Sentences with phrase «most attempts»

As with most attempts at concentration, we soon notice distracting noises, thoughts, and smells.

But as with most attempts at being environmentally friendly, the best way to purchase products is locally.

There's an authenticity that most attempts in this genre simply lack.

It makes us poorer, not richer, as most attempts to develop quality - of - life indexes have indicated for the past decade.

At the age of 1 month, the babies usually start making the gesture of lifting head (though most attempts are unsuccessful until the baby is 2 month old).

So why does corporate legal spend still resist most attempts to apply the kind of rational discipline painfully familiar to other commercial suppliers?

The reason most attempts at a to - do list fail is that people set out tasks and fail to add deadlines, whether self - imposed or mandated by their project timelines.

But most attempts at modern church buildings were less successful.

Tim Hardaway Sr. holds the record for most attempts without a made FG at 0/17 but he scored from the FT line that night

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.

The visiting Nuggets held Portland to 35.9 percent from the field Dec. 20, but they lost 101 - 93 after missing all 22 3 - point attempts to set a league record for most attempts without a make.

For his part, Salerno tries to get creative with solutions for the lack of visual stimuli, but most attempts fail.

But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.

I'm on record as being a realist, and so far Big Food and Big Ag have had a pretty solid track record of decisively crushing most attempts at reasonable food reform.

Avella's main problem will be that he can't raise enough money and that will stop most attempts to overcome the momentum of Peter's campaign.

Herpes simplex virus evades most attempts to kill it, but a new ointment helps infected mice.

Luckily, the film ditches most attempts at trying to explain anything by setting up the characters and plot so there's a minimum of reflection of the absurdity of it all.

Moving from television to cinema is never easy and most attempts lose some of their charm as they try to raise the stakes and fill a typical feature runtime and structure.

But with Los Angeles kids circling the drain (and remember the frightening fact that LAUSD educates one in every eight or nine kids in all of California) and with the union fighting most attempts at change, those days seem over.

Understanding Prosperity and Poverty: How the world could have been different and how understanding this can explain why most attempts to combat poverty have failed

Most attempts fell flat, Planetside 2 in particular; given their own troubles, yet one developer has managed to find the balance that keeps it firmly in the tongue in cheek satire departme...

Most attempted clones are grossly defective and are lost early in development (cloning success rates generally range from zero to 20 percent).

But trolling has largely eluded most attempts to control it — as shown by the huge numbers of people who admit to having done it.

The script strikes - out with most attempts at humor, except in a few scenes involving Arkin.

It also, we believe, avoids the dangers of pantheism, rationalism and modernism, which are common errors of most attempts to reconcile science and Christianity.

No, in particular the aerosol response has a very different structure in models than the well - mixed greenhouse gases, since the forcing is primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, a difference that forms the basis for most attempts in the detection / attribution literature to separate responses to aerosol from well - mixed greenhouse gases.

The problem with most attempts at gaming in education is that educators mistakenly think that if you give out a badge or slap points on it, you've gamified.

Most attempts to apply technology to bikes involve retrofitted accessories.

While it is commonplace to say that there is a gulf between pulpit and pew, most attempts to account for this gap fail to edify.

Most attempts to communicate to an outsider the secret life of Torah — its study and fulfillment — involve distortion and objectification.

So it goes with most attempts to «win people to Jesus» (which usually means getting them to attend our church).

And I'd assume that, in most attempts, the compass inevitably seems to be broken.

Even if the titles do not include the word «unveil,» most attempt to expose Islam for its theological, historical, and moral shortcomings.

Most attempts at dealing with conflict begin with positional bargaining.

The home side dominated possession and had the most attempts at goal, but playing on the back - foot was the foundation of Leicester's success in the Premier League last season.

At one point the TV commentary mentioned the unwelcome stat that Ramsey was the EPL player with the most attempts on goal without scoring.

Needing 24 yards for a first, Kosar dropped back for the zillionth time — he would set playoff passing records for most attempts (64) and most yards (489), and tie one for most completions (33)-- and threw incomplete.

Indeed, asidefrom Casey at the Bat (which his grandfather used to recite while milkingcows), he says, most attempts at baseball poetry are utterly lamentable.Marianne Moore was a fine poet who wrote about baseball with disastrousresults.

Team Glickman set a record for most attempts to see / alter / negotiate the stat book in a single game.

Portland's 105 field goal attempts was the team's most attempts in a regulation game since taking 108 field goals on February 20, 1994 against the Celtics.

«Benevento are among the teams that have had the most attempts on goal, so we need to get back to being solid defensively.

Trippier's 234 crosses from open play was the most attempted by any full back, ten more then Hull's Ahmed Elmohamady.

And most attempts at discipline turn into arguments or fighting matches.

Most attempts to target p53 in the cancer fight involve trying to boost its level.

To date, most attempts at blocking traffic noise rely on erecting concrete walls, but sound can bend over their rigid, flat tops and then continue onward.

Most attempts have been vaccines designed to make us produce antibodies, aimed not at flu's surface proteins, but at internal proteins that are the same in all flu viruses.