Sentences with phrase «many past efforts»

Veteran entrepreneurs used to bury past efforts that didn't work out, training themselves to deftly talk around the unsuccessful ventures on their CVs.

If they didn't see results, explain to them what's wrong with their past effort and how you could make it better.

Separate work by Wellesley University researchers details dozens of past efforts to influence Google search results and Facebook news feeds.

They either perfect and repeat past efforts or abolish strategies that clearly did not work.

To investors, past efforts don't count, only results.

And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.

Consider the value, for example, of calculating marketing ROI by analyzing past efforts or of generating future sales and marketing results with predictive analytics.

Do you have a book of business that a buyer will value and pay you for your past efforts?

While the positive results of past efforts have been limited, they have nevertheless been real.

In so doing, they sought also to move beyond past efforts at unity from a single imperial center.

An intensive seven - month investigation by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele reveals some of the negative aspects of past efforts.12 More than $ 172 billion has been spent since World War II in overseas assistance.

That involves both knowledge of the history of past efforts at the same task and knowledge of scholarly study (i.e., «external history») of the church's internal history.

We can learn much from the history of past efforts to describe what grace does, but we have much yet to learn.

Past efforts to strike trade agreements have been stymied by the EU's generous protections for its farmers.

There will always be people that criticise Almunia for his past efforts — the 4 - 2 loss to United back in 2005, the Champions League final loss to Barcelona — but the simple fact is that he has become one of the top four goalkeepers in England.

«She learns about instructions, teamwork, camaraderie, collaboration, competition and motivation as she pushes past her effort to win.

Any past efforts at sharing services that could be counted toward the rebate program would be judged by the state Division of Budget.

Finally, PopVox doesn't charge organizations to participate, unlike at least one past effort to aggregate information on issues (National Journal's now - defunct Policy Council).

Democratic strategists say it's too early to say whether campaigns themselves would use the issue in widespread television advertising buys, especially given that past efforts to get Congress to expand background checks have proved futile — even following mass shooting events.

«I can tell you that in private meetings with the speaker, the Senate majority leader and the governor, our past efforts to maintain a personal and supportive relationship was critical in shaping the outcome» of legislation,» wrote Spinola, in a portion of a memo that was obtained by the New York Times.

The Republican effort, as similar past efforts, failed to draw more than a few of the critical Democratic votes needed to pass the resolutions.

At the end of a news conference featuring both men in New Jersey, Christie pointed to the past efforts he and Cuomo have collaborated on in times of crisis, saying they've been able to work well together.

«Our discussions were constructive, creative, and also conscious of past efforts we've taken at all levels to collaborate and increase efficiency wherever possible, so we had a strong dialogue from the beginning,» County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.

Speaking at Thursday's SUNY board meeting, Cuomo referenced his past efforts to advance women's rights in New York: the Women's Equality Act, a 10 - point bill that has failed to pass the Legislature for two sessions because of a controversial abortion plank.

However, his intimate personal ties to Percoco, his tight control over the state university board, his past efforts to obstruct State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's oversight of SUNY contracting and the hundreds of thousands of dollars his campaign has reaped from the parties charged have raised countless questions about his awareness of the alleged illegal dealings.

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

Southold Town Supervisor delivered his annual «State of the Town» address Thursday night, noting past efforts and changes to come, including a new site for the Justice Court.

Wyman's past efforts to bring heath care to children around Connecticut contributed to the HUSKY health plan.

They gathered to praise their past efforts to react to the storms, and to report on the steps they are taking to prepare for future disastrous weather events.

Assemblyman Robert Oaks, R - Macedon: No «I have opposed past efforts to create a full - time legislature, as I believe it is a strength to have people serving and voting on laws who come from various walks of life and various professional backgrounds.

Congress has rejected past efforts to restructure that program.

The image, while an improvement over past efforts, wasn't quite at the atomic scale yet — that required other advances.

Past efforts to reduce energy use in buildings have been dominated by technical solutions such as improved insulation.

The vow to cure cancer brings to mind some past efforts, such as President Nixon's war on cancer of the early 1970s, and a pledge by Andrew von Eschenbach, former National Cancer Institute (NCI) director (2002 — 06), to eliminate suffering and death from cancer by 2015.

But past efforts to glean ancient DNA from Kennewick Man failed, notes Eske Willerslev, a palaeogenomicist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who led the current study.

Past efforts to provide help in developing countries have not always taken into consideration those limitations, said Olinger.

But despite past efforts, this optimization problem remains complicated.

The effort will cover 10 times more of the sky than previous programs, scanning at least five times more of the spectrum a hundred times faster and with 50 times greater sensitivity than past efforts.

But lawmakers who currently oversee the agency's budget «could be a stumbling block if they feel they are losing control,» he says — noting that such problems helped sink several past efforts to move the agency.

Rare breed Past efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity have been spectacularly unsuccessful.

Louie noted that many past efforts had focused on just a few molecules within the material — in this case, the crystallized form of pentacene, which is composed of hydrogen and carbon — to learn about these exotic effects.

They've earned their just rewards, and now it's time to reap the benefits of past efforts.

Past efforts to genetically modify sperm cells in animals prior to fertilization have been stymied by the failure of these cells to mature under in vitro growth conditions.

Past efforts to link genetic variants with traits and diseases have largely uncovered common variants with relatively small effects.

This case study looks at how funding from the Forest Investment Program finances programmatic efforts to address underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and to overcome barriers that have hindered past efforts, in Mexico.

Other changes remove stretches of DNA code found to be unlikely to have a functional role by past efforts.

Now Walker has a three - year, $ 870,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics program to learn how plants thwarted those past efforts and further, how plants firmly control iron in their systems.

His training has many top level endurance athletes setting personal records far beyond past efforts with a dramatic reduction in training time and mileage.

Richter said that this latest development shows that past efforts to curb the opioid epidemic, such as prescription drug monitoring, now «are largely missing the mark.»

(I did a post on my past Christmas party outfits a couple of years ago, where you can see my past efforts, successes and failures both.)