Sentences with phrase «modest effort»

On these matters, the still quite modest efforts in the Indian colleges just might be worth following.

But some more modest efforts of a company like Osprey, which caters to military history buffs and offers subscriptions, online forums and the like, demonstrates how a deeply traditional niche publisher can develop their community online while enhancing the value of their print customer base.

Wyman, a white female teacher and researcher, and Kashatok, a Yup» ik male school administrator and researcher, describe ways that non-Native teachers can come to know the Native Alaskan community in which they teach: by attending community events; recognizing and accepting social invitations; making modest efforts to learn the language; and developing two - way trust.

The best schools do a brilliant job of weaving food education — cooking, growing vegetables, even modest efforts at animal husbandry — into school life and the curriculum.

Buying Eddy's stocks year after year might give you 1 % over the market with only modest effort, but more than that - selling calls has timing and liquidity concerns, so clearly that's harder.

Even Secretary Duncan's relatively modest effort to fix the nation's 5000 lowest schools in 5 years will be a flatout statistical failure by year two or three.

The Church's responsibility for the world has not yet surpassed the most modest efforts, and the liturgical life seems to be a hybrid of old and new forms.

Organizer Renee Zeno tells WBEN it is a fairly modest effort, and she hesitates to call it a rally.

It just requires modest effort and no imagination.

Even Stanley Kubrick, who followed masterpiece with masterpiece in his prime, took ten years to hone his craft with smaller, more modest efforts like Fear and Desire.

I put forth a relatively modest effort, usually I tweet about Lawyerist posts or some other legal news.

Given its comparatively small global sales footprint, however, Infiniti is starting small — as a package, the IPL G Coupe is a considerably more modest effort than any of those specialty machines.

But the bankers» lobbyists beat back that modest effort at reform in the last days before the law passed.

It wouldn't expand background checks, but it would require federal agencies to report people's criminal records into the federal background - check system in a modest effort to make it more expansive.

But the more modest those efforts, the less room there is for (the inevitable) abuse.

But if religion is so darn important to our public life, can't we at least make a modest effort to learn something about it?

It has been an important strand in Christian theology and my modest effort is merely to highlight it by looking at some of its clearest manifestations in literary genres of Western Christianity.

So here's a modest effort to open up a discussable little fissure in the unified vanguard of the political and philosophical juggernaut that we know as Postmodern Conservatism.

It was important for me to be reminded that my baby knew how to be born, and that beyond my modest efforts to turn baby, I had to relinquish the rest to the world.

A modest effort to enlist amateur bird - watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science

At the other end of the scale are the modest efforts that make use of disused railway lines to join patches of wasteland in inner cities, bringing a taste of the countryside to town dwellers.

Considered one of the greats of Canadian cinema, «The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz» is a modest effort from director Ted Kotcheff that details the rise and fall of a young Jewish kid whose aspirations and greed end up cutting him off from his friends and family.

Still, for the modest effort it is, it's skillfully directed and acted, with more than enough developments to hold your attention for its modest 98 - minutes, right up to the tense, action - packed ending.

Not displaying even the modest effort Disney shows its own DCOMs, Image Entertainment supplies just two short actor interviews and a music video, all in 16:9.

I found the English VA in Abyss capable enough, if undersold - a modest effort.

Another is in the modest efforts of an aging mariner (Bridge of Spies Oscar winner Mark Rylance) and two boys who rescue the shivering PTSD - afflicted sole survivor (Cillian Murphy) of a U-boat attack.

A few students were making a modest effort to participate.

Third, synthesis of insights from across disciplines, the most demanding element of interdisciplinary teaching, is an activity that most scholar - educators have engaged in previously or can learn to do with modest effort.

But unlike the RSD in the Bayou State — which has over eighty schools statewide — the EAA is so far a more modest effort, responsible for just fifteen schools, all in Detroit, with further expansion stymied.

DETROIT — The history of the Detroit auto show began with a modest effort in 1907.

Since it is only a modest effort, you might consider changing the brand of your detergents, home cleaning products, pet bedding, cat litter etc. etc..

It's only been a day or two since the Project M dev team (PMDT) announced that they were completely shutting down the modding effort, and the Smash community is still trying to recover from the shock.

Modest efforts have been made since the mid-1970s to explore renewable energy technologies.

Twitter still has utility for attorneys, but lawyers should put forth a modest effort and expect a modest return.

Whether your initiative involves a large project like contract management, or a modest effort such as implementing matter budgeting, taking a thoughtful and well defined approach will always lead to a better result.

This modest effort inspired him to found Feast on Equality, an event that has raised $ 500,000 for the LGBT Center at the University of Louisville.