Sentences with phrase «made early attempts»

It's also made early attempts to get users shopping through Messenger, which was a huge focus for Facebook when it launched a bot platform for the app last spring.

After these discoveries, I made an early attempt to combine performance, process, and artifact: it was a painting for Eric Dolphy called Mouthpiece (1992) done by holding the brush in my mouth instead of my hands.

Born in Nice, France, Yves Klein (1928 — 62) created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial.

Born in Nice, France, in 1928, Yves Klein created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial.

Make early attempts at collection and determine whether or not further time and energy are warranted.

Not exact matches

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Users shunned early attempts by Microsoft (msft) and its partners to make tablet - laptop hybrids.

In an attempt to hold on to those shareholders, the company made deeper cuts in the workforce than previously planned and curtailed early - stage research programs.

The ads, which take the form of an apology penned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, attempt to clarify the situation by reiterating that the company has already stopped third - party apps from «getting so much information,» and that Facebook has started «limiting the data apps get when you sign up,» an announcement the company made earlier this past week.

However, we've observed little follow - through from the early price / volume improvements of a week ago, suggesting that even while traders are attempting to catch a potential rally, they are demonstrating little commitment to whatever purchases they are making in this area.

The Old Testament, in its Hebrew and Greek versions, wasn't included, nor were the later chapter and verse divisions (those came in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively), which makes these earliest codices similar, in some ways, to what Green's Bibliotheca project is attempting.

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

If the earlier liberals were guilty of distortion in their attempt to make Jesus over in the image of a historical evolutionist, Albert Schweitzer's work made it impossible for liberal scholarship ever again to ignore the authentically apocalyptic theme which is present in Jesus» teaching.

Certain Christian feminists, in an attempt to make a case for the liberating nature of early Christianity, played off the egalitarian message of Jesus against his Jewish background.

Certainly, as early Protestantism made clear, it had to be studied, as diligently and intelligently as possible, well in advance of any specific attempts to preach.

The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early 20th - century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who attempted to analyze the system of relationships within a language that makes acts of speech possible.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

As I suggested earlier, however, I am attempting to simplify Whitehead's thought considerably for the purpose of making it available to introductory readers.

It seems that the earliest preaching of the resurrection made no attempt to describe the appearances, but rather proclaimed the fact of the resurrection as God's reversal of the disgrace of crucifixion: «the death of Jesus is interpreted as Israel's No to the proclamation of Jesus and the resurrection as God's Yes, his validation of Jesus» message.

It fits in so deeply with the Faith of the Church, takes in the beautiful teaching of the Fathers from early Christianity, and also tries to makes sense of modern science, in much the same way as St Thomas Aquinas attempted to do in the thirteenth century.

The early Church made no attempt to distinguish between the words the earthly Jesus had spoken and those spoken by the risen Lord through a prophet in the community, nor between the original teaching of Jesus and the new understanding and reformulation of that teaching reached in the catechesis or parenesis of the Church under the guidance of the Lord of the Church.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of tAttempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of tattempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

Indeed, on accepting this view of the tradition, one's first impulse is simply to give up the ghost and content oneself with selecting from the earlier strata of the tradition such teaching as is in keeping with one's overall view of the historical Jesus, making no systematic attempt to defend the authenticity of each saying used.

And all of this... is being attempted by virtue of the fact of the very things you claimed to hate earlier in your posting where you said:» What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things without question based on fear.

Second, it was one of the earliest attempts to translate words from the original language into English, made by people who struggled with the original languages.

Various attempts have been made to clear up this apparent contradiction by postulating an earlier Roman census in Palestine, but it can not be said that they have been entirely successful.

But the early Christians made no attempt to work out a philosophy of time.

Yet even before this de-apocalypticization of the faith, the earliest Christians, though - they made no attempt to change society, inevitably challenged it by their very example of «love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control» (Gal.

But it seems to me that Cary, in doing this, is attempting to offset his strong claims made earlier about Barth's role as the «supplanter.»

No attempt was made in the early decades of Islam to convert Christians to Islam.

Goodspeed holds the opinion that the letters were carefully kept by the churches to which they were addressed, perhaps read and reread from time to time, but that there was no attempt made at collecting them until after the appearance of Luke's early history of the church, the Acts of the Apostles, and that it was this which gave the impulse to a revival of interest in Paul, and led to a search for and collection of his extant writings.

There was a report earlier (which I must admit I didn't take seriously) that Man United were set to make a last minute attempt to get Ozil to join Sanchez at Man United, so maybe Arsene Wenger gave the German a take - it - or - leave offer with a deadline of this morning.

If the Chargers had wanted to stay with a 3 - 4 they could have made an early aggressive attempt to bring back Wade Phillips, who was in charge of the Charger defense in it's last glory.

It was rumoured earlier in the week that Usmanov had made a # 1 billion bid for Kroenke's shares, in an attempt to make a takeover bid of the club.

I honestly think it was the referees attempt to make up for the diving yellow he gave Mane earlier.

Having splashed out on Philippe Coutinho earlier this week, the Catalan giants are making serious attempts to strengthen their squad and solidify their position for the long - term future too.

Buy a player early when season tickets are due and then make stupid attempts to potentially buy players i.e Vardy if you wanted him why activate his clause just bid above it and be open like everyone else and say you want him.

However, the 29 - year - old made it clear that there has been a shift in tactics when the team looses possession with the players under instructions to hunt down the opposition in packs in an attempt to win back the ball early — also known as «little furies».

Prior to that finish, however, the R&A made an early announcement that they were not even going to attempt to play 36 holes, or even start the fourth round on Sunday.

This makes a lot of sense for New York, considering Robertson would help them in their attempt to rebuild the bullpen they dealt away at the trade deadline, and that by taking on most of Robertson's salary, they could get a discount for Quintana — one that maybe would allow them to avoid dealing Gleyber Torres and Clint Frazier, a pair of prospects it was reported earlier in the week they don't want to part with to get Quintana.

- Patty Mills had two bad turnovers early in the game, but one of them he made up for by sprinting back in transition and stripping Otto Porter, Jr. on a layup attempt.

In the early going, neither team could seemingly make a shot, including Matt Farrell, whose first field goal attempt after missing 3.5 games with a sprained ankle was a contested layup that did not fall in.

Moussa Sow put an early chance wide and another over as Fenerbahce made a bright start — but they were stunned when Krasnodar took command by scoring from the game's first attempt on target.

He attempted to make a 3 -4-3 work for the Catalans, inspired by the formation played by Johan Cruyff's «Dream Team» in the early 1990s — the side he anchored as its defensive, possession - hungry midfielder.

Leicester City earlier made attempts to sign Musa in January and had a bid turned down by CSKA.

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Simon Mignolet — 5.5 Made a good save early on, coming off his line quickly to smother a Charlie Austin attempt.

Leeds United looked very shaky early on, as Ollie Watkins had a good attempt on goal within the first two minutes after a cross was allowed to go into the box and no one picked up the young forward, only to see his header go wanting and Leeds had to make a hasty clearance.

To be honest, buying a book about dinner WAS an early attempt on my part to make the idea of eating together — one of my hopes / dreams / expectations for our family — even more savory.