Sentences with phrase «earlier efforts by»

The effort to create a database of knowledge grew out of earlier efforts by Dragon Quest fans on the web; notably the Dragon Warrior Encyclopedia, Wikipedia's Wikiproject Dragon Quest, and other various Dragon Quest fansites.

... Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at Columbia's Earth Institute, said the report was much broader in scope than earlier efforts by New York City that tried to evaluate how best to prepare for climate change.

In 2000, after a century of earlier efforts by scholars, scientists, and at least one journalist (me) to give a name to humanity's emerging role as a planet - scale force, one word emerged in a heated moment at a global change conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico — anthropocene.

Earlier efforts by the Humane Society to get the owner to clean up the store met with only limited success because there were no specific ordinances to enforce, except animal cruelty statutes, Shook said.

At its most basic level, NCLB attempts to fulfill the promise of earlier efforts by putting in place specific implementation timelines for those states that wish to continue to receive federal aid.

Many states responded to earlier efforts by watering down their standards for learning and lowering expectations for students in an attempt to artificially boost the number of students that reached proficiency.

The proclamation follows two earlier efforts by the administration to impose heightened visa and immigration restrictions on travel to the United States.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

Pete never found it in rice and early efforts by the Rockefeller Foundation to find it in global collections of rice or by mutating millions of plants likewise failed.

As the game resumed, despite an early effort by Agbonlahor, it soon became clear that the Eagles had landed, with Bolasie forcing an acrobatic save from Guzan, Jerome hitting the bar with his shot two yards from goal and Ledley almost scoring from the centre of the box.

The report details the early efforts by Matt and Sweat to recruit Mitchell in planning the escape, and the sexual relationship she developed with Matt while she worked at the prison.

The first in a series of evaluations of The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, the report details early efforts by six urban school districts to develop large numbers of strong principal candidates.

If early efforts by video pioneers such as Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman and David Hall took the definition of an art object beyond its conventional parameters as a static entity produced for visual consumption, perhaps the greatest strength of video art triumphed in this show is the unprecedented potential of experiential interactivity between artist, installation and spectator.

Basically it sets six early Pollocks against eight early efforts by Guston, Pousette - Dart, Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Theodoros Stamos and William Baziotes.

That effort at character assassination followed an earlier effort by the fossil fuel lobby.

From the earliest efforts by utilities to tell owners operate buildings, following the energy price shocks of 1973, we have seen smart people forget that the primary purpose of a building system is not to provide managed load.

In the wake of an earlier effort by a CBOE subsidiary to convince the SEC to reconsider its decision, Tilly said his company will be evaluating data about the settlement process, liquidity, and volatility spikes of the bitcoin futures for possible conversations with the SEC.

Neither is Wu's involvement in scaling, which traces back to these early efforts by bitcoin businesses to lift its perceived capacity constraints, most notably the 1 MB limit on block space that can be added to the blockchain at intervals.

Not exact matches

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

Abney said the company's brick - and - mortar and e-commerce retail customers are holding «Black Friday» sales earlier than normal this year and that UPS believes it is part of an effort by retailers to find ways to smooth out the pre-Christmas online ordering bulge.

The campaign, created by New York - based agency Arnell Group, was also one the best early efforts to push viewers online for additional, extended editions of the TV spot.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

Earlier, he dropped an effort to create competition for cable TV set - top boxes and cancelled investigations into whether Verizon and AT&T had violated the net neutrality rules by favoring their own streaming video services.

Two earlier efforts were struck down by the courts as lacking adequate backing in law, until the most recent 2015 plan was upheld last year.

If a bipartisan effort is attainable, then McConnell could get on board with an infrastructure plan, as he noted at an event put on by the news website Axios earlier this month.

The warnings follow a communiqué issued by the Reef 2050 Plan Independent Expert Panel earlier in the month, which argued that reducing emissions of greenhouse gases must be central to protecting the reef, in addition to efforts to bolster coral resilience and reef ecosystems.

SINGAPORE, May 3 (Reuters)- Oil prices fell early on Thursday, pulled down by a rise in U.S. crude inventories and record weekly U.S. production, which is countering efforts by producer cartel OPEC to cut supplies and prop up prices.

The effort is in its early planning stages, the companies said, and the initial formation of the company would be led by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a managing director of J.P. Morgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon.

The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

The panellists narrated the early days of their existence when their respective core teams stuck together by taking significant pay cuts and putting in exceptional efforts to survive longer and avoid layoffs.

By Inc.'s count, there are currently about two dozen early - stage female - focused financing efforts, representing about $ 100 million in funding annually.

HONG KONG (AP)-- Share prices sank in early trading Monday after an effort by major oil producing nations to agree on production cuts failed over the weekend.

Singapore: Oil prices fell early on Thursday, pulled down by a rise in US crude inventories and record weekly US production, which is countering efforts by producer cartel OPEC to cut supplies and prop up prices.

Since the final federal tax bill appeared on Friday, many people have had questions about prepaying taxes, a wide - ranging strategy that encompasses various efforts to save money by paying some taxes early.

This latest recruitment effort follows similar job fairs hosted by Walmart Canada in late 2016 and early 2017, as the company continues to roll out additional departments within the Cornwall Distribution Hub.

With ICO's I see the same effort by early adopters in their documents.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Announced at the first meeting of a cryptocurrency exchange study group established by the FSA in early March, the data release marks the latest effort by the financial watchdog in bringing greater transparency to the industry following a recent hack of one of the domestic exchange Coincheck.

Many of the writings of the prophets and apostles were collected together and compiled into the Holy Bible, and by the efforts and great sacrifice of the early european reformers, these scriptures became available to the masses.

Jews are taught early that the atonement of Yom Kippur must be preceded by the effort to reconcile with persons one has hurt, and that it is forbidden to be callous when approached for forgiveness.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

The historical problem presented by the Gospels is, then, not the problem of determining whether the character of the early Christians, their faith, and the exigencies of their life and work have colored and overlaid the facts of Jesus» teaching and life, but is, rather, the problem of determining just how we should use our knowledge of this fact in our efforts to get back to the so - called historical Jesus» own words and life.

«Thus the method which earlier he (Leibniz) wanted, asked for, received, and understood with difficulty, he discovered forsooth either first or at least by his own effort.»

The explanation of this omission is probably the fact that John the Baptist had been interpreted by his disciples as a «Messiah» of that type and had become so firmly established in the Prophet's role that the early Christians (at any rate, before the Fourth Gospel) made no effort to dislodge him from that position.

Falwell — son of the late Jerry Falwell and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia — helped coordinate early relief efforts while stranded for days on the island, one of the hardest - hit by Irma.

A Samaritan's Purse plane was the first humanitarian delivery to land on St. Martin after Irma earlier this month, thanks in part to efforts by Jonathan Falwell — son of the late Jerry Falwell and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia — who happened to be vacationing on the island when the hurricane hit.

Jesus is not accusing the Pharisees of an early form of Pelagianism, of trying to earn their justification by strenuous moral effort.

Some of my thinking was stimulated and informed by a rereading of Niebuhr's early effort.

This time Saul's efforts to take David are frustrated by a religious phenomenon known among the Canaanites and common in early Israel.