Sentences with phrase «make efforts in this direction»

Be energetic in your search: The person concerned should be willing to make efforts in this direction which means being positive and showing warmth to a new beginning.

Attempts to get scientists with different perspectives to talk to each other have met with limited success; Climate Dialogue has made some efforts in this direction, but it has been a big challenge to get scientists from the «warm» side to participate.

I believe my proficiency of programming skills, profound knowledge of software designing makes me a creditable applicant who is prepared to make every effort in the direction of noteworthy input towards the enhancement of the organization.

Not exact matches

Our efforts at increasing transparency have resulted in our employees feeling a greater sense of ownership in the direction of the company, and it has improved decision - making across all levels and units of the organization.

In a statement, Target CEO Brian Cornell tried explaining the move with a buzzword gumbo of «accountability,» «speed up decision making,» «new direction» and «advance our efforts.»

The efforts made in this direction tend to support Whitehead rather than Einstein.

Also encouraging is the current, however tentative, effort to make the staff of the USCC, which has at times been notoriously partisan in a leftward direction, more accountable to the bishops.

During the Reformation era efforts were made in that direction, but most Protestant churches did not succeed in developing the procedures and institutions necessary to securing within their confessional families the continuity of representative teaching.

While that's all positive and are steps in the right direction, the lack of trophies has made them an easy target, and that also arguably has a negative impact on keeping their best players who will be desperate to secure silverware to have something to show for their efforts.

A team is made up of individuals pulling in the same direction, not 10 players and one with an agenda (who potentially) can undermine the efforts of the team.

This was a bold effort not because Miliband decided to lead his party in one direction or another, but because he was prepared to say things which would make every part of his party feel deeply uncomfortable.

«The redistricting efforts we made were so that the community could have a stronger voice,» said James Hong, of the MinKwon Center, in downtown Flushing, who added that the final lines were not ideal but at least a step in the right direction.

We can not relax our efforts to make the economy safe... Britain is heading in the right direction.

This strong physical urge makes us take the first steps in the right direction — we take certain efforts to find ladies and to communicate with them.

Instead of getting pulled out in several directions, they make their partner a major priority and make more efforts to stay closer.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Pollack is to be commended for not falling into that trap, but in his effort to make the audience understand Silvia and Tobin he's gone too far in the other direction.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challengeIn conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challengein the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

This may be a face - saving effort, but since it'd be close to impossible to make Oscar voters less diverse, almost anything Isaacs does will be in a step in the right direction.

«The Exorcist» is one of the best movies of its type ever made; it not only transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural, but it transcends such serious, ambitious efforts in the same direction as Roman Polanski's «Rosemary's Baby.»

Though it will still take time, effort, and money to make this access across residential communities a practical reality, the state is headed in the right direction.

But this also parallels our experience in the United States: continuing in the right direction toward reform, making some mid-course corrections, with more effort still needed.

An alternative strategy that Presidents Bush and Obama could have embraced would have been a choice - based approach, but only weak efforts have been made in that direction, Peterson says.

Amy Baker, a LAUSD parent, criticized the state for making «no effort to improve our broken teacher evaluation system» and asked the committee to pass the bill because it was «a modest step in the right direction.»

As wrenching as some of the efforts Reuters and Bloomberg have made in this direction, Brian O'Leary points out in The future of news that those have usually been geared toward packaging content consumers would want to pay for.

On the other hand I've often considered opening my own small press (which is actually, basically what I do on Creativindie Covers) so that I can take over author's publishing efforts and strenuously steer them in the most profitable direction, rather than letting them make poor decisions.

It won't hurt to think of what you are going to say to put direction in your writing and make your readers realize that indeed you are correct or reading your work is worth their time and effort.

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Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.»

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Investors will appreciate the fact that we make no effort to forecast future market trends or direction, but rather attempt to capture profits in these trends when and where they develop.»

Trade publication Travel Market Report states, «Until now, the general consensus was that the states would be allowed to progress slowly, as long as they were making some effort in the right direction.

You can't really fault the effort that's been made here, and each adjustment nudges Battlefront 2 firmly in the right direction.

No matter what marginalized artists do, their identity continues to box them in, while various institutions make misguided efforts in directions that don't lead to ameliorating entrenched biases or, in some cases, outright hostility.

That means, when does it stop making sense to put in the effort of promoting and extracting fossil fuels, because the demand is going in the wrong direction?

Nevertheless, it is possible to make a good faith effort in that direction, and I believe that the IPCC text does represent a good faith effort to present a simplified model of the truth.

Efforts are already being made in this direction (UNESCO — IHA 2010, Bastviken 2015).

The greatest leap we could collectively make in the right direction at this late hour is to fully expose and halt the ongoing climate engineering insanity. Geoengineeringwatch.org continues to do our best to provide the tools and information necessary to assist activists in their efforts to wake those around them to the geoengineering assault, please, help us to sound he alarm.

We hope that they will keep making efforts to move in the right direction and correct the things that are still wrong with their business.

Our driving school is making an effort to steer in another direction.

China's efforts in this direction have made little progress so far, and a state - backed digital currency could help.

In order to exploit fully the potential of these digital initiatives, additional efforts have been made in this direction by Toyota Financial Services which is the financial arm of automotive giant Toyota Motor CorporatioIn order to exploit fully the potential of these digital initiatives, additional efforts have been made in this direction by Toyota Financial Services which is the financial arm of automotive giant Toyota Motor Corporatioin this direction by Toyota Financial Services which is the financial arm of automotive giant Toyota Motor Corporation.

Know where you want to go, what their needs are, and what makes you valuable to them, so you can focus all your job search efforts — including networking and job interviewing — and all your personal marketing in one direction.

However, it doesn't make sense to invest a lot of one's efforts in this direction when the results can be dismal.

This chapter shows that language preservation is possible when nations make a concerted effort to coordinate efforts and move in a consistent direction in their policy and practice.

We can't just sit idly by as things drift worse and worse, we need to make effort in the right direction.

I have to make a more concerted effort to herd people in this direction.