Sentences with phrase «extensive efforts by»

Sugarman's referral documents extensive efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's election campaign to route large contributions through Democratic Party County Committees to Democrats running for the state senate in a handful of contested seats upstate.

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He has extensive experience leading marketing efforts for major e-commerce and retail brands, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion in 2016.

A massive business transformation Domino's amazing turnaround was a result of extensive efforts to improve the company's processes and menu offerings by introducing new recipes, using mobile technology to attract new customers, and improving supply chain management.

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

According to extensive interviews Recode conducted with former and current employees at the self - driving effort, many think it is at a technological standstill and plagued by significant internal tension, especially among its executive leadership.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.

The sustainability efforts of Selva Negra are extensive and well - known, the farm has long been Rainforest Alliance certified, and the coffee has been well - represented in the U.S. by multiple roasters, including Allegro / Whole Foods.

And really, by the 2004 election, they built what was by far the most sophisticated electoral effort at the time, driven by extensive micro-targeting, voter contact and turnout operation online.

More to the point, Illinois was the site of the most extensive challenge process, which fell short despite repeated efforts spearheaded by Cook County state's attorney, Benjamin Adamowski, a Republican, who also lost his re-election bid.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

The decline has happened despite extensive recruitment efforts from the party - including a mass mailing by Party Chairman Francis Maude at the end of 2005 and has contributed to the party's financial crunch.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has made a $ 10,000 donation to the AAAS Caribbean Division to help the Puerto Rican scientific research enterprise respond to extensive rebuilding challenges left by the destructive force of Hurricane Maria, encouraging others to also support efforts.

Despite the extensive effort to date, however, the species richness of the region remains by far underestimated.

Consequently, despite the extensive and highly successful efforts of many researchers to develop infection models in Drosophila, the outcomes of infection are often measured by end - points such as insect death (survival of a cohort of insects over time) or changes in cell morphology at fixed periods throughout infection (often monitored by staining different elements of the cytoskeleton).

Atkinson said: «We reached this tremendous milestone through the efforts of more than 800 people over eight years... We have documented, in extensive detail, the design conceived by Dr Jose Reyes more than a decade ago.

Just by looking at it you can tell that a lot of time and effort was spent on its construction and design; good materials, comfortable straps, extensive adjustability for any body type, and the ability to increase and decrease resistance for different movements and difficulties are just a few of the innovative features.

Because of the extensive serotonergic denervation that has been observed in the AD brain and the important role played by serotonin in both, cognition and behavioural control, this neurotransmitter has become a focus of a research effort to identify new treatments for AD.

You can not find a suitable date just by approaching someone out of the blue, but at the same time extensive study and match - making may prove to be far more effort than what you're interested in.

In episode 208, from nutty diets to expensive facial creams that don't do anything, the magicians blow apart the efforts by those who are living longer than ever to turn back the clock, whether they are lining up for Botox injections or extensive plastic surgery.

The disclosure of the materials by an anonymous whistleblower revealed Mossack Fonseca's extensive efforts to help the world's super-rich conceal wealth and evade taxes.

The most extensive cross state effort to implement the common core standards is being undertaken by the two state consortia that are developing the assessments to measure student performance against them.

These tools can effectively produce eLearning that learners can access on multiple devices including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones without extensive time, cost, and effort invested by the content creators.

Founded by tech industry leaders and educators in San Diego, High Tech High is undertaking various efforts to scale up its design, which offers a rigorous, personalized program focusing on math, science, and technology, and providing extensive connections to the «adult» world through internships and other means.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Her extensive research has demonstrated that when students believe they can get smarter by putting in hard work, they generally put in the extra effort needed to achieve success.

I spent three years following an elementary / middle school in Newark and was consistently struck by the herculean effort exerted by the principal and his staff, and the extensive time required just to show incremental progress.

New York City's District 4 (by creating an extensive magnet system) and the state effort in Jersey City (by installing state officials at the top to remake a corrupt system) have taken different routes yet seem to have produced similar results.

Sadly, extensive research efforts (many of them funded by WFF) on the academic impact of public charter schools have suggested that after 20 years there is little across - the - board improvement to show for it.

The 2016 Civic Sedan benefits from the most extensive and ambitious redesign in the 43 - year history of Civic, a global development effort led for the first time by Honda's U.S. R&D team, which set their sights on creating the world's best compact - class car with benchmark - setting levels of quality, fuel efficiency, interior spaciousness and fun - to - drive performance.

Becoming a Divemaster trainee or «Dmt» is 6 to 8 week commitment where you become a part of our family, learning all the ins and outs of the dive industry, besides learning the full practical and theory of the PADI Divemaster course, we like to put in the extra effort such as weekly fish identifying competitions, extensive guide training with our eagle eyed local dive guides, dive sales training and more ensuring by the end of the course you have what it takes to be a full time PADI Divemaster

It was only when I decided to break out my dusty old 360 copy of the game for comparison purposes that the true extent of Raven's efforts became clear; in fact, I'd even go so far to say that the game should be more accurately described as an almost complete remake of CoD 4 rather than the mere remaster suggested by the title, so extensive and accomplished is its revival for current gen.

ROLE MODEL: Robert & Ethel Scull, Charles Saatchi, Stefan Simchowitz, Adam Sender MO: Buy deep and extensive holdings of work by choice artists before they're famous, ideally making them famous in the process through energetic word - of - mouth marketing efforts, creating a sense of inevitably of the artist's impending stardom; then, when the moment arrives, sell their work off at auction, or privately, at a gigantic markup over the purchase price.

«These efforts countered the persona of the humble, oblivious naïf by detailing his assured single - mindedness and tracked the extensive influence his work exerted on several generations of vanguard artists,» critic Roberta Smith wrote in a review of a later exhibition.

But the most extensive show is expected to be New Photography from China, a joint effort of the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, organized by ICP curator Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung, professor of Asian art at the University of Chicago and consulting curator to the Smart Museum.

That understanding will be advanced by new and more extensive data collection efforts, improvements to methods used to synthesise that data, and more extensive and collaborative use of climate model simulations over this period — both to understand the forcing / response of the climate, but also to serve as testbed for the various reconstruction methodologies.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

As I've previously posted, my extensive experience in solar - energy related air - temperature mensuration has shown me that + / -0.1 deg C accuracy takes far more effort than anything done by the current meteorological establishment, and that's for a single station.

Various members of what I call the Climate - Industrial Complex (CIC) nevertheless continue to back it despite extensive efforts to enlighten them by climate skeptics.

«Suffice to say, the Manufactured Doubt campaign against global warming — funded by the richest corporations in world history — is probably the most extensive and expensive such effort ever.

Back in May, we made mention of Arnold & Porter's efforts to improve the environment by investing in carbon credits to offset emissions caused by lawyers» extensive travel.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the extensive efforts made by the Employer to ensure that service of the documents was effected on the Contractor, the Judge found that the service of the notices by delivery to the postal addresses had been effective in order to comply with clause 1.7.2.

The selection supports the continuation of an intensive modernization effort by the company's legal department, which includes the recent successful completion of an extensive knowledge management initiative.

Putting aside its extensive digital and event marketing efforts, the company had enlisted a large army of multi-level affiliate marketers to recruit new investors, who could then work their way up by bringing in even more new investors — and so on and so on.

The data release comes as an effort by the agency to investigate thefts of assets from cryptocurrency investors in Japan following the notorious collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange in 2014 and the government's extensive actions in force exchanges to protect cryptocurrency investors since.

«This effort has included extensive testing by customers and industry partners to ensure the updated versions are ready for production,» Navin Shenoy, Intel's executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, said in a statement.

• Resurrected 27 dormant accounts by applying aggressive suggestive selling skills • Increased sales by 45 % in 3 months following extensive sales and marketing efforts • Developed and implemented daily performance reporting techniques that led to 25 % increase in follow up efficiency

Due to my extensive knowledge, creativity, and diligence, my efforts increased average nightly bar sales by 15 percent and increased customer satisfaction ratings on websites such as Yelp.

First, extensive training sessions for trainers (i.e., interventionists / workshop leaders) emphasizes (a) instruction in effective skills and practices, (b) demonstration of effective skills and practices, (c) practice with parenting skills, (d) feedback on practice efforts and training processes, and (e) ongoing coaching by Boys Town staff.

Parents» Pasts and Families» Futures: Using Family Assessments to Inform Perspectives on Reasonable Efforts and Reunification (PDF - 389 KB) Smithgall, DeCoursey, Yang, & Haseltine (2012) Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Uses family assessments conducted by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to examine parents» past experiences and their current functioning, based on reports of extensive childhood trauma, and implications for caseworker engagement and interventions.