Sentences with phrase «last effort with»

Couple that with the fact that id takes a while to develop games and their last effort with Rage was somewhat underwhelming, so everything was lining up against the game.

Anderson's last effort with Joaquin Phoenix stirred up critics everywhere; one only imagines what will happen when he translates the free - wheeling, gleefully unhinged works of Thomas Pynchon to the big - screen.

Not exact matches

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

«CFIRA and its partner organizations are working diligently with the SEC to ensure that investors and borrowers are protected from fraudulent practices, and we welcome NASAA to join us in this effort,» Klein said last year in a news release.

Just last week, Facebook announced that it is banning ads promoting cryptocurrencies in an effort to prevent users from advertising «financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.»

Over the last six months, I have made every effort to provide the FBI with whatever information is needed to investigate my background.

Last fall, the senior official charged with overseeing that effort stepped down after less than four months on the job amid widespread criticism from current and former American diplomats.

Sagawa headed the ministry division that submitted the documents before he was tapped as tax agency chief in July, an appointment critics saw as a reward for his efforts to diffuse the issue with his statements to parliament last year.

Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg.

Struggling with mobility over a year after a Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis, the community activist brought his wife and 1-1/2 - year old son to Washington, DC for a last - ditch effort to stop the Republican tax bill.

(Examples of unfair statements included «You should be ashamed of your efforts on that last round» and «It sucks to work with an unmotivated person.»)

Carillion on Monday announced that it would go into compulsory liquidation after the British construction giant's last - ditch efforts to broker a deal with the U.K. government and its lenders failed over the weekend.

A last - ditch effort to secure a deal with the U.K. government and the company's bank lenders failed over the weekend.

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.

The ice balls release with very little effort & last a very long time... They are Awesome!

Countries in the Baltics have warned of more ambitious Russian espionage efforts, and NATO aircraft have tangled with their Russian counterparts numerous times in over the last year.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

The program was created in 2007 and officially ended in 2012, but officials familiar with the initiative told the Washington Post that collection efforts were ongoing as recently as last month.

But during the last year especially, there has been a concerted effort in Washington to cut back some of these new regulations, with the Senate passing a bank regulatory relief bill earlier this month.

The Gap's travails have persisted in 2015, with Peck suggesting on a conference call last month that efforts to renew the brand won't pay off until the spring, months later than his original prediction that a turnaround could take hold in time for the holiday season.

In just the last few weeks, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg revealed that, in their own way, each is investing time, effort, and significant money to improve our lives with neurotechnologies.

Comedian and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tackled the latest Obamacare repeal effort head - on during his opening monologue last night, arguing that the bill being pushed by Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy and others fails the so - called «Kimmel test» for people with pre-existing conditions — and that Cassidy «lied to [his] face» on the issue.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

Competitors have all come forward with special hot - dog deals and social - media mud - slinging efforts in the last week.

Last May, Sears announced it was putting Craftsman, along with other iconic brands like Kenmore and DieHard, as well as its Sears Home Services repair business, up for sale, in an effort to sell off other attractive assets to maintain financial liquidity.

In its most recent sales update, issued last week, the company said it was «pleased with its performance for the holiday period, showing continued progress in its turnaround efforts.»

The league launched Women Officiating Now, a subset of their recruiting efforts, which focuses on bringing more women to training workshops and sponsors events for female officials, including one last year with the International Women's Football League.

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.

In the last week, a member of Pruitt's press team, Michael Abboud, has been shopping negative stories about Zinke to multiple outlets, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the efforts, as well as correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic.

This is a less - well - explored area but one that CrunchBase is well - suited to address because of its efforts last year to sharpen its data on women co-founders and this year to do the same with data on female venture capitalists.

Working closely with Mexico, our joint efforts resulted in Congress repealing COOL last December.

On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good, as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the hopes of getting them to sign a lease with WeWork.

Last October, Facebook told TechCrunch that it works with NGOs and the local community in Myanmar to communicate its policies there, though its efforts seemed fairly toothless.

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.

Bob Bemis — the former MLS executive hired last year by Zillow to help the company improve its relations with brokers and multiple listing services — has left his position after 18 months, citing frustration in his efforts to obtain direct listing feeds from MLSs on Zillow's behalf.

That includes its ongoing technological efforts to get rid of the most costly part of its business model (the driver) via self - driving car tech; targeting 2020 for a demo of a flying car project called Uber Elevate; and, last week, announced it was pushing into the trucking space with Uber Freight.

Over the last couple of days, as the enormity of this storm was being realized, we have been working to organize relief efforts for the Houston area with our friend Franklin Graham and the disaster relief organization that he oversees, Samaritan's Purse.

In the last election, the Liberals and the Greens were the only parties that had the intellectual integrity to accept this fact, and they made an effort to deal with it.

«Over the last six months, Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations,» Kalanick wrote in a post announcing Jones's hire.

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

He opened the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum - Nano Centre in his hometown of Waterloo, Ontario, last September, financing the effort with a $ 100 million donation.

Under Armour framed its involvement with Trump as focused on the manufacturing initiative, which complements its effort launched in Baltimore last year to test technologies for local production.

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.

The People's Bank of China cut interest rates four times between November and the end of June, with the last of these cuts seen in part as an effort to prop up stock prices.

While with the last company, his efforts and vision led to building of a growth sales structure, starting from a scratch, in a start up like environment.

While these Silicon Valley tech companies set about fixing Puerto Rico's problems, nurses working with the American Federation of Teachers have accused Trump's administration of «neglect,» while Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut last week called for an investigation into the relief efforts by the government.

This effort is part of Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating pathways to opportunity for young people in Phoenix, which includes: the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative hiring fair last fall that helped 1,700 young people connect with jobs and resources needed to improve their lives; a revolutionary partnership with Arizona State University to establish the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, with 6,000 partners (employees) now completing their college degrees with full tuition reimbursement; and two Military Family stores (near Luke Air Force Base and Davis - Monthan Air Force Base) employing many baristas and managers who are veterans and military spouses.

Cross-promotion to Amazon shoppers and new on - demand series rank it top in 2017Amazon's efforts to challenge the supremacy of Netflix are starting to pay off, with Prime Video proving to be the fastest - growing video - on - demand service in the UK last year.New series of The Grand Tour and Transparent, as well as hefty cross-promotion of Prime Video -LSB-...]

With its new basket, Chinese authorities have found a way to weaken their currency while anchoring market expectations in an effort to avoid a market shock similar to that of last August's stock market crash, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report.

Backed into a corner, Blackberry is making one last ditch effort with the Blackberry Priv.