Sentences with phrase «efforts made over»

Which brings me to efforts I made over the past week to make my grandmother's book available via CreateSpace, and how one particular search engine is impeding that goal.

Dr Jepson examines three different conservation efforts made over 30 years to protect the Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), which went extinct in the wild in Bali, Indonesia, in 2006.

The governor's proposal is the latest in a series of long - term efforts made over the past few years to improve water quality in the county.

Not exact matches

If you are make an effort to interact in a somewhat social setting with your potential customers or people who might spread the word for you, it could help you many more times over than some expensive traditional marketing techniques.

As rivals like McDonald's ramp up their own efforts to take over the $ 100 billion delivery business, it's about time that the chains made an investment in figuring out how to deliver fast food.

Over the past few years, the Obama administration has made an effort to address the issue by proposing to raise the federal minimum to $ 10.10 an hour.

A variety of factors — including increased demand for luxury goods in emerging markets — amped up exploration and development efforts the world over, and the cost increases that came with intense competition for limited resources made Gannicott anxious.

Over the last six months, I have made every effort to provide the FBI with whatever information is needed to investigate my background.

«We truly care about our customers, and when there has been a loss of service, we bend over backwards to understand exactly what has happened, take strides to make improvements in an effort to prevent future losses of service, and can honestly identify with the experience our customers have reached out to let us know about.

Obsessing over how many followers and likes you get, and how high your Klout score is, are all time - and effort - wasting mistakes businesses make, Poston says.

«There have been many efforts over the years to make individuals better healthcare consumers, but it's hard to change behaviors.

Particularly notable is Act - On's simple CRM integration, which can make it a good tool for businesses who want to start small, focusing on lead - management capabilities and grow their marketing efforts over time.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

Dark Matter comes just a couple of weeks after the anti-secrecy organization released a trove of documents describing how the CIA over the last several years has targeted electronics made by a slew of prominent tech companies to further its espionage efforts.

Why it's hot: KFC has made a comeback over the past two years with the return of Colonel Sanders in marketing, and it launched an effort to improve its food quality.

The company has made smaller tweaks over the last year to combat clickbait, but Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri tells Business Insider that this is the most dramatic change that it has launched since its initial efforts in 2014.

As far as we know, he never made any particular effort to smooth things over with Cruz, or make him feel like he'd won something.

One of the individuals we spoke to has been falsely accused by online hackers of cybersecurity breaches in the past, according to The Times, raising the possibility that a calculated effort is being made by some hackers to frame a teenager over the hack.

Statistics show that Canada has made an effort to reduce debt and paid off over $ 90 billion from 1997 through 2008.

Maybe you've even ended a friendship over it, or you've had to make conscious efforts to minimize your interaction with a toxic colleague.

«Over the past year, for example, you've seen us make progress and accelerate our efforts in some areas, while repositioning or taking a pause in others.»

«You are very likely to retire broke unless you make a serious effort to start putting some money away every month into a retirement account and let those funds compound over time,» said Patel.

It represents an effort to make both companies more appealing to consumers as health care that was once delivered in a doctor's office more often reaches consumers over the phone, at a retail clinic or via an app.

Underpinning all of Fidelity's investment efforts is a commitment to research, made possible by over 400 research professionals based in seven offices on three continents worldwide2.

The move serves as a coda to the administration's ongoing efforts to enhance rights and protections for workers, including making millions more eligible for overtime pay and expanding workers» rights to sue over pay discrimination.

«Over the past year we have made fundamental changes to transform Wells Fargo as part of our effort to rebuild trust and build a better bank,» CEO Tim Sloan said in a statement.

As our study has consistently shown over the past eight years, there is no long - term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance; instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources, as well as the quality of their talent, processes, and decision making.

After making a concerted effort over 30 days to cut waste they now save $ 200,000 / year.

Yet industry and policy efforts can help to ensure that over time the pricing of market - making services becomes more consistent with the actual costs and risks involved.

To make your passive income efforts successful, you should compile an honest financial model that will give you realistic look at the income you can anticipate from your investment over a period of time, preferably five years or more.

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The needed infrastructural investments could be made, the national airline could offer reduced rates for stays of over one week, trade missions could multiply their efforts, and so on.

About half of Gen X is making a significant effort to save for retirement — 48.2 percent have saved over $ 10,000, including 26.7 percent who have saved $ 100,000 or more.

The effort to clean up debris from the October wildfires has been made more complicated by confusion over just how «clean» the cleared lots must be before rebuilding can proceed.

You will save a great deal of time and effort that you would otherwise use on studying the market, pouring over multiple charts and graphs, analyzing the market trends and then attempting to make a prediction based on all of the above.

Over the last few years, Google has made a concerted effort to develop business intelligence and data analysis tools right in the AdWords user interface (UI).

Building an internal mapping system is part of the slew of investments Uber has been making over the past year and a half, which include the acquisition of the mapping startup deCarta and part of the image assets of Microsoft's Bing to boost navigation efforts.

If you lie down in a road in front of a stampede of horses they will choose to go around or over you but will make every effort to avoid stepping on you.

But his lively presentation and his method — extensive personal interviews with people over a long span of years — make this book a model for future efforts.

The inevitable battle between capital and labour, an especially important feature in Marxism, is replaced by disputes over the allocation of consumption and authority, disputes firmly set in a shared effort to make life good.

Christians must not claim that Christian revelation makes Christianity superior to other religions, she believes: «What Christianity has going for it is its substantive proposal of a way of life — a way of life over which Christians argue in the effort to witness to and be disciples of Christ, and with which they enter into argument with others.»

Do we make an effort to not make the same mistakes over and over?

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.

The actual sermon will be the effort we make — the tactics we employ to set over against the negations, whether they be conscious and articulate or unconscious and weary — the powers, claims, promises, and gifts of the Christian gospel.

In an effort to fix this mess, we have a few suggestions of moderators who should take over for the next presidential debates — to make things much more interesting.

Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the law.

Even Matthew's father once told his son that he assumed that if God was against homosexuality, then God wouldn't make anyone gay, so those who «struggle with same sex attraction» could develop heterosexual attractions over time with enough effort and prayer.

In the effort to free the Church from local control which he believed made it subservient to secular influences he augmented the power of the bishops over the parish priests.