Sentences with phrase «for massive efforts»

The times call for a massive effort of remedial theological education for the clergy of the West.

Not exact matches

(Example: A perk like membership in an exclusive private club might look odd from the outside, but a moment's reflection should reveal that an executive who is responsible for massive fundraising efforts genuinely needs to be part of the kind of clubs where he or she can network with the right sorts of people.)

President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a massive $ 1.5 trillion tax bill, capping off a yearlong effort by the White House and Republicans in Congress to slash tax rates for both corporations and individuals.

Despite the massive corporate spending, Rebecca Spector, west - coast director for the Center for Food Safety, which supports and tracks state - by - state labeling efforts, says momentum and strategy have helped maintain support for the Oregon initiative.

The response speed is also due to planning for a massive recovery effort.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Hybels also recalled that she's been accused of participating in a «massive effort in the heart of the evangelical church to lure its members — especially its youth — away from the pro-Israel position God commands to an uncritical and unbiblical support for Palestinians.»

When Pope Francis arrived here Monday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event held every few years, the massive security effort was temporarily undermined by a traffic jam.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

Efforts to mobilize Christians for political ends may be unprecedentedly massive on the right and are by no means lacking on the left; but as is illustrated by antiabortion alliances between Roman Catholics and conservative evangelicals and by antiwar protests gathering together both Christian pacifists and nonpacifists, these groupings are indifferent to ecumenism because, among other things, it has no public influence.

The first is a massive effort to win a battle that mankind has been losing through the centuries — the provision of humane, effective treatment for the mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Opening the Deli has been a massive group effort and a lot of work has gone into creating a beautiful space to celebrate natural, simple, honest, and importantly delicious food for everyone who wishes to come by for a morning latte, an afternoon lunch with friends, or even a post dinner treat.

In an effort to rid the house of our massive amount of leftover Halloween candy, I've been scouring the internet for creative baking ideas.

We must make a massive effort to sign the best top rated players for the future.

despite playing ok for one game against a toothless palace that missed two really really good efforts we managed to win by a massive error by their keeper

Floodlight games are massive and you could feel a big relief after the game for the whole squad that we went through with a lot of effort.

In Boulder, the extra money to pay for kitchen upgrades and staff training to enable scratch cooking is coming from massive fundraising efforts by parents, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

They will instead make stops further west, including hard - hit Corpus Christi, for briefings on relief efforts as catastrophic flooding has crippled parts of the massive state's southeast.

It is no secret that German chancellor Merkel is praying for a Sarkozy victory, and even if she makes an effort to get on with Hollande, the judgment of the markets on any new French fiscal policy may leave Paris and Berlin facing a massive banking collapse within weeks (and I am surprised that this is not already looming).

To achieve this feat, the team is calling for a united front and a coordinated effort to canvass for massive votes to ensure a resounding victory for the party.

Preliminary reports on turnout suggest that the Obama re-election campaign succeeded again in shaping the very nature of the electorate through massive investments of time, effort, and money in both the technical infrastructure and the raw manpower necessary for an effective up - to - date ground game.

But that will be achieved by a massive, multilateral effort to internationalise the ownership of nuclear technology and a dense regulatory framework for all global production of such technology, with deviations rigorously and universally enforced.

The juggernaut GOP - affiliated group Crossroads GPS will soon announce a massive $ 8.1 million television and radio effort for House Republicans slated to begin Saturday and run for three weeks.

A Manhattan federal jury convicted Chinese real estate moneyman Ng Lap Seng of bribing two former United Nations diplomats, finding he engaged in a massive illegal effort to grease the wheels for a luxe expo center in Macau.

The state Republican Party plans a massive get - out - the - vote effort for its Congressional candidates this fall, a move that Chairman Ed Cox says is being fueled in part by House Speaker John Boehner's team.

And while massive labor union 1199SEIU promised in 2014 to stop giving campaign cash to Senate Republicans — in an effort to win back the chamber for Democrats — the powerful healthcare union endorsed the Republican, Mr. McGrath, this week.

Labor's candidates for United States Senate, Congress, State Senate and Assembly were victorious yesterday, with organized labor's massive get - out - the - vote grassroots efforts an integral part of each campaign.

The Senate resumes work next week on a massive defense bill, a possible candidate for any effort to rework or undo the cuts.

The governor consequently listed the objectives for the 2018 budget to include, intensifying efforts on independent revenue initiatives, massive infrastructural development, wealth creation through empowerment of youths, artisans, farmers and market women; and enhancing the community development through improved collaboration with communities, among others.

New York City officials acknowledged for the first time yesterday that they had mishandled the superstorm Sandy recovery effort, wouldn't meet a deadline to repair homes and had kept City Council members in the dark about massive cost overruns.

Sango advised politicians to start preparing for the 2019 general elections «in earnest», stressing that winning elections required long and proper planning that required massive efforts over a long period of time.

Democrats» efforts to include debt restructuring powers for Puerto Rico in the House's massive omnibus spending bill fell short, yielding only a commitment from Republican leadership to work on legislation that would help the ailing island by next spring.

De Blasio blasted Cuomo's efforts to kill his overhaul of a massive tax break for housing developers — even though he ultimately got most of the affordable housing mandates he wanted in the 421 - a program.

In an effort to keep our proverbial house in order, the town budgeted in 2011 for 2012 operations, meeting the tax cap, and dealing with the massive decrease in assessed value due to the Pfizer settlement.

Hawkins has called for an investigation of the massive donations Cuomo has raised in his re-election effort, especially from real estate firms, hedge funds linked to charter schools, and the fracking and gambling industries.

A massive search effort was set to continue overnight for a Buffalo Police diver missing in the waters of the Niagara River.

Green party candidate for Governor Howie Hawkins is calling for a massive expansion of public housing in the state in an effort to make housing more affordable.

She suggested the killing, which involved what many have labeled a prohibited chokehold in the effort to subdue the massive, asthmatic Mr. Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes, was part of pattern of racial killings by law enforcement across America.

The money fueling the anti-convention efforts does not include the massive telephone and door - to - door campaign that has been underway for weeks in an effort to to reach the state's 2.5 million union households.

Lotz is leading a three - year effort, known as the Frontier Fields project, to stare at six massive clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope and hunt for the seeds of galaxies similar to our own.

Flatliners, it turns out, does not release the dopamine and norepinephrine that account for much of ecstasy's euphoric effects, but, like ecstasy, it does release massive doses of serotonin and interferes with the body's efforts to break it down.

The technique, proposed in the 1990s, saves effort by pre-computing a massive table of equations that apply to all the target numbers, then doing additional computation for each one.

It plans to spend $ 340 million on a massive effort to tackle pollution in the Ganges River, the most sacred river for Hindus.

A few months ago, massive outbreaks called for large - scale humanitarian efforts, including the construction of many large Ebola treatment centers.

Such a massive effort is far too labor - intensive for the U.S., where it would render fruit prohibitively expensive.

Obama's approach straddles that divide somewhat, calling for massive deployment efforts as well as more funding of basic energy science by a new agency, ARPA - E.

Gray had worked for 10 years with Hopkins scientists to implement the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive, computer - driven effort to piece together a picture of space one snapshot at a time.

It's not a moment too soon: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that without a massive effort to slow the epidemic, a million people in West Africa could have Ebola by January.

There's no dignity in science for a warbler popped head - down in a weighing scale as part of a massive effort to track migrating birds

But designing such a massive research effort in the United States, which lacks a centralized health care system, can be difficult and controversial; NIH recently scuttled and then revived a plan to study 100,000 children, for example.