforts to escape to the canyons around Malibu, we were forced to crawl through traffic for a few hours.

Despite a few aluminum parts, this is still a heavy vehicle, and while the turning circle can require a three - point effort, the precise steering helps.

But then, despite their best efforts, there were always the things that didn't fit in with the daily rhythms of life, the things that got away from them, the ones that couldn't be reined in, and for a few days after you'd hear a lot of «Well, these things happen» and «It's not for us to understand.»

Despite a few shortcomings, it's clear that the Canadian manufacturer put a fair bit of effort into the Aura HD, and it's a welcome addition to the eBook reader market - if one that is perhaps a tad enthusiastically priced at # 139.99 via WHSmith.

The last few months I've definitely felt as if the marketing is scuffling, despite my best efforts and those of my friends.

Despite efforts to attract new physicians, Brooks is still home to the fewest doctors per capita in Canada with just 0.44 MDs for every 1,000 residents.

However, with proper budgeting and a few renegotiation techniques (some of which are discussed in this article), most home owners are actually able to save themselves this money despite their best efforts to convince themselves otherwise.

Despite all the money and effort Wall Street spends trying to promote actively - managed funds, very few of them outshine one of the simplest investment vehicles: The index fund.

Despite considerable efforts by veterinarians and scientists to find effective treatments, the outcome for dogs with hemangiosarcoma has changed very little over the past few decades.

We talk with quite a few veterinary practices who are flummoxed because they devote all of their energy into providing the very best veterinary medicine they can, but despite their efforts, fail to achieve their growth goals for the practice.

Despite the pet food industry's efforts to offer more nutrient - dense diets and fewer weight - gain - inducing formulas for the nation's chunkier dogs and cats, obesity is on the rise for the fifth straight year, according to a report from Nationwide, a major provider of pet insurance.