Sentences with phrase «of earlier efforts»

There have been several attempts, including Shashlik, but none of those earlier efforts were successful.

The effort to create a database of knowledge grew out of earlier efforts by Dragon Quest fans on the web; notably the Dragon Warrior Encyclopedia, Wikipedia's Wikiproject Dragon Quest, and other various Dragon Quest fansites.

What I mean by pre-history is that there is an interesting and worthwhile story of earlier efforts to secure an entrenched bill or charter of rights.

Aaron Wildavsky's book «But is it True» is an investigation of the earlier efforts at projecting «harm» — and he found little evidence of truth in the various scares starting in the late 1950's and ending in the early 1990» s.

In 2000, after a century of earlier efforts by scholars, scientists, and at least one journalist (me) to give a name to humanity's emerging role as a planet - scale force, one word emerged in a heated moment at a global change conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico — anthropocene.

Equally impossible to ignore was «Larry Poons: Momentum,» a stunning group of recent works by the irrepressible abstract painter, seen at Yares Art, Uptown, along with a small selection of earlier efforts, like a miniature retrospective, as context.

At its most basic level, NCLB attempts to fulfill the promise of earlier efforts by putting in place specific implementation timelines for those states that wish to continue to receive federal aid.

The same criticisms have been appropriately leveled at plenty of earlier efforts, including site - based management, block scheduling, equity lawsuits, busing, de-tracking, and much else.

Retaining the plasticine charm of their earlier efforts, the animation here is somewhat of a hybrid of the old and the new.

The sixteenth feature film by those unique and unpredictable filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside LLewyn Davis is their first film that, storywise, seems to recall some of their earlier efforts.

In our review, Eric Kohn praised it as being «a more focused, involving work than any of her earlier efforts, a taut wartime tale about surviving the Khmer Rouge that's rooted in a child's perspective rather than a simplistic, westernized gaze.

While the new Farrelly template surely reflects the married, middle - aged - family - men brothers» general outlook, the movies it's produced don't have the same jaw - dropping, outrageous kick of those earlier efforts.

Nostalgia is neither as entertaining nor as stylistically stimulating as any of those earlier efforts.

China could both benefit from the lessons of earlier efforts, such as Europe's flagship carbon market — the world's largest, known as the European Union Emissions Trading System, or ETS.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.

Whether or not these works represent a «third Quest of the historical Jesus,» it is instructive to view them in light of earlier efforts to recover Jesus «as he really was,» and to ask whether the second coming of the liberal Jesus is at hand.

In a way, we might say that it resembles a place where an artisan is engaged in making something or other; there are loose ends here and there, bits and pieces that are not yet completed, remnants of earlier efforts that did not quite fulfill the artisan's plan.

Shots by Minute: Swans starting well with a couple of early efforts and a strong last 15 minutes of the first half but the good work undone early in the 2nd

The plan, announced Sunday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is an expansion of an earlier effort to keep tenants in their homes and to keep them from becoming part of the city's affordable housing crisis.

However, one of the early efforts to promote interdisciplinary research and training at FHCRC started as a grassroots approach to understand what colleagues in different disciplines were doing.

Many of the early efforts to produce healthy crops involved diseases that had newly been introduced and left the growers quite helpless.

NPR recently got exclusive access to Lanner's labs at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm to watch some of his early efforts.

The result of these early efforts was a decadent square layer cake topped with a slab of fudge frosting.

Having established his bona fides, he then tackled his first project with a professional cast, led by Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, but despite its topical subject matter — the plight of the American farmer — At Any Price seemed hopelessly contrived.99 Homes takes the best qualities of his early efforts and channels them through a well - crafted screenplay, brought to life by top - flight actors.

One of its earliest efforts, Iron Man 2, was a poorly received mess that reeked of studio meddling, sacrificing a coherent plot to lay groundwork for an upcoming slate of new heroes who would eventually form The Avengers.

It was hard to know what to make at first as many of his early efforts (outside of Dazed and Confused) were didactic, and...

Feinberg recalled the tale of his early efforts back when he was a teacher — how, after encountering waves of bureaucratic resistance, he ultimately resorted to sitting on Houston superintendent Rod Paige's car for five hours just to get permission to launch KIPP.

Book publishing today is very much a descendant of those early efforts.

He published criticism, including a 1950 article on Chaim Soutine that was later hailed as one of the earliest efforts to wrestle with the new style of painting.

The current Tate exhibition helps viewers escape that myopic view by offering a welcome glimpse of many of the early efforts Rauschenberg made that predate those monochrome paintings that first made his name.

«I called them the Charts of the Future,» Maple told Govtech Magazine of his early efforts to map subway crime in his off - hours.

Nix described it as a modern - day upgrade of early efforts to win over a foreign population by dropping propaganda leaflets from the air.

In the wake of an earlier effort by a CBOE subsidiary to convince the SEC to reconsider its decision, Tilly said his company will be evaluating data about the settlement process, liquidity, and volatility spikes of the bitcoin futures for possible conversations with the SEC.

One of the earliest efforts came in 1982, near the start of the Reagan administration.

The result of these early efforts was a decadent square layer cake topped with a slab of fudge frosting.

Not exact matches

Venter, who is one of the first people to sequence the human genome, co-founded the company in effort to discover early genetic markers for a variety of disorders.

Home Depot said it was too early to compare the scale of this year's operation with earlier efforts or to estimate how much Harvey would cost it.

An early closure of the deal would accelerate orders and efforts to reduce costs, the people...

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

To J. Maurice, who helped found WizSec but left the company early on and was not involved in the investigation, Nilsson's effort epitomizes the virtues of Bitcoin — a decentralized system free of government control, which relies instead on individual users to sustain it.

Onboarding plans are intended to make new employees familiar with the overall goals of a company and support them as they embark on early projects all in an effort to achieve the perception of success (and productivity) quickly.

This two - day activity - filled event includes a Day 1 hands - on workshop to continue the company's efforts in building and expanding end - user base among medical and dental healthcare providers, but also provide organizations with how - tos to become early adopter and users of 3D printing and bio-printing technologies.

It even wades into parenting and schooling: praising and rewarding our children for reaching solutions rather than for their effort, Tugend writes, stigmatizes mistakes from the earliest stages of socialization.

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

Corporate venture - capital efforts also have the advantage of involvement with startups at the early stages, when they can most benefit from access to a large, established customer base, credibility through brand association and a larger network of partner companies and advisors.

And indeed, other tech giants are interested; Amazon, for one, launched Amazon Home Services earlier in the year, in an effort to get a piece of this potentially lucrative market.

However, Mariotti added, prosecutors sometimes bring charges earlier if it's part of an effort to coerce a defendant into «flipping» as a witness and cooperating with the investigation.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

Abney said the company's brick - and - mortar and e-commerce retail customers are holding «Black Friday» sales earlier than normal this year and that UPS believes it is part of an effort by retailers to find ways to smooth out the pre-Christmas online ordering bulge.