Sentences with phrase «of at least some effort»

In all these cases, you are asked to do something that does not come naturally, and you will find that the consistent maintenance of a set requires continuous exertion of at least some effort.

Not exact matches

One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

His idea was to pay plants a premium to store at least 90 days of fuel on site in an effort to make grids more reliable.

He insisted the superclusters will generate at least 50,000 jobs and will include efforts to help upgrade the skills of workers.

The LMIA form gives companies a maximum of one paragraph to summarize their recruitment needs and efforts, says Wehrmann; Clearpath had to attach at least 10 pages of documentation to its recent application to make sure its bases were covered.

Being forced to do many, many things inevitably results in at least some of those efforts being less than half - assed.

There are a host of last - minute disputes, but the Democratic Party has filed at least seven federal lawsuits in an effort to stop so - called «ballot security» campaigns by either the Republican National Committee, local Republican parties, the Trump Campaign, or Stop the Steal.

I've seen that once the entrepreneurs become acclimatized to accepting that the successful outcome is at least in part a direct result of their efforts, the syndrome dematerializes.

But Google was part of at least two other efforts at alternative browsers, Mozilla and Chrome.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.

If you don't have a clear strategy and editorial calendar for at least a month ahead — and your efforts are sporadic at best — now is the time to take control of it.

Clients may not provide specific analytics, Fox says, but they should be able to at least tell you if they saw a positive impact on their search ranking, especially in conversions and in gaining an audience, as a direct result of the consultant's efforts.

If you personally have issues with the speed of change, imagine what companies contend with: To keep up and stay relevant, they have to adapt their branding, marketing and sales efforts at a pace at least as fast as that of the new techologies» debuts.

There were a few proclamations earlier this week that wearable technology is dead in light of the news that Nike appears to be shutting down its Fuelband efforts, at least on the hardware side.

Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

None of these efforts are permanent fixes, but they at least offer immigrant entrepreneurs some stability — which they couldn't find before.

«We were hoping for, at least temporarily, some type of specific effort on the part of the central banks,» Gross told host Betty Liu.

Over all, Apple's tax avoidance efforts shifted at least $ 74 billion from the reach of the Internal Revenue Service between 2009 and 2012, the investigators said.

Inside the FBI, which Trump has attacked as part of his effort to undercut Mueller's investigation throughout his first year in office, the feeling is that the Nunes fight could provide a small victory — at least for now.

At least I know it wasn't due to a lack of effort.

«The bottom line is the evidence indicates that Uber hired Levandowski even though it knew or should have known that he possessed over 14,000 confidential Waymo files likely containing Waymo's intellectual property; that at least some information from those files, if not the files themselves, has seeped into Uber's own LiDAR development efforts; and that at least some of said information likely qualifies for trade secret protection,» U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote.

The mental effort of choosing is harder than the activity, at least for most activities.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

Companies of every size can implement at least one aspect of internet marketing that can boost their SEO efforts and see better rankings and more traffic.

Once you have recruited at least one or two people you will earn passive income from the efforts of those under you in the organization.

Explaining the relation between the Fed's creation (or destruction) of bank reserves and banks» creation (or destruction) of deposits takes a little effort, not in the least because doing so means confronting the different ways in which economists on one hand and bankers and banking consultants on the other look at the process, and deciding whether the difference is due to substantive disagreement, or mere semantics.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

While it is nice to profit off of others time and effort, owning a business will require at least some oversight.

But it's possible to imagine their accounts coming up in discovery as part of an effort to establish a pattern — especially since McDougal's story, at least, shares some key similarities with Zervos's.

Current estimates suggest 80 % of Puerto Rico is still without power, but thanks to Elon Musk's efforts at least one children's hospital has been able to turn the lights on.

As explained in our strategy and rules for swing trading, stocks and ETFs trading at or near their 52 - week highs have the least amount of overhead resistance, and therefore have the greatest ability to move sharply higher with the least amount of effort.

Though the looming Brexit has put a damper on all things to do with the U.K., Wealthsimple is one of at least five Canadian fintechs making moves across the pond in recent months in response to the U.K.'s increased efforts to attract fintech investment and a collaboration between the Ontario Securities Commission and its local counterpart to facilitate fintech expansion.

They find it offensive that people like you discuss their endeavors, which required years of education, research and effort, in the same breath as the wild and baseless allegations of religion (at least as science views it).

They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely with the deeper issues — if not in perfect harmony, at least with a sense of solidarity.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Sölle recognizes that this is not well developed, but she writes that in its entry into future truth «theoretically at least, theology cooperates with other disciplines».33 Metz has moved from the recognition of the need for interdisciplinary co-operation to devoting extensive time and effort to its realization.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

Straus has pointed out that effective therapy for homeless alcoholics «must offer substitute reward values for abstinence which will be at least equivalent to the reward value of excessive drinking and which will not require greater effort than is required by drinking.»

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

It requires no great leap of creative imagination to see the parallels, at least with respect to their social placement and psychology, between the rescuers then and anti-abortion efforts such as Operation Rescue now.

But could more people be fed if we all undertook the task of making an impact on at least one human being; absolutely, that is what Jesus said we must do, but instead we tend to criticize the efforts of those who are doing something as NOT ENOUGH when we could join them and DO MORE.

We all sin, the problem is when we try to justify our ways instead of turning away from them (or at least making a daily effort to).

Though is represents a misunderstanding of dispensationalism, at least an effort is made to resolve the discrepancy.

Your difficulty is that you want to try to live in history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

(FOOTNOTE: We have made no effort to include all of the New Testament in this survey, but a word or two at least must be said about the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is probably to be dated in the last decade of the first century.