Sentences with phrase «extraordinary efforts of»

«It is appropriate and necessary to grant the AWC Companies» requested incentives,» AWC argued in its most recent FERC filing, because doing otherwise would «frustrate the extraordinary efforts of the Mid-Atlantic States, the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite large - scale offshore wind development.»

«The emotional heart of this film (and of the story of Portrait of Wally) is the family struggle,» writes Shea, who succeeded in bringing the extraordinary efforts of Bondi and her family to get the painting returned to them to the forefront of his intellectually stimulating — but still emotionally compelling — film.

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

«It's been catalyzed by the extraordinary efforts of bioengineers, who can take what used to be a whole room of fancy equipment and shrink it to the size of a business card — it's amazing.»

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

In 2010, Kelly won the Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, which recognizes the extraordinary efforts of an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), an ICAC affiliate agency or an individual assigned to an ICAC Task Force or affiliate agency for making a significant investigative or program contribution to the ICAC Task Force.

Is the cartoonist not reading about / seeing the extraordinary efforts of individual Texans saving neighbors and strangers?

In the 13th century, the Church could rely on the extraordinary efforts of a single theologian, like St. Thomas.

Not exact matches

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

None of those factors will probably hurt your efforts to be exceptional, but according to the former Apple boss and general icon of excellence, the most important factor when it comes to living an extraordinary life is understanding that no one can stop you.

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).

«This is far ahead of the rest of the industry and reflects our extraordinary effort to reach out to customers,» he said in testimony.

«Leaders understand that mutual respect is what sustains extraordinary efforts; they strive to create an atmosphere of trust and human dignity.»

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.

His extraordinary family, rather than being a loving haven within which he could grow to maturity, had somehow come to resemble a kind of debtor's prison from which he could escape only by the most strenuous effort.

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.

Drawing on its detailed data on nearly 500 million monthly active users, Alibaba has identified 8,000 different consumer descriptors, so that merchants can home in on their target customers with extraordinary precision — and increase the effectiveness of their consumer engagement efforts.

Without the Prime Minister's personal diplomacy and polishing of Brand Canada, as well as Ms. Freeland's extraordinary efforts, I believe CETA would have failed.

I would «base [my] info on inre the non-existence of God, heaven and hell, etc» on the absolute lack of even a shred of hard verifiable evidence for these extraordinary claims, and the fact that even after thousands of years of frantic and determined efforts by the most ardent and intelligent proponents of these claims, they still have been completely unable to demonstrate them in any testable manner.

No account of Islam is complete if it does not take into consideration the extraordinary efforts which the various Muslim sects have made to understand Islam, and the results which they have achieved.

«We had 10 bids or revised bids and the board spent an extraordinary amount of time and effort analysing each one,» Mr Lord said.

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.

Here are some of our findings: Whilst the SDGs themselves can be vague, it is clear from our analysis that none of the SDGs will be achieved in all regions, unless extraordinary efforts are made.

Szczesny's efforts in both legs of the tie were nothing short of extraordinary.

His remarkable effort travelled the distance of three quarters of the pitch, and was going in, only to be denied inches from the goalline thanks to an extraordinary sprint from the retreating goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis.

«The staff and board members of the Hoffman Estates Park District have made an extraordinary effort in the last several years to improve the Park District's areas, facilities, programs and services to meet the growing needs of residents of the community,» read a statement from Ted Flickinger, executive director of the Springfield - based Illinois Association of Park Districts.

If only we could better fund the program so it doesn't take extraordinary effort and unusual levels of dedication to ensure better meals for all kids.

President John Mahama as part of his efforts to seek re-election in the upcoming December 7 General elections, is on a campaign tour in the Ashanti Region where his ubiquitous presence, by virtue of his humbling persona and his extraordinary achievements in the Ashanti Region is said to have sent down shivers down the spine of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region.

The White House warned State Department officials that they should leave their jobs if they did not agree with Trump's agenda — an extraordinary effort to stamp out a wave of internal dissent against the travel ban.

Beginning with an extraordinary effort on the part of Uber to launch a well - coordinated media campaign on multiple platforms that eventually turned the tide.

The Dean campaign took up an extraordinary array of tools to spur supporters to action and to coordinate their efforts.

The effort by Bennington College to conduct a more comprehensive survey of residents took shape after the New York Health Department released the results of its cancer study in June that found the rates of the disease in the village of Hoosick Falls are not extraordinary.

Everyone with a father or grandfather who was involved in D - Day, the greatest seaborne military operation of all time, will have fixed this extraordinary event in their heads as a critical part of the effort to defeat the evil of Nazi Germany.

First, I want to thank all 48 of those candidates, not just for their extraordinary efforts, but for simply stepping up and dedicating 3 months of their lives to meet the voters across our communities.

In the wake of last night's do - nothing extraordinary session, a clearly frustrated Gov. David Paterson threatened this morning to take the Legislature to court if lawmakers continue to flout his efforts to bring them back to Albany to finish the budget.

Meanwhile, Clegg is weighing up what could become an extraordinary political row, with the emergence of threats to block Tory efforts to install a eurosceptic as Britain's next EU commissioner.

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.»

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.»

«It is an extraordinary effort in the part of the city,» said Bratton, stressing the speed with which city officials had responded to requests for greater departmental resources.

She said that PC Palmer was «every inch a hero and his actions will never be forgotten» and that «we will remember the extraordinary efforts to save the life of PC Keith Palmer, including those by my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Bournemouth East».

It has taken over 20 years, $ 8 billion, and the combined efforts of more than 60 countries to create this extraordinary particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, built and operated by CERN, the European physics consortium.

The extraordinary khipu texts of the central Andes, including the logosyllabic animal fiber cords, are a proud testament to the intellectual achievements of Native American peoples, and my research team and I are just beginning our efforts to decipher the Collata khipus.

«When he was president of the University of Tokyo, he put extraordinary effort into improving the research environment,» says Yoji Totsuka, director of the university's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research.

«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.

This is an extraordinary success story, but we should not be complacent — some regions of China have not performed as well as others, and the next step is to use lessons from the most successful regions to intensify efforts to improve child survival in the regions with the poorest child survival.»

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.

But despite the dominance of disposable bioprocess platforms and their extraordinary growth in the iTx marketplace, researchers have made limited efforts to understand the perennial and critical bioprocessing risks of leachables and extractables.

Jonathan Smith, PhD, Director of the program, presented Dr. Aldred with the award in recognition of her extraordinary efforts as Course Director and teacher in the Molecular Medicine PhD program.

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.

Patty Pritchard, Patient Service Representative, represented GMI by walking away with special recognition for outstanding patient care and Rebecca Mitchell, MSN, RN earned her award for extraordinary efforts in the area of employee wellness.