Sentences with phrase «first attempt at finding»

My first attempt at finding an agent went no where fast.

Andy's first attempt at finding a woman to break his virginity with involves heading to the nearest club and asking the drunkest girl around to take him home.

They are not the first attempt at finding a replacement for sugar.

Not exact matches

I wanted something green to go with a Korean Grilled Chicken and my first attempt at homemade egg noodles and I found this.

This was my first attempt ever at quiche and I usually find them to be dry when I eat those made by others but this was perfection!

After reading everyone's posts about lemonade, I can't wait to find a recipe for that, as this is my first attempt at ingesting lavender and I'm hooked.

This was my first attempt at vegan baking, I was browsing recipes and was delighted to find one I had everything on hand to make.

The first goal Mertisaker backed of the Barca player instead of tackling him even to give free kick that was mistake.Flamini not his fault had to attempt to do something at split second he found himself in through Per not clearin, + he should not have been the sub to come on.

the way i see it mbappe was at first only a ghost bid to hide our attempts for another striker maybe lacazette or another but arsenal found out that they actually have a chance even small to get him.

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

Steve Kean is the man attempting to pull rabbits out of the hat in the meantime, until «Big Sam's» successor is found, and Kean's first assignment is to despatch of whipping boys West Ham, who once again begin the weekend at the foot of the table.

We found it was quite hard to tell by eye alone which ball had bounced the highest as they tended to shoot off in different directions, so for our second attempt we marked a certain hight on the wall, and dropped the balls one at a time from the same height trying to make another mark at the height reached on first bounce.

The commission's findings marked at least the fourth time the agency found Armor's care inadequate in Nassau inmate fatalities since the county first inked a two - year, $ 11 million - a-year public - private partnership with the vendor in mid-2011 in an attempt to cut costs.

Cognitive flexibility becomes important when trying to find the correct solutions to a problem, particularly when your first attempt at solving that problem does not work.

As I have experienced at first hand as a researcher, attempts to reproduce others» published findings can be expensive and frustrating.

Thwaites» first attempt at a goat exoskeleton was constructed with wood, steel rods, elastic bands, cardboard tubes and other found objects.

They found that children learned these features in three stages of «appearance, reorganization, and mastery»: accurately replicating their use in simpler contexts, attempting unsuccessfully at first to use them in more challenging contexts, then using them accurately in all contexts as they fully learn the rules of prosody.

Army STARRS researchers, led by study co-principal investigators, Robert J. Ursano, MD, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, found that a majority (58.2 %) of soldiers who ever thought of suicide had these thoughts before enlistment, 76.6 % of soldiers with current mental disorders had onsets before enlistment, and nearly half (47 %) of soldiers who ever made a suicide attempt did so for the first time before enlistment.

Even the proudest of parents may struggle to find some semblance of meaning behind the seemingly random mish - mash of letters that often emerge from a toddler's first scribbled and scrawled attempts at putting words on paper.

Finally, those interested in garlic's myriad benefits but not quite ready to attempt haute cuisine will find systematized advice on the Quick Guides, designed to ease the first attempts at growing and buying garlic, or selecting a cultivar.

I suspected at first that the gluten - free craze was an attempt by some to find a physical explanation for emotional problems, similar to the «epidemic» of hypoglycemia in decades past.

The first night at Disney, which happened to be Christmas Eve, we attempted to find dining for a party of 8.

For some obscure reason, people who failed at their first attempt to find a bride at a dating site begin to feel it's time to give up on that way of searching for their perfect match.

But it's true to say that not everyone succeeds in finding a healthy balance between hat - tipping and telling their own story at the first attempt.

Its easy to find fault in a person's work but Muschietti can be forgiven for a few of your noted misteps — it his first attempt at writing and directing.

This year we got a supersized look at the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as well as a first look at the new Dwayne Johnson actioner Skyscraper, which finds The Rock going all Die Hard and attempting to safe his family from a burning building — which happens to be the tallest building in the world.

Great stuff always finds a following, but don't test this belief if it's your first attempt at building an online course.

In the first broad attempts to analyze the performance of Hawaii's charter schools, the state Department of Education and the Hawaii's Educational Policy Center have found that charter - school students are doing as well as or better than students at traditional public schools on the state's proficiency tests.

When the matter of inappropriate discipline was raised — this was what all speaking against the plans for a new charter school found most alarming — there were attempts by Achievement First reps to brush the issue aside by repeating that almost half of the suspension / expulsion data was due to In School Suspensions, which they defined as when a student was removed from the classroom for more than two hours at a time.

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

Voice command was very effective at recognizing prompts on the first attempt, but I found myself missing the smart search functionality of Apple and Google.

Finding I could write a compelling story, having written a trilogy at my first attempt, was a wonderful surprise to me, although I did nothing with it (published now) and went on to start the Hybrid Series.

On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for Kayla, as she barely escapes a kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars.

At first it was an attempt to reintroduce her backlist (previously published and often out - of - print) titles to fans who may not have found those titles when they were available in print, but as the process became rewarding for her, Freethy began working on titles to be published exclusively to e-reader.

The attorney for PHEAA said, «As you know a lot of Courts attempted to pursue undue hardship and find undue hardship in order to get at a partial discharge, and that's a tendency that has to be resisted, and it has to be resisted in this case because the debtor has to meet each and every one of the prongs in order to first find undue hardship and so, you know, we can understand why Judge Radcliffe may have gone to accept the Debtor's argument.»

A video package at the beginning of Lords of Shadow 2 vaguely attempts to piece together the jumbled tale, but even if you have played the first and second games you'll still likely find yourself a little lost, the strange saga of the Belmont family flying past like some sort of corrupted Coronation Street.

At first glance Peggle can seem like an almost purely luck - driven game with skill have only a slight effect, and for the first while of play that's entirely true: attempting to guess where the ball will bounce after the first few pegs is night on impossible, but as you sink more and more time into the game you'll begin to grow accustomed to its physics and find yourself guessing likely trajectories, allowing you start deliberately lining up awesome skill shots.

But hey, at least a run in with some wargs is creepy, with my first attempt at getting away from them ending when I heard some breathing, turned around and found out it had been following me for a while.

General fixes • Significant improvements to the Squad Join interface • Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option • Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 Squad members • Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM • Disable Privacy flag when 1 man Squad • Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when Squad drops to 1 player • All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad selection screen • Players who choose not to join Squads will also show up as Blue in the «Not in a Squad» line • Squads that are currently empty will display as white — if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text • Added round duration and ticket summary at end of round screen • Fixed sound for when climbing ladders • Fixed and issue with some weapons» sounds in first person view • Fixed a swim sound loop error • You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position • Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it • Spawn protection now should work in Conquest so you no longer should spawn too close to enemies • You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM • Fix for missing input restriction during intro movie, causing players to potentially fall and die while watching movie if moving controller (or having a controller with a bad stick zone) • Combat areas on Kharg Island in Rush mode tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after first base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun • Fixed a problem with revived players not being able to get suppressed • Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in co-op • Spotting VO now plays when spotting from MAV / EOD bot • Fixed several issues regarding the kill card, including showing wrong weapons used for the kill • Fixed that sometimes you would be stuck on a black screen when kicked from server • Fixed so when a team captures two flags at the same time, the UI does not show wrong owner of the flag • Fixed a problem where the capture progress bar was shown as friendly when the enemy was capturing • Fixed a problem with the bipod deploy sound • Fixed a problem that you could be spawned in with no weapons after being killed while using the EOD bot • Fixed problems with health bars not displaying health properly when using EOD bots • Fixed a problem with flickering name tags • Fixed a problem where you could damage friendly helicopters • Fixed a problem where you could get stuck in the co-op menu when attempting to join the session twice • You should now be able to spot explosives • You should no longer spawn in home base if your selected spawn point is disabled while waiting to spawn (e.g. if your teammate dies right before you are about to spawn) • Damage from bullets will now continue to cause damage even after the firing user is dead • Fixed several client crashes • Fixed a problem where players could get stuck in the join queue • Fixed the repair icon on the minimal • Fixed a problem with changing camera on certain vehicles • Fixed a problem with the grenade indicator when in guided missile mode • Fixed a problem where the machine could hard lock when joining a public coop game • Fixed a problem where the headset attached icon would not show up in the UI • Fixed a problem with the falling antenna on Caspian Border.

Players who attempt to play Wonderboy like many other Metroidvania games may find the going tough at first; there are certain Souls - like aspects present here that result in reckless players being heavily punished for their haste.

Tried on story mode — found it at first attempt Maybe that will help.

I actually found this to be a huge problem at first, but that's because I was attempting to «hard pogo» with the new control scheme.

As someone who is pretty good at Trials, although I find the Expert tracks to be an absolute pain in the backside, I found this gave me plenty a reason to retread old ground where I had gained a gold medal on my first attempt.

In journalism school, for example, students are routinely instructed that, though they may wish to write about development issues in Latin America, in order to achieve the necessary qualifications and experience they must first spend at least three years working for a local newspaper, before seeking work for a national newspaper, before attempting to find a niche which brings them somewhere near the field they want to enter.

Although this is the first prospective longitudinal study to investigate this mediational hypothesis in a systematic manner, our findings are consistent with previous findings indicating that disruption of interpersonal relationships is a predominant risk factor for suicide10, 13,49 and that interpersonal conflict or separation during adulthood partially mediated an association between neglectful overprotective parenting and subsequent suicide attempts.23 The present findings are also consistent with research indicating that stressful life events mediated the association between childhood adversities and suicidal behavior during adolescence or early adulthood, 8 that suicide is multidetermined, 2 and that youths who experience numerous adversities during childhood and adolescence are at a particularly elevated risk for suicide.18, 22,49