Sentences with phrase «misguided effort by»

The «Ladies First» contest was a very misguided effort by a few isolated employees to do just that, however there is no question the post not only failed to better include our female community but actually perpetuated a stereotype that OnePlus in no way supports or condones.

The company then claimed it was a «very misguided effort by a few isolated employees.»

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).

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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.

Either this was some kind of effort to show off a misguided gesture before the townspeople, in some puffed - up maneuver designed to shame them, or — and we suspect the latter — it was a foreigner's attempt to humiliate the townspeople by displaying one of their number in a degraded condition.

Thanks for this article, it sums up my feelings about our peaceful efforts being hijacked by misguided hooligans and sidelined by news coverage.

Efforts to fight polio outbreaks by vaccinating adults as well as children are costly and potentially misguided.

This low - key, tightly wound drama may tread familiar waters and expend some of its nuance and grit for the sake of a misguided twist in the final act, but it's an earnest effort fuelled by two brutally sincere performances by Aaron Paul and

The film's pervasively underwhelming atmosphere is perpetuated by the inclusion of several eye - rollingly misguided sequences (eg Santa and a few elves are trapped inside a child's bedroom), with the resulting lack of momentum ensuring that the episodic midsection, which revolves primarily around Arthur's ongoing efforts at finding said little girl's house, fares especially poorly and is, for the most part, nothing short of interminable.

Cartel Land risks trivializing the Autodefensas» genuine (if sometimes misguided and brutal) effort to take back Michoacán by juxtaposing them with a handful of American racists who've declared themselves the country's last line of defense.

Education reform is a well - intentioned effort to improve outcomes for all students that is undercut by a misguided focus on achieving those goals on the cheap.

As the NELP commentary notes, even if some employers are illegally discriminating this does not automatically imply BTB efforts are misguided; strengthened enforcement of anti-discrimination laws as well as increased public and internal conversations sparked by BTB efforts may lead to reductions in such discriminatory practices over time.

I faithfully read the education blogs written by Jonathan Pelto and Diane Ravitch; I follow the writing of Wendy Lecker, senior attorney at the Education Law Center as I grapple with so much of the misguided education reform which is strangling the efforts and morale of excellent teachers.

I have argued before that these efforts by publishers to maintain some kind of artificially high - pricing scheme are not only doomed but misguided as well.

Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off through the comment process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.

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.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

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.

Your misrepresentations of my work and efforts to smear by association are entertaining, but misguided.

As noted by Dr. Richard Warshak (2011), attributing a parent - child problem to both parents, when one parent is clearly more responsible for destructive behavior, is a misguided effort to appear balanced and avoid blame.