Sentences with phrase «in decades of trying»

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FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

OTTAWA — The Conference Board says Canada has been spinning its wheels in the critical area of business innovation despite a decade of trying.

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

They're leaving countries, particularly the tri-border region — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — Mexico now has its worst murder rate in over a decade, and many people are just trying to get out of there.

Think of food companies» plight this way: The finest scientists in industry have spent decades trying to find or invent a no - calorie sweetener that tastes and feels as good as the stuff extracted from pure cane.

For decades, businesses have spent considerable resources trying to discover ways to maximize the productivity of employees in the office.

Many start - up companies don't have the resources to throw at security nor the many decades of history in trying to keep client money safe, said Westby.

«And particularly when you're trying to push the state - of - the - art and be a decade ahead of all the other people in the world, you have to take some chances.»

In fact, decades down the road from that first stock, he's surprised more people don't recognize the wisdom in investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuationIn fact, decades down the road from that first stock, he's surprised more people don't recognize the wisdom in investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuationin investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuations.

When the movie came out in 1999, almost two decades ago, the world was still trying to figure out how to address the Y2K bug, and people didn't have most of the technology in their houses that we use today.

Decades later, Quinn decided to try to locate his child, and went to Ho Chi Minh City in search of the boy he left behind in 1973.

The city of Detroit has faced serious economic challenges in the past decade, with a shrinking population and tax base while trying to maintain essential services.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Researchers have been trying to create a treatment that could be used for any type of virus for decades, and there are several promising possibilities in the works.

Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life series.

About a decade ago, two clients of Kevin Meehan, CFP and regional president, Chicago, at Wealth Enhancement Group, presented themselves as a responsible couple in their 30s trying to build their wealth.

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

An earlier try in 2001 was dropped following almost a decade of losses.

In the ensuing decades, most infomercials came from the Vita - Mixes of the world: fledgling companies, often founded by former door - to - door salesmen and garage inventors, trying their hand at pitching viewers through TV.

This season of In the Dark, back Tuesday, is about the prosecution of a Mississippi man who's been tried six times for the same crime and the prosecutor who's spent two decades trying to execute him.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

Trump is no stranger to trying to use the legal system to get his way: USA Today found during the 2016 campaign that Trump and his businesses had been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in state and federal courts over the course of three decades.

In an older issue of my blog, I tried to place the last 3 - 4 decades of Chinese growth in a historical context that recognizes four different stages of this growth procesIn an older issue of my blog, I tried to place the last 3 - 4 decades of Chinese growth in a historical context that recognizes four different stages of this growth procesin a historical context that recognizes four different stages of this growth process.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Forbes, in turn, notes that Trump has a long history of trying to inflate his Forbes valuation and decades ago editors even joked about having a «Trump rule» when assessing Trump's net worth - consider the amount Trump claims and then divide it by three to get the real worth.

But if coding is something you think reigns only in the realm of computer science classes, if you think the opportunity has passed or it's too complicated, we found five Chicagoans spanning five decades who tell us that's not so, that coding is something everyone should try.

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusadIn recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusadin crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

It may take some more decades but all Muslims in the USA some day will rise and try to destroy this country by force; but they know the logistics — they have to have enough Muslims in enough important places of power and enough resources in order to take over this country.

When Time Shall Be No More is so thoroughly researched and so comprehensive in scope it is difficult to imagine that any critical historian will try to retell the story for decades to come, The only real problem with this truly magnificent book is that Boyer strains to locate the significance of prophecy belief where it does not exist, or exists only inconsequentially: in the realm of secular politics.

While western theologians tried to cope with religious pluralism and struggled to introduce theology of religions seriously only since the late 1980s, theologians in multi-religious situations like India had been working on the issue for decades under several other nomenclatures.

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World WaIn each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain the Second World War.

In fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vaiIn fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vaiin vain.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitIn 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitin productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitin its nature to do — promote equality.

In any case it seems necessary to start by trying to say what there was of me when the decade began.

sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the birth narratives that we're familiar with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the first, it at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding of who Jesus «was» and «is».

This, says Bacevich, was a departure from decades of policy in which the U.S. tried to control the Mideast through military surrogates.

I would be a decade older, a seminarian in a school that fancied itself sophisticated, before I would learn that people who leave coffin lids open at funerals and try to imagine what the dead would think of all the fuss are barbarians.

In her fine book Hawthorne: Calvin's Ironic Stepchild, the distinguished Hawthorne scholar Agnes M. Donohue has persuasively argued for the presence in his writing of a «Calvinist - ordained irony,» and has also tried to solve the «mystery» of the illness and artistic decline of Hawthorne's last decadIn her fine book Hawthorne: Calvin's Ironic Stepchild, the distinguished Hawthorne scholar Agnes M. Donohue has persuasively argued for the presence in his writing of a «Calvinist - ordained irony,» and has also tried to solve the «mystery» of the illness and artistic decline of Hawthorne's last decadin his writing of a «Calvinist - ordained irony,» and has also tried to solve the «mystery» of the illness and artistic decline of Hawthorne's last decade.

Although Kim tried, in essays written over the course of more than a decade, to reconcile these three assumptions, he confessed at the end of this period that he seemed «to be up against a dead end,» with the problem of the mind appearing «intractable» (SM 367).

«To understand a reassertion of the grandeur of politics, you must risk a crick in your neck» (Simon & Schuster, 1983, pp. 21 - 26) Will's «crick in the Neck» refers to his call to go all the way back to Plato, but for my purpose we need go back only to the 1960s to try to see what took place in that baffling decade to produce the current liberal difficulty.

Today, living in North America for nearly 2 decades, I don't see many Christian followers living to a degree of what prophet Isa Almasih (pbuh) or Jesus Christ tried to deliver.

Too few and too late in the coming two decades, several did try to respond, particularly to Melancthon who had a continuous project of an Agreed Statement, his Loci Communes, an attempt at a summary of the central themes of Christianity as understood by the Wittenberg theologians, set out in such a way that papal theologians might be likely to read them sympathetically.

But «metaphysics» means nothing in American public life today, and after three decades of trying to explain the Christian «anthropology» of John Paul II to various audiences, I am still being asked what «anthropology» is, and what the behavior of primitive tribes has to do with Christianity.

Anyone who try to minimize the escalation of evil in our society in past few decades, especially blunt, shameless, «in - your - face» type of evil that's celebrated in our today's culture, is blind and has no ability to think coherently..