Sentences with phrase «knowing past efforts»

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«In the face of those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal,» he said to a delegation of Finnish Lutherans visiting Rome this past Friday, «we are invited not to give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to that which the Lord Jesus asked of the Father, «that they may be one.

I knew that, in turn, I would not be experiencing this bliss if it had not been for the wonders of electricity; obeisance then to its discoverers, yes, and to the electricians, the technicians, the music publishers, the record publishers, the record producers, the instrument makers and cabinet makers, the storekeepers, the delivery men, yes to all those myriad men and women whose seemingly un-coordinated efforts, which in themselves were the product of millennia of past strivings, had unwittingly, conspired to bring me, yes me, paradoxically as it must seem, a few fleeting moments of timeless bliss.

Each of us, on some level, knows that despite our best efforts to elude our beginnings, there are aspects of the past from which we can not escape.

Her efforts culminated in a massive silent protest outside the Presidential Palace, where women wearing white T - shirts and dresses demanded a resolution to the conflict, issuing a statement that read: «In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peace!

We've seen it before in seasons past and while players like Giroud are more busy acting the goat on the pitch and acting like they have just won the world cup rather than equalizing for a draw then players like Alexis are gonna walk out the front door because he wants to win and knows that it takes more effort and commitment to win the league than acheiving a draw with Bournmouth.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

In the past, agencies have even taken it upon themselves to block the sincere efforts of communication between birth and adoptive families but, in reality, they have no right to do so.

Though I've really made an effort in the past 2 years to choose safe products I know there are a few areas I'm lacking and some «natural» marketed products that sneak some ingredients by.

While your ex-fiancé may have spoiled you with flowers every Friday, your new beau may not need to know that because he / she will just feel insecure — like he / she is being compared with this past partner or that his / her current efforts are lacking somehow.

I can completely understand this — I blog occasionally and have made efforts in the past to increase the consistency of my posts, and I know it is hard work — we value the bloggers» time and wanted to compensate them for this time.

As the head of his conference's campaign efforts for the past seven years, Gianaris might have an advantage in a potential crowded primary field, as he's spent the past several election cycles getting to know top Democrats in every corner of the state.

I know that Brent Council and its partner Capita have made a lot of effort in the past month to visit SME premises in its multicultural borough to inform them about methods to claim small business rate relief.

No, we have been involved in many rescue efforts in the past.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s.

It's well known that Big Pharma and Big Medicine have in the past made concerted efforts to keep alternative therapies from becoming mainstream.

And yet, take a look at nearly any effort you or anyone you know has made in the past to get into shape, and chances are that you were missing at least one of these important components.

In the past, my road trip outfits were definitely comfort over style and while I still like to ensure what I'm wearing is as comfortable as possible — I try to put a little more effort into what I'm wearing because you really don't know where you'll end up or what blog post picture opportunities will come up!

You guys know by now I love wearing my sneakers, although I am making an effort to wear heels more and this past week I did better.

So in an effort to help them out, and you know, have some fun online shopping, I put together these items above that I've been eyeing over the past few months.

In the past I have spent so much effort dating women that I knew right from the start I wasn't really that into them.

Having known very little about Pablo Neruda, Larrain's effort doesn't seem to care about enlightening anyone, which is a feeling I never got from his previous efforts on Chile's tumultuous past with the regimes of Allende and Pinochet.

If The Week Of gets streamed to the same degree as Sandler's past Netflix efforts, the service will be heading into this new four - film deal knowing for sure that they made the right choice.

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi («A Separation,» «The Past»), coming off his foreign language film Oscar win for «The Salesman,» is already back with his next effort «Everybody Knows» set to serve as the opening film of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

Teachers and school leaders know the improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams, imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.

In the past, under a federal provision known as «maintenance of effort,» districts were required to spend at least as much as the previous year on services for students with disabilities.

As I'm sure you know, even the hint of testing irregularities and misconduct in the test administration process could call into question school reform efforts and undermine the State accountability systems that you have painstakingly built over the past decade.

«Good laws are important, but we know from past efforts to curb drunk driving and promote seatbelts that enforcement is the key,» said Secretary LaHood.

I also don't refuse books that are given to me free, as many self - publishers already know — though I prefer to buy them because I'm a hard - working author and I like to support other authors, AND I will only accept ones from those who try to make an effort to get to know me first — but I won't guarantee that I'll read them if I can't get past the first couple of chapters, and they will receive the same hard criticism that I give all books, that is if I give a review.

BlackBerry, which has been known in the past for being a dominant brand in the smartphone industry has since moved to focusing its efforts on software only after outsourcing its hardware efforts to TCL, allowing it more time to zero -LSB-...]

If you've dealt with BlackBerry's browser efforts in the past (even the much - improved browser on the last round of BlackBerry 7 devices), you'll know this was an area the company needed to succeed in.

But after reading several commenters» suggestions that we look at a low - interest - rate bank loan to attack some of the debt, and knowing how much we've paid down in the past two years, I figured I'd make another effort.

Even if Past Cure isn't a great game, I have to praise Phantom 8 for the valiant effort and ambition, which leaves me intrigued and somewhat excited to know whatever the studio is working on next.

Max Payne 3 ($ 59.99) No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past.

If you're making an effort to go to somebody's studio, you already have a bit of background and you want to know what the present tense is rather than the past.»

Cornelissen's efforts were largely funded by WWF (known as the World Wildlife Fund in the United States) but he had worked over the past decade with scientists from the European Space Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory as well as several universities.

And we may not be able to know the ideal time to begin acting for optimum return on our economic sacrifice, but it's pretty clearly in the past: beginning global greenhouse - gas reduction efforts ten years ago would have been better than, say, now.

In the effort to reconcile the two sets of seemingly contradictory we find things we didn't already know — the contradictions resolve or one set of facts is abandoned to the «past misunderstandings» file.

Surfrider Foundation's Oregon Chapter Network and its activists played a critical role in this effort over the past five years, participating in the Reedsport Settlement Agreement, developing Surfrider Foundation's Policy on Renewable Ocean Energy, mapping surfing and other recreational areas through the Oregon No - Consumptive Recreational Ocean Use Study, representing recreational user groups on the Territorial Sea Plan Advisory Committee, and providing countless public comments to the Ocean Policy Advisory Council.

Thanks for all your efforts over these past few years, that I know of, to keep our history as it was.

This is the issue some women bloggers and their readers have taken on in the past 24 hours: Whether or not the Democratic minority should or shouldn't invest the time and effort to muster 40 «no» votes, especially now that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nev., has said he will vote no on Roberts.

I know of several such efforts in the past (see the Research Databank of their Committee to Promote Research).

Over the past year and a half, the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) have been serving as strategic allies in a national effort to bring lasting changes to the criminal justice system, also known as the Safety and Justice Challenge.

«There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,» Mr. Coats added.

«There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 US midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations.»

No longer a cop, close to washed up and addicted to pain killers, Max takes a job in São Paulo, Brazil, protecting the family of wealthy real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco, in an effort to finally escape his troubled past.

We know that you put hard work and time into your resume in the past, and we want to honor those efforts.

Turn past mistakes around, for instance, and let your interviewer know how you're making efforts to correct those mistakes and the valuable lessons you've learned in the process.