Sentences with phrase «long effort led»

Internal documents show how the rule is the culmination of a years - long effort led by Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the House Science Committee, and other industry - aligned politicians and political appointees.

The SRC is a unique annual event which is a culmination of a year - long effort led by a team of doctoral students to provide master's and doctoral students — both at HGSE and beyond — an opportunity to both present and engage in discussions about ongoing education research.

Not exact matches

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

Facebook's China whisperer bows out Wang - Li Moser, Facebook's lead liaison with Beijing has left the company in December, complicating the social network's long - running effort to gain greater access to the China 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.

Marketing efforts start long before there's a lead and long after the lead becomes a customer.

Ten years later, in another bipartisan effort, this time led by President Ronald Reagan and Senator Russell Long, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 altered the tax incentives to make ESOPs with modest levels of generally 5 - 20 % of employee stock ownership attractive to publicly traded stock market corporations.

You'll also begin to identify patterns around the types of customers who stick around the longest so you can better target them in your lead generation efforts and prioritize them in the sales process.

Every B2B lead generation effort that produces great business leads is also going to produce a certain percentage of «unqualified» sales leads, and as long as your «unqualified» sales leads are less than 10 % of total sales leads (this percentage may be higher, depending on your industry), you should accept this as a cost of doing business and move on to the next thing on your schedule.

Despite the laudable efforts of Archbishop William Levada, Catholics were left out in the lead too long in Oregon, with disastrous results.

Canadians have maintained a slight lead over efforts in the United States, partly because several of the early gurus of mass media, including Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, taught in Canada, and partly because Canada has a long tradition of media responsiveness to public interest, including the Canadian Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting System.

The events of these two decades — including Galileo's brilliant effort to harmonize science and scripture in his «Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,» the Church's disastrous decree of 1616 branding Copernicanism as heretical, the tolerant pontificate of Urban VIII that encouraged Galileo to write the Dialogue and allowed its publication, Urban's reversal of mind that led to the cruel and irrational trial and conviction — constitute one of the most important chapters in the long history of the interplay of science and religion.

Long operated as a tourist attraction, Pawnee burial pits near Salina, Kansas, were covered over a few months ago — thanks largely to the efforts of attorney Walter Echo - Hawk, himself a Pawnee and a leading lobbyist for the repatriation movement.

Over the long term, these efforts lead to more fish, so that our oceans can heal themselves and keep up with demand.

Their generational efforts in responsible viticulture are reflected in the high quality of Lodi Rules ™ sustainable grapes, which in turn have led to a long list of award - winning wines, found here.

The leading fast - casual concept, known for its better - for - you food and smoothies with a tropical twist, is launching a 25 Days of Giving social campaign beginning December 1st in an effort to raise funds, awareness and recognition for a long standing partner of the brand, Camp Sunshine.

Everton have taken a deserved lead against Lille in their Europa League tie at Goodison Park, with long - serving midfielder Leon Osman striking home a fine effort at the far post — but did Lille have a point with their furious protestations over a potential handball by Osman?

Wenger has been tracking the 25 year old Westfalenstadion star for some months and a long term injury to forward Olivier Giroud has led to the French boss stepping up his efforts to land the former Borussia Monchengladbach star.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

SI's least - lonely long - distance runner, Hal Higdon, noted that «it is harder to explain a marathon than to run one,» but he has done both with unflinching verve, and Ron Delany, now a businessman in his native Dublin, recently recalled the years of effort that led to his glory at Melbourne.

However the youngster couldn't do much about Bertrand Traore's long - ranged effort that gave Chelsea the lead.

Jordan Ponticelli produced a long range effort to give Coventry a two goal lead at half time.

Enyimba returned from the half time break needing to overturn Sundowns one goal lead and 16 minutes into the half Dare Ojo leveled for Enyimba with his trademark long range effort similar to the one he scored against Abia Warriors in the Nigeria Professional Football League.

Captain Ben Jackson gave Town the lead with a long range effort but two second half strikes from The Lions sent them home with all three points.

Hopefully science leads to truth rather than profit or it isn't worth the effort of calculations in the long run cause a man can't survive the eye of a hurricane.

Meanwhile, the EU should focus on amplifying its long - term leverage in both Moldova and Transnistria by increasing the resources devoted to Moldova, and coordinating its approach with Ukraine, which will lead the OSCE resolution effort in 2013.

Meanwhile FEMA Adminstrator Brock Long named Justo Hernández as the Federal Coordinating Officer to lead the recovery effort for Hurricane Irma in the affected areas.

Combined efforts of NYSERDA, New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in 2012 led to the successful installation of more than 58 megawatts (MW) of PV in the State, nearly doubling the amount of customer - sited PV installed in 2011.

de Blasio emphasized the preliminary nature of his information on the investigation, but pointed out that New York City has long had stringent laws on abating lead paint and a resulting longterm NYCHA effort on abatement.

In his goodwill message, the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, who lauded the efforts of the present government said, since the inception of the APC administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, it is clear that it is no longer business as usual in Nigeria.

«At these visits, the Vice President will lead high - level delegations of the Federal Government that will interact with leaders and representatives of the oil - producing communities in continuation of ongoing outreach efforts of the Buhari administration towards a long lasting and permanent resolution of the Niger Delta crisis.

Governor Paterson charged the Task Force with finding ways to enhance current efforts to prevent and eliminate childhood lead poisoning through increased coordination of activities and utilization of existing resources, including actions that could be taken immediately as well as longer - term strategies.

Locally, Todd championed the effort to reopen an emergency room on Long Beach Barrier Island, succeeded in stopping National Grid from charging Sandy victims for gas connections when rebuilding their homes, and led the opposition to the Port Ambrose offshore LNG terminal.

Finally, on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at a meeting held at the Palisades Center, the collective efforts of the Bi-Partisan Rockland County and New Yrork State elected officials, the many Rockland commuter - citizens who showed up to protect their interests, as well as the long - term efforts of this newspaper, led to a victory to restore this vital express bus service!

Democrats have long held sizable numeric advantages in the State Assembly but have been thwarted in efforts to win control of the Senate, which is currently led by a coalition of Republicans and a five - member group of breakaway Democrats.

Long said she wanted to draw attention to the refugees because immigration is an issue in her election against Schumer, who led an effort to pass a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate.

This led to a years - long effort that Wyndham spearheaded in which AAAS established 17 multidisciplinary organizations seeking to outline ways scientific organizations, across disciplines, could consistently deliver quality education in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine and boost the diversity of those participating in the field.

This past July Russ George served as chief scientist on a cruise to fertilize the northeastern Pacific Ocean with iron — the latest in a long string of similar, and usually controversial, efforts he has led.

Rossetto has been leading a collaborative effort to create a better experimental setup for generating model tsunami waves in the lab, something she had been told was impossible due to tsunamis» extremely long wavelengths.

As we are now able to focus our efforts on improving the overall patient experience and reducing the risk of relapse, the leading cause of death after transplant, we have greatly improved long - term survival outcomes for patients who before might not have had another treatment option.»

«To me, it was a victorious moment that finally justified a long - term effort, going through multiple trials and errors,» says Yoon, lead author of the paper in Nature Nanotechnology.

As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time characterized a protein involved in making a glycolipid compound found in the TB cell wall, which is critical for the disease - causing Mycobacterium to become infectious.

The study, published today in Science, led by researchers from UCL, the Natural History Museum and UNEP - WCMC, found that levels of biodiversity loss are so high that if left unchecked, they could undermine efforts towards long - term sustainable development.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

Previous efforts to link Western wildfires with climate change have hinted at a profound relationship but led to unconvincing results, largely because long lists of factors influence ignition and wildfire properties.

Their tireless efforts and determination have allowed many to lead fuller, healthier and longer lives.

A friend's request to meet for a «quick drink» led to my long explanation about my no - alcohol decision, and the few times I made an effort to meet friends at a bar were pretty exhausting.

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This leads to a longer signup process, but the efforts are rewarded with an accurate personality evaluation, which can be accessed via a digital book in your account.

Continuing the welcome trend toward more female - focused efforts, this new NBC series features three excellent actors long overdue for lead roles: Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Mae Whitman (Parenthood), and Retta (Parks And Rec).