Sentences with phrase «frustrated by their efforts»

At the center of the story of Trump's early days in the White House is a president determined to go big but increasingly frustrated by the efforts of his small team to contain the backlash.

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Cage is Milton, a literal bat - out - of - hell intent on stopping his granddaughter from being the human sacrifice in cult leader Jonah King's (Billy Burke) ceremony to bring Hades to Louisiana, a quest aided by feisty beauty Piper (Amber Heard) and her ’69 Dodge Charger, and frustrated by the efforts of Satan's Accountant (William Fichtner) to bring Milton back down below.

School board members can often feel frustrated by efforts to lift such schools from the bottom.

Her parents were teachers and even they sometimes felt frustrated by their efforts to advocate for her two, much younger brothers in public schools.

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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.

It was also long before a small business owner in California named Kristen Christian, frustrated by Bank of America's now - abandoned decision to charge customers a fee to use their debit cards, launched a grass roots effort to convince people to move their money out of large banks and dubbed November 5 Bank Transfer Day.

As frustrating as the ever - changing world of SEO can be, content marketers should rejoice about one aspect: There's a wealth of data produced by SEO efforts that we can use to improve content marketing efforts.

You might ruin and get frustrated with your marketing efforts if you will try to run it by yourself.

Analysts and investors in Moscow said the sanctions could consign Russia to years of low growth, frustrating government efforts to stimulate a rebound from a two - year downturn brought on by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

It's frustrating to hear people - when their loved has been saved or improved by generations of scientific research and technology along with the knowldege and efforts of an expert medical staff — who say «thank you, Jesus!»

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

Since Sisyphus» efforts are constantly frustrated by a more powerful reality, it is clear that humanity's ontological ultimacy is not being asserted.

This time Saul's efforts to take David are frustrated by a religious phenomenon known among the Canaanites and common in early Israel.

Mainline groups have been critical of this advantage taken by the paid - time broadcasters because it has frustrated their efforts to encourage stations to act responsibly in the public interest.

At the end of the episode another effort to apprehend Jesus is reported, and again it is frustrated by fear of the people (Mk 12:12; Mt 21:46; Lk 20:19).

I can't count how many times he has frustrated me by breaking our team efforts in the final third by giving the ball to opponents needlessly in the final third.

Those words in my opinion are the words of a player who could not sound more disappointed, frustrated and simply embarrassed by the efforts of his team.

City looked like being frustrated by the Saints with the score tied at 1 - 1 going into the dying seconds, before Raheem Sterling scored a stunning solo effort to wrap up the three points.

I don't think Ozil is a God and I am often frustrated by his inconsistency, but to be honest I thought he had one of his better games yesterday and put in a good effort.

Over time, the parents become more and more frustrated and feel rejected by the infant who resists virtually all their efforts to love him.

Frustrated by what they see as the «damned - if - you - do, damned - if - you - don «t» nature of traditional bumpers, some of these parents have turned to alternative products, such as mesh crib bumpers or crib slat pads, in an effort to find a safe solution.

The «rocks» take a little effort to push through from the top of the truck and he occasionally gets frustrated by that.

If you are frustrated by the crying, despite your best efforts to help your baby, put her in a safe place (like her crib) and take a moment to calm yourself.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

«We see this as a subtle attempt by this intolerant Akufo - Addo administration to frustrate and thwart our efforts at organising this demonstration.

Some lawmakers were very frustrated by what they believe was Cuomo's efforts to prevent a pay raise from being approved late last year.

Trump railed against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last - ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party's nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don't rally around him.

That approach has long frustrated efforts by many to see «budget gaps» in common - sensical or literal terms, because reported «out - year gaps» are not the actual differences in spending and revenues between one year and the next, but instead reflect projections of how circumstances would look if on auto pilot.

Bernard, on behalf of my other frustrated UHAS landowners, I sincerely appreciate your station's efforts in bringing our plight on your programs from the beginning and further appeal once again to your outfit to help us by means of your programs either on the Citi Breakfast Show, Eyewitness News or any other platform to help get what is due us from the state.

«There will be deep disappointment and dismay at the failure of leadership by the DUP and their efforts to frustrate the will of the people,» Mr Adams said.

The irony, Dr Nyaho - Tamakloe pointed out, was that in the Fourth Republic, leaders such as John Agyekum Kufuor, Evans Atta Mills and John Mahama were bridge - builders, yet their efforts were often frustrated by political polarisation.

Kolb, reached by phone, called the effort «frustrating» and said he will proceed has planned with a Thursday conference.

The Republican Caucus, led by Minority Leader John J. Mills, has grown continually frustrated by Legislators and opportunists who have attempted to ignore the will of the people and as a result hindered efforts to present a fair map in a timely manner that would allow interested candidates to become involved in the process.

ALBANY — Plans to furlough thousands of state workers next week have been halted by a federal judge, frustrating Gov. David Paterson's efforts to close a $ 9.2 billion deficit.

The group has described the LI as a deliberate and unreasonable effort by the Council to frustrate their attempts to gain...

The group in its first quarter report released in Abuja on the ongoing war against insurgency in Nigeria noted that after undertaking review of the ongoing war on terrorism by the Nigerian military, it observed that UNICEF and other international organizations have been frustrating the efforts of the army through series of blackmails.

Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, had announced on Wednesday that the Federal Ministry of Works was frustrating efforts by his government to reconstruct the said road.

The effort is the brainchild of two retirees frustrated by what they see as the orthodoxy of «settled science» on climate change.

This can leave you feeling frustrated, irritable, fatigued, and let down by your efforts.

It's an unimpressively mediocre romantic comedy that has enough little things to save it from being boring, but the clear lack of effort can be frustrating for those who expect more from a film by Woody Allen.

The frustrating comes from the way the effort was spun by, let us call them the education status quo.

I'm frustrated by how often efforts to challenge familiar nostrums are casually dismissed with a litany of reflexive attacks — «this is an attack on schooling,» «this is only about urban schools,» «this is all part of a privatization conspiracy» — without regard to substance or specifics.

Specifically, parents were frustrated by the rapid and unrealistic timetable for implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the overemphasis on high - stakes testing, and the state's effort to capture and analyze student data without an adequate plan to assuage data - privacy concerns.

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R — FINISHED 7TH ON THE RACE «We came into the weekend confident but today despite a tremendous effort by everyone at Corvette Racing, we again faced frustrating challenges.

I didn't want to see them frustrated, disappointed and feeling like failures when their efforts resulted in books that never got noticed by the readers they wanted to reach.

Most breeders, long frustrated by repossession efforts, agree.

All of the effort to simplify pitching and hitting is countered by some frustrating play once the ball is hit.

These are called CIDs and their normal siblings frustrate your efforts to quickly kill the enemies warping in by providing a shield around them.