Sentences with phrase «many attempts at»

The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

For instance, a keyboard model will be the first smartphone to emerge under the Foxconn agreement after the failed attempt at the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 earlier this year.

They found those traits in an unlikely man — a cypherpunk, part - coder, part - activist, who boasts of holding a world record for the most failed attempts at building a business around peer - to - peer, decentralized file sharing.

It should surprise no one that every attempt at resolution has failed.

Trump's second attempt at a travel ban is already suffering a similar fate to his first, with a federal judge in Hawaii blocking its nationwide implementation.

Startup founders aren't especially worried, though, because they see the law as a nod to change rather than a realistic attempt at reform.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

The Daily, an abortive attempt at a tablet newspaper launched by News Corp. in 2011 (at an estimated cost of more than $ 60 million) was updated several times a day.

Here are a few lessons I learned from my first attempt at running a business, making my second time around much smoother.

It seemed like an amateur and ham - handed attempt at press management, but it was pretty harmless.

So we dropped the main engine, the upper - stage engine, the airframes, the fairing, and the launch system, and had our first attempt at launch in 2006, which failed.

The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.

This isn't Fitbit's first attempt at a smartwatch, but watching Apple's growth in the market has definitely helped inform the fitness startup's design choices.

Or, worse yet, they mostly involved an attempt at direct selling.

Numerous outlets characterized the audience's response as «tepid,» highlighting the dead hush that followed her attempts at humour.

Home Capital's attempts at messaging fell flat, too.

In all probability, there would be no summit attempt at all.

Like his first attempt at taking over the small town of Leith, North Dakota, the white supremacist's plans for Antler are being thwarted by the town's residents.

Kipchoge's attempt at running a sub-two hour marathon — alongside Lelisa Desisa and Zersenay Tadese — was considered a «moonshot» by athletic gear maker Nike (nke).

So far, U.S. President Barack Obama's attempts at nuance on the Keystone XL pipeline issue have impressed no one: not the oil industry, not environmentalists and certainly not Canadians.

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

Donald and Melania's hands are once again drawing eyes all over the world, after yet another botched attempt at a public display of affection.

Most governments of developed countries have spent the last several years attempting at all costs to keep their economies out of recession, and in doing so appear to have taken their eye of inflation.

After days of exchanging emails and failed attempts at contacting the company by phone I realized I was stuck with a lemon.

Poke, Facebook's failed first attempt at developing a Snapchat competitor, was essentially a direct rip - off of the service.

It's Google's attempt at creating targeted groups more like what TV advertisers are used to.

He was promptly roasted for his attempt at humor.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self - ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the «punishment of history» for any attempt at separatism.

My first attempt at homemade brunch may not have been as «Insta - worthy» as $ 16 avocado toast, but everyone was well - fed and happy, and my friends didn't spend a penny.

Independent security researcher Harri Hursti said past attempts at tokenization have encountered exceptions that make the idea of disposable, proxy account numbers much more complex than it may seem at first glance.

Up to 40 percent of nurses miss the patient's vein on their first attempt at taking blood.

So, too, have its recent attempts at recovery, which are not only more inspiring but also provide valuable lessons even for those of us who are not trying to resuscitate an entire metropolitan area.

This user - behavior approach is particularly useful for protecting against insider threats — attempts at hacking or sabotage from employees or contractors who have regular access to a network.

There have been clean - ups and attempts at rectifying past mistakes — although the increasingly ideological and paranoid turn of the party - state may be obstructing these efforts.

(Upshot currently is aligned with FiveThirtyEight puts; the blog says Clinton is about as likely to lose as a kicker in the National Football League is to miss an attempt at a field goal.)

By comparison, Logan Paul's younger brother has always been considered slightly more polarizing, particularly for his attempts at a rap career and his feud with his neighbors, whose complaints about Jake's antics led to his firing from Disney.

Or pick up Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent.

Cable companies are trying to appeal to younger users with so - called «skinny bundles» and other attempts at streaming services.

Subiaco - based Lithex Resources will make a second attempt at a backdoor listing, announcing plans to acquire an Israel - based battery technology company in a deal worth $ 28.7 million.

Failure to so will result in a failed attempt at cultural transformation.

Gleneagle Gold will make a second attempt at a reverse takeover with plans to buy a local unlisted medical cannabis company in a deal worth about $ 8 million.

Wild Acre Metals has flagged a second attempt at acquiring technology company Nuheara after the target completed a working prototype of its wearable IQbuds hearing product.

Like the Italians who used to declare, «At least Mussolini made the trains run on time,» this CEO's half - hearted attempts at paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at all.

As seen in the case of Uber, silence, or attempts at partial neutrality, can have political repercussions because customers are no longer satisfied with neutrality.

Former «Bachelor» Arie Luyendyk Jr. apologized after his attempt at an April Fools» Day Prank didn't land well.

Yet another attempt at an immigration deal between lawmakers and the Trump administration floundered over the weekend as lawmakers rushed to cobble together a $ 1.3 trillion spending deal ahead of Friday's government shutdown deadline.

If we're indeed a simulation, then that would be a logical possibility, that what we're measuring aren't really the laws of nature, they're some sort of attempt at some sort of artificial law that the simulators have come up with.

Virginia, fearing attempts at poisoning, made it a capital offense for slaves to prepare or administer medicine.

Any attempt at preventive war will harm U.S. interests, making nuclear conflict profoundly more likely.