Sentences with phrase «higher number of attempts»

Away at a newly promoted team early in the season, it's inexcusable to be dropping points, and to be honest despite our higher number of attempts, they came closest to scoring a winner, not us.

Not exact matches

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.

Example: Two weeks ago, in response to my column that showed higher job creation numbers in the first 32 months under Ralph Klein, when compared with the same length of time under Rachel Notley, government MLA Graham Sucha took to Twitter in an attempt to criticize my analysis.

The system then searches for suspicious patterns, such as a high number of failed login attempts within a few seconds, and alerts analysts.

I am happy to count among my own friends a rather remarkable number of men of high intellectual distinction who have returned to the full Christian outlook after years of defection from it, and I should say that in practically every case the renewed hospitality of their minds to Christian truth came about through their awakening to the essential untenability of the alternative positions which they had been previously attempting to occupy.

in terms of their long passing just based on the eye test, but Neves completes a higher number and a higher percentage of attempts.

Despite attempting the lowest number of tackles, Everton have the highest tackle success rate in the league.

Pedro had eight attempts on goal, the highest number of any player, and the Spaniard was followed by Willian who had four efforts.

A number of thrilling head - to - heads were accompanied by a world record attempt by Bohdan Bondarenko in the high jump, while Lynsey Sharp was among the Brits to shine as she dipped under the 2 minute barrier for 800m for the first time.

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First, it is difficult for any team, even one as good as Houston, to consistently make a high number of three point attempts game - in and game - out.

It follows that through an unprecedented number of high level meetings and summits, our heads of states have attempted to manage the consequences of the crisis in a «trial and error» mode and always in a climate of emergency.

The trial also offered testimony that a lobbyist conducted government business with a number of high - ranking Administration officials through private emails — not through government email addresses — in an apparent attempt to avoid the state's openness laws celebrated during Sunshine Week.

In an attempt to increase the number of New York high school graduates who are work ready, one state assemblyman is pushing for the approval of a new high - tech and manufacturing - based diploma.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

There have been many studies looking at the number of people affected by anxiety disorders and the groups that are at highest risk, and in an attempt to synthesise the various studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Public Health carried out a global review of systematic reviews.

Antidepressant use was then analyzed against a number of unfavorable outcomes which include attempted suicide or self harm, all - cause fatality, stroke, heart attack, fractures, falls, epilepsy or seizures and hyponatraemia (high sodium concentrations within the bloodstream).

With obesity rates at an all - time high, health professionals and dietitians are trying a number of different approaches to eating in an attempt to find something that works.

All three of the patients described in the case report made one big mistake when it comes to sleep hygiene: In an attempt to get higher numbers on their sleep trackers, they were spending excessive time in bed.

For example, detecting a high number of login attempts could indicate that a cybercriminal is testing passwords.

She tracked things like awkward sexual remarks, bad vocabulary, and the number of times her dates attempted to high - five her.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

In an attempt to enhance education and make American students more globally competitive, some states have recently increased the number of course credits required for high - school graduation.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are two to three times as likely to be bullied as non-LGBTQ peers, and they're more likely to miss school and almost five times as likely to attempt suicide — the number is even higher for transgender people — according to a major survey of 15,600 high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Governor Mike Pence, who chairs the Education Roundtable, said continuing to measure student growth into high school is an attempt to reduce the number of students needing remediation once they get to college.

Agents apprehended a total of 415,816 individuals attempting to enter the country illegally last year, and though that's a staggering figure, the agency says the number is a long way from the high - traffic era.

Consider creating a high visibility promotion that includes publicity: a walk for cancer by zombie book lovers (in costume of course), or blood drive where vampire authors donate blood and attempt to reach a goal of a certain number of donors in a limited time.

In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

Attempts by a wider number of consumers to discharge their student loans may not be as successful as the sample studied since more people with higher incomes and less of a demonstrable hardship may now pursue a discharge of their student loans.

Now multiply that by the number of times in total you've attempted to secure more credit, despite already having high credit utilization.

With so much debt, consumers often attempt to spread their important purchases across a number of creditor accounts to avoid approaching credit limits and higher interest payments.

International Speedway had been a key partner of NASCAR in its attempt to expand and modernize the sport of automobile racing, and the two organizations have worked in tandem for over a decade to increase the number of high profile races and penetrate new media markets.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice, or are retired, and the number of practices which have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian, despite recruitment attempts.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice or are retired and the number of practices that have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian despite recruitment attempts.

While there are certainly more than a few attempts that appear to be shoddy, quick cash grabs on the Google Play marketplace, there are also a go0d number of high quality 3D MMORPGs available on Android.

The PlayStation Network store is currently struggling due to the high number of players all attempting to redeem and download the beta for developer Bungie's eagerly anticipated sci - fi shooter, which is currently only available for PlayStation 4 before opening up to Xbox users on July 23.

The player assumes the role of a car mechanic who attempts to promote himself with a number of high - profile jobs.

Rewards are tiered, and you attempt to reach the highest number possible, but you eventually run out of moves.

Every time your current score passes the last high score you've achieved, a running number will flash in the middle of the screen as an attempt to prevent you from scoring too much in one game.

Having past the mist of the elections and the immediate shock of the attempted coup, we expect a stabilised and normalised political and economic environment in Turkey which will hopefully bring the number of deals, as well as the deal values, to higher figures as compared to last few years.

Their high numbers may reflect attempts to bypass legislation protecting agency workers, and the state of the economy.

If not, retailers are left with no civil redress against the high number of shoplifters who actually pay for a portion of their purchases while only concealing a small number of items in an attempt to steal.

The move is another attempt at curbing the high number of mortgage and real estate fraud claims the law society sees every year.

A number of these clients previously attempted to buy life insurance elsewhere but were either turned down or asked to pay a significantly higher rate.

So far, an «extraordinarily high» number of the Rallies attempted during the program's alpha phase were completed, according to Lynch.

Moreover, nurses are rated by the public as having the highest honesty and ethics standards of all professionals.48 This gives nurses significant power to engage parents and bring about adaptive behavior change and probably accounts for their lower number of attempted visits in which women were not at home compared with paraprofessionals.26

(31) In an attempt to deal with a high volume, and particularly the backlog, of mining and mining exploration permit applications, the State has been involved in negotiating a number of more general approaches for dealing with the applications.

Having a high level of short interest and a high number of days to cover may be a great indication of negative sentiment, and with a higher number of days to cover, the price increase can be magnified as short - sellers attempt to close out their positions by buying the securities on the market and driving prices higher.