Sentences with phrase «largely successful efforts»

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

Nevertheless, for all of its zesty pacing and Fraser's best and largely successful efforts to steal every scene he's in, there's some core element of soul and feeling missing from it.

There is precedent, he noted, pointing to largely successful efforts by NGOs to preserve South American rainforests by purchasing their development rights and allowing the native trees to stand.

During the past few years, Chris has helped lead an aggressive and largely successful effort to keep our students with us.

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The company's turnaround efforts were largely successful and at one point in 2012, the company was worth over a billion dollars.

PayPal's foray into mobile payments has seen mixed results - it's built successful in - app and peer - to - peer transfer payment products, but its in - store efforts have been largely fruitless.

Orland Park points to its fifth - best retail sales among Chicago's suburbs, according to village data from 2012, as an indicator that its efforts to create a wide tax base have been largely successful.

And Save New York's efforts were largely successful: Cuomo won his tax cap and spending cuts, along with successfully resisting the calls from the liberal wing of the party to extend the life of a surcharge on those making $ 250,000 and more.

Those efforts have largely been successful.

Efforts to bring the grey wolf back have been largely successful and in 2003 its protection was downgraded.

Whatever the future of its franchise, The Bourne Legacy is an eminently enjoyable entertainment — a largely successful, if occasionally labored, effort to breathe new life into a storyline that seemed to have run its course.

If not for No Child, the most - successful of the Obama administration's reform effort so far — Race to the Top and I3 — wouldn't have had a chance of succeeding, largely because there would have been no pressure in the form of the proficiency and accountability provisions that No Child brought to bear.

The Maxima is completely restyled, and we're glad to say that the effort has been largely successful (see design editor Robert Cumberford's analysis on page 24).

The effort is largely a successful one, as the GMC Yukon Denali introduces two very important additions to its eight - passenger seating and up to 121.1 cubic feet of cargo capacity (when found in extended - wheelbase XL trim): a 6.2 - liter V - 8 engine and a Magnetic Ride Control suspension system.

To date these efforts have been largely successful.

Regulators» efforts to apply existing rules to new technology have been largely successful, suggesting slow and steady is the right approach for them to be taking.

Efforts to make New York's streets and sidewalks safer for pedestrians have been largely successful to date.

The search giant already owns the world's most successful video - sharing website, but its efforts to expand YouTube's reach have largely failed.

Whether a self directed IRA is good for you depends largely on educating yourself and ensuring your investment objectives are in alignment with the effort required to be successful.