Sentences with phrase «good attempts from»

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With oil, which is traded internationally, prices collapsed (mainly) because the Saudis have flooded the market with supply in an attempt to retake lost market share from U.S. producers — whom also drilled too many successful wells.

Apart from skills and experience, the algorithm will attempt to match job - seekers and employers based on such variables as personality - as on the eHarmony site - as well as work and social and cultural values.

Falling fuel costs kept Japan's core consumer prices unchanged in January from a year earlier, well below the central bank's 2 % target, highlighting the daunting task policymakers face in attempting to lift Japan out of stagnation.

After testing out a couple of sweaters from this year's collection, which now includes hoodies for guys and sweatpants for women, I'd argue this is the company's best attempt yet.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

I believe the best entrepreneurs are those who brandish humble confidence and remember the valuable lessons learned from a few early failed attempts.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

Love went from one of the ten best offensive players in the NBA to seeing his scoring average fall eight points per game, shot attempts fall by six, rebounds fall by three, and assists fall by two per game compared to the previous year.

Americans for Annuity Protection proposes that the final rule's lengthy defense and posturing changes as merely addressing «critics,» is a clear attempt to protect the rule from legislative and legal challenges, as well as protecting 401 (k) plans from the increasing exodus of participants.

Despite a rebound in recent days after numerous well - intentioned (if somewhat counterproductive) government attempts to break the fall, the Shanghai Composite is down roughly 25 per cent from its peak.

Buying on a small scale, they and their peers are perhaps best described as microdevelopers, rehabbing derelict properties to rent and perhaps eventually sell in an attempt to save houses from demolition and preserve a neighborhood or two.

It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to sacrifice yet more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other than «it would be more fair».

Even if activism made sense from a cost - benefit perspective, corporate managers are well - positioned to buy off most institutional investors that attempt to act as monitors.

Despite a rebound in recent days after numerous well - intentioned (if somewhat counterproductive) government attempts to break the fall, the Shanghai Composite is down roughly 25 percent from its peak.

This article is my attempt to document what they are like, from the inside out, in the hopes of helping new drivers like myself decide which company fits them best.

Bank of America cited anti-money laundering concerns as part of its decision to ban its credit card customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies, as well as the possibility that thieves might attempt to use stolen credit cards to purchase cryptocurrencies.

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

In his four years as CEO the company managed a merger of equals, grew from $ 210 million in revenues to $ 562 million, survived an aborted takeover attempt by Microsoft (msft), and evolved into a company that today is a regular on Fortune's list of Best Places to Work.

Central banking is perhaps history's best example of government attempting to fix a problem — in this case, the instability resulting from the practice of fractional reserve banking — and making things much worse in the process.

The Financial Repression Authority (FRA) educates investors, funds and retirees on the adverse risks resulting from good - intentioned macroprudential central bank and government policies and regulations focused on controlling excessive government debt, attempting to stimulate economic growth, and minimizing the potential for financial and economic crises.

Dividend investing attempts to capture returns from profits (as paid through dividends) as well as stock price appreciation (as share prices rise).

From a business culture perspective, we are seeing a recently introduced new domain of content marketing born out of changes in technology and buyer behaviors as well as the area of sales enablement attempting to make selling performance more efficient.

From tagging all his attempts to make Facebook a better place to network with word «failure «to declaring situation like get - out - of - jail - free, some of the media journalists found enough merit in the ongoing debacle to ask for his resignation.

If you disagree, I would probably get a good eye - roll from your attempts to get around such a scenario.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&raWell aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&rawell as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

The pressures of individuals, institutions, cycles and belief systems IS our story; I find a subtle beauty in choosing to «own» our heritage and continuing the cycle of seeking liberation from repression — knowing full well that another generation will have to offer their own blood, sweat and tears to tear themselves from whatever grand ideology we solidify in our attempt to be free.

You are attempting to say that «well, sure, you can deter a rock from sinking by stopping it from being thrown in the water in the first place.»

Novices to a group are well - advised to begin their acculturation by attempting to emulate its veteran practitioners, to learn its ways, its affective, effective, and cognitive dimensions, from the inside, in emic mode, by empathy.

Jesus came to save us from our sins, not to make us better people, so attempting to discredit Christianity by pointing out short comings of Christians is by definition, pointless.

Any country or diety that attempts to prevent an individual from increasing his knowledge even the knowledge to distinguish between good and evil) is evil.

Drawing on recently discovered materials from the archives of Communist intelligence services, Weigel describes the forty - year history of their attempts to discredit Karol Woytyla and the Church in what Woytyla himself described as a «great struggle between good and evil... a great struggle between Mary and Satan.»

From reading this thread, it appears to me that, at the very least, some well - intended individuals attempted an overreach that seriously backfired on at least one person that they thought they were helping.

With many Democrats embracing the language of faith in recent years in an attempt to win back so - called values voters from the Republican column, Carter's intense faith life is a good reminder that hardly all Democrats are new to the pew.

In fact, the entire history of science could be told as the story of attempts to devise methods by which mistakes can be «good» ones; that is, mistakes which are reversible and from which we can learn something.

And I concur, citing a Psalm, the Lotus Sutra, a few lines from Rumi, or singing AC / DC's «Highway to Hell» might very well be more beneficial for most as they express their final breaths rather than expending oxygen in an attempt to set a rabbit snare.

Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.

The enemy, Satan, began his attempt to destroy God's people in the Garden of Eden, by also trying to corrupt the world (which led to Noah's Flood), by trying to destroy Israel with attacking armies, and by encouraging Israel to fall into idolatry by exposure to other cultures as well as intermarrying women from those cultures.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

Yes, but it's allowed Rowe and Colon to both move on, and to attempt to do a greater good together to prevent another young idiot who easily acquires a gun from shooting another innocent victim.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

Hobbes and Locke, certainly, might be criticized (even excoriated, be my guest) for attempting to sever the right from the good, for proposing to «enlighten» society with the proposition that rights can be established without any reference to a common Good, that freedom can produce order from itself, without acknowledging any power not only outside by above itsgood, for proposing to «enlighten» society with the proposition that rights can be established without any reference to a common Good, that freedom can produce order from itself, without acknowledging any power not only outside by above itsGood, that freedom can produce order from itself, without acknowledging any power not only outside by above itself.

In an attempt to get better wages, better and safer working conditions, and protection from arbitrary bosses, the unions employed the strike as their major weapon.

So not only is it important to show them their ways are no better morally like this campaign is attempting to do, but also that the path away from a traditional idea of god is no worse.

The couple was kidnapped in an attempt to force the «release of our captives who sit behind bars and suffer the paint of imprisonment, as well as being deprived of their basic rights,» a recording from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.

From the link Shazza provided, «Adelaide's Anglican Assistant Bishop Tim Harris says, «it is well recognised that males (usually) seeking to justify abuse will be drawn to misinterpretations [of the Bible] to attempt to legitimise abhorrent attitudes.

A «faction» is any group that attempts to «impose» its own conception of the good on others, and government must be so organized as to prevent any majority or minority faction from doing that.

It is a long way from such an ideal of political activity to the actualities in which it is carried on; but it is essential to our human attempt to live together to see that the «game of politics» is not merely a necessary evil but that it has at its best a link with legitimate good.

Note Jesus (God) said do not attempt to separate the weeds from the wheat (bad kids and good kids in the room with ak 47 guy) but, let both grow up together (as you and I are allowed to grow to maturity).

To state the political requirement in this way illustrates the difference of this approach to Christian social philosophy from the attempt to create the Good Society according to an ideal plan.

Good point and I agree (Especially with the ass part... lol) But my qualifier of «rabid» is my attempt to point out where they differ from basic fundamentalists.