Sentences with phrase «increasing number of attempts»

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Measuring just 14 centimetres long, the Lady is one of an increasing number of «purse - friendly» guns on the market, as manufacturers compete to combine fashion and firearms in an attempt to appeal to women.

Dunkin' Donuts, in an attempt to increase the company's share of a competitive breakfast market, plans to expand the number of discounts...

It allows a larger maximum block size in its own attempt to lower fees and increase the number of daily transactions.

Amongst all the currencies, the Bitcoins (BTC)(85 BTC lost), Ripple (XRP)(55 XRP), with 13 other altcoins swing more to the proneness of being hacked.By NPA data, the number of hacks increased per month as BTC's price increased — 9 unauthorized attempts in April 2017, 19 in May, and 41 in June.

Despite its short history, Arsenal will be proud to have won the tournament 3 times out of 6 attempts, and will surely do their best to increase that number within the coming days — and years.

Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

However, a study published this week by Goldsmiths University shows that the scaling back of search and rescue operations since November 2014 has not decreased the number of attempted crossings, while the death toll has significantly increased.

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.

Only a small number of districts attempted to get the 60 percent supermajority they need to override the tax cap and increase their spending.

Brandon Lewis has admitted knowing about attempts to increase the number of government deportations and discussing them with Amber Rudd while a minister in her department, increasing pressure on the home secretary to resign.

There had been reports that an increasing number of Labour MPs and members of the NEC had been attempting to get the election for the position of deputy leader abandoned in order to save the # 2,000,000 it was estimated that the contest would cost.

In May, state legislators passed a bill that more than doubled the number of charter schools from 200 to 460 in an attempt to increase New York's chances of winning Race to the Top.

In total, SUNY awarded $ 18 million for 32 projects it hopes to scale it statewide in an attempt to increase the number of degrees awards.

The dud attempt at intimidation was just the latest in what Cuomo called «an explosion in the number of hate crimes» across the state in the weeks and months after the election — with November and December witnessing a stunning 106 percent increase in the number of bias incidents.

Since then, hundreds of popular psychology books have attempted to explore this shortfall in human intelligence and how we might counter it, that number increasing exponentially over...

Joanna Cohen, a co-author of the Google study and director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institute for Global Tobacco Control, believes «campaigns for people to quit may benefit from shifting to weekly cues to increase the number of quit attempts participants make each year.»

Future work will attempt to increase the number of grafted cells and improve hearing ability.

Due to the relatively low abundance of eggs compared to sperm, the choice is often made by females, while males attempt to increase their number of offspring by mating promiscuously.

Also the number of beta cells can increase during obesity and pregnancy in an attempt to balance the greater insulin demand under these conditions.

Tactic number 2 is to increase mucous secretions in an attempt to trap invaders and move them out of the body in a phase known as rhinorrhea.

Your body will attempt to heat the ice water to body temperature which will increase the number of calories your body burns each day.

A number of individuals would prefer to avoid the use of synthetic testosterone when attempting to increase testosterone, and instead raise the body's depressed blood level through the use of natural testosterone.

It's very hard to put a number of calories, since the body can do lots of different things to increase or decrease its energy output: if you eat less, you may be able to maintain the same workout and even the same number of steps, but your spontaneous movements (fidgeting, getting up for a folder, etc.) may drop dramatically, reducing your caloric output despite your best attempts to measure it.

A number of individuals would prefer to avoid the use of synthetic testosterone when attempting to increase testosterone, and instead raise the body's depressed blood -LSB-...]

In general, have you seen the number of scamming incidents or scamming attempts increase or decrease?

I also received a number of reasonable, but still mistaken, responses attempting to explain the 50 % increase in the teaching workforce without improved results by blaming special education and English Language Learners (ELL).

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.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

He's called for a doubling in the number of apprenticeships over the next five years, and has made repeated attempts to increase federal funding for apprenticeship programs in his budget proposals.

Since 1998, the federal government has attempted to increase the accountability for preparation programs by requiring states to collect and report information about the programs, including completion rates, average scores on state and national teaching tests, and the number of student teaching hours required.

didn't work with have them a number of a down payment guess it wasn't good enough ask for a cosigner didn't ask if I'd increase the down payment for a better deal nothing didn't attempt anything oh well

Most often, people attempt to refinance because they're looking to increase the number of months they have to pay back the loan, lower their monthly interest rate, and lower their overall monthly payment.

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.

Although any attempts to defraud the government to increase your chances of getting financial aid and student loans is not only morally wrong, but illegal, there are a number of ways that you can legally maximize the amount of financial aid and student loans available to you:

An increasing number of both brick - and - mortar and online retailers are attempting to cash in on the growing market for pet products by incorporating this type of fare into their business models — a trend that seems to be taking a toll on pet retailers of all shapes and sizes, particularly the independents.

They write: «Despite the increasing number of reports of canine angiostrongylosis, there has so far been no attempt to establish the distribution of infection in dogs on a nationwide scale and formally assess potential geographic clustering».

In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, breed - specific legislation, pooper - scooper regulations, and anti-barking ordinances increased in numbers, but then the dam burst with a flood of attempts to restrict dog ownership.

Many animal shelters report increases of «stray» animals after the July 4th holiday due to the number of pets running away in an attempt to avoid the noise and excitement.

In addition to the added bonus miles, this card has increased the number of perks over the last year in an attempt to win over customers before the merger between American and US Airways is completed.

The Trophy Whores also debate President Donald Trump's attempts to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States, which includes a potential tariff that increases the prices of video games and consoles.

However, as the trailer's release date looms, it's only natural that a number of sites and sources will feign insider knowledge of GTA V in a shallow attempt at attracting increased hits.

Players can attempt to achieve victory in a number of ways: by aggressively expanding through force of arms, by increasing their faction's fame through construction, advanced technology and influence, and by completing a series of unique objectives based on their chosen faction's history.

Curators and critics, however, sometimes prefer not to engage with these invigorating rival claims, perhaps because any attempt to characterize or evaluate can be dismissed as judgmental or elitist, an effort to draw distinctions at a time when what can look like the gray zone of mixed media or multimedia is embraced by an increasing number of artists.

Villarini says the current study did not attempt to link the increase in the number of episodes to climate change.

Hogan Lovells is one of an increasing number of law firms attempting to get their staff involved in charity

The probability of wrongful convictions is increased by increasing numbers of defendants in the courts without lawyers, which is due to: (a) very poor government funding of legal aid programs; and, (b) law societies» failure to attempt to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — the one aggravates the damage done by the other.

Although federal regulations are frequently updated in an attempt to increase trucking safety, the reality is that a number of factors causing truck accidents are still present.

As increasing numbers of law firms attempt to get their staff involved in charitable activities, Frances Ivens speaks to Hogan Lovells about its ambitious new initiative

A significant legal trend in recent years has been a dramatic increase in the number of companies attempting to bring more of the e-discovery process in house.