Sentences with phrase «massive efforts at»

Well now the WTCC has raised the bar even further with this massive effort at the final round of the season in Qatar.

Salt Lake City — Former U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, who presided over the dismantling of the federal office for gifted and talented education, urged here that a massive effort at the national level be undertaken to identify gifted students and provide services for them.

Not exact matches

But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.

Celenza knows he has to bang away at the idea that BioSteel occupies a kind of nutritional moral high ground, while building his brand in defiance of the efforts of a massive competitor.

Many such big names are building or leasing massive super-regional centers that stock a wide variety of products in close proximity to customers or stores in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon, said Ravi Srinivasan, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management.

After those five seconds have passed, however, it becomes painfully obvious that my efforts at «fruit inspection» or «doctrinal correctness» are being seriously hampered by the massive log stuck in my eye.

Sunderland have had three massive efforts in the last fortnight and earned excellent points at home to Chelsea and away to Liverpool.

Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election - eve voter mobilization operation in an effort to stave off potentially substantial losses in the House and preserve at least a slender majority in the Senate.

Called «Younger than McCain», the website is being run by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director at the AFL - CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, a massive soft money effort organized around the 2004 presidential race.

Efforts on the largest piece of that project — a $ 45 million sewage treatment facility at a massive discharge pipe called «Big C» just north of the Port of Albany, which is the major source of Albany's spills — will be ramped up in 2018.

In a speech at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria Hotel in April, Bharara denounced the «massive opportunity cost» of public corruption, and suggested that despite his efforts, much has gone unseen and unpunished.

Lotz is leading a three - year effort, known as the Frontier Fields project, to stare at six massive clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope and hunt for the seeds of galaxies similar to our own.

Factoring a single RSA number is a massive effort, says Arjen Lenstra of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, so he and his colleagues have developed a factorisation factory that can tackle multiple target numbers at once.

This ambitious three - year effort teams Hubble and NASA's other Great Observatories to look at select massive galaxy clusters to help astronomers probe the remote universe.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

Gray had worked for 10 years with Hopkins scientists to implement the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive, computer - driven effort to piece together a picture of space one snapshot at a time.

More than 200 taxonomists from 46 countries convened at London's Natural History Museum to hammer out protocols for a massive DNA «barcoding» effort — a move to collect specific gene tags from every organism on Earth.

Kohn, Nakhleh and lead author Kevin Liu, their former postdoctoral researcher and now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, employed Rice's supercomputers and the Nakhleh lab's open - source PhyloNet - HMM software to locate statistically likely connections between the re-sequenced complete genomes, some newly determined and some collected previously in a massive effort to understand the evolutionary origins of the laboratory mouse genome.

As we've come to appreciate the massive effort that goes into running a clinical trial, we've realized something scary: if someone launched a trial for an experimental prion disease drug today, there would be no simple way to find and contact all of the patients or people at risk who might be interested in signing up to take the drug.

Following completion of a massive epitope discovery effort (also supported by an HHS contract), current work on MTB includes development of tools to isolate MTB - specific T cells (supported by the Gates Foundation) and identifying T cell signatures that distinguish three possible infection states: cleared infection, stable latent infection, and latent infection with high risk of progression to disease (in conjunction with a large consortium led by Henry Blumberg at Emory University).

If you have lots of tasty high - calorie food available at all times, then it's easy to overeat junk food.17, 18 For instance, if you have a massive stash of Oreos in your pantry, you're able to eat thousands of calories with little to no effort.

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

Their joint effort seems useful until a massive snowstorm comes along and threatens their entire chance of making it to the top and risks their survival at such high altitudes.

In an impressive year for animated filmmaking — every major studio released at least one animated effort, and Disney dropped the excellent offerings Zootopia, Moana and Pixar's Finding Dory into theaters — the latest quirky adventure from Laika Entertainment introduced some of the most indelible cinematic images of 2016, from a massive ship crafted entirely of autumn leaves to an endearing half - man, half - beetle warrior.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

At first, it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that a massive, well - intentioned education - reform effort — supported on both sides of the political aisle, by major philanthropic foundations, and by some prominent voices in the civil - rights community — could be anything other than a blessing for American education.

Over the first 10 years more than 22 sponsors worked with over 180 sites at a cost of over $ 500 million in a massive effort to find ways to break the cycle of poverty through improved education.»

The governor's statement also claimed the governor's budget — which he's expected to reveal in its entirety later this month — would bundle in $ 2 million for a scholarship program for 300 students to earn education degrees in teaching math and science at in - state universities, part of an effort to address massive teacher shortages in the state in recent years.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

When Bob Lutz headed product development at GM from 2001 to 2010, he firmly opposed the automaker's massive fuel - cell development efforts whenever he could.

Ramrodding the massive Ford effort that overwhelmed Ferrari at Le Mans.

The championship has seen a massive growth since, along with the success of Lamborghini's GT3 efforts, which has included GT Daytona class wins in this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona and Twelve Hours of Sebring.

As we walked the massive show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center, we made a conscious effort to snap a photo of every BRZ and FR - S we came across.

As President, my most recent efforts were dedicated to coordinating a massive adoption event at Alachua County Animal Services through our club, where we successfully found homes for 138 animals.

Additional organizations that are collecting donations for this massive relief effort are located on the APPA website at http://www.americanpetproducts.org/reliefeffort/overview.asp.

Follow the progress of this massive rescue effort (and new mom Sunshine) at this link to the Friends of Haywood County Animal Shelter.

It's a massive joint effort between Animal Control, the Humane Society, the Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation and other local rescue groups — aimed at better coordinating all agencies involved and giving thousands more dogs and cats a second chance.

Over eight years after Best Friends led a massive, nine - month rescue effort from its temporary headquarters in Tylertown, Mississippi, animals who survived Hurricane Katrina still receive help and care at the Sanctuary.

In 2017, I'm going to redouble my efforts to not only create Fear Free veterinary visits, but to launch a massive initiative directed at you: pet owners.

The massive world to explore, the freedom to do whatever you want in it, the little efforts gone into character animation; practically every facet of this game makes me want to inject it straight into my veins, and the newest trailer only accentuated that feeling, with first looks at the Goron and Zora races, official confirmation of fully - fledged voice acting and a proper introduction to Zelda herself, who many fans have already sworn to protect because of how precious she is.

The cars which were muddy at best in WRC 3 look stunning here; detail has been given a massive push for this year's effort.

Being a game that was aimed at the 3DS, it's also very noticeable that considerable cut backs have been made, which is a massive shame as I'm sure with a little effort the PS3 version of the game would run on our beefy Playstation Vita's.

In an effort to chip away at what has become a massive backlog of games, NJoystic is slightly dismayed to present what will be a reoccurring feature, «Back's Benlog.»

Unlike the truncated yet scholarly efforts we have experienced in the past, at the RA, the number of works by an individual artist allow us to experience the many facets of his evolving oeuvre as we trek from one massive hanging to the next.

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

Even here in the US — where leadership at the federal level will certainly be missed — the massive number of states, cities, companies, organizations and individuals who committed to redoubling their climate efforts suggests that we're unlikely to see too much backsliding before a new administration takes over in Washington.

And this is yet another example of how the Chamber wields its massive influence — its role in shutting down clean energy and climate efforts are well known — and is pushing corporate - friendly policies at the expense of the American people.

For example, Earthjustice represents four U.S. tribes in an effort to block a massive tar sands pipeline in Canada that would put treaty fishing areas at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.