Sentences with phrase «of earlier attempts»

[Thanks Dave Springer and I appologize for not remembering that detail of your earlier attempts to clarify the issues.

One of the earlier attempts was Rare's «Diddy Kong Racing», a new franchise based on a character that Rare shoehorned into Donkey Kong Country, beloved by approximately nobody.

Toshiba needed that boost after they took a beating after the JournE Touch - one of the earlier attempts by Toshiba at a tablet device when the segment itself was at its formative stages.

It was one of the earlier attempts to offer full - time four - wheel drive that would operate on dry pavement.

The waivers also killed the momentum of earlier attempts to rewrite No Child Left Behind, dragging the law seven years past its expiration date.

If you're someone who likes the density that can often come with really healthy baking, you may have liked some of the earlier attempts too.

Unlike most of these earlier attempts, the Los Olivos house and a handful of other prototype «net zero» dwellings remain connected to the grid and sell whatever surplus electricity they generate to local utilities.

(I believe that this is one of the things that went wrong in some of my earlier attempts.

Contemporary liberalism turns out to be the natural culmination of the earlier attempt to neuter religion.

Gregory of Nazianzus was involved in one of the early attempts to formulate a definitive doctrine of the Trinity, and he wrote, «It is difficult to conceive God but to define Him in words is an impossibility....

Second, it was one of the earliest attempts to translate words from the original language into English, made by people who struggled with the original languages.

A comparative and critical examination of different perceptions of the religious faiths, is one of the earliest attempts at dialogue.

One of the earliest attempts at unifying the forces of nature was made in the 1920s, when German physicist Theodor Kaluza melded Einstein's gravitational theory with the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell.

Who Dares Wins — Douglas Blain reckons the SS100 a real prewar masterpiece — is definitely his type of car / The Bradley Tapes — The first in a new series recalling the life and times of renowned motoring journalist WF Bradley / A Celebration Of Speed — David Venables reports on the ever - popular Festival of Speed at Goodwood / Jumble Giant — Michael Ware previews the grandady of them all — the September Beaulieu Autojumble / Bean's Talk — JonathonWood tells the tale of an early attempt at mass production / Best Buy — Michael Bowler selects some more first cars for under # 10000 / Bespoke Motoring — Malcolm Green's in - depth guide to special bodied MGs from 1929 to 1955 / French Connection — Michael Worthington - Williams on the cars of Marcel Violet.

«Originally, I had put my ebooks up on Amazon because they were the only game in town, and I had some relative success with Amazon,» says Andre of her early attempt at ebook distribution of her titles.

During a special visit to the Matterhorn Museum, hear a local mountaineer and an Alpine historian recount stories of the earliest attempts to conquer Switzerland's most iconic peak.

Still - life, portraits, landscapes and even religious painting were some of her early attempts that were very soon left behind.

In addition to a few seminal essays like Lewitt's «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art» (1967), would you say that 12 Dialogues with Frampton was one of the earliest attempts to deal with the loaded legacy of New York School painting, the ramifications of Duchamp's work, and the revived interest in Constructivist aesthetics?

But as some of the early attempts to bring it under control failed, such as the plan to have an anti-encryption «back door» built into the relevant hardware (the Clipper chip), naturally there was optimism that freedom of expression and participation would prevail over «the people who run things».

However, Amazon is also cracking down on one of the early attempts by a third - party company to provide a similar service.

However, Amazon is also cracking down on one of the early attempts by...

Bitcoin Classic was one of the earliest attempts in this regard.

One of the earliest attempts to increase Bitcoin's 1 MB block size limit came in the form of Bitcoin XT, a fork of Bitcoin Core introduced on August 15, 2015 that sought to increase the block size limit to 8 MB.

Not exact matches

Canada earns its only «A» on the new indicator, entrepreneurial ambition — a measure of the share of the working - age population reporting early - stage entrepreneurial activity, such as attempts to establish or own a new business.

Founded by three tech veterans, who between them have experience working early on at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Foursquare, Oceans is attempting to help entrepreneurs steer clear of common mistakes.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

Some younger entrepreneurs are attempting to cash out early, before the predicted fire sale of boomer - owned businesses has a chance to depress prices.

While the White House did try to focus its wrath on Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Company — attempting to impose a cease - and - desist order, only prompting an earlier release of the book — there are more in - depth reports already headed for the printing presses of which the administration should be wary.

VR is still in its early stages, but as we see it advance, we'll see more businesses jump aboard Considering VR can also provide real - time data collection and an estimated 43 million people were actively using the technology in some way as of June 2016, there's no reason not to attempt to embrace it.

In London, it has fended off attempts by drivers of the city's famous black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app.

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

Falling fuel costs kept Japan's core consumer prices unchanged in January from a year earlier, well below the central bank's 2 % target, highlighting the daunting task policymakers face in attempting to lift Japan out of stagnation.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump scuppered Broadcom's attempt to buy mobile chip maker Qualcomm, and the Department of Justice is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Earlier in February, a top aide of Macron's also accused Russia of hacking attempts and spreading fake information about him in Kremlin - backed news outlets.

Earlier this year, they attempted to create an ETF for Bitcoin, but fell short after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rejected the application, citing the possibility of fraud.

In the early 19th Century, Luddites destroyed mechanized looms in a vain attempt to forestall the effect of the industrial revolution on employment patterns in the textile industry.

Earlier this month, Facebook said it was dramatically scaling back the number of advertising options it offers to marketers in an attempt to simplify the ad - buying process.

The founders knew of at least three earlier attempts to create a beer for the gay market, and they saw much that they could improve upon.

In its official presentation of the offer, Teva argued that its proposed deal was a «superior alternative» to Mylan's own unsolicited attempt to buy Irish pharma firm Perrigo (PRGO) for $ 29 billion, announced earlier this month.

Remarkably, Richmont founder and chairman John Rochon, former CEO of Avon rival Mary Kay, led an attempted takeover of Avon that began in the late 1980s and ended in the early 1990s.

«This type of person tends to be self - directed and independent, and might question authority, so in their early careers, there are attempts to rein them in or drum them out.»

The burning of the blue slip is the latest product of what amounts to Trump's attempt at quickly reshaping the federal bench and build a legacy early in his administration.

Early this year, a National Sports Ethics Commission Bill was introduced in the Indian parliament in an attempt to order to improve the overall integrity of sporting culture.

So in 1995, in one of the couple's earliest conscious attempts to change how they ran the company, McManus hired his first manager, for finance — someone to ostensibly free him from the burden of managing cash flow.

The specifics of what evidence the DOJ provided were redacted, but were related to Page's ties to Russian officials and entities that stretch back to the early 2000s and the Russians» attempts to recruit Page as an unwitting agent in 2013 and earlier.

Elliott's winning ways are in stark contrast to many of its activist peers, whose recent attempts to take on Fortune 500 companies have failed miserably, from Bill Ackman's landslide loss in a proxy contest with ADP (adp), to Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn's strikeout at General Motors (gm) earlier this year.

While the judge referred the question of damages to another hearing, he did grant Mars Canada $ 225,000 in legal costs for what he deemed the brazen breach of the earlier settlements and for Ebert's attempts to «avoid accountability» for the misconduct.

The site also outed PayPal (pypl) co-founder and early Facebook (fb) investor Peter Thiel, of course, a slight that the Silicon Valley billionaire later said helped convince him to finance Hulk Hogan's lawsuit in an ultimately successful attempt to drive the company into bankruptcy.

He joined the social networking site earlier this year, updating followers on his guitar practice and posting a picture of himself doing the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but he also attempted to engage his critics, with mixed success.