Sentences with phrase «many prior efforts»

With other backers including Richard Branson and Softbank Group CEO Masayoshi Son, the company hopes to succeed where many prior efforts have flopped.

While the headlines may have shifted to the bigger story of Assemblyman Vito Lopez's collapse and Speaker Sheldon Silver's prior efforts to shield him, Ms. Rivera's main opponent Mark Gjonaj is using his hefty campaign account to further press the case.

During his speech, Cuomo repeatedly referred to his late father's tenure in Albany and to Mario Cuomo's prior efforts to combat corruption.

«We see it as an extension of prior efforts.»

But because we do not know whether the aggression of more recent efforts added value to strategies such as hotspots, there is no way to test the contribution of unaggressive prior efforts to the larger marginal changes over time.

The discovery is important because prior efforts to better understand and alleviate niacin's skin effects — dubbed Niacin - Associated Skin Toxicity (NASTy)-- may have been misguided, the authors said.

Prior efforts to safeguard confidential information in photos and video use a «blacklist» approach.

«These results indicate that depletion of self - control due to prior effort can be fully blocked pharmacologically,» says Sripada.

Earlier this year, UNOS, which operates the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network under contract with the federal government, shelved a prior effort to create eight new regions designed to ensure more equal sharing of livers.

There were several prior efforts to recover genetic material from Kennewick Man11, but none were successful.

Proposals to extend previously funded SMD E / PO efforts are required to provide evaluation results of the prior effort.

A virtue of this new concept compared to prior efforts is that there is a project in the works to test it, said Sergio Pellegrino, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

The result is a worthy serialized companion piece to the auteur's prior efforts in the genre: poised, pulsating with dread, and permeated with cautious optimism that, perhaps, scrupulous rationality might help us triumph over modern - day irrationality.

The film from Roar Uthaug, who directed the fantastic 2015 Norwegian disaster epic The Wave, doesn't smuggle the same genre - defying intelligence that his prior effort did — lots of Tomb Raider is numb, bumbling and ripped from better movies — but Uthaug and his production team make good work of bringing the world of Tomb Raider to life.

The repetitive nature of Cage's mission conversely allows Liman to jettison the tedious exposition we might have been saddled with, writing it off as lessons learned in prior efforts, too numerous to show.

There are several times when he veers into spoken - word territory on this album, a reminder that although aesthetics matter more here than on any prior effort by Mr. Lamar, he'll still look past them when trying to make a point.

Cassavetes» record had been hit and miss in prior efforts, but he has delivered well in films geared more toward women in such respectable efforts as The Notebook and My Sister's Keeper, which also featured a well - drawn out performance by Diaz in a lead role.

With this sequel, the expected outcome is a little different, with the surprise factor of his superlative prior effort being near - impossible to recapture.

In contrast, DCEU's prior efforts clocked in at 143 minutes (2013's Man of Steel), 151 minutes (2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), 123 minutes (2016's Suicide Squad), and 141 minutes (2017's Wonder Woman).

Another important finding of this study was that, while prior effort did have an effect on current achievement — learning is cumulative, after all — the effect was much smaller than that of current effort.

the need for the project, prior efforts for similar projects, and how the project could be implemented by the Middle Level Education Research SIG.

Proposal identifies the need for the project, prior efforts for similar projects, and how the project could be implemented by the Middle Level Education Research SIG.

Innovation Zones are typically used when rapid, dramatic improvements in student learning are needed to close achievement gaps and prior efforts within districts have not led to large enough student learning gains.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.

That led me to analyze what had worked and failed in my prior efforts in value investing, and that led to what would become the Eight Rules.

Given her prior efforts at T. Rowe Price, it was a bit of a «welcome home» for a local w...

Given her prior efforts at T. Rowe Price, it was a bit of a «welcome home» for a local woman who has excelled.

Field surveys of bleaching and mortality exceeded prior efforts in detail and extent, and provided a new standard for documenting the effects of bleaching and for testing nowcast and forecast products.

Thats why Berkeley tries to use 2x to 8x more sites during any given month (post 1900) to calculate temperature than prior efforts.

The study reviewed prior efforts to reconstruct global temperatures of the last 1,000 years.

Prior efforts to increase prosecutions for illegal entry have had similar results, Reuters noted.

In announcing this new feature, the Google engineer who spearheaded this project, Anurag Acharya, appropriately acknowledged the prior efforts of the «pioneers who have worked on making it possible for an average citizen to educate herself about the laws of the land: Tom Bruce (Cornell LII), Jerry Dupont (LLMC), Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII), Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Daniel Poulin (LexUM), Tim Stanley (Justia), Joe Ury (BAILII), Tim Wu (AltLaw) and many others.»

Prior efforts gave similar powers to the Attorney General, but left the selection of the judge to the Supreme Court «upon the recommendation of the Chief Administrative Judge for that judicial circuit.»

In announcing the new feature, the Google engineer who spearheaded this project, Anurag Acharya, acknowledged the prior efforts of the «pioneers who have worked on making it possible for an average citizen to educate herself about the laws of the land.»

Full details on the prior efforts can be found here.

The prior efforts all lost by roughly the same 47 - 53 margins, including the latest attempt in 2010.

It's a technique which George perfected in his prior effort NewLaw NewRules: Conversation About the Future of the Legal Services Industry which was essentially a thread book of curated comments emanating from his blog post The Rise and Rise of the NewLaw Business Model.

Some of those who backed prior efforts aimed at raising the block size have since moved to support Bitcoin Cash.

Bloomberg View writer Leonid Bershidsky contends that the Cambridge Analytica - Trump scandal and prior efforts by the Obama campaign to use Facebook data for their election bids may be little more than a red herring.

Though there have been some prior efforts, no alternative mobile OS has been able to compete with iOS and Android, he told LinuxInsider.

We haven't had a chance to hear the Signa Solo in action, but if Polk's prior efforts are any clue, we expect this soundbar to punch well above its weight and price point.

They have also seen and written hundreds of resumes in many different styles and based on the results of prior efforts they know what appeals to a resume human screen, internal decision makers and people who are part of your network, as well as how to get a resume beyond the dreaded ATS software and into play.

This is an extension of their prior efforts.

An equitable distribution of primary health care rests on a prior effort to increase the numbers of health professionals to provide the services.

An equitable distribution of primary health care rests on a prior effort to increase the numbers of health professionals, and particularly Indigenous health professionals, to provide the services.

Not exact matches

Some of the company's prior mobile efforts have lagged, although it won an important victory convincing Apple (aapl) to use one of its 4G modem chips in versions of the new iPhone 7.

Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

In fact, prior to Pershing Square's efforts, CP had no one with rail experience on its board other than the CEO.

Prior to leading the company's sustainability efforts, she served as chief marketing officer for Coca - Cola North America, where she built brands by developing some of the company's most historic relationships, including with American Idol and NASCAR.