Sentences with phrase «despite past efforts»

According to Education Northwest's Nanci Schneider, despite past efforts to turn around underperforming schools, you still have a good chance of predicting whether a...

According to Education Northwest's Nanci Schneider, despite past efforts to turn around underperforming schools, you still have a good chance of predicting whether a school is successful or not by the degree of poverty in its zip code.

But despite past efforts, this optimization problem remains complicated.

Not exact matches

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the company said in the statement.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the Company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the firm said in a statement.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the Company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the statement reads.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the Company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the company said in a statement Wednesday.

Despite its efforts to fight off acquisition in the past, Perrigo may change its tune in the future.

Each of us, on some level, knows that despite our best efforts to elude our beginnings, there are aspects of the past from which we can not escape.

Arsenal try hard to try and get into the game, but when they get anywhere near the Norwich goal they just seem outnumbered and they can't seem to get past the wall of yellow shirts despite the best efforts of Nelson and Maitland - Niles...

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.

Despite his best efforts however, Lucas still managed to place 2 of his 17 La Liga goals last season past Mustafi's back line and so I think the German international is more than aware of the Spanish striker's capabilities.

Long has not had the same working relationship with Cox that he had with past GOP chairmen, despite his efforts to work with the Republican leader on ticket - building.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» it said.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the Company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the firm said in a statement.

Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the Company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas.

Despite our incredible efforts to change the direction of our county by setting priorities, cutting bureaucracy, reducing spending and re-positioning government for the future, our 2016 budget will include an estimated payment of $ 17 million to pay for «the sins of the past.»

Despite our successful efforts to slash spending and sharply improve the productivity and efficiency of county operations, our 2016 budget will include an estimated payment of $ 17 million to pay for «the sins of the past.»

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).

Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce dietary intake of sodium, a main component of table salt, the average American adult still consumes 3,400 mg or more of sodium a day — equivalent to about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt.

Despite a little Five Guys and hoagie fest this past weekend, I am making an effort to eat as healthy as possible and feed my fam bam the same (my kids loathe it.)

A quick review of blog posts this past June and my favorite June looks, and I'm happy to see that despite the rain's efforts to thwart my spirit and absolute madness at work, I still managed to slip in some lovely vintage.

Despite their best efforts to elude the malevolent body - shaper, the super-sized friends are soon horrified to discover that the Plutonians have joined forces with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to take control of the renegade device in a bid to rule the universe.

Once you get past the title and concept, all that's left is idiocy and irrelevance, despite the best efforts of a game cast that includes Sam Riley and Lily James

sets itself up as a document of the acting process, a vision of Kate's journey to understand and internalize this ghost of Sarasota's past despite the world's best efforts to forget her.

Thus, much of Kate Plays Christine sets itself up as a document of the acting process, a vision of Kate's journey to understand and internalize this ghost of Sarasota's past despite the world's best efforts to forget her.

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

Most faculties are overwhelmingly white, despite efforts by many school districts over the past ten years to actively attract minority teachers, according to the National Education Association (NEA).

And yet, despite considerable effort on the part of schools, communities, and states over the past 20 years, little progress has been made.

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.

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.

But critics of the idea pointed out Tuesday that despite the efforts of an advisory group gathered under the leadership of the LAO over the past year - no consensus has been reached over how best to revise the program.

Despite the best efforts of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration, the underhanded work of a number of school superintendents and the on - going lies being spewed by the corporate education reform industry to mislead and harass parents, Connecticut's Common Core SBAC Opt Out Movement made important progress this past week.

As the years pass, despite their collective efforts to move on, Nadia's secret forms an inescapable anchor to the past.

Then, when you go to the auto lender, you can show that despite your credit problems in the past you have made a conscious effort at reforming.

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

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

Even if the relevant corporations retain their market share, farming has become less humane in many ways in the recent past and, despite the efforts of animal advocates, may do so again.

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.

Despite considerable efforts to find effective treatments, the outcome for dogs with hemangiosarcoma has changed very little over the past 30 years.

Despite the fact that euthanasia of dogs has declined dramatically in the past dozen years through voluntary efforts, the former group often blames breeders for producing too many puppies and proposes breeding restrictions and mandatory sterilization of pets to end the killing in shelters.

In the past three years, the number of animals at county shelters and the cost to taxpayers have steadily risen despite intense efforts to teach people responsible pet ownership, officials said.

Despite the current Board and administration unilaterally rejecting the community's input over the past two years, the Working Group's «good faith effort» resulted in a platform of cost cutting proposals which illustrate that tuition is not the only viable financial model for Cooper Union.

In the past several weeks, both chambers of Congress have been engaged in highly public fisticuffs over the final version of the energy bill — a brawl that even President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were not able to prevent, despite efforts last week to make peace between the warring Republican chairs of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, who are overseeing negotiations on the tax - related aspects of the energy bill.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].

Yet, despite efforts over the past 30 years to do something about it, emissions keep increasing.

If Mr. Wiebe can not continue in this form of work, he will likely have to retrain or find some opportunity as a manager in a deck installation company, a form of work he hasn't been able to secure despite efforts in the past.

Despite all of these efforts, the number of fatal bicycle accidents has not significantly decreased over the past 18 years.

«Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations and, despite the company's efforts to correct the record, has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas,» the company's statement said.