Sentences with phrase «few efforts by»

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

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Over the past few years, the Obama administration has made an effort to address the issue by proposing to raise the federal minimum to $ 10.10 an hour.

Previous analyses of that effort suggested it would cost even more losses in health care coverage (to the tune of 32 million fewer insured by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office) compared to the Senate's current bill and foster sharp premium spikes.

That effort, which put supply and demand in more of an equilibrium, raised prices by a few dollars (interestingly, before actual implementation).

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

For a long time, the bike industry was dominated by a few big brands, all of which focused their design efforts on sport.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

While the feds made an effort to curb corporate tax breaks a few years ago, they actually ended up making it easier for multinationals to pay less tax by doing business in offshore jurisdictions.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

By the time the intrepid few have run that gauntlet, they are often completely turned off by the effort it takes to tell their business storBy the time the intrepid few have run that gauntlet, they are often completely turned off by the effort it takes to tell their business storby the effort it takes to tell their business story.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

Contract sales were also affected by fewer sales to new customers in the third and fourth quarters of 2010 as the sales force continued to focus on efforts to educate existing owners about the benefits of the new product.

We have done our best to keep up with the rapid growth, and what better way to illustrate that than by showing off our recent efforts with a nice new website and a few new announcements coming soon.

Of course, you have to flatter God by worshipping him before he saves you,... and he did create the river and the waterfall, and placed us in it in the first place but, boy, we all really should appreciate his efforts to save a few from his trap, shouldn't we?

The MP for Stockton North said efforts by believers to challenge negative perceptions among non-believers could help lead to fewer Christians feeling marginalised.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

The fact was that while a comparative few were building vast fortunes by every means conceivable, great masses of laboring people were being denied even the fair return of their efforts.

Besides being compensated by the same group for her time and expenses in appearing at a news conference in New York a few years ago, «that is the only time [she] received compensation for her effort,» Mokotoff wrote in an e-mail.

When Pope Francis arrived here Monday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event held every few years, the massive security effort was temporarily undermined by a traffic jam.

That church family is by far and away at the top of the list, and we are making an effort to return every few months to stay somewhat connected with our church family.

Development efforts began in countries with an agricultural system characterized by the concentration of land ownership in the hands of the very few.

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

The church has set up programs of social justice, preached utopian ideals, adopted resolutions, urged charity, proclaimed good will among men; but neither the progressive impoverishment of the life of the many nor the growth of the privileges of the few has been stayed by its efforts.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

The AP called the tight race a few minutes later, and the pain was instead felt by Newman and the likes of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Emily's List, and Gloria Steinem — all of whom had endorsed Newman and together poured millions into this rare effort to oust a veteran incumbent from a safe seat.

Damuck says it's worth the extra effort, and Perry agrees: Even if she does use an electric beater, she always stops it before the cream has set and finishes the last few strokes by hand.

Chances were few and far between in the affair, with the best falling to Sevilla forward Luis Muriel, who saw his very close range effort saved excellently by De Gea, who was outstanding throughout the match.

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

Chances were few and far between in the match, with the best falling to Cesc Fabregas, who saw his well - struck effort saved well by Danish international in the Leicester goal.

As for the professionalism, quite a few people were unimpressed by some of Alexis's behavior, of course there will be others who turn a blind eye and defend him due to his effort and quality.

The two were rarely separated by more than a few tenths and despite Di Grassi's best efforts, he couldn't find a way through.

Chelsea we know wont put in full effort except for a few good men, and utd much the same, then you'll have the manager not wanting to be outdone by another high profile manager.

That came months after Jackson publicly criticized Anthony for holding the ball too long, and co-signed a few other articles written by his friend Charley Rosen that ripped into the star's defensive efforts.

The club have had a few special recognition this term, in late September I was awarded the Distinguished Instructor Award by the International Taekwondo Council, we have had 16 letters from senior figures in Taekwondo sending their support and thanks for all that we are doing as a club and we got a phone call yesterday from Taekwondo Olympian Lutalo Muhammad congratulating us on all our efforts so far (Thanks Adam!).

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden age.

His all important headed effort gave us the lead in the first leg, while his acrobatic finish in the second proved to be nothing more than a consolation.Regardless, Giroud is still the holder of an impressive record, despite many Arsenal fans feeling he's nowhere near good enough to be playing for the club.Few strikers get the better of Manuel Neuer — a player widely regarded as the best goalkeeeper in the game — and even fewer score against him with regularity condolence to the families affected by the Paris terror attack - the whole world let's pray that no more life goes down

It is typical for Wenger's Arsenal to play a few brilliant games, all including Barca and Bayern style relentless pressing of the opponent as soon as we lose the ball, only to revert back to a lazy undedicated team whose effort is out done by the opponents.

Few could have foreseen such a nervy ending when Fellaini headed home Marcus Rashford's fine cross, but Celta's efforts were rewarded by a late goal from Roncaglia - a player sent off along with Bailly moments later.

Swansea made an effort at the other end a few minutes later, as a from the right cross went unchallenged and Jordan Ayew rose above Alexander - Arnold at the back post, but the header was calmly collected by Simon Mignolet.

A few minutes later and Jackson registered Town's first shot of the game with a low driven effort, but it was caught by Charlton goalkeeper George Shelvey.

In Lionel Messi, Barca still possessed an obvious difference maker, and on one of the few occasions he got free his weak effort from a corner had to be flicked away by Proto's leg, with the goalkeeper unsighted by Suarez.

It doesn't take being a Vegas oddsmaker to realize that few children will ever make it to the Olympics, but by watching the world's best give it their best kids can take away some powerful messages about being active and healthy, never giving up, and taking pride in giving their best effort at all times, among others.

Though I've really made an effort in the past 2 years to choose safe products I know there are a few areas I'm lacking and some «natural» marketed products that sneak some ingredients by.

In order to get a more complete picture of the infant formula marketing efforts aimed at new mothers, we collected and categorized all print and email infant formula marketing received by one US mother during her pregnancy and first few months postpartum.

But a bill legalizing the combat sport was passed Wednesday by the State Senate, thanks in part to the efforts of lead sponsor State Sen. Kevin Parker, who has been known for getting into a few altercations of his own over the years.

Otumfuo made a statement when the opposition leader visited Manhyia few days ago and unfortunately for the opposition block, effort by their leaders to misinterpret his statement was cleverly crashed by one of the ruling party's smart communicators Sam Dzata George.Otumfuo's delivery was clear and equivocal and I quote

First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

In the next few weeks, you will faintly sense efforts by «them» — a dusty knot of Democratic party insiders — to clear the gubernatorial field for Ned Lamont.