Sentences with phrase «many misguided efforts»

«We need to mobilize and galvanize the seismic outcry and outrage that should follow this kind of misguided effort.

That's also more than three times higher than the median 2.1 percent down payment seen in the fourth quarter of 2006, «when riskier lending was taking hold in a misguided effort to extend the housing boom,» he notes.

It's time intensive, but learning about the buyer will save your team time wasted on misguided efforts.

So, blocking access to the GW Bridge may simply have been a misguided effort to stanch the outflow.

It also seems that in the concept of buyer personas, there has been misguided efforts to engage in an oversimplified process of creating a composite of many data points.

But this is where their misdirected devotion and their misguided efforts for security lead them.

In a misguided effort to close the gap between the «the two cultures,» humanists join the sciences in denying privileged status to inherited belief.

The Christian myths of creation and of the last things can then be dismissed as primitive cosmology, while all talk of miracles can be treated as a misguided effort at scientific explanation.

The Satanic Temple continues to mine the worst tricks from church subculture in what is either a misguided effort to win new followers or an attempt at parody.

A pastor once told me that looking to the Psalms for solidarity in doubt is a misguided effort because David eventually resolved all his questions to find peace in God.

Through arguments that are too intricate and extensive to summarize here, Rorty shows how a series of philosophers, including especially Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, but also including Wilfred Sellars, Hilary Putnam, and Thomas Kuhn, have exposed foundationalism as a fundamentally misguided effort.

These misguided efforts to defend a compromised bishop have now ended in humiliation — for both Finn and his supporters.

Thank you for the probably well - intended advice and misguided effort of telling me how I feel.

«It's time for Republicans to stop their misguided efforts to destroy the progress we've made and get to work on common sense solutions that will help all Americans receive the quality, affordable care they deserve.»

«Rather than wasting significant taxpayer money on a misguided effort to preserve an indefensible system, the city should be working with TENNY to fix it,» the council members wrote.

In a misguided effort to enhance economic productivity, Nicolae Ceausescu decreed in 1966 that Romania would develop its «human capital» via a government - enforced mandate to increase the country's population.

Of course, we must also avoid the facile and misguided efforts to find correspondences between the «days» and scientific geological ages.

Particularly excited about the oil cleansing product, I have stripped my skin of oils up until recently in a misguided effort to control breakouts.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

Stone's misguided efforts to turn Alexander into a drama of Shakespearean proportions undoubtedly plays a big role in the film's wildly uneven tone, which flits wildly between talky period piece and flamboyant melodrama (often within the space of a few scenes).

So there you have it: 2K9 comes off as a misguided effort to streamline the experience and create gameplay where realism comes before responsiveness.

And while there are admittedly a handful of eerie interludes sprinkled throughout - ie the fate of John Leguizamo's character - The Happening remains a misguided effort that bears few similarities to such prior Shyamalan successes as Signs and The Village.

In a slightly misguided effort to present a more unified story, however, Jackson has incorporated a grand skirmish only related in a supplementary work (The Silmarillion), as well as one too many scenes that express the importance of an event in vain.

Sharing an apartment with three fellow offenders (Michael Peña, Tip «T.I.» Harris, and David Dastmalchian), it's only a matter of time before Scott reverts to crime in a misguided effort to obtain visitation rights to see his young daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson).

And then it doesn't land and then you realize, oh, this was a misguided effort, for whatever reason.»

Had the government, in a well - intentioned but misguided effort to ensure that everyone had access to a mobile phone, mandated that mobile phones could be sold for no more than $ 100, the iPhone might not have been developed.

A friend, mentor, and my co-author in an upcoming piece about White teachers who wish to develop anti-racist ways of being, Shelly Tochluk, cites a time when she wore a lappa (African skirt), an ankh around her neck, and carried a djembe to class in a misguided effort to connect.

They have to respond to misguided efforts at accountability, and (Common Core) learning standards forced upon them without curricula designed to enable students to master the standards.

Limiting the current State and Local Tax deduction and providing tax - advantages for private school tuition accounts are misguided efforts and a significant step in the wrong direction.

Teachers should be given the resources to identify and prevent school violence before it ever happens, not be armed in a misguided effort that endangers even more bystanders as they attempt to shoot unstable students in a gunfight.

This misguided effort must be rejected.

However, misguided efforts and a thrilling drive led us to a wonderful revelation: that FCA did its homework here.

Authors who insert themselves intrusively into the story in a misguided effort to explain the meaning of what's happening and control how the reader responds to the characters and action.

In his misguided efforts, Andrew Bogan, a money manager in Boston, used the SPDR Retail ETF (NYSEArca: XRT) as the ultimate example of what's wrong with ETFs.

This may be a misguided effort to make the parent of a lost pet feel better, but do not give them money either.

In a clearly misguided effort to stem or at least lessen the impact of showrooming, this retailer has begun charging customers a $ 5 fee just to enter the store, promising to apply the fee to any purchases made during the visit.

Users turn to these sites in a misguided effort to save more on their travel, completely unaware that they're likely sacrificing all of their hotel rewards in the process.

The story mode should have been the same five paths interspersed with more battles to serve as what needed to be accomplished to unlock the next storyline piece — as it stands now, what's presented just comes off as a disappointingly lazy and misguided effort.

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.

But most cases of nonprofit mismanagement involve breaches of fiduciary duty, not criminal behavior, often rooted in a sincere if ultimately misguided effort to help.

We are also concerned about the way Trump would build the wall by overriding environmental review — a tactic he promised to extend to other infrastructure projects in a misguided effort to speed up construction.

So the issues are very much broader than the trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars which the states are being forced to devote to the misguided effort to tear down fossil fuel plants and replace them with much more expensive and much less reliable wind and solar plants which will have no measurable impact on climate or anything else other than the profits of the solar / wind industries.

He leaves no excuse for the public and policy makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on global climate change.»

Into this scene enter serial data deleter Patrick Michaels and his fossil fuel - funded Cato Institute political think tank, which have released a voluminous report attempting to undermine the endangerment finding, with their misguided efforts of course being promoted by the usual climate denial enablers.

This is not to mention the substantial rise in food costs that will continue as long as governments continue their misguided efforts to promote and subsidize food - based ethanol as a global warming solution.

We seem to be suffering from some kind of mass hysteria similar to the Y2K phenominom resulting in mostly misguided efforts like spending so much time on this issue and so much money on so many other desperate endevours which will almost surely result in many unintended negative consequences while doing almost nothing to actually accomplish the intended result.

If AGW is an overblown and fallacious theory, then any misguided efforts to confront AGW will at a minimum reduce living standards for the entire planet for generations to come.

These misguided efforts may also help to seriously starve plants during the next ice age.

Media commentator Jeff Jarvis calls this a «misguided effort to play hall monitor to the blogosphere.»

I was going to write something about the misguided effort by California voters to attempt to recall Judge Aaron Persky in response to his light sentence on convicted sexual assaulter Brock Turner, arguing that anyone supporting such efforts can not complain when state judges are removed or non-retained in response to, for example, pro-LGBTQ rulings (e.g., three members of the Supreme Court of Iowa in 2010).