Sentences with phrase «last effort at»

Or they regard AR5 as the last hurrah, the last effort at pushing the whole smelly mess over the goal line.

Nintendo's last effort at changing the gaming landscape was not exactly a success.

The visiting Cambridge supporters kept on singing until the end and nearly got their reward as the visitors had the last effort at the death.

The first third of the decade saw my last efforts at unsnarling the puzzles of religion, taken as puzzles of language.

Not exact matches

At the beginning of 2017, just before the big crypto boom that defined last year, See started to devote all of his efforts to the new venture.

The effort grew out of our meeting at the Vatican in 2016 and a follow - up in New York last September, and we will be gathering again in San Francisco June 25 - 26 this year.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

When you look at what's happened in Chattanooga these last few years, it's been a cooperative effort.

This is a significant step up from regulators» previous efforts to improve the industry's disclosure of hidden or hard - to - understand charges on their statements, and it could at last move the needle on fees.

At the same time, Amazon only went home with two Emmys last night as the e-commerce giant may need to regroup its TV efforts after some expensive shows failed to find their footing recently.

There are a host of last - minute disputes, but the Democratic Party has filed at least seven federal lawsuits in an effort to stop so - called «ballot security» campaigns by either the Republican National Committee, local Republican parties, the Trump Campaign, or Stop the Steal.

Japan had a stockpile of them when the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck last March, and Weatherhaven participated in the Haitian earthquake relief effort by selling relief agencies 140 temporary shelters at cost.

The show — which was filmed last month at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory and featured performers Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, as well as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Haddid on the runway — is an important part of L Brands» (LB) efforts to keep its Victoria's Secret brand at the center of pop culture.

It's this career philosophy that has fueled her turnaround effort at Yahoo since she joined the company as CEO last year, at age 37, after more than a decade at Google.

Last week, Pinterest underscored its commitment to growing its advertising efforts when it announced it has hired Gunnard Johnson, previously at Snapchat and Google, to lead its user and advertising measurements team.

Speaking via a recording at the TED International conference in Vancouver last night, the pope's talk was the culmination of an extraordinary effort to get him to speak (including a year of asking).

The Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers will meet again on Saturday at 16:00 London time in a last - ditch effort to find an agreement that could release a vital last tranche of bailout aid worth 7.2 billion euros.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Convinced they could have done better, Huffington's co-founders, Jonah Peretti and Ken Lerer, threw their efforts behind Buzzfeed, which quickly eclipsed HuffPost as the hot social - news juggernaut, and was valued at $ 850 million in a funding round last year.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

They are required to make a good faith effort at marking to fair value — which could be the last round, but broader market dynamics can not be ignored.

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

His utilities have been criticized for relying on coal, and at Berkshire's annual meeting last May he had to fend off a shareholder effort related to climate change.

«Employee empowerment means being able to use my natural ability to create a lasting memory for guests or resolve a guest issue and have the confidence that my company supports me 100 % in my effort,» explains a senior account executive at The Ritz - Carlton.

Google's effort to offer high - speed Internet access to consumers at home has run into the same economic problem that bedeviled almost every challenger in the market over the last two decades.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

You've probably heard by now that, in an effort to lift oil prices, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) tentatively agreed to a production cut at its meeting in Algiers last week.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Apple's effort is aimed at winning back the hearts of stakeholders in the educational sector — a place it has lost to Google and Microsoft in the last couple of years.

Chief executive Martin Mercer told The Australian Financial Review the company had grown so much in the last few years it was «bursting at the seams» and had made the decision this year to invest in the rebranding efforts and move into bigger offices in Melbourne and Sydney to help fuel future growth.

This last element, of course, goes along with our move to explicit forward guidance, as part of our efforts to provide stimulus at the zero lower bound.

But the bankers» lobbyists beat back that modest effort at reform in the last days before the law passed.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

Notably, the number of branches stood at just over 5,100 in the latest quarter, compared to 5,217 last year — perhaps adding some torque to those digital efforts.

If your organization does not clearly focus its vision on service, no amount of effort and expense at creating a dynamic, results - based sales culture will bring long - lasting growth or success.

Kevin Burch, outgoing chairman of the American Trucking Associations Such efforts were on national display last week when President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of fleet executives, drivers and other industry personnel — organized by ATA — on the merits of his tax reform plan at a stump speech in Harrisburg, Pa..

When you look at it, Stephen, we still have a pretty large opportunity for our global sourcing efforts, and we've been working very diligently over the last many years.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Your mind is still at last, captivated by the effort of your heart and body perhaps, you are simply willing yourself to keep moving.

The Christian myths of creation and of the last things can then be dismissed as primitive cosmology, while all talk of miracles can be treated as a misguided effort at scientific explanation.

(FOOTNOTE: We have made no effort to include all of the New Testament in this survey, but a word or two at least must be said about the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is probably to be dated in the last decade of the first century.

It is not for nothing that imperial Rome, torn by internal division and already smelling the smoke of the fires that would destroy it a century later, found at last in the Christian religion a principle of cohesion that would permit it one last effort to realize the dream of the Caesars and envelope the entire known world under the banner of the Pax Romana.

If only the media spent this much time and effort trying to get to the bottom of at least a few of the real stories out there over the last couple years instead of crap like this.

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

So as my last effort to finish what I started, I applied to study abroad in Spain my Junior year to get better at Spanish (because clearly my English wasn't awesome) and to hit refresh.

It's crispy on the outside, savory on the inside, and goes great with the spicy jalapeno flavor of the cranberry sauce, as well as the gingery notes in the slaw (my last ditch effort at convincing you to make them).

The heat spell broke long enough at the end of last week that I didn't mind turning on the oven, and was rewarded for my efforts with the most amazing aroma, that begins with homemade blackberry jam, and transitions into cocoa heaven.

It follows agreements over the last 12 months at The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) with branded suppliers to align efforts around Champions 12.3 goals.