Sentences with phrase «early attempts failed»

But early attempts failed.

However, work by Richard C. Tolman in 1934 showed that these early attempts failed because of the entropy problem: according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy can only increase.

An earlier attempt failed and some have questioned the added value of the Roadmap Directives to the standards provided by the ECHR and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Not exact matches

For instance, a keyboard model will be the first smartphone to emerge under the Foxconn agreement after the failed attempt at the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 earlier this year.

I believe the best entrepreneurs are those who brandish humble confidence and remember the valuable lessons learned from a few early failed attempts.

In his early failed attempts, «I tried to sound like what I thought they wanted.

The U.S. pharmaceutical giant failed once before, after all, when it attempted a tax inversion with the U.K. firm AstraZeneca earlier this year.

James told a personal story about how she failed spectacularly by attempting to build cloud - based services 10 years too early.

Elliott's winning ways are in stark contrast to many of its activist peers, whose recent attempts to take on Fortune 500 companies have failed miserably, from Bill Ackman's landslide loss in a proxy contest with ADP (adp), to Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn's strikeout at General Motors (gm) earlier this year.

That lead remains safe at least into 2017, after an attempt by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (teva) to release a generic version failed to pass FDA muster earlier this year.

A financial auction earlier this year, following a failed attempt by activist shareholders to change Yahoo's strategy, culminated in the Verizon - Yahoo transaction.

J.C. Penney Co., struggling to turn itself around after a failed attempt to move upmarket, will offer extremely deep discounts early in the season, which will put pressure on other retailers to do the same, the Morgan Stanley analysts said.

Bringing life to a dried fish (this is only present in later texts)(First group) 3 Miracles — Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind Attempt to teach Jesus which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Reverses his earlier acts, resurrects a friend who fell from a roof, heals a man who chopped his foot with an axe [1]

However, with the exception of an Antoine Griezmann header comfortably caught by Marc - André ter Stegen, the hosts failed to convert their early potential into meaningful attempts.

With these fresh reports coming to light, have City finally seen a bid accepted for Sterling after two failed attempts earlier in the summer?

At first glance the move seemed irrational — the Seahawks had failed on a fourth - and - six earlier in the game and were just 6 for 11 on such attempts during the season — but it proved to be more cunning than crazy.

In a bold attempt to put a positive spin on things, and to try and cover up their feeble display in midweek as they failed to score even one goal against a side Arsenal put five past during a Champions League game at the Emirates earlier in the season, Liverpool have been enjoying an upturn in league form, winning six and losing just one of their last eight, while they were impressive 3 - 1 winners at home to Manchester United last time out.

«However, about two months before that day [my son] discovered the leftover potty gear from an earlier failed attempt at potty training.

After my earlier failed attempt to book a cleaner, I wasn't holding out hope that I could book an appointment before the baby arrived.

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We are now left with no option but to conclude that the stance you are taking is politically motivated and that the success of the London Games is now being put in jeopardy as a consequence of you and your party's desire to «take on Unite» following your earlier failed attempt to do so involving our tanker drivers.

A former rookie cop accused of killing an MIT student and injuring three others while driving drunk arrived early to Brooklyn Supreme Court in a failed attempt to dodge reporters...

The BBC reported the attempt failed because the papers should have been served to all protestors, rather than just to one individual, and because the earliest the papers should have been served was tomorrow.

The ESD board approved the funding in September, and two previous attempts to approve the funding at PACB meetings in October and earlier this month had failed.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

Are they part of an early — but failed — colonization attempt?

The idea that migrating birds navigate across continents and oceans with the help of an internal compass had been suggested a century earlier by a Russian zoologist, but attempts to prove it had failed.

The earliest attempts at fake wombs failed to sustain animal fetuses for longer than a few days.

Perhaps those dogs were part of an early, failed attempt at domestication, she says.

Earlier attempts to stop the LHC, in the U.S. District Court in Hawaii and the European Court of Human Rights, have failed, but in the coming weeks particle physicists will be keeping an eye on the U.N.'s human rights committee.

At least one previous attempt to create an identity system for the internet, Microsoft's Passport initiative of the early 2000s, failed in part because privacy advocates objected to one organisation controlling the process.

Researchers have tried and failed to reach this layer before, with the earliest attempts in the mid-20th century.

But those early attempts routinely failed because, unless the donor was an identical twin, the host's immune system attacked the foreign stem cells before they became established.

When Trivers's early attempts to have the paper retracted failed, he wrote a short book about it called The Anatomy of a Fraud that he sent to researchers who cited the paper.

DARPA managers certainly would be satisfied if the Casimir project produced anything tangible, because earlier attempts had failed.

Earlier attempts at weaning myself off cigarettes and setting a quitting date had failed miserably.

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.

The Marvellous Ice - Drift of Captain Tyson This early attempt to reach the North Pole failed.

readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate education reform agenda.

A recent attempt by the 11,000 - student urban district to pass a $ 49.8 million bond issue for school construction and repair - its first since the 1960s - failed earlier this year.

Early attempts to field the Mustang in the SCCA's B - Production competition failed, so Carroll Shelby - who was already stuffing Ford engines into his successful Cobra race cars - was called in to help.

I even attempted and failed at writing one in an early novel.

This success was facilitated by Amazon's careful analysis of previous failed attempts to commercialize ebooks since the early 1990s, and earlier theoretical models developed since the 1930s.

But despite considerable pressure, attempts to repeal the law failed in December 2016 and in the early weeks of January 2017 eight states (Alabama, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington) have already pre-filed or introduced similar bills.

And most early attempts at writing poetry fail because of this, or worse, because beginning writers travel those easy, hard - wired paths in the brain geared towards survival, which are inundated with years of advertisements, televised plots, and habitual speech.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

Scott Eyman does a masterful job at recounting the cinema's several earlier failed attempts at sound films, and the later, fateful attempt that set an entire indusry on it's ear.

My earliest attempts to craft said «gritty romance novel» failed on several levels.

Where earlier attempts to target students via eBook readers may have failed to gather steam, as in the case of the Kindle DX, the iPad seems poised for success as prominent universities such as Seton Hill and George Fox have begun programs to provide all incoming undergraduate students with iPads for the upcoming school year.

Bill Hadley, CEO and founder of Bio-Pro Research — the maker of Urine Off brand urine odor and stain remover — concurs that manufacturers» foray into the arena of eco-friendly cleaning products was thwarted early on by failed attempts to create green products that were as powerful as conventional ones.