Sentences with phrase «initial efforts at»

The high court found that lower courts had required other states to take additional steps when initial efforts at notification failed.

Most of the government's initial efforts at helping home owners who were threatened with foreclosure due to problems like job loss or medical expenses came up short.

Despite its initial efforts at building its own open - source online learning platform, Stanford said it will fold that platform into the edX platform launched by Harvard and MIT.

Students» initial efforts at giving feedback to peers may not be of the best quality.

Initial efforts at UAB focused on policies for postdoc classification and health insurance.

For that reason, I would be OK focusing initial efforts at the elementary level — get»em while they're young — and moving on from there.

Christian Eriksen's initial effort at goal was saved by Petr Cech, but Alli was on hand to fire home the rebound.

Despite this initial effort at choosing consistent titles for the test, it has been difficult to tell if the keywords made an appreciable difference in the sales of most of those titles.

His initial effort at creating this new figurative vocabulary went on view at New York's Marlborough Gallery just weeks before he left for Rome.

Not exact matches

It will focus its initial clinical sequencing efforts on cancer, teaming up with the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego to sequence the genomes of every patient who is treated there, as well as perform a full genome sequence on their tumors.

The effort is in its early planning stages, the companies said, and the initial formation of the company would be led by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a managing director of J.P. Morgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon.

The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

I am embarrassed to think about my initial contemporary music efforts; it took our church years to become reasonably good at it, but by then the first impression had been made.

Joe Allen — 7 His poacher role in the six yard box at corners bore fruit, as he slotted home an opportunist effort after missing the initial header.

Although initial efforts to get authorities at the Hospital to comment on the matter proved futile, one senior staff who spoke on condition of strict anonymity, said the appointment of Dr. Thomas Anaba, followed a series of processes including the advertisement of a vacant post, shortlisting of candidates and interviews, hence, he does not understand what the qualms of those leading the campaign are.

«As part of the efforts to prevent this, when the incident occurred, I sent some chiefs to address the situation which was amicably resolved at initial stage and we all thought it was over until we woke up the following morning (Wednesday) to hear that they had started attacking one another but I swiftly informed the security agencies and they responded promptly.

Janet Brown was the director of OOS and along with William Carey, the AAAS Executive Officer, spearheaded the initial efforts on handicapped issues at AAAS.

«When the initial call came in, I was at the airport preparing to conduct a research flight for the California Energy Commission, part of an effort with UC Davis to search for pipeline gas leaks.»

«The swift control of the outbreak in Nigeria was likely facilitated by early detection of the initial case in combination with intense tracing efforts of all subsequent contacts that the person had after developing Ebola,» said Folorunso Oludayo Fasina, a senior scientist and lead author of the study at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

At the end of the initial five years of the effort, the NIH and IMPC will evaluate the usefulness of the resource to the research community.

Our initial device development efforts have been aimed at using the digital imaging capabilities, mobile connectivity, and computational power of a camera - enabled mobile phone to capture high - resolution microscopy images and perform subsequent image transmission or analysis.

There's an initial rush to get the journey underway that simply feels forced, despite the best efforts of Pål Sverre Hagen as Heyerdahl, and the film is in such a rush to get to the «good bits» that we miss some of the minutiae of life at sea that made reading the book such a gritty, tactile experience.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

To make this effort a success, a quarter of the teachers at the school have committed to learning the Scratch coding language and then teaching it to students as an initial step in exposing students to coding across the curriculum.

After three years of initial efforts, the Birth - to - College Collaborative synthesized our learning into a series of alignment implementation guides aimed at program and school leaders, and teachers and family support staff.

The initial grants to get the new pro-common core, pro-charter school, pro-education reform effort off the ground totaled at least $ 12 million.

In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the turnaround model.

While the FAA has been working on integration plans for UAS for several years, initial efforts focused on larger UAS operating at high altitudes.

Although the UAW conceded defeat in the initial vote, aggressive lobbying by state officials, including former Chattanooga Mayor and current U.S. Senator Bob Corker, raised some red flags for UAW officials, who promise to continue their organization efforts at other plants in the south, with the next focused effort being the Mercedes - Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

In an effort to conserve fuel, the gasoline engine will kick in only when it needs to, so the system will favour the electric motor during initial start - up, when coasting, or when you come to a complete stop at intersections and traffic lights.

Amazon's initial action wasn't too popular with readers or authors, though, as their efforts at curbing fraudulent reviews also meant your college roommate or a co-worker might not be able to leave a review, no matter how honest those individuals were in their assessment of the book.

While most Canadians spend a lot of time, and expend a lot of effort, in shopping for an initial mortgage, the same is generally not the case when looking at mortgage term renewals.

While working at the Washington Humane Society in Washington, D.C., Bays was part of a targeted TNR effort where the initial target simply wasn't small enough.

At the very least, having more good games never hurts, and if Insomniac can meet or surpass their initial effort here, then that would be one more bullet point for the console.

My argument extends their initial claims, maintaining that poor efforts at preservation and redistribution bar videogames from serious consideration in the literary and visual arts.

First, Nisbet has taken a helpful initial, if imperfect, cut at stripping away some of the mythology surrounding efforts to add a cost to greenhouse gases as the means to limit climate risk.

It covers experiences on institutional arrangements for coordinating adaptation work at the national level, working with several agencies in initial considerations on monitoring and evaluation of adaptation efforts, accessing and mobilizing financial resources, and deploying programmatic approaches.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

The real issue is that the effort to produce «suitable data» left the «experiment compromised, dropping data is not at all «arbitrary» and it is that in an irregularly periodic process that is Natural Climate Oscillation there is NOT any «bad points» unless the COLLECTION METHOD can be shown flawed as a minimum «initial problem».

While the topic of JC (moi) was frequently discussed on the initial threads (i.e. a year ago) as people tried to figure out what I was up to (or to discredit me), people tired of this topic as a) they figured out what I was up to, or at least developed an opinion and b) efforts to discredit me have failed.

Similarly to weather forecasting, efforts can be made to setup a model to match initial conditions at a certain point in time but they are likely to break down pretty quickly because we lack the quantity and quality of data to be precise enough in the setup (and possibly because the chosen model does not accurately produce variability similar to that observed on Earth).

Why do we leave initial review at the level of the local newspaper's movie critic's efforts?

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The effort projected in the bill is part of an overall approach of demonstrating concern for the client's well - being and legal needs, which begins at the initial intake and carries through to the final bill.

His efforts resulted in a win at trial with the initial determination finding no infringement.

His efforts resulted in a win at trial, with the initial determination finding no infringement, no domestic industry and one of the patents invalid due to on - sale commercial activities.

Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts maker Delphi is buying autonomous car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand - based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.

One of the people most responsible for the creation of a dedicated cryptocurrency research effort at a major U.S. university is speaking out against initial coin offerings (ICOs).

For example, it aims to make money from studios who want to target its customers with their marketing efforts, or access user data to learn about trends; it's taking a cut of ticket sales and concessions at some theaters; it has begun to acquire movies; and it hopes that eventually, users will slow down their movie - going to their usual once per month (or less), after the initial rush of having an all - you - can - watch subscription wears off.

Interestingly enough, Cook says that its initial effort to stop random shutdowns of older iPhones did the job it was meant to, but it was not clear at the time (the feature was launched last year) that it would make some older iPhones slow down.