Sentences with phrase «first concerted effort»

This marks the first concerted effort to make this rare material available to the public.

The Great Wall represents China's first concerted effort to market a blockbuster grounded largely in its own heritage and starpower to the rest of the world - and it remains to be seen what the end result will look like.

Budgeted at $ 500,000 a year, with most of the money taken out of the state's simulcast handle, it represents the first concerted effort to probe the breakdown phenomenon.

Rumours circulating the Prime Minister was only granted a token five - minute segment in which to begin the discussions, with an absent French President who was allegedly on the throne, led some to believe his first concerted efforts at negotiations was something of a flop.

Mueller's investigation traces the first stages of the Russian operation to disrupt the 2016 US election back to 2014, when the Russian state made what appears to be its first concerted efforts to harness the power of America's social media platforms, including Facebook.

The Family Court made its first concerted efforts to promote and improve access to justice for Indigenous families in the domain of family law in 1993 when it established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awareness Committee comprised of senior court staff.

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This Partnership is the first of its kind between the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and an Aboriginal organisation and is the start of a concerted effort to work with Aboriginal people across the Basin.

It is the first time the Blues have gone four league games without conceding since early in the 2010/11 season and wing - back Marcos Alonso and one of the back - three, Gary Cahill, both put that down to a concerted effort over the full length of the pitch.

Politico «s Morning Agriculture tip sheet further reports that the SNA has been making a concerted effort to get Ivanka Trump interested in the issue of school food, including sending a series of tweets to the first daughter.

Wisconsin Democrats have made a concerted effort to make what's referred to as a «John Doe investigation» — conducted at first in secret by state authorities — a campaign issue in the gubernatorial recall election, though the issue hasn't garnered much attention outside the state.

The office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an effort to crack down on speculative ticket sales on the Internet for a series of upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts, including one at First Niagara Center in February.

Cuomo, now a Westchester County resident, has made a concerted effort in his first year to appeal to suburban voters, the cap on property taxes being his biggest economic achievement before the tax code deal.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew, along with City Council members Robert Jackson, Jumaane Williams and Charles Barron, stood with them, calling on the DOE to change its policy of closing struggling schools without making any concerted effort to fix them first.

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

And the group isn't the first to suggest a concerted effort to reduce sugar intake.

Now, after a multi-year concerted effort by more than 440 researchers in 32 labs around the world, a more dynamic picture gives the first holistic view of how the human genome actually does its job.

If we can at least recognize that the time is right for a concerted effort to help people better understand yoga, perhaps we can collectively take the much - needed first step to doing so.

Ted 2's story is filled with holes, but obviously that's not what's going to draw anyone to this kind of movie and so MacFarlane wisely makes a concerted effort to up the laugh ratio here from what we saw in the first film.

The teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has dropped and it's mostly notable for the concerted, and effective, effort that's been made to have this first Star Wars Anthology film be in conversation with and stand apart from the official Star Wars series.

While some high schools have been hosting College Decision Day type events for years, this is the first year there was a concerted effort for larger statewide involvement.

This kitten was Du - Bu Lambtex, the first rex - coated kitten to be born as a result of the concerted breeding efforts with Kallibunker.

According to tragic, first - person accounts from former PeTA employees and watchdog groups, the well - funded organization is quick to dispatch healthy, young and adoptable dogs and cats alongside the sick and too far - gone, often within hours of obtaining them, while making no concerted effort to find the animals new homes.

Although not the first game to try this (see also You Only Live Once), Moynihan makes a concerted effort to arm the game with an emotional shotgun.

Working with Juliana Force, who would serve as the Museum's first director, she began a concerted effort to bolster the collection of six hundred works she had amassed in the previous two decades.

UMOCA's first Utah Biennial (2013) continued this collaboration and made a concerted effort to introduce Harris's work to Utah audiences.

Associated with Pop art as well as with artist friends like Allan Kaprow — whose Happenings first took place on Segal's New Jersey farm — and composer John Cage, Segal created a distinctive style that resulted from a concerted effort to combine art and life in one space.

Voluntary simplicity isn't merely spending less; rather it is a concerted effort in exploring why we consume in the first place.

It would also represent the first concerted global effort to reverse the decline in a major natural asset — tropical forests.

That is, there is still a fair chance that we can «hold the 2 °C line», if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw - down excessive CO2 (geo - and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.

The rationale and importance of this focus evolves from the understanding that workers» compensation legislation - from the first modern act passed in Ontario in 1915 to the dramatic changes of the 1990s - would not have taken the forms that it did without the concerted efforts, protests, and the successes achieved by injured workers and their organizations.

The accountants were first amongst the professions to make a concerted effort to follow their clients globally via networks of accounting practices.

there is the expectation that they will actually make a concerted effort to reinforce any new interaction paradigms that they introduce that may seem at first confusing rather than leaving it up to the customers to figure out.

LG Electronics Australia's GM of Marketing, Lambro Skropidis talked up LG's launching of the LG G3, its quite amazing and world first 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs and the previous G Watch, and stating that LG has «made a concerted effort to be at the forefront of their introduction to the Australian market.»

Microsoft has made a concerted effort to have a first - class experience for Microsoft services on Android.

Common Ground Foundation (Insert City, ST) 2007 — 2009 Executive Director • Launched foundation and directed all operations on behalf of Grammy Award Winner Common • Created and implemented marketing collateral to educate, engage, and inspire clients and supporters • Recruited key corporate, private, and industry players for Board of Directors and Advisory Board • Generated in excess of $ 500,000 in first year of operation through varied fundraising efforts • Obtained pro bono legal team saving foundation more than $ 75,000 annually • Directed youth outreach events furthering social service, education, and character development including Be Empowered, «A Minute» Campaign, & The Corner Book Club • Partnered with MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Education Association / Read Across America, American Library Association, and nationally acclaimed singers, songwriters, and authors • Directed multiple charity concerts featuring Common, Kanye West, Ludacris, The Roots, and Nas

It may be difficult at first, but putting one's self to the side and making a concerted effort to maximize the well - being of the family institution makes mediation a more - than - worthwhile alternative to conventional litigation.

Top firms such as Stewart Information Services Corp., LandAmerica Financial Group Inc., The First American Corp. and Fidelity National Financial Inc. have made a concerted effort to expand their international business in recent years.

Now the county is making a concerted effort to colocate affordable housing with public facilities after participating in its first such project — a library and a senior apartment building called the Bonifant at Silver Spring.