Sentences with phrase «even larger effort»

Yu soon was reassigned to an even larger effort — searching for a treatment for bronchitis, from which Mao suffered.

Not exact matches

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed though anti-labor legislation even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

The largest carriers seem to be competing for who can treat customers the worst — by taking away perks like free checked luggage (and even carry - ons) and charging you to sit with your children — in an effort to further increase profits.

China ran huge trade surpluses even before then, when it was the Chinese central bank that exported capital as it accumulated one of history's largest hoards of central bank reserves in its efforts to keep down the value of the renminbi.

«Fava beans are a pain in the neck to peel, but they're worth the effort,» he said, adding that the large, vibrant green beans are maybe even better than peas.

The bed has a decorative kickplate and detailed moldings and below are 3 large drawers with easy to grab wooden knobs, so even small children can open and close the drawers with little effort.

In a short interview today, Brynien said his efforts have saved jobs, even in the face of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's successful efforts to wring concessions from the state's second - largest public employees union.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Additionally, the resolution states that any rupture or compromise of the pipeline, even without an explosion or fire, would «require extraordinary cleanup efforts, could force residents from their homes, and place a large number of residents in close proximity to hazardous materials.»

Reacting in large part to Russian efforts to hack the presidential election last year, a growing number of states are upgrading electoral databases and voting machines, and even adding cybersecurity experts to their election teams.

But despite the extensive redactions — in one instance, even tweets shared among staffers, including one from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were blacked out — the emails, combined with what has already been reported, offer a glimpse at a large bureaucracy's immediate efforts to address fallout, maintain campus normalcy, and «de-Kaloyerosify» an institution virtually synonymous with its flashy founder.

In Florida on Tuesday, the Republican - controlled State House rejected an effort to immediately consider a bill to ban large - capacity magazines and the type of assault rifles used in last week's attack, even as students from Stoneman Douglas High School watched from the gallery.

It had already evolved to a suitable size before it was even cultivated, likely making it more attractive to growers who would then not need to spend much effort selecting for larger fruits.

Twenty - eight percent say the United States should make a large - scale effort to address global warming, even if has large economic costs.

Alternatively, they might expend large amounts of effort or money to obfuscate their modus operandi with multiple layers of concealment and stealth to make their crimes invisible to even the slyest cyber sleuth.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

Tweets and status updates have been buzzing for weeks about DARPA's Network Challenge, even though the event does not officially kick off until 10 A.M. Eastern time Saturday when hundreds of technophiles will compete in an effort to be the first to track down the locations of 10 large red weather balloons positioned across the U.S. throughout the day (pdf).

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

[But] the significance of that potential discovery is so large that even the small probability justifies the effort.»

The finding, published in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that troglitazone may play «an even larger than anticipated role in our efforts to prevent the development of diabetes in those who are most at risk,» said Kenneth Polonsky, MD, professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

Even if they choose the correct ingredients, which many companies simply don't spend enough time researching, they are not in large enough quantities to make a real impact on your fat burning efforts.

From a technical point of view, this allowed the team a lot of opportunities for balancing, but more importantly, having a large cast of named characters allowed them to tell an even better story than the already impressive efforts in the Loto Trilogy (the first three Dragon Quest games).

Jolie may very well not be conscious of the larger implications of her work, or the influences that even bring it about, but it is impossible not to see Unbroken in the context of official US efforts on the «human rights» and other fronts.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

To be fair, movies like this are a difficult balancing act, and even more so with such a large cast of characters, but despite Levy's best efforts, «This Is Where I Leave You» falls disappointingly flat.

First, even if today's boutique efforts are found to «work,» how confident can we be that large - scale imitation will deliver similar benefits?

And even when turnout is not pivotal to the outcome, it is clearly a resource that works to the unions» advantage, contributing to their larger effort to control electoral outcomes.

Nor does the current political weight of evangelical Protestantism change the fact that our political and constitutional development has pretty much reduced religion to a private matter, even if there remain energetic efforts to make religious concerns play a larger role in public affairs.

But it can contribute in a positive way to the larger union effort, and in some cases — when elections are close — it can even be pivotal.

h In Massachusetts, where citizens in 1980 approved one of the first statewide property - tax - limitation measures in the country, a new poll commissioned by the state's largest newspaper has found that a majority of residents favor school - improvement efforts even if it means paying higher taxes.

The battle is even more illogical, the author contends, when compared with the opposing trend in urban areas, where reform efforts concentrate on breaking down dysfunctionally large schools and forming new, smaller learning communities.

According to data analyzed by Ann Mantil, Anne Perkins, and Stephanie Aberger, the benefits from redistribution within and across multiple neighboring districts, even if implemented nationwide on a large scale, would vary widely, and efforts would decrease the percentage of high - poverty schools in some states by no more than about 10 % to 15 %.

And the argument that I'm trying to make is that if there's a significant segment of the black community who feels, even if there are now things that are better, but they have not played a significant role in making it better, or they haven't played a significant role in the power relationships, or if you have significant numbers of people who see the effort to change education and the way that it's being done as a larger part of the disempowerment of black people in the city of New Orleans, even the good things that are happening, in my mind, they are, uh, there's a danger in the ability to sustain it if we, if we can't build on a broader base of support within the black community itself.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

With even the largest private funding efforts amounting to a very small expenditure relative to public spending, achieving systemic impact requires changing the way public dollars are spent.

Once considered a rarity, the opt - out push has prompted high - profile boycott efforts and meetings in large districts such as Chicago and led more parents nationwide to join forces with anti-testing advocates in arguing that the assessments are unnecessary, excessive, and, in some cases, even harmful to students.

The midpriced Edsel brand was the first and largest move in an effort to even out the steps between Ford and Continental.

When driving slowly or parking, the new technology combines with the speed - sensitive power steering to provide even more comfort than before because the large ratio further reduces the steering effort required.

In an effort to maintain monthly «cash flow» many companies and businesses historically «sweeten the pot» to lure customers and clients to their places of business even during this holiday where Americans, at large, are too busy having fun outside to be inside buying things.

Why wouldn't an author focus more effort and energy on getting his first book into the hands of readers instead of forging ahead with a sequel before a large fan base has even had the chance to discover the first book?

Having flopped in the effort to come up with a large - screen tablet which could even pretend to be successful, things are only going to get worse for these manufacturers.

I'm not sure we are even close to the market equilibrium where passive becomes such a large portion of total assets that their free - riding efforts destroy market efficiency, but it is certainly an interesting thing to consider.

(In some highly competitive markets, buyers are making even larger deposits in an effort to stand out.)

While a large majority of respondents would like increased regulation, 62.7 % of them had never heard of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even though this agency is spearheading the latest efforts to protect consumers from lending abuses.

But if you're willing to put in just a little more effort, you could get even more diversification by devoting, say, 20 % to 40 % of your stock stake to a total international stock index fund, which would give you exposure to the stock markets of countries large and small around the globe.

The scale of this effort is something that even the larger bank - owned brokerages are having trouble contending with.

It is definitely a team effort, especially with large animals, when it might take two or three or four people to even move them.