Sentences with phrase «largest effort since»

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Since late 2012, China has been stepping up its efforts to turn the coral reefs it occupies in the South China Sea into large artificial islands.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

Our trucks are safer than ever, and the U.S. Department of Transportation reports that the fatal crash rate has fallen 73 percent since 1973 — in large part thanks to these efforts.

Since a large percentage of the public funds for Hurricane Harvey are geographically designated specifically to meet recovery needs of Houston and Harris County, it is also important to support recovery efforts throughout the entire region.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

Since she started working in Piedmont 12 years ago, Foster has seen Piedmont undergo a large shift from a stressful and clique - y environment to a more open and comfortable campus through efforts such as Challenge Success.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

Meanwhile, the media company has since published that «The station has made strenuous, but unsuccessful efforts to verify from Mr Kennedy Agyepong's claims that large sums of questionable amounts of money had been found in the former BOST CEO's personal account».

While Ghana has been quite successful in its deliberate efforts, since the mid 1990s to become a leading emerging market destination for foreign direct investment — indeed the country has been the 5th biggest recipient of FDI on the continent since the beginning of this decade — these investment inflows, which have financed the larger manufacturing enterprises in the country, have been overwhelmingly concentrated in the biggest urban centres.

«Too big to fail», the thinking went, and since then, efforts have been made to increase scrutiny of large institutions.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

In the weeks since, NASA officials have started sketching out how that effort might unfold — from a series of small commercial landers, to larger NASA landers, to a multinational space station near the Moon that could serve as a base for robots and astronauts travelling to the lunar surface.

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin - producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

The effort comes at a time when U.S. traffic safety administrators report an 8.1 percent increase in traffic fatalities for the first six months of 2015, compared with 2014 data from the same period — the largest increase year over year since 1977.

Since then, early efforts have culminated in the $ 1.4 billion, 66 - dish Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, which opened in 2013.

The effort has gained urgency since the United States has become a large natural - gas - producing nation.

The brown tide alga, Aureococcus anophagefferens, has been notorious on Long Island since it first appeared in 1985 having been responsible for the demise of the largest bay scallop fishery on the US east coast in the Peconic Estuary, the loss of eelgrass across Long Island, and the inhibition of hard clam recovery efforts in Great South Bay.

Since then, astronomers have become increasingly a ware of the risk of future impacts, and major efforts are underway to discover and calculate the orbits for all asteroids larger than 1 km wide.

Since its early beginnings fourteen years ago, Laura's efforts and expertise have allowed Single in the City to become one of the largest event based dating companies in the Greater Toronto Area.

Trumbull's second feature as a director, Brainstorm, was all but orphaned by MGM and his directorial efforts since have been outside the Hollywood system, including short films in his own high - definition Showscan process (a large - frame film format that runs at 60 frames a second) and Back to the Future... The Ride,» a multi-media mix of film, sound, and simulator ride.

A new report describes the New York City school system's efforts since 2002 to close large comprehensive high schools and replace them with 200 new small schools.

A threshold at either extreme is likely to be irrelevant for large schools, since they are unlikely to experience such large swings in performance regardless of their efforts.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

Here are some of the additional security efforts that schools have made since Sandy Hook, the largest mass shooting at a K - 12 facility in U.S. history.

Six large school districts have been participating since 2011 in The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, a six - year effort to train, hire and support talented principals.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Still, the larger achievement gains are not likely because charter students came from families with more money and stronger English skills, for example, since the researchers made extensive efforts to control for such differences.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandaSince most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandasince the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

Since it is the lender that decides on interest rates and repayment terms, finding the right one is hugely important to efforts to secure a large loan that is affordable.

In large part due to the efforts of animal welfare groups and dog lovers around the country, the sport of Greyhound racing has been in a steady decline since it peaked in popularity in the early 1990's.

Since its passage in Delaware in 2010, several other states have attempted to pass their own versions of CAPA, only to find their efforts thwarted by the large, national non-profits, HSUS, the ASPCA and PETA.

However, since my precious dog is fighting for his life after being viciously attacked (unprovoked, from behind), and is alive only due to the efforts of three very large men willing to rescue him, which includes my husband, an ex-pro football lineman and Olympic alternate wrestler - how many dogs have this benefit?

Since you'll have such a large influence over our design efforts, you'll also get Developer Credit in the game.

Since 1993, due to the volunteer efforts of the Board of Directors, the office staff in Amsterdam and countless partners and friends, Res Artis has grown to become the largest network of its kind, promoting the role of artist residencies as a vital part of the contemporary arts world, stimulating the creative development and mobility of artists, and furthering intercultural understanding.

At Sperone Westwater, the most prominent piece in Long's exhibition Crescent to Cross was a «large - scale mud work» that recapitulated his effort in Magiciens de la terre, something he has been doing on a regular basis since that show.

As such they seem to express something other than an effort to produce studies for larger pieces, especially since only one among those exhibited, Untitled, c. 1957, resembles a larger, finished canvas.

Since their discovery, there has been a large effort to determine whether these climate events were a global phenomenon or were just confined to the North Atlantic region and also to reveal the mechanisms that were responsible for them...

This announcement mark the first large - scale commercial effort to develop CSP in China, something that has been on somewhat of a slow track for two main reasons; (1) Limits of water availability: How eSolar and its Chinese partners deal with the issue of the water - energy nexus (I precisely highlighted concentrated solar thermal as a technology that would run up to limits of water availability in a previous post, «Charting China's Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full story

Let's just look at what the IPCC said in their most recent assessment, since, as Manzi says, it «represents the largest existing global effort to answer such technical questions.»

Originally, a joint effort of French AREVA and German Siemens AG (which has since pulled out), it will be the largest PWR (pressurised water reactor) in the world.

More specifically it focuses on the efforts the WBG is making to work in partnership with the private sector to leverage its resources, since the WBG, despite being one of the largest multilateral development bank lenders for energy, can meet only a small part of the investment needed.

Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

The face of grey literature and in particular the efforts required to collect them have changed significantly since the internet has made electronic publishing the norm for a large number of information producers.

The loss of such a highly - rated team - on some measures the largest switch between top 50 UK law firms since DLA Piper helped itself to a large chunk of Denton Wilde Sapte's media team back in 2004 - will raise fresh questions about Barlows» efforts to get back on track.

The loss of such a highly - rated team — on some measures the largest switch between top 50 UK law firms since DLA Piper helped itself to a large chunk of Denton Wilde Sapte's media team back in 2004 — will raise fresh questions about Barlows» efforts to get back on track.

The Hunters Point Shipyard - Candlestick Point is the largest redevelopment effort in San Francisco since the 1906 earthquake.

This is all part of a larger effort in the wearables space to provide more value through software and data processing, since the hardware can only be and do so much.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, also welcomed efforts to increase safety measures and resources, but she said legislators and Mr. Trump had used it deflect from the larger demands of the public, including students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who had been in the forefront of gun control advocacy since the shooting.