Sentences with phrase «intense efforts at»

I decided to take a different approach than the usual hand wringing and calls for increasingly intense efforts at population control.

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A once obscure office at HUD is the subject of unusually intense lobbying effort Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

There were many fine performances at Alabama's pro day on March 13 in Tuscaloosa, but none so intense, so all - in, so loud as the effort put forth by Scott Cochran, the Crimson Tide strength coach whose Klaxon voice provided a frenetic, urgent sound track to the proceedings.

Our children deserve our superior effort at understanding what is in their best interest, especially when feelings and struggles are intense, as they often are in the transition to a remarried family constellation.

Another work of art from the collection a Massachusetts museum that came under intense criticism for deciding to sell multiple works in an effort to stay open has sold at auction.

Still, that effort by Ed Cox, and his approach to getting it done, created intense friction within the party and an upset at the GOP convention that saw Levy fail to get enough votes to qualify for the ballot.

Following an appearance at the gleaming new UB facility the state helped build, Cuomo delved into election year politics by acknowledging that intense weekend efforts attempted to woo Hochul away from the second spot and, instead, into a rematch with Republican Rep. Chris Collins of Clarence.

John Priscu, a microbiologist at Montana State University, Bozeman, is leading an equipment - intense effort to drill into the subglacial Whillans Ice Stream this Antarctic summer.

«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.

In an earlier assessment, published in 1986, John C. Bailar III, MD, PhD, then at Harvard University, declared that «years of intense effort focused largely on improving treatment must be judged a qualified failure.»

And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing scientists who believe there might be such a link [between global warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»

The MDI Biological Laboratory is unique in providing the opportunity for basic scientists, clinical investigators, and students at all levels to interact daily in an intense and close - knit setting, cooperatively directing their efforts to the solution of fundamental biological problems.

Better yet, you can incorporate almost any exercise into a Tabata format (as long as you're going at an intense effort), and you don't need weights or a lot of space.

Brief refers to the overall amount of time you take, infrequent means you should not be doing the same body part daily — have at least 48 hours rest in - between and intense refers to the intensity or effort.

It often requires numerous very intense short efforts at or above anaerobic threshold.

Hilfiger's first in - season runway extravaganza, staged at New York City's South Street Seaport last September, was a large - scale experiment involving intense effort and coordination across the company's production, marketing and retail teams.

The action - packed trailer also gives Divergent fans another look at Tris» efforts to save her mother, as well as an intense fight scene between Tris and a simulated version of herself.

Collecting the twelve artefacts left by the Chozo had taken a lot of effort, and I felt proud of my achievement, only to have them blown up by Meta Ridley in an intense fight at the Artifact Temple.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

This study comes at a time of intense efforts to improve education in New Jersey, which is rolling out new teacher evaluations, new online state tests and a new set of voluntary national standards called the Common Core, which spells out what children should master in each grade.

Learning cycles integrate knowledge and assessment: Teachers make an intense effort to get to know their students» strengths and weaknesses at the beginning of a cycle and fashion many of the cycle's learning outcomes and activities on the basis of what students need.

Intense focus on the author's needs, potentials, and value pervades the Canelic commentary from all three players: perhaps tipping off nearby executives in other companies to new ways to look at creative workers» contributions to the effort.

In the past three years, the number of animals at county shelters and the cost to taxpayers have steadily risen despite intense efforts to teach people responsible pet ownership, officials said.

Rauschenberg's reduction of his palette to black and white also reflected his efforts to break free from the intense color curriculum of Josef Albers (1888 — 1976), under whom he had studied at Black Mountain.

There followed an intense effort led by a research associate at Harvard, Justin Lancaster, in coordination with Gore staffers, to have Revelle's name posthumously removed from the published paper.

The data from this study suggest that those people who are most at risk for destroying their love relationships altogether devote the most intense effort toward maintaining the semblance of bonds; inept mothers and their children scrap and feud; mildly abusing mothers and their infants are hostile and difficult, but many severely maltreating mothers and their children do not dare to challenge the durability of their relationships.