Sentences with phrase «first effort by»

Rather, in 2010 it launched the Modern Women's Project, «the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists».

I thought it was a great first effort by a studio who has never made an FPS before, much less on brand new hardware.

Metal Gear Survive is an interesting experience and it proves to have been a good first effort by Konami's Production Studio 8, so it's worth renting first.

In the end, Armillo is a great first effort by Fuzzy Wuzzy Games.

Still as the first effort by a small independent team, the game is highly polished and offers an enjoyable experience on the Nintendo Switch.

This is a rock solid, genuinely excellent first effort by this developer.

The «Alleyway» Gameboy game was one of the first efforts by the Nintendo R&D 1 development team.

The strategy was drawn up in response to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, one of the first efforts by world leaders address global warming.

There would be no end to requests for «second chances» if counsel were permitted to run their first efforts by the courts, in anticipation of being able to put more flesh on the bones of the case if it appeared their initial efforts were not adequate.

Not exact matches

It's not the first smartwatch to market by any stretch, but like the iPhone, Apple's effort looks superior to all those that have come before.

When Trump announced the first round of tariffs on China, it was seen as a declaration of a trade war — a progressive effort by the two nations to damage each other economically, mainly through taxes and trade restrictions.

Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who has pushed for immediate aid to struggling coal and nuclear plants, signed off on the order and said in an opinion that he expected the decision to be «only the first step in a more systematic effort by the Commission» to address resilience.

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

DiCeglie said that, when the effort for 2016 first started in January of the previous year, the GOP was down by roughly 6,000 voter registrations in comparison with the Democrats.

Clark told an elite trade delegation Monday that the province is ramping up efforts to make trade deals with Asian nations, in part by charting a route to build the first international trading centre for the Chinese currency.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

In the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these storms.

The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.

First, the victim's effort to receive compensation is backed by the power of the state.

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.

Running a business is a team effort, and one of the first ways to create unity is by having staffers dress in a similar fashion.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

First isolated in 2004 by physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who won a Nobel Prize for their efforts, graphene is essentially a crystalline carbon allotrope with two - dimensional properties.

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

First, by unifying our various efforts, we will give entrepreneurs a single point of entry to engage with Microsoft.

I applaud all efforts by people to take on this issue and especially be Adeo who — let's be honest — was really the first champion of trying to make the VC world more transparent by launching TheFunded, which didn't exactly endear him to VCs initially.

Efforts to mobilize young voters are widespread, and many are being conducted by first - time organizers.

It was the company's way of acknowledging members» «superstar» efforts by granting them a first try of the product.

According to a recent Morgan Stanley Research report, these POC efforts, which test Blockchain's viability as a settlement and payment alternative, are the first critical step toward adopting the technology, followed by broader socialization within the industry and regulatory scrutiny.

A veteran of D - Day, he capped a lauded career on Wall Street and in the State Department by shepherding the first years of the city's fractious effort to rebuild after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

First, here is the most recent tax cut talk from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, as quoted by the Globe and Mail: â $ œI can assure you that our government is by no means finished in our efforts to improve our tax system for the benefit of Canadian -LSB-...]

A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers is the first official calculation of the tax framework's impact and its focus on cutting corporate rates underscores how central that effort is to the administration's overall plan.

With B.C.'s new trade office and Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada's state - owned export credit agency, stepping up its trade promotion efforts in the Asia Pacific by launching its first overseas branch in Singapore, Canadian and B.C. businesses are in an unprecedentedly advantageous position to make full use of government support to secure a market presence in Asia.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Announced at the first meeting of a cryptocurrency exchange study group established by the FSA in early March, the data release marks the latest effort by the financial watchdog in bringing greater transparency to the industry following a recent hack of one of the domestic exchange Coincheck.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

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?

I am embarrassed to think about my initial contemporary music efforts; it took our church years to become reasonably good at it, but by then the first impression had been made.

You are given knowledge by the will of God first and your efforts therein.

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

In many cases, therefore, the first efforts ever at a scientific understanding of the language, by native or foreigner, came from Christian missionaries.

The Free Will Defense is an effort to show that these two propositions are jointly consistent by finding a proposition that is consistent with the first and such that its conjunction with the first entails the second.

He does this in two important respects: the first is in regard to the standoff between the attempts to show that theology engages the whole person because it is something «subjective» and personal and the attempts to show that it does so because it is something «objective» and public; and the second is in regard to efforts to replace the picture of theology as a movement from theory to practice by new pictures of the relation between theory and practice.

The question disputed is whether humans can achieve their own First Good simply by seeking the Second Good, or whether, to the contrary, one must actually succeed in that effort.

The history of studies in our fields has been competently traced by E. Lehmann, E. Hardy, Jordan, H. Pinard de la Boullaye and G. Mensching, but these efforts cover only the first three periods since Max Mueller established.

First, it seemed to be bound up with a generally optimistic expectation that human efforts, spearheaded by Christians, would bring into being a better society.

«Thus the method which earlier he (Leibniz) wanted, asked for, received, and understood with difficulty, he discovered forsooth either first or at least by his own effort.»

The two intolerable positions are: first, one which deals irresponsibly with the given structures of society, as if some ultimate perfection could be secured by human effort; and, second, one which merely says the world is full of evils.

That effort represented a joyful decision on my part to turn again toward the classical Christian pastoral tradition, especially as expressed by the ecumenical consensus of Christianity's first millennium of experience in caring for souls.

Love of the neighbor is shown not only by the way a disciple lives, which we shall consider first, but also, as we shall see in the second section of the chapter, by the combined efforts of the followers of Jesus to meet human need and, third, by attempts to change the structures of society.