Sentences with phrase «of attempts at»

Looking back, I now realize there should have been no shame in any of my attempts at entertaining.

If the last few years» worth of attempts at making wireless earbuds are any indication, it's that cramming powerful wireless features into such a small form factor is a major struggle.

«The defendant may be able to show complicity in permitting certain acts to go unchecked or unaddressed, the lack of any attempts at addressing the defendant's aggressive behavior before the shooting, and preventing this tragedy through some form of intervention,» Arreaza wrote in a motion to disqualify the public defender's office from the Cruz case.

There have been a lot of attempts at creating a smartwatch like this over the years, but I always found them to combine the worst of both worlds: they lacked the simplicity of a plain old watch and the functionality of a full - blown smartwatch.

(11) Any history of substance abuse or violence by either parent, including a consideration of the severity of such conduct and the failure or success of any attempts at rehabilitation.

He lists barriers to the use of PKI, including the lack of accepted standards (not for want of attempts at different levels to create them) and the resulting lack of interoperability of systems.

The subject of these attempts at regulation range widely, from attorney advertising to witness investigation to judicial conduct.

The 1960's also saw the abandonment of attempts at grain growing in Iceland, which had been resumed in the warmer decades of this century after a lapse of some hundreds of years...

I find it ludicrous that Australian tax payers are forced to expend huge resources and time on catching a miniscule number of actual terrorists, putting our entire population under surveillance in the hope of catching a handful of terrorist plots and foiling them; contrast that to the political undermining and then active destruction of our attempts at a rational climate change risk management strategy, simply to win short term political gain.

Our great learned societies realised just how little there was to the evidence, that it was manipulated along with the peer review process, as was the IPCC AR4 assessment, that there was even evidence of inventing data and further evidence of attempts at thwarting the free dissemination of data and codes in direct contravention of one of the first principles of the scientific method, that of reproducibility and / or falsification.

Your post and referenced paper (I seem to remember a couple of attempts at trying to make my way through it) prove to me that I should stick with fishing.

Every model prediction or projection of both groups was remarkably wrong, regardless of attempts at improvement.

Republicans mounted a filibuster and prevented any real debate on the issues surrounding the bill that might have at least helped in the next round of attempts at climate legislation.

Consequently I never had a finished example of my attempts at a piece of art.

The art acknowledges the elegance of futility, the strangeness of attempts at permanence, and the absurdity of technological advances.

Gamble speaks of her sense that making art work is a life long adventure of attempts at expression and interpretation that endlessly shift, tantalizingly close at hand but always just out of reach.

There have been a number of attempts at expanding Call of Duty to the mobile market — Call of Duty: Strike Team and Zombies 1/2 were both reasonable attempts, but the mobile interface is terrible for first - person shooting.

Due to something as simple as the inability to detect if a ledge can be grabbed, it ended up costing me dozens of attempts at the same stage simply in order to hope that Beck would finally grab the ledge.

By analyzing all of these attempts at ranking the greatest games and combining them into a single list, we can figure out which games can rightly be called «The Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time.»

Here's my story of my attempts at mastering fighting games, and also what I've learned from each failure.»

Owners should always monitor their dogs carefully at the first sign of attempts at regurgitation.

If your kittens do not show improvement at all after two weeks of attempts at socialization, please contact the foster department for guidance.

For several weeks I have emphasized the folly of attempts at short - term market timing.

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

With the camera not being a regular forward facing one, you'll no doubt need to delete many of your attempts at capturing the world around you.

This attention has primarily come in the form of attempts at improving the measurement and communication of teacher prep program quality, and particularly in establishing links between programs and the effectiveness of the teachers they produce.

There are some good performances from a host of British and Irish actors (Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Joely Richardson, Douglas Hodge) but some of their attempts at a Russian accent prove distracting.

There were a couple of attempts at more serious drama that didn't really go over so well.

For all of his attempts at ego deflation, it's interesting that two of the three more conventional Schwarzenegger vehicles, Terminator 2 and Total Recall, rank among his very best films to date.

The romance between Hewitt and Lee seems rushed and therefore a little unbelievable, and the couple of attempts at drama land well wide of the mark.

While there are plenty of attempts at ordinary dialogue - based and over-the-top physical humor, it's the moments of pure elegance and drama that, accompanied by a soothingly effective score, make this film memorable.

Antitrust, for all of its attempts at being topical and hip, will be vestigial and badly dated in less than five years.

Okay, the acting, special effects and costumes are all bad, and some of the attempts at humour will make you groan, but the movie clips along at a brisk pace to clock in less than 90 minutes.

Using the mismatch of traditional and modern as the basis of all attempts at hilarity (spanning parenting styles, technology, behaviour and anything else that has evolved in form and function over the last half - century), the feature dares not depart from the standard, as apparent hijinks ensue.

Some of the attempts at topicality felt forced — see: Salma Hayek trying to get the audience to yell «Time's Up» in unison and presenter Geena Davis joking that all the Best Actor in a Motion Picture nominees should give half their salaries to the women in their films — but it was satisfying to imagine the men in the audience feeling uncomfortable for a night.

After watching a film like Pulse, I feel a bit insulted that movie executives think so little about the intelligence of the American movie - going public that the vast majority of the attempts at popular entertainment are completely stripped of anything remotely resembling a thought - provoking element, eschewing those in favor of noise, special effects and music stimuli to try to induce a subconscious reaction in the audience.

Practically all of the attempts at humor fall flat, particularly Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, who adds nothing.

Instead of the attempts at instant cult films (lookin at you, Sharknado), there are genuine movies that have developed a strong following around them despite not being massive hits upon their release.

For all of its attempts at gut - wrenching conflicts, at the end, we are left with the same characters in the same situations as when we started.

Ninety - nine percent of the attempts at comedy fail for being too broad, clunky, obvious, or just plain stupid.

I've never been a huge fan of this trend on me (pretty sure the only evidence of my attempts at it lies here)... but I do like blocking in the sense of picking just two single colors to work through an entire look.

If we come back to the continued disappointment of attempts at conception, be it naturally or through a fertility clinic it's almost completely unnecessary to even see a study to know that women with infertility are going to struggle sometimes with depression.

Most of my attempts at baking anything keto or low carb end up in the garbage because they are just yucky.

Achieving crisp, precise top liner has always been struggle city for me and I should probably log in a few hours practicing eyeshadow blending... for the sake of my attempts at wearing smoky eyes.

It's true, a toxic relationship can wreck all of your attempts at a healthy lifestyle.

The Co-Chairs of the Council will approach the Advisory Board with a written statement of grievance filed by the complainant, as well as a written account of attempts at reconciliation.

Along similar lines, a handful of attempts at messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) have been undertaken in recent years, with hopes of being picked up by an extraterrestrial listener.

The NPP Flagbearer's jabs were in response to the NDC Running Mate, Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, warning Ghanaians to be wary of attempts at rigging from the NPP during an address at Asawase in the Ashanti Region.

On Sunday evening, there was more evidence of attempts at choreography when I was in Downing Street to cover the PM's dinner date diplomacy with Mr Tusk, the former Polish Prime Minister.

As ACOG explains, more than half of attempts at the procedure succeed in turning the fetus to the vertex presentation.