Sentences with phrase «ditch efforts from»

Are these lazy, last - ditch efforts from Marvin Lewis as he is on his way to retirement, or does he really believe these certain actions to be true and in the best interest of this football team?

A weak bid from Liverpool and a last - ditch effort from Tottenham wasn't enough to prize Adam away from Bloomfield Road, and although the former Rangers outcast was devastated that no move materialized, the Blackpool skipper expressed that he remained fully committed to the club's survival cause and that he would put his January heartache aside for the benefit of Blackpool FC — An admirable act from a player who deserves his dream move.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

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Given Kik hasn't raised venture money since 2015, what's to say its ICO isn't a last - ditch effort to raise funding from more ignorant investors?

But now everyone from vegans and Paleo - lovers to everyday weight - loss warriors are hating on dairy, saying that it actually triggers weight gain and that ditching it can boost any woman's slim - down efforts.

Fact is since they ditched Balotelli and move Sterling to center, they have become much more dangerous, at Old Trafford they should at least got a draw if not win it, lucky MU taking lead from very good Rooney individual effort, got a clear offside goal from Mata then have De Gea to thanks for denying at least 5 Liverpool chance.

The only inference we could take away from those stats is that Per Mertesacker, who has been woefully out of form this season following Germany's successful World Cup campaign, has not helped his central defensive partner's cause by being too slow and getting caught out of position too easily, forcing Koscielny into making that last - ditch effort to save his side from conceding.

They start from miles behind at the general election, but on this evidence they have a platform for pulling off a shock result if they really throw effort and resources into this seat, especially if Leave voters ditch Labour for the Tories.

Trump railed against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last - ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party's nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don't rally around him.

Suffolk County OTB executives say Long Island's first video lottery casino is the agency's last - ditch effort to emerge from bankruptcy and save itself — if the Islandia betting parlor can meet projected revenues.

The congresswoman noted De Blasio has already launched an $ 8 million effort to sign up as many qualified New Yorkers for insurance through the ACA's exchanges as quickly as possible — a last ditch effort to discourage the GOP from overturning the law by maximizing the disruption it would cause in the industry.

Local - level groups in New York with disparate interest ranging from real estate to law enforcement on Wednesday sent a letter to members of Congress in a last - ditch effort to save state and local tax deductions.

That was on display this afternoon when the Dump Trump forces made a last - ditch attempt to get a minority report out of the Rules Committee and onto the floor for a vote — an effort to let delegates vote their conscience and be released from any pledged support for any particular candidate.

«Our opponent's attempt to distract the voters from the real issues is nothing more than a last - ditch effort to gain traction before Election Day.»

Swooping down in a last - ditch effort to thwart extinction, conservationists have airlifted 50 «mountain chickens» — frogs to us — from the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

In a last ditch effort, I checked Target's website again, and there were two available in store 30 minutes from me!

But upon learning that a last - ditch effort to save earth from a plummeting asteroid has failed, his wife runs away, literally, and leaves him to live out his final days alone.

Wishing to get as far away from Sacramento and her home life as possible, she makes a last - ditch effort to buck her trend of mediocrity.

Some might say that it's a good excuse to see the film on the big screen, but considering the way that Smith has been marketing «Red State» (taking the show on the road and charging big bucks to see it), the whole thing stinks of a last - ditch effort to bleed more money from his fans.

Where «Non-Stop» fails, however, is in its last - ditch effort to suddenly become an action movie in the final act, letting out all the mounting tension like air from a balloon.

The finale was no different as the staff — Dr. Jenna James (Laurie Metcalf), Dawn Forchette (Alex Borstein), Patsy De La Serda (Mel Rodriguez), and Didi — made a last - ditch effort to save their ward from closure.

The third act of Avengers: Infinity War saw many of the MCU's heroes traveling to Wakanda, as a sort of last - ditch effort to protect Vision (Paul Bettany) and the Mind Stone from Thanos (Josh Brolin).

This seems like an effort to hide the operation on Vision from viewers, but even the trailers hinted at a last - ditch attempt to save him.

In a last ditch effort, the remaining X-Men send Hugh Jackman's Wolverine back in time to 1973 to stop the Sentinels from ever being created in the first place.

As I noted yesterday, the effort to eviscerate AYP and No Child Obama Administration (along with plans from House and Senate Republicans, egged on by Petrilli and other Beltway conservative reform types, to do the same) is ditching an approach to accountability that has helped spur reforms from which children have benefited.

Charles F. Coleman, Jr. supported this last ditch effort for the «testocracy» when he took up former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's argument that opposition to standardized testing was only from out of touch «white suburban moms.»

Maybe this is a last ditch effort with such a high markup for them to keep any ones that may be open from folding 100 %....

The whole arrangement smacks of a last ditch effort to test out possible ways to keep physical book stores from losing traction in the face of the overwhelmingly popular Kindle.

It should be a last - ditch effort only if you need money and have exhausted other options (such as withdrawing money directly from a savings account).

Please keep in mind that the goodwill letter is more or less a «last ditch» effort to have a late payment (or other negative information) removed from your credit reports and they have a less than 20 % chance of working (based on more recent data from other people I've talked to).

There is both a single player campaign story that is set during the final weeks of World War II as Hitler implements a last ditch effort to save Germany from defeat.

Or will they be thrown together from existing assets and cut content in a last - ditch effort to make back some more money from

Or will they be thrown together from existing assets and cut content in a last - ditch effort to make back some more money from Imaginators before the series goes on the out?

Gone are the drab battles gamers have come to expect from the series, with the same ancient machines and basic units doing battle time and time again, instead replaced with exciting skirmishes consisting of giant spiders, flying dragons and epic heroes standing their ground as they take down dozens upon dozens of soldiers themselves in a last ditch effort to turn the tide.

Now that the United States and other countries are finally moving to seriously address global warming, polluter - funded front groups and their allies in Congress are making exaggerated claims about stolen e-mails from climate scientists in a last ditch effort to derail action.

After the disastrous 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Paris marks something of a last - ditch effort to prevent the global environmental crisis from spiraling out of control.

``... there have been powerful last - ditch efforts to get Clause 76 removed from the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill... There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law, and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital that the government and other parties should stand firm against any possible amendments.

That research effort would still allow Brian Moynihan to look like a genius when blockchain transactions take over the financial world five years (or five decades) from now — whether Bitcoin dies in a ditch, or rules the digital currency market for the long haul.