Sentences with phrase «earlier efforts such»

This game is as vanilla as they come, failing to even measure up to earlier efforts such as 2002's Virtua Tennis 2.

Right - wing conservative media personality Ezra Levant's Rebel Media is looking for Canadian retirement savers to fund his film making efforts beyond earlier efforts such as Save the Christians.

Not exact matches

And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Magnacca also outlined various efforts the company is taking, such as revamping its product mix and working to identify trends in electronics earlier.

Earlier this year, Marriott and other large operators began a new effort to attract direct bookings to reduce commissions paid to online travel agents, offering discounts to loyal guests and providing perks such as free Wi - Fi.

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.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

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

Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses.

Grantees implement programs which teach parents and early education providers about ways to strengthen families and build protective factors (such as parenting skills and resilience in times of stress; building social connections and a support network; and knowledge of child development) in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect before it begins.

[1]- There were earlier attempts and ideas to create a nation - state - for example, I would consider Alexander the Great's efforts to be such, since he tried to unify the culture of his empire (and definitely succeeded doing so in the scope of Greek Peninsula itself).

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect wooden electric poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect of collapsing the poles and disrupting power distribution.

Although such firms typically concentrated their early efforts on technology development and proof - of - concept testing, they recognized the need for regulatory affairs expertise.

Her PI freely acknowledges her efforts, but she believes that a standard mechanism for assigning credit, such as a list of everyone who worked on a proposal, would be «great for early careers.»

China could both benefit from the lessons of earlier efforts, such as Europe's flagship carbon market — the world's largest, known as the European Union Emissions Trading System, or ETS.

About one - third of the people surveyed had been reached during the prior 12 months by the early intervention efforts, such as viewing the campaign's documentary on ending stigma about mental illness.

The researchers say that community activities and social networks can not replace early warning systems and disaster training, but rather that they can complement and promote diffusion of such efforts.

The vow to cure cancer brings to mind some past efforts, such as President Nixon's war on cancer of the early 1970s, and a pledge by Andrew von Eschenbach, former National Cancer Institute (NCI) director (2002 — 06), to eliminate suffering and death from cancer by 2015.

Despite decades of effort since then, seismologists still have not settled on a reliable early warning system for such deadly quakes, though systems are used in Japan and Europe.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

One bamboo - producing county now offers financial incentives to growers willing to cut back on fertilizer and protect biodiversity, but such efforts are in their early stages.

The team suggested the solution to such an outbreak in the future would likely be an earlier, coordinated parasite treatment effort between salmon farms — something the researchers say is lacking in this area and across the country.

Professor Mathias Uhlen, Director of the Human Protein Atlas consortium and leader of the Pathology Atlas effort says: «This study differs from earlier cancer investigations, since it is not focused on the mutations in cancers, but the downstream effects of such mutations across all protein - coding genes.

«A medical company would not have been able to put efforts in such early research».

This genetic risk factor is independent of other risk factors, such as cholesterol, obesity and smoking, and therefore provides an additional method for identifying individuals who may derive benefit from earlier and more aggressive prevention efforts.

A well - known feat of technology, the Panama Canal was also the victory of years of infectious disease research that led to an understanding that mosquitoes were the vector for deadly diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever, which had contributed to failures in earlier efforts to build the canal.

It's awesome to be able to get up so early in the morning with such minimal effort!

They may thus be more comfortable using the Internet as a social and relationship - building tool (certainly social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook have provided online resources designed for the maintenance of relationships) than individuals whose early lives did not include the Internet and thus more likely to view the process of meeting romantic partners online as a simple and natural extension of their efforts to meet partners through face - to - face means.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Even so, «Early Man» is such a lightweight effort that the movie — while perfectly harmless in terms of taking the kids to see it — pales next to its animated ancestors.

This early effort remains an interesting part of Coppola's filmography — certainly more than such latter - day stinkbombs as Jack and Youth Without Youth.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Whilst Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains the standout effort in both the movie and book series, David Yates» fourth franchise offering in succession returns focus to the elements that made earlier iterations such engaging creations, with the central trio united in friendship as they wage an epic battle of good versus evil.

Because his last few efforts have been critical and financial flops, it is as if he is taking a cautious and tentative approach this time, trying to feel his way back to the form of such earlier successes as «The Sixth Sense» and «Unbreakable.»

Fritz Lang was one such director and Man Hunt is one of the best propaganda efforts to emerge from the early war years.

Four such efforts even found Bogart playing second banana to Robinson (he toiled under Cagney on three pictures), but the dynamics were changed once Bogart became a major star in the early 1940s thanks to such classics as The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Often cited in its early years as a model for such efforts in other cities, the plan has been a target of criticism recently for allegedly contributing to «white flight» from the district.

As a result, early childhood quality improvement efforts often include attention to educator competencies such as instruction and relationship quality.

Reemployment provisions such as these are not found in the private sector, where early retirement incentives are usually part of a downsizing effort.

Fullan asserts that, while there is no standard formula for changing the culture of an organization, sustainable improvement requires several years of effort to work through complex cultural issues such as resistance to change and acculturation of the new leader.215 Turnover that occurs every two or three years makes it unlikely that a principal will get beyond the stages of initiation and early implementation.

In an effort to be more proactive in identifying students» needs and providing them with appropriate services, growing numbers of schools and districts have adopted early warning indicators (EWIs), often drawing on the work of organizations such as the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

Because of the small size of many rural districts, launching innovative programs such as early - college initiatives in rural North Carolina or efforts to expand access to Advanced Placement courses in rural Tennessee is «impossible,» he added.

Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality provides recommendations from the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grEarly Childhood Learning and Program Quality provides recommendations from the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grEarly Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grearly education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grades.