Sentences with phrase «making increasing efforts»

With other retailers making increasing efforts to reach out to indies, I feel that Amazon need to do something to increase the attractiveness of the program (or abolish the exclusivity requirement) or people will continue to leave.

Two - thirds of respondents said Canadian businesses need to do more to make LGBT employees feel welcome, with 48 % believing their own employer needed to make an increased effort.

As a union of professional educators, UESF has a responsibility to make an increasing effort to support successful education and seek remedies for unsuccessful educational efforts.

In January 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau introduced the Qualified Mortgage, a loan category that requires lenders to make an increased effort to ensure borrowers will be able to pay back their loans.

Geoengineering Proposals Only Come After Emissions Reductions In conclusion, the report recommends that nations make increased efforts to reduce emissions (at least 50 % below 1990 levels by 2050) as the first step.

Creating an experience As retailers and owners / managers have made increasing efforts to differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace, signage has become a much more important element of the mall environment.

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But the uncomfortable truth is that institutions that want to increase diversity must make an active effort to do it — proclaiming a desire to be more diverse doesn't persuade anyone.

The world's major producers have made a concerted effort to slow the advance of American oil production by increasing the supply and therefore reducing the price.

A variety of factors — including increased demand for luxury goods in emerging markets — amped up exploration and development efforts the world over, and the cost increases that came with intense competition for limited resources made Gannicott anxious.

As an example, if you receive a payment for six months in advance and plan to use that money to increase the sales force, make sure to accomplish this effort in less than six months.

But the strong increase in jobs in January may make it harder to continue to make that case and to prove that his stimulus efforts are needed.

Intuitively, it makes sense that striving to beat someone who competes at or just above our level and with whom we have a long track record will increase both effort and performance; winning is suddenly very personal.

But if you're willing to put some time and effort into making your product work, buying the licensing rights to a well - known product or name can substantially increase your chances for success.

The efforts of those assigned to make someone happy fell short of expectations — leading to less personal happiness — whereas the efforts of those assigned to make someone smile more accurately matched expectations — increasing their happiness.

After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.

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.

Making an effort to claim what's already yours, doing some advertising and taking a hard look at post-click will not just increase your image, it will increase your profit margin, too.

Last year's efforts, featuring the slightly more grim tagline «Make Death Wait,» was a runaway success resulting in 87 % awareness and a 20 % increase in donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

For example, in 1921, Duncan Campbell Scott, the official responsible for the system, sent a letter urging a crackdown: «It is observed with alarm that the holding of dances by the Indians on their reserves is on the increase, and that these practices tend to disorganize the efforts which the Department is putting forth to make them self - supporting.»

But since Fowler's accusations of sexism at the company, the ride - hail player has made a more public effort to be more transparent and increase diversity, including donating a $ 1.2 million grant to Girls Who Code — although that move was not without controversy.

In an effort to increase efficiency and entertain customers, a café in Japan now has a robot that makes a nice cup...

As a result, increasing numbers of public relations firms are making efforts to incorporate SEO into their offerings.

To amplify the number of leads that content generates, you might have made a real effort to make it shareable, meaning others are distributing it via their personal social media profiles, increasing traffic to the landing page.

In an effort to increase awareness in Russia, both companies believe that bitcoin payments should be made simple and that's why they are allowing these new kinds of services to spread across the country.

However, when Pepsi purchased Gatorade in 2001, they made a deal with the FTC that they'd sell off All Sport in an effort to increase competition in the market.

On its fourth - quarter earnings call today, Twitter executives made a significant effort to call out an increase in its DAUs.

While its customer relations are quite commendable, GOptions should make some effort to increase the number of languages available on its platform since it is slowly turning into a global leader in binary trading.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

Though the looming Brexit has put a damper on all things to do with the U.K., Wealthsimple is one of at least five Canadian fintechs making moves across the pond in recent months in response to the U.K.'s increased efforts to attract fintech investment and a collaboration between the Ontario Securities Commission and its local counterpart to facilitate fintech expansion.

«Until ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of oil sands are more successful and widespread, the Final SEIS makes clear that, compared to reference crudes, development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,» the EPA states in a letter made public Tuesday.

Beyond the formal dialogues and the surprising moves of Pope Francis to increase friendship, more efforts should be made at the local level to forge a common witness to the gospel.

As a result, we get an increasing amount of frozen nutrition at rapid sittings - the time, on occasion, being too short for any effort to be made at all at stilling the hunger.

It is worth making an effort to stock one's bookshelves and learn some of the prominent psychological and social theories about LGBT people — not to become a therapist, but as a way of increasing one's awareness of the inner world of LGBT people.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

As part of my week without opinions, I've made an extra effort to listen more carefully to friends with whom I disagree and to increase my exposure to viewpoints other than my own.

The increase in numbers come after a concerted effort by the Church to make the role attractive to Christians.

Efforts, however, are being made to correct it by encouraging the development of a kind of ministry which will overcome some of the common defects, by improving the caliber of professional education available to Negroes and by enrolling an increasing number of Negroes in interracial seminaries.29

If it is not, look for increased legislative efforts to grant bioethics committees the legal right to make the ultimate decision about whether to provide life - sustaining medical treatment.

The failure of an all - in American effort to force a settlement probably will make a swift end to the Fayyad government and give the upper hand to Hamas in the West Bank, with increased Iranian support.

Delicious and requiring practically zero effort if you use canned corn, but absolutely sublime when you have the time to go through the trouble of using fresh cobs, this corn pudding will make you friends, clean your house, and increase your worldwide influence.

«In addition, we're making a big effort to increase our volume and work with our vendors to ensure we're working with the best vendors and getting the best pricing we can,» Zampieri continues.

Farmers for Action (FFA) has threatened a fresh wave of processor - targeted demonstrations across the UK if efforts are not made to increase farm gate milk prices.

In the 1980s, with Russian troops occupying the country, an effort was made to increase food crops, rice, and wheat by means of large community farms.

Their cored, fresh pineapple is a favorite, and a welcome addition to our diets as we make an effort to increase our fruit and vegetable intake after the New Year.

I have seen a huge change in the past 3 years and am so happy restaurants are making an effort and the knowledge level is increasing drastically.

Most of us would like to see him leave on a high so there would be an increased pressure on players to make an effort.

If you plan on leaving that might also have a positive impact in two ways, some players might want to repay Wenger for his undoubted loyalty and start making some effort and some players might start to play for the next manager so they might also increase their effort.

The pressure increases on the front office, from both the fan base and the media, to 1) sign ANYONE to at least give the appearance of being «active», and 2) make a «name» signing... which explains why the signings of a practice - squad LB (Marcus Dowtin), rotational DT (Alan Branch), and a LB whose own team made no effort to resign despite his supposed versatility (Manny Lawson) were spun as «fantastic» — and why the signing of an oft - injured QB who flamed out on two teams (Kevin Kolb) was hailed.

Overall I feel that we have made a conscious effort in our board meetings to block the increase of our tickets and in seven of the past 10 years we have not increased our prices.