Sentences with phrase «modest efforts of»

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.

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The PC dynasty's final budget in March 2015 did propose a bad - medicine combination of modest budget cuts and assorted tax hikes — earnest efforts to bail Alberta out of chronic deficits, and exactly the sort of unpalatable budget a shrewd premier releases after an election, not before one.

Ten years later, in another bipartisan effort, this time led by President Ronald Reagan and Senator Russell Long, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 altered the tax incentives to make ESOPs with modest levels of generally 5 - 20 % of employee stock ownership attractive to publicly traded stock market corporations.

These efforts of McGinn to make Antichrist relevant are decidedly modest, even half - hearted; they cover only seven pages out of 280 pages of text.

I do not minimize the importance of our effort or of its ongoing legacy, but I do feel the need to reflect on why its effects have been so modest.

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.

Lest anyone think I am praising my own efforts, let me say that I should be very pleased if my own modest book review could be seen as a footnote to some of the outstanding articles.

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.

Banducci is characteristically modest about his achievements, saying it reflected the efforts of the Woolworths team, and reiterated that there was a lot more work to be done.

It involved daring, effort, creativity and a modest degree of skill.

Since then, fans have taken up a handful of grassroots efforts to keep college football games going, including crowdfunding ventures and modding NCAA into eternity.

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.

Broadly the picture seems to be that over the past thirty years, the results of efforts to rein in administration costs in UK central government were at best modest as long as governments stuck to a fairly consistent definition of what counted as administration costs.

The effort — organized, Italian - style, in less than a week — is much more modest than the data - driven machinery of the Obama and Romney campaigns.

The report says: «If the required assurances are not obtained by the end of the year, we recommend that the MoD switch the majority of its effort and funding on the programme into developing a fallback «Plan B», so that an alternative aircraft is available in case the UK has to withdraw from the joint strike fighter programme.»

What is wrong in Sullivan making modest cities out of Nsukka, Orji River, Awgu, 9th Mile, Agbani, Obollo Afor and other parts of the state which would require precious little efforts to be transmuted into a city?

Despite their comparatively modest share of federal R&D funding, colleges and universities have long played a key role in the nation's R&D effort.

Despite their comparatively modest share of federal R&D funding, colleges and universities play a key role in the nation's R&D effort.

The ban's proponents see it as a modest victory in efforts to curb childhood obesity, citing the 2007 California Health Interview Survey that found 15 percent of 12 - to -17-year-olds in the greater Bay Area to be overweight or obese (8 percent of children under age 12 were found to be overweight for their age).

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

Finally, despite failing to obtain a more substantial salary increase, I was satisfied that I had made a significant effort to change my situation and had experienced a modest measure of success.

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.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

The Alliance brings together the efforts of the major National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)- funded Model Organism Database (MOD) groups, and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium, in a synergistic integration of expertly - curated information about the functioning of cellular systems.

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

At the first plenary session of AIDS Vaccine 2011, which opened this morning in Bangkok, Thailand, researchers presented the results of a two - year - long effort to try to identify an immunological explanation for the modest 31 % efficacy afforded by the prime - boost vaccine regimen tested in the RV144 trial, the first to show any efficacy in protecting against HIV infection.

One of the reasons strength training is so great is that you can get fantastic night and day results in exchange for a fairly modest investment of time and effort.

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.

Instead, she commuted between London and Sydney, continuing to work in the theatre, whilst lending her skills to a number of modest cinematic efforts.

Although this is a major change, significant effort was undertaken to minimise the impact on mods: (a) the APIs were supported for a long time with increasingly prominent warnings in the SMAPI console about their deprecation and removal; (b) dozens of pull requests were submitted to update affected mods; (c) unofficial updates were created for mods which haven't updated officially yet; and (d) the changes were actively communicated and documented to modders.

After wowing players and peers alike with his aforementioned Arma 3 mod, PlayerUnknown went on to work with Daybreak Games to create a new H1Z1 Battle Royale mode in the exact same vein, and King of the Kill is the wildly popular result of those combined efforts.

Though he doesn't always succeed in The Monuments Men, he elicits modest enjoyment in his well - meaning efforts, and inspires reassurance in the knowledge that his bond of the decisive and diverting persists.

*** 1/2 / **** DVD - Image A Sound A Extras A BD - Image C Sound A Extras A starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt, Rade Sherbedgia written and directed by Guy Ritchie by Walter Chaw Guy Ritchie's sophomore effort Snatch opens with a hyperkinetic homage to the first violent robbery of Ringo Lam's City on Fire and continues by aping the slick mod - cool of the British gangster films of the late -»60s and early -»70s.

A Bit of Progress (USA Today) Newark Students See Modest Gains From Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100M Gift (EdSurge) Did Newark's School Reform Efforts Work?

A law the Legislature passed last spring was more modest than previous proposals, but the state's largest teachers union, the Washington Education Association (WEA), launched an effort to get rid of it.

It's a worthwhile effort and a modest proposal, a mere foot in the door in Washington, one of just eight states that do not have charter schools.Before explaining why this is a good idea, we will first point out that this is precisely why the initiative process is important in our state.

The nine finalist states from the second round of Race to the Top have another shot at winning money to support their K — 12 education reform efforts, albeit at much more modest funding levels.

Rossi has broad grass roots support, including modest donations by labor and union groups who have contributed a few thousand to her efforts, a tiny fraction of what charters have contributed to Hoover - Smoot.

In her efforts to suppress test refusal, the outgoing NYC Schools Chancellor liked to refer to this program in which Title 1 schools (i.e. schools where at least 60 % of the students live in poverty) that met the 95 % participation threshold had the opportunity to apply for — but not a guarantee to receive — a (relatively modest) financial grant.

Grassroots reform will require a modest but critical mass of consumers who will make the effort to inform themselves about local schooling facts and raise the awareness of their neighbors.

These efforts have produced a modest but steady uptick in the number of new enrollments at the college.

While our modest test drive around the fairly congested L.A. Show confines precluded any real max - effort runs, a few abbreviated bursts confirmed the new ActiveHybrid 7 is one seriously quick sedan that responds immediately and effortlessly when the accelerator is floored and should have little problem reaching its electronically - limited top speed of 150 mph.

With a quick - fire seven - speed double - clutch automated transmission, an array of chassis dynamic tech like the active differential, M drive mods and servotronic adaptive power steering, plus efficiency aids like regenerative braking and auto start / stop BMW has made a decent effort to make sure the ability to cover ground at warp speed is tempered with the option of reasonable economy.

Just as a recap, BMW Performance is a label for accessories that BMW sells to spice up its cars, in efforts to take some of that (mostly aesthetic) aftermarket mod spending away from other tuners.

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

And while I have no idea how many RWA - member writers would have to act in concert to satisfy the standards for a Sherman Act violation, there would have to be some additional evidence that the actions of those writers were, in fact, a concerted effort to restrain trade (particularly as there is a separate and benign motive for any individual writer to insist on a relatively modest advance).

Even modest self - promotion efforts require synopses (long and short), descriptions (long and short), author bios, and cover images (of many sizes).

The company's first tab effort could be called MiPad and see daylight in the fall for a modest starting price of $ 160.

Moreover, given that the top five (by percentage ownership per Securities and Exchange Commission public filings) Facet owners appear to represent over 45 % of the outstanding shares, the Alternate Slate believes that the Company's management and Incumbent Board may, with only modest effort, conclude that the majority of Facet investors agree with the cash dividend and sale platform endorsed by the Alternate Slate.

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..