Sentences with phrase «large number of his attempts»

When you understand the vast number of possible chemical reactions per liter per second and the truly large number of attempts (coin flips) that really entails — you will find that the «Law of Averages» and statistics are not on your side.

Not exact matches

The large numbers were because it was an attempt by Germany to break the blockade of its navy by the Allies, who made it almost impossible for Germany's to get its surface ships past Denmark.

A third contingent, the smallest, make a wholesale switch to the new technology or business model, attempting to make smaller margins on a larger number of transactions, with mixed results.

The outlook for the State is grim as their constitution prohibits a number of already attempted fixes to some of their largest issues, i.e. pensions, in addition to the fact that the State is prohibited from filing for bankruptcy.

It allows a larger maximum block size in its own attempt to lower fees and increase the number of daily transactions.

States like the US, France and the UK are attempting to make up for it with the acceptance of unprecedented large numbers of unskilled and even undocumented migrants.

«While previously used methods will probably not be as successful this time, the growing security team within Facebook will be faced with a large number of new types of attempted political influence.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

Even armchair scholars like him never attempted to deny that Christ shares a large number of similarities with other gods and heros.

But the attempt to reduce living systems to such, that is to say formal reductionism, fails in part because the number of possible combinations or classifications is generally immensely larger than the number of degrees of freedom.

Clearly the Declaration was composed in such a way as to be acceptable to the largest possible number of professing American Christians, but in doing this I believe it has attempted to mix the oil of Christianity with the water of popular American religion...

Twenty - one years after it was legalised for medical use, and after a number of failed attempts to expand that arrangement, California is now home to the world's largest cannabis market.

Instead, the party with the largest number of seats — in this case, it looks like the Conservatives — will attempt to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has already advised a number of GP practices in the county that they could be committing criminal offences by attempting to extract unnecessary fees from applicants.

In 1974, Labour supporters protested at Heath's attempt to hang on when he had not won the largest number of seats but Harold Wilson bided his time before forming a minority government.

I am assuming based on the fact that the Trump Organization had so much trouble getting these trademarks through until the President had taken office and the large number was approved nearly simultaneously indicates foul play and an attempt to curry favor on the part of the Chinese government.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

«Further, understanding how to manipulate skin tone without the need for harmful ultraviolet radiation or toxic chemicals could have a significant impact on the cosmetic industry, as large numbers of people around the world currently spend billions of dollars in often unsuccessful or potentially dangerous attempts to lighten or darken their natural skin color.

Attempts to assess more important differences (of any number of cognitive abilities, for example) between groups always come to the same very well - known conclusion — that the differences between individuals within one racial group are much larger than the differences between the average members of two such groups.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

In an attempt to bring patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) technology closer to the clinic, researchers have created iPSCs from patient - derived chondrocytes, using an non-integrative reprogramming method, and used these to then create large numbers of cartilage producing cells.

Indeed, a large number of bodybuilders use everything God has forbidden in an attempt to build muscle and mass, but there are still no convincing indications that pharmacological bodybuilders die sooner than average people.

In this large number of patients who attempted a gluten free diet; the majority of them had improvement or remission [11].

We've received attempts to scam the model by buying large numbers of the stamps upfront.

Thus a large number of people have suffered over the years with attempting to get some other person that's Jewish but in vain.

Amongst the large number of genuine dating websites designed for western men to find a relationship some of the sites that attempt to defraud men do so through premium online chat services.

After a disappointing first attempt, De Vries then tried the experiment with a larger number of images, the computer achieved 68 percent.

A large number of single, divorced or lonely people from all over the world are turning to these sites in an attempt to find companionship and long term relationships.

The game was an attempt to essentially recreate Super Mario World for the Royal Philips Electronics console, but due to different software, several features could not be included in the game, such as large numbers of sprites and the Mode 7 graphics mode.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

Its members include the nation's largest state, one of the first Race to the Top winners, and a number of states attempting to advance nation - leading reforms.

A large number attempted to avoid the mandate through the SBE's waiver process but virtually all of them were turned down.

Similarly, a review of research by the SHRM Foundation (Pulakos, Mueller - Hanson, O'Leary, & Meyrowitz, 2012) found that attempting to review employee performance on a large number of competencies does little to change behavior.

Zest would be the second attempt after Indigo, which has been a successful car all through its life but the rise of compact sedan segment have distracted a large number of buyers.

In I Am Pilgrim, the villain attempts to infect a large number of people with a genetically engineered version of smallpox — a deadly disease completely eradicated by 1977.

While Amazon and Barnes & Noble represent some of the larger companies currently operating in the e-reader market, and Apple's upcoming iPad incorporates robust e-book technology, a number of smaller players have been attempting to seize their own piece of the rapidly expanding market.

During the Great Depression, large numbers of banks prevented or attempted to prevent depositors from withdrawing their money.

Attempting to become broadly diversified through the self - assembly of a portfolio of a large number of individual securities is far more difficult and much more costly.

Finally, some animal advocates explicitly attempt to do work, such as promoting antispeciesism, that helps all animals, including those in the wild and those under human control.25 This work potentially affects the largest number of animals, but only a relatively small number more than work aimed exclusively at helping animals in the wild.

There are a large number of surgical techniques currently used in an attempt to stabilize your pet's knee.

Animal Welfare groups and volunteers are attempting to change that point of view by educating owners and potential owners about the lifelong commitment involved in adopting an animal, how to be a responsible pet owner, about the large number of adoptable animals available at shelters, and about the often poor condition of pet shop pets.

A large number of those people are being pulled down the street each and every time they attempt to walk their dog.

Shopper Beware Many customers choose to purchase large cans of food in an attempt to save money and to reduce the number of times they need to buy fish food.

During this period a large number of new genre attempts will be successfully vetted.

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In fact a large number of people have attempted to argue that climate change is a hoax, and many still do, including a number of the candidates in the recent Republican presidential primary contest, such as Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, to name just a couple.

FYI I heard through the science grapevine a couple of years ago that Macquarie had over-hired and was attempting to push out a large number of academic staff.

Grim # 46 does get the main point I was trying to make in the passage cited, which I should remind people was written (a) for publication in a newspaper whose readership includes a large number of people who we've yet to convince and (b) was written in an attempt to engage with someone who was seeking to argue in terms of probabilities and was suggesting that a 30 % likelihood that AGW is happening or will happen is not really something to worry about.

Given the large number of data series in existence (and the nearly infinite number of combinations thereof), it would literally be impossible to attempt replication of Jones» results without explicit guidance as to which data were used in the original work.

Florida attempts to deal with this by imposing strict rules on the number of hours a driver can be at the wheel of a large truck.