Sentences with phrase «few years of trying»

The most recent pronouncements from both the Federal Court (2015) and Federal Court of Appeal (2014) continue a trend [4] over the past few years of trying to uphold a patent and find that it has the required utility.

After a few years of trying and failing in show business, they get an idea: they will make their own movie.

After a few years of trying out the «biggest and best» Internet personals sites, I decided to throw in the towel.

It became apparent that we needed something different for our family after a few years of trying to set and keep New Year's resolutions together.

HOPE LIEN: Well we had, yeah we had tried to get pregnant for a while and tried a lot of different natural medicine to enhance fertility and after few years of trying that and it wasn't happening we just knew that we had, we always had known that we wanted to adopt, and so it just became really obvious that instead of going down an unknown road of different fertility treatment and things like that that we want to do adoption.

The King eventually lost his patience after a few years of trying to help them and dealing with all the trouble they caused.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

A few years ago during an important meeting, one of our investors was trying to explain our two roles.

«I wanted to let you know of a few specimens we have an overstock that we are trying to place before the end of the year,» United Tissue Executive Director Alyssa Harrison wrote to a bone research organization.

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.

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

They hadn't gone back to raise money in a few years, so maybe that would have been a good time to go to market and raise a war chest and set aside a bunch of people to try and do the full innovator's dilemma salvation plan.

While he was trying to come up with a strategy for Odeo, Williams was processing the lessons of the past few years.

It's worth noting that French broadband provider Free tried turning on network - level ad - blocking a few years back, in a bid to get money out of Google, but the government told it to stop.

For a few years, he tried to build a theme park in Kobe, Japan, and traveled the world in search of compelling ideas.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

Ronak Singhal, a senior executive and 20 - year veteran of chipmaker Intel, was trying to get to dinner at Helena, his favorite restaurant in Israel, a few weeks ago.

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.

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

New types of computer memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a different series of trade - offs than the dominant forms of memory used today.

While for MNCs, the appetite to adopt IoT is high as globally it has been around for few years, large enterprises are still trying to understand the size of value it would bring to them while SMEs are...

Takeda tried earlier this year to buy Salix as part of a joint bid with private equity firm TPG, a few weeks before Papa took over as CEO.

You might of course cite expectations — I know the Fed must try to see around corners — but your own staff models are predicting growth and inflation to proceed in like fashion to the above for the next few years to come.

As derivative note vehicles have appeared, such as SAFE, that try to create synthetic equity out of a note structure, we'll see another wave of unintended consequences in the next few years.

In the past few days, I have been trying to uncover why the recent mad move of BitConnect value from about $ 0.5 early this year to over $ 100 per coin in just 8 months.

I get maybe 10 % of that, but I'm just getting into the real estate game these last few years and trying to peak early in my career.

Although it makes sense to me to use bonds to try to reduce risks and volatility, what about the possible downward slide of bond values as interest rates rise over the next few years?

In terms of the volumes of reserves expended and the extent of capital controls imposed, few countries in recent years have done as much to try to prop up their currency as has China.

Again, the Clinton parallel is instructive: «The whole strategy during the first few years of the Jones case, as far as Bill Clinton was concerned, was to try to keep the case stalled until after the reelection campaign,» Marcus said.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

From past few years, Facebook has been trying to cut off the organic reach of Facebook pages.The introduction of Facebook Zero acted as the final blow.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

The menu of unconstrained fixed income products has expanded over the past few years as managers and clients try to bridge the...

We tried to write songs that would fit into the thoughtless, whimsical climate of the past few years.

The Catholic faith is one of the few brands of Christianity that has tried to reach out to other faiths under the thought that our entire world was saved by a Savior 2000 years ago.

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

A few years back I heard of a guy who was trying to rent an airplane so he could dump millions of «Gospel tracts» over a certain large city.

This question seemed so important to some of us that we decided a few years ago to try to bring the work of Nordhaus and Tobin up to date.

A few years ago when people were writing books critiquing what many of us were trying to do with our churches, I would regularly contact these folks and invite them to come and spend some time with our community or stay at my house and we could talk about all their concerns.

Six years later, after a few years of pronouncing we would be happy to never have children at all, we finally decided to try to get pregnant.

There have been quite a few movies this year about young adults trying to escape small spaces, but none of them are quite as masterful and tightly paced as 10 Cloverfield Lane, the unofficial sequel to Cloverfield.

When I read those last few words, I felt as though Beck had said what I've been trying to get at for years — that the most important indicator of unhealthy doubt is not having intellectual questions about your beliefs, but failing to obey.

I'm not a scholar on this, of course, but I remember reading that this all started just a few hundred years ago, and more or less aligned with the church's rejection of alchemy under pressure from the growing influence of the Enlightenment (during which they tried to suppress Galileo, formed the horrors of the Inqusition, and more...).

To return to the personal note encouraged by the editors, my own present theological dilemma is this: I am relatively encouraged (although not, I hope, sanguine) about the relative merit of the model for fundamental theology which I have tried to articulate in the past few years.

So you refuse to believe in the solid evidence of millions of years of bone fossils showing that all species, including humans, have evolved... and instead you choose to believe a book written a thousand years ago by a group men just trying to teach a few morals?

We both went on with our lives and I've tried to contact him a few years ago, but he ignored my messages of asking forgiveness and a second chance to make things right - which I understand as he is a proud man and I wish him all the happiness and blessings in the world.

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

A few years ago, in a moment of lonely desperation, I googled something having to do with «Christians against biblical inerrancy» (for some reason you were on the first or second page of search results...) because I was trying to find out if there was anyone else who was thinking about the Scriptures in a different way from what I had encountered.