Sentences with phrase «lack of effort at»

Google's own lack of effort at promoting its product just hastened the process and sent more consumers away from them than attract them.

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For now, James says she is excited that the efforts are finally getting a voice — even if it is at CES (normally a launchpad for high - end refrigerators and new smartwatches, not for initiatives that hope to improve the lack of diversity in tech).

The steady leakage of plastic packaging into the oceans — at the rate of one garbage truck full of plastic per minute — has been aided by the lack of a unified global effort to reuse the plastic produced every year.

Even more worrisome, this lack of interest in academic effort appears to have started at home.

At least I know it wasn't due to a lack of effort.

But with the recent announcements of high priced options, the lack of real effort in delivering a great electric solution, and the desire to keep prices at the appropriate price point meant someone had to step up and deliver, this is what Atlis Motor Vehicles is about.

I have been openly critical of the Rox passing on FA 1Bman this entire off season and lacking effort to trade for one — and it just makes it even easier when the teams plan might include a 1B trio of Desmond / Valaika / Parra at 1B.

McCleary's effort lacked pace and took a little nick of Gibbs, but Szczesny failed to keep it out at a second attempt and the ball just crossed the line.

Its not do to lack of desire or effort, sometimes it just seems like the ball is mad at you.

He must be wondering what is wrong with his teammates and I think that the blame for the attitude and lack of effort from must fall at the feet of our manager.

At times, it's hard to blame Okafor for the lack of effort.

The Tottenham Hotspur striker has come in for criticism at the start of the new season because of his lack of goals at club level, but did score his second senior international goal with a brilliant effort against San Marino on Saturday evening as the Three Lions sealed their qualification for Euro 2016.

Jackson also said he was surprised by the lack of effort in the first half, especially considering what is at stake.

For once it was not a lack of fitness or effort that caused the Hammer's downfall but it was disturbing at just how quickly heads dropped after the opening goal.

His defensive efforts are particularly heavily criticised, with Ortego arguing that he should be more capable of carrying out defensive work considering he started his career as a full - back, and even alleging that Bale has been given a different defensive position at set - pieces because «he lacked concentration and was too passive, not attacking balls he should have reached.»

On the 21s, I was at OT tonight, a really good turn out over 13k cheering on the reds, top support for a 21 game, Was not really surprised chelsea won, we were big underdogs going in, we did not really test their keeper that often which was a shame, still been a top season for Warren Joyce side, a makeshift defence most of the season and a lack of striker options for most of the season as well, so a great effort just to be in the final, shame we couldnt win it.

One thing that seemed desperately lacking in last week's stalemate with Blackburn — a game I traveled to London to see at the Emirates — was a criminal lack of urgency and dare I say it, effort.

Conte had reportedly been frustrated at the lack of signings in the summer and was now looking to push through deals for a few players in the last ditch 10 days to make up for lost time and effort to bring in players at Stamford Bridge.

1:44 Mauricio Pochettino couldn't fault the effort of the players or the performance against Swansea - just the lack of a goal to finish it all off as we drew 0 - 0 at Wembley.

Vito Mannone was culpable for the goal but fingers should be pointed at each and every member of the starting eleven — barring Mikel Arteta and perhaps Olivier Giroud — for a team performance that lacked anything near the sort of effort that was required.

Perhaps more important than the starting lineup of the tactics is the attitude: the same attitude the Catalans displayed when they completely blitzed the Colchoneros at home, and not the apathy and lack of effort in the losses in El Clásico and at Anoeta.

I think parents also get frustrated at the lack of effort their kids show, and then worry about what kind of life their child is going to have if they don't start taking life more seriously.

You see, students who haven't developed effective homework habits tend to lack the motivation to study, misunderstand how to study, and fail to see the long - term benefits of putting forth an effort at home and at school.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

She discussed rising rents and a lack of affordable housing, but also lamented rising property taxes, criticized Mayor de Blasio's fiscal management and his efforts at allowing private sector housing on NYCHA property.

Gallo praised Cook's efforts on behalf of the city but said that with dozens of events to promote annually and an anemic budget (the office's advertising budget for 2012 stands at just $ 100) the office lacked the means to effectively reach out and draw tourism dollars to Kingston.

Darryl Wharton - Rigby's screenplay will centre on a courier tasked with bringing $ 3m (# 1.76 m) across the Atlantic to Brazil in an effort to stop the Ghanaian football team quitting the competition in protest at lack of pay.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Law.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

«Alberts, a former Science editor - in - chief and National Academy of Sciences president who is at the University of California, San Francisco, says the journal will be a place for data that other journals often aren't interested in publishing because replication efforts lack novelty.

Improved but Not Always Safe: Despite Global Efforts, More Than 1 Billion People Likely at Risk for Lack of Clean Water

The lack of free and easy access to reliable maps of Sumatran forests has limited Indonesia's efforts to protect its natural heritage, according to David Gaveau, a landscape ecologist based at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, who designed the site.

Although this study is limited by the lack of data on the effects of clinical interventions and neonatal resuscitation efforts that may have been performed at the time of birth, these findings suggest that early detection of perinatal asphyxia is particularly relevant among infants of overweight and obese women although more studies are necessary to confirm these results in other populations.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

«This study is an important step towards developing precision medicine for at - risk and understudied minority populations,» Burchard said, «But the current lack of genomic data from these populations highlights the urgent need for a dedicated national effort to prioritize diversity in research.»

At first I was bothered by the lack of acknowledging lay expertise and the efforts and abilities of volunteers.

Anyway, in an effort to make up for the lack of blog updates, I'm going to be posting photologues on my trip there, attempt my hand at a short video with the footage we captured and if anyone's interested, some guides on the places we visited.

The film's pervasively underwhelming atmosphere is perpetuated by the inclusion of several eye - rollingly misguided sequences (eg Santa and a few elves are trapped inside a child's bedroom), with the resulting lack of momentum ensuring that the episodic midsection, which revolves primarily around Arthur's ongoing efforts at finding said little girl's house, fares especially poorly and is, for the most part, nothing short of interminable.

One's efforts at overlooking the film's deficiencies are consistently confounded by the almost total lack of interludes and encounters that are actually funny, with the inclusion of a couple of chuckle - worthy moments within The Hangover's final 10 minutes (ie a hilariously inappropriate wedding singer) coming much too late to make any kind of positive impact.

There are a lot of mistakes that show the lack of effort that was present sometimes (one that comes to mind is the doctors showing up at the scene of the crime in their lab - scrubs... really?).

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Despite a lack of noble intentions, at least Disney put some effort into it by tossing in a few side jokes aimed toward adults, and spiffed up the effects to theater - worthy levels we would expect for a major summer release.

Filmmaker Tim Chambers has infused the proceedings with a palpably routine feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, with one's ongoing efforts at embracing the characters and their exploits consistently stymied by the total lack of surprises within Chambers» screenplay.

One way to look at this conscientiously mature, strategically magic - realist movie is as its creators» most ambitious joint effort to date, yet it's actually this same, superficial «daring» that points up their work's underlying lack of real imagination.

Alas, McCarthy drops the ball with a midsection devoted almost entirely to Annie's tedious efforts at solving the central mystery - with the familiarity of this portion of the proceedings compounded by an excessively deliberate pace and lack of actual scares.

I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didn't stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch.

It's actually astonishing that we not only have great actors nailing tricky scenes, and really some stunning, winding camerawork to go with it, but such things as the weaving in of special effects and the utter lack of capturing any of the off - screen crew members who surely must have been around helping with the shoot (that we never see anything we shouldn't in any of the many on - screen mirrors is quite astonishing) only makes this one of the more brilliant efforts at shooting a seamless film since the first in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.

Their efforts aren't always helpful: There's Bauman's immediate family, prone to yelling at each other in the best of times; his drinking buddies, full of gumption but lacking in tact; his shellshocked ex-girlfriend Erin Hurley (Tatiana Maslany), who had been running in the marathon (Bauman had showed up in the crowd to try to impress her and win her back).

Although Cleaner is certainly a substantial improvement over some of filmmaker Renny Harlin's more recent efforts - ie 2006's The Covenant - the film is nevertheless almost entirely lacking in elements designed to hold the viewer's interest for more than a few minutes at a time.

At the same time, there is an odd lack of excitement much of the way; given the sex and violence that fills the bulk of the film's run time, one wonders why there wasn't more effort to engage audiences with some style and flair.