Sentences with phrase «number of attempts like»

There were a small number of attempts like Need for Speed: ProStreet, but the quality was vastly inferior to the PS3 and 360.

Not exact matches

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

There have been a number of attempts to construct Reddit - style communities that reward users with Bitcoin or other virtual currencies, including services like Voat.

The struggling restaurant chain updated investors on its attempted turnaround and reported disappointing results despite a number of promising initiatives, like changing how it prepares burgers and streamlining its menu.

I like how he varied his tactics and attempted to cover a number of items that many link builders miss.

States like the US, France and the UK are attempting to make up for it with the acceptance of unprecedented large numbers of unskilled and even undocumented migrants.

Even armchair scholars like him never attempted to deny that Christ shares a large number of similarities with other gods and heros.

It is this conclusion that has been met with questioning among some reputable U.S. Catholic moral theologians and among a number of gay and lesbian Catholics in the U.S. Still, there is a growing movement in this country of support groups like Courage for Catholics, which are attempting to adhere to the church's requirement of celibate chastity.

By focusing on issues in the «should we» form, this book, like a number of other recent studies of theological schooling, raises questions that must be asked constantly while we are attempting to solve the real problems of any particular theological school.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

If you by the way the Arsenal transfer rumours have been progressing during the summer then it looks like our London rivals and the current Premier League title holders are set to step up their attempts to sign our England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, who is one of a number of Gunners that have enetered the final year of their current Arsenal contracts.

Instead, the party with the largest number of seats — in this case, it looks like the Conservatives — will attempt to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.

«Only this City Council and this committee have the jurisdiction and the authority to make this change,» she said, predicting a backfire from the powerful tech sector like the one de Blasio and his team faced when they attempted to cap the number of new e-hail cars in 2015.

Girls also actively enlist their friends to comment on and like their posts in an attempt to boost their popularity index, with especially savvy Instagram and Facebook users being active during peak social media traffic hours in order to maximize their number of likes.

The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).

This would ideally involve common and environmentally friendly metals like iron, but despite a number of attempts no one has been able to develop an iron - based dye molecule that can emit light until now.

She tracked things like awkward sexual remarks, bad vocabulary, and the number of times her dates attempted to high - five her.

But despite the talents of screenwriters Chris Terrio (Oscar winner for Argo) and Joss Whedon, it plays like a by - the - numbers attempt to cash in on this stable of branded superheroes and not a fully formed screen adventure.

Ever since the first film hit it big in 2008, studio executives have been snapping up young adult novels in the hope of hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.

So far attempts to mine other young adult novels have been unsatisfactory both commercially and creatively (see: «I Am Number Four «-RRB-, and many of the films launched into development, projects like potential Taylor Lautner vehicle «Incarceron,» Screen Gems ««The Mortal Instruments,» Jonathan Levine «s «Legend» and Warner Bros ««The Scorpio Races,» have thus far failed to get off the ground.

It's fair to say that Zack Snyder was wrestling with a number of interesting themes, and perhaps he wanted to do his spin on something like David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., but either he doesn't have the intellectual weight, or the narrative was too compromised by making a studio picture (I'll give him some wiggle room for attempting something this audacious) to fully form all the ideas that are apparent here.

A number of people have made great attempts at it and one I really liked except for the fact that they wanted me to put my entire company's financial statements into some cloud and wanted me to sign an agreement that I wouldn't sign on my first year of writing.

Like many of us, I made a number of attempts at making AMS ads work for me at that time.

@FatElvis - No numbers or anything like that, but if I were you, I would concentrate on getting more books uploaded before attempting any sort of promo or marketing.

Zamorano also likes Russia, which has a number of stocks trading at below 10 times earnings and is now benefiting from rising oil prices, and Turkey, which saw valuations fall after an attempted coup.

Perhaps I am a bit of a pessimist, but as a wide number of products came into existence attempting to offer all three back in the 90s, I would ask questions like, «But what happens if you have losses on assets and redemption requests at book at the same time?»

Maybe you were like me, and attempted to go out and buy some grain - free dog food, only to be overwhelmed by the number of choices and the prices.

Now that I've covered what Hello Games have done to in an attempt win over the players it lost to begin with, I'd like to put out there a number of reasons in which No Man's Sky had me completely entranced from the very get go.

Players pick a character of three weight classes and drive vehicles of varying stats, strengths, and weaknesses around an obstacle course - like racetrack, in an attempt to finish first of the twelve racers, the number of racers used in Mario Kart Wii.

In rotation, all 15 balls are used like in eight ball, but players take turns attempting to pocket the balls in order like nine ball, but may sink other balls out of order as long as the lowest numbered ball is struck first.

So far, this could be one of a number of games, but it seems here that real weight will be put on the decisions that you make and the emotional toll, something that hasn't been explored much in video games up to this point, barring hamfisted attempts like Call of Duty WWII's quick photo tour of an abandoned concentration camp.

Obviously, there's going to be a smaller pool of players available for games like the 3DS titles, which severely limits the number of people who can go around catching Pokemon and attempting to hit that goal.

Curators and critics, however, sometimes prefer not to engage with these invigorating rival claims, perhaps because any attempt to characterize or evaluate can be dismissed as judgmental or elitist, an effort to draw distinctions at a time when what can look like the gray zone of mixed media or multimedia is embraced by an increasing number of artists.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

is one of Willis» attempts to backpedal after a number of observers pointed out (like I have) that his original explanation of his «adjustments» to the ARGO data was indistinguishable from simple data fudging to arrive at a desired result.

Sam Glover: It sounds like most of these are attempts to lower the deductible so that it seems more attractive, but really we're just moving numbers around on a spreadsheet on the adjuster's computer, right?

If you are looking at a file system event, you'll be able to see certain information like the attributes, file create time, the access that was attempted during a write operation, the number of bytes that were written, and the duration.

It's no secret that Google has tried (and some might say «failed») at a number of previous hardware attempts, from the likes of the Chromebook Pixel line to their attempts of competing with the iPhone with their Nexus line.

Last year, Fossil acquired fitness tracker and wearable maker Misfit in an attempt to supercharge its own wearables, which include a number of fitness trackers like the Q Dreamer and Q Reveler.