Sentences with phrase «failed past efforts»

Who says: Veterans of failed past efforts to take on entitlements; assorted skeptics and cynics — including, sometimes, ourselves.

Not exact matches

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.

«If such efforts fail, our way of life will become counter-cultural, always a difficult situation for Christians ¯ one our forebears faced in many ages past, one that the Lord himself predicted for us.

Thus far the efforts of the United States to overthrow these leaders, as it has overthrown so many populist leaders in the past, have failed.

There have been intense and motivated efforts over the past two millennia to defend such a position rationally, and they have all failed.

There are a lot of reasons why your efforts to get your child to sleep through the night have failed in the past — it's not your fault!

In response to Andrew Cuomo's new jobs plan, Carl Paladino's campaign is dredging up the past, citing his record as HUD secretary and a jobs proposal he floated during his failed 2002 gubernatorial bid in an effort to blow holes in his credibility as an economic developer.

The Republican effort, as similar past efforts, failed to draw more than a few of the critical Democratic votes needed to pass the resolutions.

Establishing a monitor with veto power would take an act by the state Legislature — an effort that was tried and failed this past session.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

Speaking at Thursday's SUNY board meeting, Cuomo referenced his past efforts to advance women's rights in New York: the Women's Equality Act, a 10 - point bill that has failed to pass the Legislature for two sessions because of a controversial abortion plank.

But past efforts to glean ancient DNA from Kennewick Man failed, notes Eske Willerslev, a palaeogenomicist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who led the current study.

Past drugs may have failed because, for instance, they targeted the wrong kind of glutamate receptor; the genetic results will help drug developers focus their efforts.

Director Stephen Chow has made better films in the past («Shaolin Soccer,» «Kung Fu Hustle»), and although his latest effort is chockful of brilliant slapstick humor (from Shan's failed assassination attempt, to Show Luo's half - man / half - octopus cooking his own tentacles), it's marred by some awful CGI.

Though it performed comparably in France and less significant European markets, The Past otherwise failed to recreate the box office impact of Farhadi's previous effort, its $ 1.3 million North American gross a far cry from A Separation's $ 7.1 M.

A series of failed education reform efforts over the past 50 years seemed to confirm that conclusion.

All past efforts to raise the academic achievement of low - ability students, according to Murray, have failed, and so has NCLB.

In spite of the sincere efforts that have been made to date to spur innovation in teaching and learning in the traditional public school sector, the data show that just infusing more per - pupil public school spending in the past has failed to propel the U.S. beyond its peer countries on international rankings of student achievement.

Resistance may be based on district - community tensions, failed past school improvement efforts, or a lack of understanding about what is possible in schools.

Although there have been countless efforts to improve the lowest performing schools over the past decade, there are still hundreds of schools in Los Angeles and California that are failing to provide students with an adequate education.

Kenneth Campbell, president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, acknowledged Louisiana's racist history, but stated, «It would be a mistake to equate the current scholarship program that provides the only avenue for low - income children to escape failing schools to past efforts that supported and encouraged «white flight» 40 years ago.»

This wasn't a boast that other e-book retail startups could make over the past few years, like the failed, publisher - backed effort Bookish.

Past efforts like this have failed, and you will as well.»

While laws similar to this one have failed in the past, supporters are optimistic this effort can work.

If collection efforts fail, and it is apparent the borrower can not repay the loan, the loan will be charged off once it is 150 days past due.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

How will this be any different (other than perhaps in terms of scale) than the failed efforts of the past?

Similar efforts at a global accord have failed in the past.

It remains unclear whether the new drive to repeal state renewable standards will succeed: Similar efforts over the past two years have failed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon and Washington.

Such efforts have often failed in the past, as subsidies lapsed or infrastructure collapsed.

Acknowledging that, objectively measured, the efforts of the legal profession to reverse the imbalances flowing from our past have failed to yield the desired transformation of the legal profession;

These admissions also reveal how simplistic it is to draw a line under all past efforts as failed and to strive for newness.

Many of these result from fear based on misunderstanding the process or a misperception about what it involves and what will be expected of them in trying to sort things out together when all past efforts have failed.

«Over the past 15 years, efforts to tackle declining marriage rates and increasing divorce rates among low - income couples in the USA have been guided by assumptions about why there are fewer low - income marriages and why a higher percentage fail.»