Sentences with phrase «involve years of effort»

Some molecules are difficult to form into crystals, though, and the process of crystallizing a single molecule can in some cases involve years of effort and expense.

Not exact matches

«This was an enormous work effort... involving hundreds of workers for more than a year,» said Imperial spokesman Pius Rolheiser.

Initially, I turned them down — uncomfortable with the thought of publicizing the charitable efforts our company had been involved in over the years.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

Let me therefore urge all our committees involved with our priority bills to double efforts to ensure that we have these bills ready by the end of the first quarter of this year.

Gareth Dockerty, BASC North regional officer, said: «The whole morning was a real team effort, involving lots of committed individuals and it fits within a series of Natural England litter picks organised throughout the year.

When the Senate's own website was launched, almost a year and a half after Kennedy's in October 1995, Senator John Warner of Virginia, then chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, thanked the many staff of the Rules Committee and Sergeant at Arms and Secretary's offices involved in the effort.

The effort to export the «nano business model» to other parts of New York represents Cuomo's continued remaking of economic development policy which, for the past 30 years, has mostly involved scattershot subsidies to companies.

Mr. Cuomo's aides defended his efforts on behalf of the marriage bill last year, and explained that they were reluctant to involve themselves in a campaign that was largely led by Mr. Paterson, at the time a potential rival in the governor's race.

Some 45 pages of source material testify to the amount of research involved in this 15 - year effort, during which one assumes Benjamin had a day job.

He's been involved with the project since its inception 10 years ago and has used an unassuming, innovative management style to lead the effort to transform 120 acres on the northern edge of downtown into a world class medical campus.

Mayor Patrick Madden's administration will ask the Troy Capital Resource Corporation, a public authority it controls, to contribute $ 10,000 to its effort this year to compete in the anticipated third round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, which involves cities within nearly a dozen designated regions across the state vying for $ 10 million grants.

The SAMSHA grant, totaling $ 971,736 over a three - year period, will also support personnel, training and other needs related to the development of a peer mentor initiative to help military veterans enrolled in the County's drug treatment court programs re-adjust to civilian life and get back on track, as well as efforts to increase participation rates in court - mandated treatment programs among justice - involved veterans.

He said NYSUT endorses regardless of party affiliation, though this year it was involved in efforts that would have flipped the Senate to Democratic control.

This research has been involved with a 50 - year, $ 626 million effort on the lower Colorado River that shows major genetics - based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation and other agencies are using to restore riparian habitat.

«Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct.

Led by cybersecurity researchers from SRI International and ISI with decades of years of experience designing, building, and operating large cybersecurity testbeds, the effort involved more than 150 experts, representing 75 organizations.

After some thought, he made an effort, during the final year of his postdoc, to get involved in projects where he could supervise other people in the lab.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

In November of last year, a collaborative effort involving representatives of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin, NRAO, and the Green Bank Observatory gathered to review designs for a proposed focal plane array for the GBT.

This after I went gluten free for several months a couple of years ago, and noticed no appreciable difference, other than I was even more tired from the colossal effort involved.

Almost everyone involved in the film has given Maximum Effort the past two years, maintaining the highest level of super secrets, like how David Blaine catches bullets in his mouth.

Among the topics covered are the film's backstory (its 10 - year history involves Richard Gere and Denzel Washington as nearly - leading men), Bernie Mac's decision to dive into a leading role with a bit of drama, and Mac's and the rest of the cast's efforts to make convincing athletes on screen.

The article says that over the next several years the nea will spend $ 600,000 and involve the faculties of 29 elementary, middle, and high schools in an effort to review literature, identify objectives, and eventually develop curricula and programs in a number of subject areas.

For the last five years, many of the efforts at transformation that I have been involved with have been stifled, dismantled, or shut down without explanation.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

This faux - populist rhetoric is compelling until you consider that many of the counter-manifesto's signatories have been deeply involved in efforts to centralize education decision - making at the state level for years.

WASHINGTON — Nearly two years into the full - scale national effort to set standards for what students should know and be able to do, leaders of nine of the projects involved have begun to search for common terms to describe what standards are.

Seven years ago, Jorgensen discovered a «One Book» reading promotion project that involved Chicago residents, and it spurred the creation of «United We Read,» a month - long, citywide literacy effort held each February in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

According to the board, «A candidate's efforts to achieve National Board Certification will likely take the better part of a school year and involve a total of 200 - 400 hours of work.»

In an effort to help their children and their schools succeed in the next academic year, millions of parents around the world are already involved in school foundations or PTA's to support teachers and administrators with their critical work of educating a fresh set of young minds.

Bonnie Reiss, a longtime friend of the governor who served on his staff for two years, advised him on education issues, and was one of his appointees to the state Board of Education, said Schwarzenegger told her and others in his administration why he did not want to get involved in a long, politically difficult effort to overhaul the public schools.

This is the second year the school has been involved and McClelland says he's been blown away by the efforts of the students and the complexity of the solutions they've provided.

The paper presents our methodology, an overview of the nature of district - charter collaborations, and a framework based on lessons learned from leaders involved in various capacities over the last fifteen years of these efforts.

Developed by the National Education Association (NEA), it is the product of a 15 - year collaborative effort involving educators, school district administrators, parents, and business and community leaders.

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

Since its inception, Families for Excellent Schools has been involved in some of the most controversial pro-charter lobbying efforts in recent years.

Trinity College London remains grateful to the education authorities in Andalucía, as well as to the teachers involved for their efforts and enthusiasm which have encouraged, and continue to encourage, this excellent project throughout the six years of collaboration.

The development of next - generation NSX resulted in a clean - sheet design, which involved nearly three years of effort by a global design and engineering team led by engineers at the company's development center in Raymond, Ohio.

Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.

Campaigns that became particularly heated involved cockfighting and more than a dozen years of efforts to win passage of a law against eating dogs and cats.

The guidelines are a product of a two - year collaborative effort involving leaders from the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), the American Pet Products Association (APPA), the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA), World Wide Pet Industry Association (WWPIA), the Pet Food Institute (PFI), H.H. Backer, Inc., and veterinarians through the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

The county fixes community cats for free and loans out traps in return for a refundable deposit, so in addition to staffers» own trapping efforts in response to complaints, the shelter and its partners receive and return strays from the general public, as well as hundreds of strays a year from cat advocates involved in grassroots sterilization efforts, says Muñoz.

The legendary American Humane Rescue program has been involved in nearly every major relief effort over the past 100 years, including World War I when they rescued wounded horses on the battlefields of Europe, the Great Ohio Flood of 1937, Pearl Harbor, Hurricane Katrina, the eruption at Mount Saint Helens, the terror attacks on 9/11, the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, Superstorm Sandy, the killer tornadoes in Joplin and Oklahoma, the Louisiana and West Virginia floods, and the Tennessee wildfires.

The plan is the culmination of several years of effort involving the thoughtful input and participation of hundreds of individuals, many public agencies, and organizations.

He hailed the efforts of all those involved in the gaming industry, and saying that the launch of three new consoles in the last few years has pushed the industry forward tremendously.

Add to that several expanded components such as more multimedia performances and interactive installations, along with the launch of New Mexico New Media, an ongoing effort to highlight media arts in the state each summer, and you can bet Texas artists will continue to be involved for years to come.

The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than... conventional plant breeding technologies.

EDF's three - year effort involving 16 academic - lead studies will conclude at the end of 2014 and should provide the component emissions data to allow improved mitigation as well as to better resolve any differences between top - down and bottom - up estimates of emissions from the natural gas supply chain.

This research has been involved with a 50 - year, $ 626 million effort on the lower Colorado River that shows major genetics - based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation and other agencies are using to restore riparian habitat.