Sentences with phrase «few efforts of»

That's one of the reasons, I'd argue, we see few efforts of this kind.

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Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

Efforts to squash review aggregators come from the same playbook that retailers used a few years ago when trying to eliminate «showrooming,» the practice of using a smartphone to comparison shop while inside a brick - and - mortar store.

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.

A few simple steps of preparation can go a long way to maximize your efforts and kick off the holiday shopping season.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

A few have made more of an effort and serve as a paradigm for other Bay Area firms.

Fresh pharmaceutical unit head Luke Miels is calling for 20 % in budget savings from managers, part of an expansive effort to cut costs in the unit and reinvest money into specific (and, likely, fewer) R&D efforts that may bring in more cash and higher returns.

It closed in 1996 and held a few more events in 2010 and 2011 in an effort to revitalize interest in the space, but the local city council backed out of allocating funds to reopen it.

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

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

IBM, after energizing its efforts to license its thousands of technology patents a few years ago, now attributes $ 1 billion a year of its corporate sales to licensing.

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.

But with the disease still killing a child in Africa every few minutes, those eager to finish the job are worried that the presidency of the United States — a crucial funding source for international malaria control efforts — is now passing to a man whose commitment to global health projects is uncertain.

As a result of W3C's efforts, with few exceptions, the web operates consistently.

Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, said that while the last few years had seen an enormous uptake in renewable energy, a redoubling of efforts was needed «to ensure these new low - carbon technologies are able to thrive.

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.»

There were a few proclamations earlier this week that wearable technology is dead in light of the news that Nike appears to be shutting down its Fuelband efforts, at least on the hardware side.

A few years back, I had to dig my heels in during a meeting where one of my colleagues was trying to push an initiative through that would have been detrimental to the brand, and to the efforts of my team.

And were the global effort in containment to have been delayed even a few months more, this outbreak could easily have claimed tens of thousands of additional lives, including in the U.S.

The enhancement benefits to your content and SEO strategies alone make social media worth the effort — but add in the customer service angle and the community building power, and you'll calculate that even a few hours of work per day can be enough to earn you thousands of new visitors per month (and strengthened relationships with your existing subscriber base).

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.

The more effective your conversations are, the fewer calls you'll need to make and after all, better results with less effort is the true definition of efficiency.

In the last few days, Donald Trump has demonstrated what participants in the Dump Trump effort have been warning Macy's about for years — that Donald Trump's brand of bigoted bullying is simply bad for business.

«For example, when faced with the daunting prospect of expending all that effort to recoup a $ 35 fee or even a $ 100 overcharge, it is no surprise that few people bother to try.»

Most startups fail because of lack of customers, not failure of technology, yet so few entrepreneurs put in the effort to understand market potential in a disciplined way.

Few Albertans would shed tears or anxiously grip the edges of Grandpa Dwayne's wheelchair to hear of money - saving efforts to transfer cafeteria, security or pillowcase - folding duties to outside companies — and few outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public service job preservatiFew Albertans would shed tears or anxiously grip the edges of Grandpa Dwayne's wheelchair to hear of money - saving efforts to transfer cafeteria, security or pillowcase - folding duties to outside companies — and few outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public service job preservatifew outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public service job preservation.

That's why for the first few years of its existence TMAF focused most of its efforts within the industry.

We envision grand adventures, but few of us invest the time and effort required to make those grand plans a reality.

While most organizations spend the bulk of their sales and marketing efforts focused on customer acquisition, few, if any, put any energy toward keeping the customers they worked so hard to attain.

Unfortunately, there are also a fair few projects which do not even have a working livenet at this stage, despite having raised millions of dollars through an ICO or other crowdfunding effort.

A Gallup poll during the 1986 effort found that slightly fewer Americans (41 %) back then believed their own taxes would go up because of that plan, compared to 18 % who said they would go down and 30 % who expected they would remain the same.

You don't just earn organic traffic for a few days or a few weeks — as long as you maintain your link building strategy, you'll reap organic traffic month over month, indefinitely, adding to the value of your efforts.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

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.»

While both Google and Ford have been working steadily on self - driving cars for a few years now, the former's efforts have been more visible than that of the latter.

In an effort to evaluate the current level of the stock market, let's review a few of the more popular metrics.

All that's required is a few hours of effort every week!

Franchisers also have many advantages of franchising, as they can earn a percentage of the total sales, global exposures, as well as a set fee from the franchisees with fewer efforts.

in an effort to get a link from a few of them.

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.

You'll also have to decide if your efforts will be split between a mass of keywords, or if you'll focus your manual link building on just a few select phrases.

Unlike the predecessor of conventional buyer persona development, whereby created personas had a shelf life of a few years, the social buyer persona development and creation effort must undergo a constant state of refreshing and modification.

However, our experience shows that donations drop significantly within a few days after a disaster, even though most of the efforts to recover from serious flooding and rebuild homes, lives and a community can stretch out for months or even years.

COVER STORY: CORPORATE DEBT A gargantuan wall of debt coming due over the next few years could impede all but the highest - rated corporations» efforts to refinance their debt.

I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

But even as efforts like» #BringBackOurGirls» gain steam, few of the students have been found.

The relevant issue here is not the few places in Scripture where homosexuality is mentioned, and efforts to explain away Romans 1 and its deeply rabbinic connection of homosexuality with idolatry inevitably fail in any case.