Sentences with phrase «made other attempts»

Researchers have made other attempts to harness the public's computers or mobile phones for earthquake detection, mostly using their power - hungry connection to the global GPS network, but it has been hard to keep users, especially when software updates interfere with ease of use.

The national VA system had made other attempts to combat risky opioid use before OSI, including guidelines for prescribing, but the new research shows OSI greatly accelerated the downward trend.

I even started making a demo disk that I wanted to send to Nintendo in the hopes of securing a job with them, but life in general prevented the completion of the demo or making any other attempts at that dream.

Not exact matches

Other reports soon emerged, including one employee who alleged Conyers had made inappropriate contact, such as «rubbing on her shoulders, kissing her forehead, making inappropriate comments, covering and attempting to hold her hand,» the Post said.

Lesson: Attempting to make money on and exploit others» suffering in times of crisis can cause serious backlash.

In his letter, The Wall Street Journal reported, Kemp asked the department to confirm whether a scan attempt was made, who authorized the scan and whether the department was scanning other state systems without authorization.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

The entrepreneur behind a leftover - saving plate attempts to make the sharks bid against each other.

But others have lauded Netflix's attempt to strip away processes, empower employees, and trust them to make decisions as «responsible adults.»

«You are the most diverse class in Northeastern's history — in other words, you are Donald Trump's worst nightmare... I think that everything that we've lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.

Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

The central bank then embarked on a program called quantitative easing, purchasing U.S. Treasuries in an attempt to make other assets, primarily stocks, more expensive.

The new guidance is of a piece with other recent regulatory moves China has been making as it attempts to limit the reach of the bitcoin industry — like shutting down local bitcoin exchanges and outright banning ICOs.

To be perfectly honest, I don't think you're making an honest attempt to listen and understand the arguments others were making.

If anything, this will show other potential customers that you are listening and attempting to make up for any less - than - satisfactory experiences.

He had requested the police to seize his passport to stop him from making any attempt to flee the country as he and others suspected his story to be false and a diversion from the real incident.

Like some of its other attempts to diversify its product offerings, the move to make solar panels became a right - decision, wrong - time story.

On the other side of the coin, we see marketing and sales making attempts to adapt.

The combination of fear, social proof [other investors are selling], loss aversion [we feel losses twice as much as gains] and recency bias [we overweigh what has happened recently and underweigh or ignore the long term evidence] counteract the average investors attempt to make a rational decision.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

We should stop attempting to make others believe in whatever we believe; we should just cooperate and try to make things better for all of us, regardless of philosophical or religious beliefs.

As such Islam is far superior to atheism and other man - made attempts at defining violence.

«HotAirAce Making, or attempting to make, any law because The Babble, or any other Holy Book of Nonsense says that's the way it should be.»

Making, or attempting to make, any law because The Babble, or any other Holy Book of Nonsense says that's the way it should be.

When did «religious freedom» become synonymous with «free to tell others how to live, free to discriminate, free to dictate to women what to do with their bodies, free to attempt to create a theocracy, free to make laws based on your religion, and solely your religion».

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

I would wager you have made absolutely NO attempt to balance your «studies» with sources from the other side.

@tea: i still do not understand why all you jesus freaks insist on making darwin the point of your anti-evolution propaganda when he only placed the first stone; hundreds if not thousands of other sciectists have refined and attempted to debunk the progess of evolution along the way and all have failed to.

I wouldn't be surprised if she had been Catholic all along only to make such an announcement and get the attention she has — in an attempt to convert / affirm others who question.

Disappointingly, despite my not - so - discreet attempts to attract their attention, not one of them looked in my general direction, nor did I observe them make actual eye contact with any other guests.

Making yourself feel better at the attempted expenese of others isn't a good Lenten option.

My decision and the «church» has made no attempt to call me back, so it must have been no big deal for the vicar and his other leadership team!

In a culture of self - absorption built on doubts about our own self - worth, we desperately attempt to make ourselves appealing to others» dieting, exercising, nipping, and tucking» and appear as young, beautiful, and useful as all the bodies and faces that fill our magazines, billboards, and television screens.

He said: «If more Christians... were more active in making sure they did write to people like Boots, but also any other group that is attempting to expand the use of this sort of drugs, they would have an effect as well.»

Too frequently the attempt is made to teach Christian morality without foundations other than the ordinary assumptions of our culture.

I resist your attempt to control and I push back and challenge you to consider what it is that is driving you to be a pastor — is it out of desire to dominate others and make the weak, or is it a calling from God that you are being equipped by God for, not trusting in your understanding, but in submission to God and in him directing your steps (no need to answer).

For instance, when in the course of discussion it is clear that the one receiving such admonishment actually disagrees with the point being made, then continued dogging attempts to force the other party to change does indeed become «manipulative coercion».

I agree with Gary's point: «when in the course of discussion it is clear that the one receiving such admonishment actually disagrees with the point being made, then continued dogging attempts to force the other party to change does indeed become «manipulative coercion.»»

Piaget has observed, far example, that the two - to four - year - old child is aware that in a sense his ludic symbols are not real for others, and he makes no serious attempt to persuade the adult that they are.

Misrepresenting others in a transparent attempt to bolster your position is what makes you a bad person.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

In this regard, therefore, the other categories of the organic philosophy represent an attempt to make explicit what is implicitly asserted in the Category of the Ultimate.

They were written by other authors in an attempt to make Paul's radical theology more compatible with the culture and theology of the Roman Empire.

They fall into two general categories: the minister's disciplining of himself, in both his personal and his professional dimensions, to the intent of making his ministry effective; and the minister's attempts, with other people to evoke appropriate self - discipline.

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.

This was to be an edifying discourse of the sort proposed by Richard Rorty, in which we joined with other researchers and educators in an attempt to make sense of the multidimensional aspects of human experience.

In the published version of the play, on the other hand, they enter later, say less, and make no attempt to mitigate his suffering.

Wouldn't he be more of hypocrite if he just stood on one side (of his beliefs) throwing stones at the other side without at least listening and making an attempt to understand.

If it is the interaction between man and man which makes possible authentic human existence, it follows that the precondition of such authentic existence is that each overcomes the tendency toward appearance, that each means the other in his personal existence and makes him present as such, and that neither attempts to impose his own truth or view on the other.