Sentences with phrase «long seconds attempting»

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It's a long running debate: is Apple's device - first, cloud - second approach to artificial intelligence a brilliant and differentiating maneuver or simply a weak attempt to keep up constrained by the company's larger business aims that prioritize hardware over software and services?

Critics noted that Bell's first attempt was more than 140 characters long, and so the pastor made a second attempt that went like this:

Will a longer, second chill time be sufficient, or is there something else I ought to try on my next attempt of the recipe?

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) Micah Seaborn made a pair of free throws with 5.0 seconds left on Friday night and Monmouth survived a final shot attempt for a 79 - 78 season - opening win over Bucknell.

With 5 seconds left she swished a free throw and when Team Bartlett's game winning shot attempt struck the rim and went long — Team Bemoras was left victorious!

They will face a significant test from the TCU secondary, and the trick might be getting Shepard the ball on first - and - 10 and attempting a higher than normal percentage of rushes on second - or third - and - long.

He was sacked twice but still averaged a solid 8.0 yards per pass attempt, including sacks; this is even more impressive when you factor in the fact that Penn State couldn't run the ball to save its life (Zach Zwinak and Bill Belton: 30 carries, 80 yards) and he faced a lot of second - and third - and - longs.

On a breezy Athens night she finished a dull fifth in the long jump, each of her last three legal jumps landing shorter than the previous one after she had leapt 22» 53/4» on her second attempt.

The way Ambrose reacted to the title win (his second, after a nearly year - long United States Championship reign from 2013 to 2014) helped add to the prestige rehabilitation WWE is attempting to apply to its secondary belts.

One attempt at simulating the clay - court effect, producing a hard surface with a rough, granulated finish, failed because the ball was not in contact with the court long enough — only.0017 second — to make any appreciable difference.

Being in only my second full season of attempting to attend every week at Spurs (I've only just moved back to the area after a childhood - long absence) I was relishing the chance to go to see us play at Old Trafford, one of the most famous football grounds in the country.

At last year's IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Johnson - Thompson bombed out after failing her long jump attempts and in Gotzis she looked shaky after failing to improve on a modest opening round leap of 6.17 m at the start of the second day.

Prior to Danish centre - back, Andreas Christensen, heading home Raffael's centre early in the second - half, Gladbach were the only team in the league not to have scored from one corner kick this season, at long last hitting paydirt with their 78th attempt of the campaign.

The initiative, now in its second year, is an attempt to improve safety standards while contributing to long - term concussion research.

Instead it suggests two points: first, policy - makers are increasingly concerned about the mushrooming of al - Qaeda - like groups across Syria, which implicates a scenario of long - term internal and cross-border instability; second, it is an attempt to deligitimise Western strategy in Syria by focusing on the openly violent, sectarian and fanatic elements.

The rest of the committee is made up of a number of usual NYS GOP suspects, including businessman Randy Altschuler, who is making a second attempt at unseating Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in Long Island's NY - 1 this fall.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most...

Former Gov. George Pataki has joined the growing group of GOP leaders backing Randy Altschuler's second attempt at unseating Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1 this fall, saying the Long Island businessman «has the kind of experience and common sense we so desperately need in Washington today.»

Second, the families have long believed that some of the authorities attempted to create a completely unjust account of events that sought to blame the fans for what happened.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed Tuesday in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

Former Gov. George Pataki appears to have turned his back on a former campaign aide — not to mention two key members of his own political team — by backing Long Island businessman Randy Altschuler's second attempt to unseat Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in the 2012 1st Congressional District race.

(He's the Republican businessman making a second attempt at ousting Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop on Long Island.

NEW YORK — A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

NEW YORK (AP)- A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

He is overseeing a strategic defence review, attempting to reorganise the Ministry of Defence and dealing with a war that is close to having lasted as long as the First and Second World Wars combined.

A second attempt to detect long - sought Majorana fermions, particles that can act as their own antiparticle, has come up positive, suggesting the strange particles are real.

My girlfriend and I are on our second try now after the intial attempt at long - distance went awry.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, his second sadistic civil war era western in a row, is 187 minutes long and attempts that same downward spiral into mayhem.

After a long summer with the horrid Dursleys, Harry Potter is thwarted in his attempts to board the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year.

Similarly, The World's End, which leaps into action only after its characters have imbibed a few pints, features brawls shot with swooning long takes that track a thrown punch a half - second too late, a delayed reaction that suggests the camera itself attempted the Golden Mile.

Students who attempt to work in a second language themselves will often gain a perspective of how long it takes to fully communicate in a second language.

Understeer never enters the equation, and while this is fun through the tight second - gear stuff, long, quick corners can be sweaty - palmed affairs as you attempt to nudge the nose in towards the apex without tipping the tail into a nasty twitch of turn - in oversteer.

CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: Westward Bound with Momentum In - Hand Five class wins at historic street circuit for sport's leading GT program All four Corvette Racing drivers have won at Long Beach Garcia, Magnussen coming off Sebring GTLM victory Gavin, Milner second in last year's Long Beach GTLM race DETROIT (April 4, 2017)-- Three weeks after winning one of the longest races on its schedule for the 11th time, Corvette Racing will attempt to score a sixth victory iLONG BEACH: Westward Bound with Momentum In - Hand Five class wins at historic street circuit for sport's leading GT program All four Corvette Racing drivers have won at Long Beach Garcia, Magnussen coming off Sebring GTLM victory Gavin, Milner second in last year's Long Beach GTLM race DETROIT (April 4, 2017)-- Three weeks after winning one of the longest races on its schedule for the 11th time, Corvette Racing will attempt to score a sixth victory iLong Beach Garcia, Magnussen coming off Sebring GTLM victory Gavin, Milner second in last year's Long Beach GTLM race DETROIT (April 4, 2017)-- Three weeks after winning one of the longest races on its schedule for the 11th time, Corvette Racing will attempt to score a sixth victory iLong Beach GTLM race DETROIT (April 4, 2017)-- Three weeks after winning one of the longest races on its schedule for the 11th time, Corvette Racing will attempt to score a sixth victory in...

At the same time, Jaguar has outlined the platform strategy that will underpin both its first SUV and its long - awaited second attempt at a direct competitor for the BMW 3 Series.

The second entry in the other long - running Japanese survival horror series does something that very few games attempt, let alone achieve.

That series kicked off for me a second nearly decade long fascination with Conan and his exploits as I attempted to dig up many of the old issues of the Marvel Comics era Conan while continuing to collect the Dark Horse issues as soon as they hit the comic book store shelves.

The graphics are better, developing is easier, the online services are brilliantly designed and built on world - class infrastructure, our digital games marketplace is better, the player experience is better, the joypad (at least at its second attempt, no longer visible from orbit) is a classic.

Does EA's second attempt bring the experience fans have been craving for, or are we in for a long ride with a disappointing shooter?

To try to gain insight on this question, we have first attempted to go beyond the ~ 50 year historical record of Atlantic hurricanes and SST to examine even longer records of Atlantic tropical storm activity and second to examine dynamical models of Atlantic hurricane activity under global warming conditions.

In fairness, though, the longest delays in putting the accused through a trial have little to do with the present case, which is the second attempt at a military commission for the five defendants.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.