Sentences with phrase «much larger effort»

Today's action is part of a much larger effort involving the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and many more groups fighting to stop tar sands extraction.

This has turned into a much larger effort with many collaborators and some interesting publications and still has a long ways to go to complete.

Farrell said he focused on ExxonMobil and the Koch foundations because «they are reliable indicators of a much larger effort of corporate lobbying in the climate change counter-movement.»

We don't know which routes will work, and until we know some more — which requires a much larger effort — it is hard to know what exactly to recommend.

What is on view is a single small portion of a much larger effort.

«It's gratifying to enable a much larger effort than I could ever achieve in my own lab,» said Studer.

He adds, «This study was actually a pilot project for a much larger effort within the Center for Molecular Therapeutics to map responses against drug combinations across hundreds of cancer cell lines, not just melanoma, and look for novel combinations that will benefit subsets of patients regardless of the particular type of tumor they have.

There will be a new push next year to make the credit permanent, perhaps as part of a much larger effort to reform and simplify the U.S. tax code.

Having to look for tools, to buy or to manufacture them usually involves a much larger effort than keeping them safe to reuse them at any time.

This project would serve as a proof of concept to show the time and cost for a much larger effort, which would develop assays to the remaining 99 percent of all human proteins.

«It's going to take a much larger effort.»

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Goldman Sachs will begin offering bitcoin futures as part of a much larger effort to bring cryptocurrency to mainstream circles.

Not exact matches

Marketing a business to a large and diverse audience may sound like a good idea, but most companies old and new know learn quickly that you're much better off to aim for one specific demographic and then really focus your time, effort, and advertising money on that group.

However the region's larger economies perform less well: with China ranking 100 and Japan and the Republic of Korea ranking 114 and 118, respectively, it is clear that their remains much economic upside from making a more pronounced effort towards gender parity.

I opened this piece by suggesting that this was a much larger step outside of provincial constitutional authority than Premier Horgan's efforts to stop TransMountain.

While buyer - initiated programs have their benefits, supply chain finance is so much more than just large global banks» centering their efforts on top - tier, large - volume markets and clients.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

It doesn't take much effort to throw some nuts in a large bowl and then watch them spin around some super sharp swirly thing.

«The Single Oak project is part of a much larger, and noble, effort: to create the perfect bourbon.

I would praise Mr Wenger for finishing in the top 3 or 4 if he brought the world class players that we all know we need in the right positions and made a sincere effort to win something... The reason why a large number of Arsenal fans and critics are on his back is because for many years now Mr Wenger has neglected to strengthen certain key positions that would of given us a much better chance of winning trophies.

With a clear agenda and concrete proposals on a global growth deal - opening up trade, tackling tax evasion and boosting infrastructure - Britain should have been leading efforts at the G20 to reach an agreement that would transform African and low - income countries into genuine, much - needed dynamos for the largest prize: the return to global growth.

Large - scale international conflict resolution efforts are much more likely to fail when civil wars contain more actors that can block an end to the war.

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.

Rep. Brian Higgins may be known mostly for his effort to revive Buffalo's waterfront, but now he's taking on a much larger task: fixing the nation's health care system.

Erin Stamper, member of Indivisible Chatham and an organizer of the canvass action in Hudson, NY shares, «We had the largest turnout in the district, more than 100 volunteers turned out in Hudson to learn how to knock doors — we've been amazed at the ground swell of energy for this first voter registration effort — canvassing 20 months before an election is pretty much unheard of.»

But the Army's thought - helmet project is the first large - scale effort to «really attack» the much broader challenge of synthetic telepathy, Schalk says.

It had already evolved to a suitable size before it was even cultivated, likely making it more attractive to growers who would then not need to spend much effort selecting for larger fruits.

The largest single assistance programme in nuclear safety, the Prime Minister said, is that of the European Union, through which much of Britain's contribution to the international effort is now directed.

De Bivort's work is part of a larger effort to understand why nature produces so much variability.

The current weaning study is part of a much larger, decades - long effort by Fisher and a series of graduate students to extract «life history» information preserved in fossil tusks.

«Each actuator is very simple,» says Karl Böhringer, the University of Washington professor of electrical engineering who led the effort, «but together they can move objects much larger than themselves.»

My work as an artist is not about dreaming of a better world — it is about celebrating the world we have in an effort to bring as much light to it as possible, with hopes of creating a larger reality.

Where that film was a low - key, offbeat comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, this sophomore effort has a much larger agenda.

Well, perhaps the tree is just like them, immortal and unable to fall to harm, but no evidence of this exists, and in fact, the Tucks were able to «damage» the tree by carving a large «T» into its trunk without much effort.

Panicked by suddenly leading a much larger team, Richard (Thomas Middleditch) finds himself managing a number of small conflicts in his efforts to unite his new employees.

Human judgment is very much part of its evaluation system, which itself is part of a larger effort focused on sound hiring practices and significant feedback and supports for educators.

Matching test questions» biggest advantage is that they allow you to cover large areas of material without having to spend much time or effort on constructing the questions.

The charter movement, though well launched, Hill argues, is not likely to become a much larger factor in American public education without serious efforts to level the playing field.

Nor does the current political weight of evangelical Protestantism change the fact that our political and constitutional development has pretty much reduced religion to a private matter, even if there remain energetic efforts to make religious concerns play a larger role in public affairs.

Although much of the attention focuses on breaking up large schools and creating small ones, the efforts are as much about changing the sum and substance of high school as they are about shrinking a school's size.

Large sums (much of it taxed from laborers and farmers) were spent by these school committees, and their efforts reflected, Tocqueville thought, a widespread American desire to provide basic schooling as a route to opportunity and advancement.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

We have learned much from this large body of work, but we are also the first to concede that our research and on - the - ground efforts do not answer many big questions about how to nurture professionals who can lead urban schools from failure to success.

There has been some research on retention bonuses, but much of it has found mixed results, probably because of the varying size of the bonuses and their context (some were pieces of larger initiatives, others were stand - alone efforts).

It is well established that knowledgeable, caring, and highly skilled teachers are essential to society, but large - scale efforts to quantify each teacher's effectiveness are much newer.

It will require more than a few local efforts like the one in Milwaukee to make the American school system more inclusive and fair; it will require a much larger cultural shift and an about - face from government at all levels.

While much of the work just described tended to focus on specific behaviors or routines drawn out of the process - product literature, other efforts tended to focus on the efficacy of larger constructs that might become the basis for teacher training.

By the time the larger tyres have been fitted the weight of the Schnitzer wheel and tyre combination is the same as the standard car, but to get that much extra rubber on the road without a weight penalty is a good effort.

Beyond extolling personal virtue and effort, the story of the hummingbird also suggests that the single bird's actions are futile without the assistance of the larger animals — such as the elephant, who could of course carry much more water — or the concerted effort of all the animals to do something.