Sentences with phrase «earlier efforts from»

Despite early efforts from the House, which passed a version of the tax bill that condensed the current seven tax brackets to four and cut many of the deductions — like those for teachers» supplies and high medical expenses — the final draft of the tax bill does no such thing.

Oxford, still awaiting their first win under recently appointed manager Karl Robinson, started brightly with an early effort from Rothwell deflected wide.

Roman Burki spilled an early effort from Ronaldo as Madrid started brightly and they took the lead after just eight minutes.

Hector Bellerin even had to clear an early effort from Long off the line, and Elneny headed another effort off the line in the second half when the visitors pushed for an equaliser at 2 - 1.

One particular standout was 2003's Crimsonland [Free], an early effort from a name many iOS gamers know quite well, 10tons Entertainment.

A typically underwhelming early effort from Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore follows single mother Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn) as she attempts to start over with her young son (Alfred Lutter's Tommy) after the death of her husband.

Based on the short story by Donald A. Wollheim, Mimic (1997), an early effort from Pan's Labyrinth writer - director Guillermo del Toro, finds Mira Sorvino (not long after her Mighty Aphrodite Oscar win) cast as a scientist who creates a new strain of insect to help combat a deadly disease that's being spread by cockroaches across New York City.

The dearth of compelling, three - dimensional characters perpetuates the arms - length vibe, certainly, and it's clear that the film's violent climax is ultimately unable to pack the punch that Carpenter has obviously intended - which does, in the end, confirm Assault on Precinct 13's place as a seriously erratic early effort from an otherwise masterful filmmaker.

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It even wades into parenting and schooling: praising and rewarding our children for reaching solutions rather than for their effort, Tugend writes, stigmatizes mistakes from the earliest stages of socialization.

Corporate venture - capital efforts also have the advantage of involvement with startups at the early stages, when they can most benefit from access to a large, established customer base, credibility through brand association and a larger network of partner companies and advisors.

An early effort in the holiday season is an ad campaign surrounding Target's upcoming exclusive box set from country superstar Brooks, the best selling solo artist in U.S. history, that will run during the Country Music Awards on Nov. 2.

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.»

HTC is pivoting from early efforts to sell expensive virtual reality gear to consumers.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

As high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violence.

But since Hoover died and Watergate was exposed in the early 1970s, major efforts have been made to reform the Bureau and DOJ to keep them from infringing civil liberties and intervening in politics.

In an effort to be a more family - friendly workplace, many companies grant mothers and fathers the freedom to leave the office earlier to pick up their children from school, attend their daughter's soccer game or watch their son's orchestra performance.

«Earlier today, Mr. Cohen through his attorney, Mr. Rosen, further threatened my client in an effort to prevent her from telling the truth about what really happened,» he said.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Efforts to gain new sales from a drone device failed, and the company shut down the unit earlier this year.

Kurdistan's prime minister and top energy official travelled to Baghdad earlier this week, intensifying efforts to settle the long - running dispute over exports of oil from the region via a new independent pipeline to Turkey.

The Argentinian peso tumbled more than 15 % against the dollar in early trading as the South American nation's central bank stepped back from its efforts to protect the currency, forcing the bank to reverse course to stem the slide.

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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.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

There is a sense in which the intention of early biblical criticism was an effort to restore a «biblical theology» in which the Scriptures were freed from their dogmatic imprisonment.

One significant feature of the book, which sets it apart from other books in the third period, is Altizer's effort to reconcile his present thought with his early work on Buddhism.

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

A revised edition of one of the most important works on Dietrich Bon hoeffer's early life and writings, with a suggestive effort to reconstruct from his unfinished Ethics his justification for joining the resistance effort to kill Hitler.

Here is a video from earlier today about how you and your church can help with disaster relief efforts.

Banning is easily the most sober of this group, and he has resisted the (altogether incredible) effort to erase liberalism from our early history.

Efforts in early 2016 from the French authorities to discourage further arrivals have seen part of the camp demolished and some new quarters established.

Having discarded as exaggerated the dialectical theologians» division between theology and the history of religion, Barr is less than convincing in his own efforts to prevent biblical theology from collapsing into the history of Israelite (and early Christian) religion.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

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.

Unity in the oikoumene is a continuous task, as Panikkar well stated in an early text: «Ecumenism has to start with suffering arising from diversity; in a further step, it should unveil the deeper, common striving; and it could well culminate in the religious effort to bring closer this unity of Reality.

2, narcissism is a self - damaging effort to cope with gigantic feelings and fantasies from one's early life.

As I suggested earlier, and as we have just seen, Griffin's effort so to establish rests on an ad hoc premise (i.e., «the function «X is a powerless actuality» is meaningless»), and an invalid inference (from «B is determinable» to «B is devoid of power»).

From the early days of the settlement, efforts were made by some Christians to reach out to the Aboriginals, whose numbers were drastically reduced in the nineteenth century.

Carlo Ancelotti's side were the better team throughout and almost went ahead early in the second half but Hernandez fluffed his lines as he scuffed an effort wide from close range.

Despite an early stumble - flourish from Chelsea, despite Arsenal's best worst efforts, things have already settled back into their predictable shape.

Boston coach Bruce Cassidy saw some mistakes from his young players that led to an early 2 - 0 hole, but he was most disappointed with the overall effort.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

Stoke, who have already beaten Chelsea and Manchester City at the Britannia Stadium this season, were much the better side in the early stages of the match and they thoroughly deserved their lead, which was doubled less than 10 minutes later by a powerful effort from outside the penalty area from Marko Arnautovic.

He has been paid handsomely for his efforts of the back of his early years successes that are in part to a impenetrable defense and core of leaders he adopted from the previous manager.