Sentences with phrase «far failed efforts»

Trump's selection of a secretary of health and human services to replace Tom Price could be a turning point in a health care debate that has polarized Washington, as he faces a choice of working with Democrats to fix the current system or continuing his so - far failed efforts to dismantle his predecessor's program.

Not exact matches

Oil's price also has been firming as Houthi rebels in Yemen have increased a campaign of firing missiles into Saudi Arabia, both at oil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failed.
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.
«We hope that there, where human efforts have so far failed, the Lord offers to all the wisdom and fortitude to carry out a real peace plan.»
You can see that he has ability which has been borne from the Southampton Academy and nurtured further at Arsenal and knows his way around and through a game but it could just be that in an effort to make his mark and not become one of the many Arsenal youth product that «Had the ability, but failed to make it», he's over emphasising attributes of his game at the expense of composure.
players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes
Liverpool have so far failed in their efforts to sign Guinean international and RB Leipzig star Naby Keita.
After leaping the highest at the far post seconds earlier but failing to make an adequate connection for a downward header to trouble Adrian between the visitors» sticks, Lolley cut inside and produced a superb curling effort into the far corner, cueing pandemonium on the terraces; and renewing a fresh belief that Town could well go on and retrieve maximum points from this huge encounter.
But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)
He says Cuomo and the legislature have already approved one new budget since President Trump was elected, and they've heard the promises of the Republican - dominated Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, an effort that has so far failed.
Similar efforts in other states have failed to get that far (Climatewire, Feb. 20).
However, reintroduction efforts so far have failed because of the persistence of the fungus at collection sites.
Efforts to test prospects for Internet voting have failed miserably thus far, asserts Jeremy Epstein, a senior computer scientist at SRI International who has researched voting technology, citing in particular the Internet - based system that the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections and Ethics tried to set up in 2010.
Much of the research effort to find new drugs to treat this disease has focused on the senile plaques, but so far these drugs have all failed in late - stage clinical trials.
Efforts were further stalled last week when the U.S. Senate split along party lines and failed to pass a $ 1.1 billion spending bill that included a significant boost in money for researchers around the country — many of whom have dropped other work to focus on Zika.
Though the hustle and bustle of the shopping hotspots never fails to me feel ever so slightly anxious about the state of my own Christmas shopping efforts (this year, non-existant so far...), there's a sort of hurried energy to the place that's undeniably infectious.
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.
Actors who have committed far worse crimes have been allowed to rebound — Mel Gibson is starring in a Will Ferrell comedy later this year — and the jokes about Franco's failed efforts to be a renaissance man are frankly worn out.
We failed to realize that as agents of change, we should have moved our efforts forward in small steps with the hope that each minor success would lead to further expansion and acceptance of new ideas.
Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.
Further evidence comes from a school district in southern Minnesota that implemented full - day kindergarten in an effort to focus on providing foundational supports, building students» confidence, and paving the way for success before students began to fail (Raskin & Haar, 2009).
It will take a collection of men and women with entrepreneurial drive, operational savvy and passion for overhauling education so that all children can succeed in order to take on the challenges of transforming a system that has poorly served so many kids for far too long.After all, reform efforts are wasted if they fail because of bad strategic, tactical and operational decisions.
An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.
You will dismiss bad and mediocre cars as disappointing efforts, and wonder why the people who developed them failed to carry their ideas, or care in execution, several steps further.
However, if the borrower fails to comply with the program or plan or requests further assistance, the servicer must immediately resume reasonable diligence efforts.
SoHo was home to about 2,000 artists by the early»70s, many of whom had to go as far as Chelsea to get basic groceries and faced police shakedowns as part of failed efforts to clear them out.
We landlubbers have thus far shamefully failed to stop the illegal atrocities by the Japanese, and without your efforts likely double the atrocity would have transpired by now.
Despite growing recognition of the promise of carbon capture and storage, we are so far failing in that effort.
STT's betting that Duxfield's efforts went no further than a cursory perusal (the whole thing runs to over 800 pages — the report is available in our post here), but even if we fail to collect on that wager, there is absolutely no chance that he understood it.
So far, the efforts have failed, but the issue will return.
One has to wonder why certain activists and environmentalists are encouraging the public to avoid a film about climate change simply because it questions the ability of our limited, and thus far failed, efforts to solve the problem.
Romm also delivers harsh criticism of the Clinton and Bush administrations for failing to strengthen and support the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and for the current administration's attempts to thwart international efforts to further limit greenhouse gas emissions.
But efforts to bring aboard some skeptical nations so far have failed.
The White House called its approach a crucial step to achieving the ambitious greenhouse - gas emissions targets President Obama announced last November in Beijing, but some environmental advocates said the plan, which relies heavily on voluntary efforts, failed to go far enough.
So far, these efforts have failed to impress.
Today the case is just too sensational for the Oregon Innocence Project to pass up the opportunity to resurrect, particularly after their other efforts have so far failed to smear Oregon's criminal justice system as the «Kafkaesque» nightmare they believe it to be.
The employer further argued that the employee had failed to make reasonable efforts to meet those childcare obligations through reasonable alternative solutions.
But if the mounting pressure on Facebook and the company's falling stock price are anything to go by, the company's efforts at explaining away the controversy have so far failed to calm regulators and investors.
So instead of blaming Congress, we applaud any effort to limit business method patents (something the Supreme Court failed to do in Bilski)-- and just wish the legislation went further in curbing the often harmful business method patents.
On this measure, the findings suggest that efforts at reintegrating Indigenous offenders often fail to prevent further violent offending and to keep the offenders in the community and away from prison.
On the other hand, due to multiple failed bids, many buyer agents must invest far more time and effort on behalf of their clients.
However, what many fail to consider is how committed they will feel toward the goal after they have enjoyed some early success and how much increased effort they might be willing to exert to further pursue that goal.
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