Sentences with phrase «has met with considerable»

He has met with considerable success in this endeavor, recovering millions on behalf of the injured, including numerous multimillion - dollar settlements and verdicts.

Over the intervening years, he has met with considerable success at his true calling, though devoting most of his attention to commercial assignments.

March 23, 2006 Efforts to replicate controversial diabetes therapy bring partial success An effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to confirm the results of a high - profile study that brought extraordinary hope to diabetes researchers and patients worldwide has met with considerable, but not complete, success.

Yet the campaign to pull down churches has met with considerable resistance.

Much of modern neuroscientific research has been dedicated to associating specific brain regions (or «modules») with specific behaviors or abilities — an approach which has met with considerable success.

Not exact matches

Before meeting Pauline, I had survived a life of considerable loss, first at the hands of parents who viciously abused all three of their children and then in a fight with cancer while in law school.

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

The announcement that Antonio Conte would take over the permanent manager's job at Stamford Bridge has been met with considerable excitement and even more confidence is his abilities as the Chelsea boss.

The 31 - year - old has little more than 12 months remaining on his current contract at the San Siro and is in line for the exit door after falling out of favour with the Italian giants, although Milan will need to find a club willing to meet his considerable salary expectations.

The Scotsman is «on a suicide mission»; he takes «considerable pleasure» in phoning The Times editor John Witherow to chastise its «anti-Scottish bias»; he's incredulous when the Sunday Post splashes on his hotel expenses («it would be possible to meet company CEOs or international dignitaries at the local Holiday Inn, but I'm not sure how well that would work for Scotland's benefit») and records with relish his attempt to offer a young Telegraph journalist «a packet of liquorice allsorts for good attendance at every press event».

He said «The Nigerian Army leadership in concert with the grand strategic focus of Mr President has continued to devise means of engaging with other countries, especially our neighbouring countries towards tackling common traits in other to meet considerable international obligations for the overall promotion of global peace and security.»

The external examiner, a distinguished renaissance scholar whom I had never met and of whom I stood in considerable awe, invited me to have a cup of coffee with him in his room.

So it was with considerable reservations that I accepted John's invitation for us to meet, after we had communicated online for a few weeks.

-- If you are speaking with somebody you have met online and they solicit a considerable measure from inquiries, yet are hesitant to answer questions themselves, this is suspicious movement.

Communication tools such as instant messaging, VoIP and video chat offers users the opportunity to interact smoothly with each other without having to meet in person, which is a considerable advantage that helps most people shy and reserved.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

The authors of Little to Gain would do early - childhood education a considerable service if instead they pushed aggressively for teacher education and professional development that enabled more teachers to meet Common Core benchmarks with the teaching techniques they favor, not demand that we «withdraw kindergarten standards from the Common Core so that they can be rethought along developmental lines.»

Gibbs made the comment at an education conference at Brighton College, as he defended the tough news Sats for 11 - year - olds, which have been met with considerable opposition from some teachers and parents.

Four - wheel drive meets station - wagon luxury in the all - new Mitsubishi Montero LS; the result is a wedding of around - town practicality and off - road muscle at a price that invites serious lookers only.The four - door vehicle, with a hard - charging, 143 - horsepower V - 6 engine, has a starting price of $ 17,099 that, with optional equipment, can climb like a mountain goat into the $ 21,000 range.If the high price doesn't give you vertigo, you will want to check out the new, bigger Montero — a considerable step up for this Mitsubishi line — for its formidable four - wheel - drive capabilities, rugged construction, ease of operation and fancy interior.

So many had written off Sony's chances after the Nintendo deal had fallen through that when the company unveiled its new system to the world, it was met with considerable shock and awe.

Xona Games has already met with considerable success with some of their previous titles: Decimation X, Decimation X3, and Score Rush were all among the # 1 selling and # 1 rated Indies games in Japan at different times.

Her early tapestries would go on to have a considerable impact on the development of geometric abstraction in the visual arts, along with the work of several of her Bauhaus peers, including her husband, Josef Albers, who she met at the school.

The group finds, as others have before them, that the challenge of doubling global food production in coming decades can probably be met, albeit with considerable difficulty.

The findings of Svensmark & Friis - Christensen (1997) and Marsh & Svensmark (2000) have been met with considerable criticism (Laut 2003).

Q148 Caroline Lucas: Can I just find out whether you agree with the principle that, in order to be able to meet climate change emissions reduction targets, a considerable proportion of known reserves of oil and gas are going to have to remain underground, if we are to have any hope of meeting those emissions reduction targets?

There is considerable risk inherent in engaging in a rush to build quickly, when faced with a skills gap, and an industry is having to work out how to meet dramatically improved energy performance targets under national building regulations.

America's oil revolution has been met with considerable doubt, much like any improvements in American energy production that don't rely on subsidies or green propaganda to succeed.

The Insurance industry has paid considerable attention to the health care sector with the launch of new insurance products aimed to meet the growing demands of health care for all sections of the society.

We've heard hints in the past that ASUS and Google's Nexus 7 tablet has been met with considerable commercial success.

The phone, which has been available in parts of Europe and Asia since December, has been met with considerable praise, with our Alex Dobie saying, «In a world without the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the Huawei Mate 9 is now the best big - screened Android phone you can buy.»

LG's previous attempts at creating the next best Samsung Galaxy series beater, such as with the Nexus 5X, has met considerable success but it wasn't enough to knock its Korean rival off of its comfortable market lead.

But the rule rollback was met with considerable controversy and anger from privacy and rights groups, for fear that internet providers like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon would be able to gather and sell data about your browsing history to marketers and other companies, including information on customer location, as well as as financial or health status information, and what people shop and search for.

Even so, favourable change at this time of a family's life would have been less likely without the therapist's involvement in change, so their appreciation of what meeting together had been achieved likely to be tempered by some sad or uncertain feelings about parting, and occasionally with considerable anxiety.

One study found considerable variability in the quality of the home environments; higher - quality environments were found with families who had increased economic resources.72 Another study also found variability in the home environments foster children experience and reported that unrelated foster parents had higher - quality home environments than kinship foster parents.73 In this same vein, foster children need caregivers who can work with child welfare agencies to ensure that children's individual needs are met by the child welfare system and other social institutions charged with meeting these needs.