Sentences with phrase «most of their efforts»

LanguageLine, says Klein, had been trying to do a lot of things to boost its bottom line, from selling prepaid interpreter calling cards to monetizing data on language usage, but most of its efforts were only an afterthought.

That's an instructive example because publishers and entertainment conglomerates for years have tried to claim what they see as their rightful share of the digital - content - rentals business, but most of their efforts have been failures, while tech «middle men» like Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Spotify have flourished.

Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

I'd already carried the strip all the way from the garage to the apple tree which was most of the effort involved in this job.

Which is why most of her effort has gone to explaining to people what a cryptocurrency is and how it works.

That's why for the first few years of its existence TMAF focused most of its efforts within the industry.

Most of our effort is focused on how do we reduce cost so that we can grow volume and reach a broader customer base.»

Most of those efforts fall under the purview of Jason Goldberger, president of Target.com and Target's mobile products.

As a result of this market mix, lenders will likely put most of their efforts (and marketing budgets) into attracting home buyers, as opposed to homeowners.

However, our experience shows that donations drop significantly within a few days after a disaster, even though most of the efforts to recover from serious flooding and rebuild homes, lives and a community can stretch out for months or even years.

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You should be spending most of your efforts converting those nearing the ends of their lives.

China has a chance to learn from the failure of most of these efforts in the United States.

He spent most of his efforts denouncing the invisible sins of good people, and seldom wrote about rascals or the visible sins of the publicly wicked.

Most of our efforts to help individuals within the church are mediated through our efforts to make the church as a whole a more faithful community and institution.

This is how I spent most of my effort during my...

This is how I spent most of my effort during my time in the professional ministry as a pastor.

Said another way, you don't need to cream the butter into the sugar, which is where most of the effort is usually required.

Most of the effort was reserved for the main meal.

As a bonus, you'll probably cook healthier because most of the effort of cooking vegetables is cutting them into properly sized pieces.

Peeling butternut squash takes effort so I like to make the most of my efforts.

The most impressive part of this is the secondary, where most of the effort has been focused.

However, most of their efforts were in vain.

Most of his efforts in his first Premier league game did not come to fruition but like a true warrior, he just kept fighting and fighting.

Chelsea drew their fourth straight game across all competitions, and when asked on any reason, Conte put the blame on the Arsenal game, where his team put most of their effort in.

All three of the buildings are in the North Central neighborhood, where the land bank has focused most of its efforts to date.

«The Council no longer has to spend most of its efforts trying to fund programs and services,» the Council's new Finance Chair Julissa Ferreras remarked.

«The Council no longer has to spend most of its efforts trying to fund these programs and services.»

Moreover, in the aftermath of surgery, the immune system concentrates most of its efforts on healing the surgical wound, lowering its guard against cancer cells.

This sets the company apart from most fledgling biotech companies: This one has a product and is spending most of its efforts and energy on trying to sell that product.

«Most of our efforts to prevent intimate partner violence have focused on screening and improving outcomes for women who are victims, because their health and well - being is our priority.

This makes sense because our lives are fundamentally social — we direct most of our efforts to understanding others and resolving social conflict.

«Most of our efforts are unfunded or funded with a shoestring budget,» says Anupma Prakash, a geologist at the University of Alaska with a career - long interest in coal fires.

However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer cells grown in a lab dish.

Japan spends millions of pounds a year on earthquake prediction and monitoring, but most of its efforts are centred on the more vulnerable Suruga Bay region, west of Tokyo.

Pharmaceutical companies, by contrast, focus most of their efforts at the other end of the drug development pipeline, moving potential drug compounds through human clinical trials into the market.

Most of this effort has been concentrated on lab studies.

Gerry is currently the director of the Center for SETI Research (CSR) at the Institute, and most of his effort is still focused on doing SETI with the Allen Telescope Array.

What saddens me about the focus of most of this effort to find a «cure» is that in most cases, it doesn't address the things women can do BEFORE there is a problem to help avoid it all together.

Most of the effort needs to be spent on eating enough food and getting enough sleep everyday, this is the hardest part.

Most of the effort is in the planning; once you put on that apron, it's easy to just keep rolling!

After all, you want to focus most of your efforts on the types of exercises, sequencing, and combinations that stimulate the biggest increases in testosterone and growth hormone response.

At the end of the day, most of the effort that we invested into Badoo didn't translate into much potential, especially when compared to other serious dating services that can actually be used to connect with real, local singles that aren't around to scam you or waste your time.

You'll enjoy the frank discussion about how to make the most of your efforts to meet a decent man and find the right one for you.

Whether you're using free dating sites or not, you want to make the most of your efforts.

But, as has been an unfortunate trend in non-Muppet Henson productions, most of the effort seems to have gone into making the series look great while giving short shrift to the writing.

But most of these efforts don't address the fundamental challenge urban schools face: The diversity of their student population.

Unfortunately, however, most of the efforts we have...

Most of those efforts were resisted by teachers and failed to spread widely.

The high - stakes FCAT has caused teachers and principals strive to put most of their efforts into reading, writing and math.