Sentences with phrase «in apparent effort»

The service is currently available in four major cities in the US, and was originally launched by the internet giant in 2013 in an apparent effort to compete against Amazon on its own turf, with the online retailer increasingly focusing its attention on product searches in recent years.

But in an apparent effort to keep costs down, it seems BlackBerry decided not to design its own hardware; instead, the DTEK50 is based heavily on the Alcatel Idol 4.

That's because it appears miners were spamming the incumbent Bitcoin network with low - value transactions in an apparent effort to create congestion.

In one case, it appears that the Chinese government may have targeted several Canadian law firms in an apparent effort to derail a $ 40 billion acquisition.11 In another, a firm's managing clerk is alleged to have accessed inside information about the firm's clients as part of an insider - trading scheme.12 Also, it recently was revealed that hackers working for the Chinese military targeted one company for information useful in ongoing litigation.13 Failure to secure such data from malicious employees, cyber-attacks, or carelessness can cause drastic reputational damage as well as liability.

In an apparent effort to be witty, the alarmist advocacy group 10:10, which describes itself as «a global campaign to cut carbon 10 % a year starting in 2010,» produced and posted a revolting video that features blowing up anyone who disagrees, including school children.

The chairman and another member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in an apparent effort to discredit the findings reported by three distinguished scientists from

The chairman and another member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in an apparent effort to discredit the findings reported by three distinguished scientists from respected universities, demanded that the scientists send Congress all of the scientific data they have gathered in their entire careers, even data on studies unrelated to their publications on global warming.

On that note, they announced that Gold members will be receiving two free games per month, «yours to keep,» in an apparent effort to compete with PlayStation Plus.

The complaint, parts of which read more like a screenplay than a court pleading, uses irrelevant and false personal attacks on Mr. Gross's former colleagues in an apparent effort to distract attention from the fundamental failings of these «contract» claims.

In an apparent effort to make the character broadly relatable, Red Dead Redemption «s John Marston came out kind of bland, similar to Grand Theft Auto IV «s Niko Bellic before him.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

In an apparent effort to prove that it isn't done yet, the developer's second game has already landed on the handheld in the form of Dragon's Crown.

Glassey mercifully steers clear of many of the tricks that programmers use in an apparent effort to justify the reputation of C as the «write - only language».

And companies that do the hydraulic fracturing, such as Halliburton and Baker Hughes, both based in Houston, Texas, are developing their own chemical - assessment programs in an apparent effort to address public concerns and reduce their environmental footprint.

Adam Skelos took to using a «burner» phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection.

Casey seemed to part ways with his party's leadership when asked by CNN's John King whether Democratic Party leaders - including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell - should be making public pledges of support to Specter in an apparent effort to dissuade any would - be primary challengers to the former Republican.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration negotiated privately with Entergy officials for at least two months in an apparent effort to reach a compromise that would keep FitzPatrick operating.

As Gotham Gazette has reported, several of the speaker candidates have donated heavily from their campaign accounts to those of other City Council members and candidates, in apparent effort to win favor ahead of the speaker vote, which will occur in January.

Moreland Commission Subpoenas Real Estate Developers for Documents The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption has issued subpoenas to three high profile real estate developers in an apparent effort to examine whether there is any link between their campaign donations and huge tax breaks that were granted for several luxury apartments in New York City.

Scrutiny is being placed on the common fundraising tactic of county committees receiving large contributions and then passing the money along to Democratic Senate candidates in an apparent effort to avoid fundraising limits.

Murphy's race against Democratic candidate Justin Wagner in 2014 was one of four contested Senate campaigns in question last year that saw transfers from county committees to candidates in an apparent effort to avoid donation limits.

And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is under investigation for his role in aiding Senate Democrats in 2014, when his political allies sought to funnel money through county party committees in an apparent effort to help individual candidates.

Her first surprise was arriving more than two months early, in an apparent effort to share a birthday with her big brother, Bennett.

Leboucher's memoir is never mentioned by Zuccotti in her apparent effort to deny Pius XII's connection to Benoît's rescue work.

Federal Reserve policymakers are putting markets on notice that the central bank's $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet is back on the agenda in an apparent effort to give investors time to prepare for changes rather than to signal any action is imminent.

At the same time, in an apparent effort to quell volatility and get banks to hold money longer, it shifted its primary lending to the weekly rate from its overnight rate of 7.75 %, which it raised even higher.

Both in private and in public (and on Twitter), Trump has mocked and harshly criticized Sessions since he recused himself from oversight of the Russia probe, in an apparent effort to pressure him into resigning.

Musk, in an apparent effort to downplay the incident, wrote on Twitter that it was more «fast fire» than an explosion, although the distinction may have been lost among the astronaut community.

In an apparent effort to ward off criticism, Zuckerberg immediately addressed concerns that might arise around melding the app you use to see photos of your third cousin's new baby with your dating profile.

As most people are now aware, Uber made a decision to turn off «surge» pricing in an apparent effort to help transport people away from the airport in a quicker and more efficient manner.

The tech giant acquires the Toronto - based data - mapping startup in an apparent effort to beef up its Maps app.

In an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clinton.

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«Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,» McConnell said in a statement that sounded like a death knell to the GOP's promises to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better.

In May, the PCAOB disclosed that E&Y had failed to make sufficient efforts to address previous PCAOB criticisms, which included, among others, «apparent failure to appropriately challenge management» and failure to test loan loss reserves.

While increased US activity in Yemen and Somalia is readily apparent, the renewed counterterrorism efforts in Pakistan and Libya has largely gone under the radar.

The apparent intensification of efforts to police how foreign businesses refer to Chinese - claimed territories - even if only in pull - down menus - underscores just how sensitive the issue of sovereignty has become in a China that is increasingly emboldened on the international stage.

However, and perhaps unrelatedly, some reports have suggested that Flynn was involved in yet another apparent effort to obtain Hillary Clinton's deleted emails from Russian hackers in 2016, undertaken by Peter Smith, a Republican consultant unconnected to the Trump campaign.

So, despite the best efforts of the Internet, and despite the apparent scepticism in the UK, the case for the historical Jesus remains strong.

It is apparent that a new quest of the historical Jesus can not be built upon the effort to deny the impossibilities inherent in the original quest; rather a new quest must be built upon the fact that the sources do make possible a new kind of quest working in terms of the modern view of history and the self.

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It is now apparent that this effort was, at least in part, the attempt of a culture whose religious dimensions were fading to find some other area in which the religious passions could be exercised.

Having grown up in Christianity and experiencing firsthand some of its various iterations, i.e., Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist, and spending the effort reading up on others in an attempt to comprehend their core logic, it became apparent to even me, a young and knowledge - seeking individual, that religion is nothing more than a man - made concept — whatever flavor you subscribe to.

It's regulation had a severely negative effect on European development, just as can be viewed with Islam today and the current apparent efforts in some places to squash dissent and demand obedience to their laws.

Any effort to answer that question today in North America can not undertake to state an apparent and growing consensus.

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

The effort problem for Malik wasn't only in the bad football year, just more apparent due to the state of the team.

He admits that he had given up this season and wasn't putting in any effort, which was apparent to anyone watching West Ham this season.

While being knocked out of the League Cup might actually be a blessing in disguise when it comes to the Premier League and Champions League later on, the fact that Chelsea failed to win the match from a position of apparent dominance is an issue that simply must be addressed if Chelsea are to enjoy success this term, and Mourinho will put all his efforts into doing just that, ideally before the Arsenal game.

That stance softened in recent weeks when it became apparent the playmaker was determined to push through a move, and manager Jurgen Klopp decided not to keep an unhappy player despite the club's best efforts to entice him to stay.