Sentences with phrase «extraordinary effort at»

These paintings display extraordinary effort at creating the illusion of folded cloth incorporating a subtle range of color values.

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But the man at the book's centre remains frustratingly elusive through it all, despite Isaacson's extraordinary efforts.

Speaking via a recording at the TED International conference in Vancouver last night, the pope's talk was the culmination of an extraordinary effort to get him to speak (including a year of asking).

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

The engineers at SpaceX are passionate about commercializing and colonizing space; profit is a significant byproduct of their extraordinary effort to achieve that goal but not enough to get them to pull the thousandth all - nighter.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Specifically, the letter calls for the co-lead agencies to «provide a minimum 90 - day public comment period following the release of a Draft Scoping Document... that public information sessions and hearings be held in every county in the pipeline pathway, and at least one meeting along the crude - by - rail route that would serve the pipelines; and... make an extraordinary effort to maximize public engagement regarding the scoping process, to make all the meetings and comment deadlines widely known and to help the public understand the significance of their opportunity to participate in the scoping process.»

«This is an exciting and ambitious effort to focus the extraordinary scientific accomplishments from Europe to develop fundamentally new technologies based on the quantum state of matter,» says David Awschalom, a physicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois who is not involved in the project.

March 23, 2006 Efforts to replicate controversial diabetes therapy bring partial success An effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to confirm the results of a high - profile study that brought extraordinary hope to diabetes researchers and patients worldwide has met with considerable, but not complete, success.

Finally, the specification lever is at work in the lead - up to a government shutdown, and if efforts to reach a continuing resolution fail, during the shutdown itself.231 While a shutdown was historically an extraordinary event, the possibility and reality of shutdowns have loomed large in recent years, 232 so this tool is more than merely hypothetical.

Early on, we see him at breakfast, refusing — despite her desperate efforts — to give his attention to a young woman named Johanna (Camilla Rutherford, her extraordinary eyes blazing with anxiety).

The Malloy administration's extraordinary efforts to increase the number of charter schools and privatize even more of the state's public education system took a giant leap forward at the last State Board of Education meeting.

As it currently stands, clear insight into what is happening with this funding can only be obtained through extraordinary efforts such as reports produced by Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley, on the Los Angeles Unified School District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school districts.

But, according to multiple sources, the school administrators at the magnet schools located at Bridgeport's Fairchild Wheeler High School campus are engaging in a truly extraordinary and abusive tactic in an effort to punish high school juniors attending that magnet school.

More than 400 pets were given a second chance at life at life, thanks to an extraordinary effort by hundreds of animal advocates who flew tens of thousands of miles...

Every year, a rescue volunteer who has contributed to a rescue effort in an extraordinary way shall be named «Angel of the Year» and presented with a suitable trophy or plaque at the following year's annual awards banquet at the National.

A baby humpback whale was stranded on the rocks at Tweed Heads, in New South Wales, Australia, but a group of people went to extraordinary efforts to... Read More

Ms. Genzken is unusually prolific, and the group's effort provides plenty to look at and only improves as it goes along, cycling and recycling through an extraordinary range of postwar styles, from Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism and Conceptualism up to the present.

The extraordinary range and persistence of this effort was on full view this past summer in the hundreds of prints, multiples, books, posters and photographs that filled the exhibitions «Sigmar Polke: The Editions» at the me Collectors Room in Berlin and «Gerhard Richter: The Editions» at the Museum Folkwang in Essen.3

Finally, Montford asks the question as to why the scientists and the IPCC promoted the hockey stick at such a high confidence level so prematurely, and why such extraordinary efforts were made to defend it when it arguably isn't a critical piece of the climate puzzle, rather than to learn from outside statisticians and do a credible error analysis on the data and the inferences.

Identidad Madidi is a multi-institutional effort to describe still unknown species and to showcase the wonders of Bolivia's extraordinary natural heritage at home and abroad.

Clearly, at this late date, the 350 ppm and 2 °C targets would both demand extraordinary efforts.

The extraordinary thing about this decision, to my mind, is the time, effort and expense (the Harding firm spent over $ 170,000 in fees and expenses) that went into defending against allegations that should (in this writer's opinion) never have been brought in the first place, or at least dismissed once the facts were clarified for Healthcare.

Newman's students wrote that she «embodies the qualities sought in the recipient of the Shanara Gilbert Award» and her colleagues at Miami Law noted her «extraordinary efforts and contributions to clinical legal education, service, and justice.»

CULINARY EXCELLENCE • Awarded Chef of Chefs Award owing to extraordinary culinary services • Introduced new standards of food presentation and delivery • Maintained composure, politeness, and professionalism in all work situations • Collaborated efforts with the head chef at Hyatt to make a 20 feet pizza for the Guinness Records