Sentences with phrase «of failed efforts»

Sagoff has also been a critic of failed efforts by environmentalists to «price» natural systems in order to protect them.

On his statement that he initially reacted in horror to the sequence of failed efforts at stopping the oil by «thinking those morons don't know what they're doing»:

SoHo was home to about 2,000 artists by the early»70s, many of whom had to go as far as Chelsea to get basic groceries and faced police shakedowns as part of failed efforts to clear them out.

In the paper, researchers point out that a rating system is important because of failed efforts to ban or restrict children's access to violent video games, often ruled unconstitutional by the courts.

Mandate Relief Council as recent examples of failed efforts to address areas in state government that remain in obvious need

It was Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat facing re-election in November, who almost single - handedly revived congestion pricing last summer after decades of failed efforts.

When a compliant young person wonders why his compliance doesn't bring the relationship he desires, point him to the One who'll love him regardless of his failed efforts at goodness.

After decades of failed efforts to improve the lives of poor students, Mr Tough has written a fine and provocative book about the kind of work that seems to be making a difference.

Instead, Paladino was a firm booster of failed effort to draft real - estate mogul Donald Trump to run against incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Catsimatidis also said de Blasio solicited him to donate $ 50,000 to an upstate county Democratic committee that wound up going to candidates the mayor was trying to help win election as part of a failed effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

The measure is a counter proposal to one advocated by New York Rep. Chris Collins (R - Clarence) and Rep. John Faso (R - Kinderhook) as part of the failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

A test facility near Lynchburg, Va. is up and running to ensure that what looks good on paper will also work in practice and B&W already has one potential customer in the U.S. — the TVA — expressing an interest in building as many as six of the small modular reactors at its Clinch River site, former home of a failed effort to build a fast breeder reactor in the 1970s.

While the cognitive testing results could not be relied on (because of the failed effort tests), all other information consistently indicated that since the index event she had difficulty in maintaining goals and this was consistent with executive problems, also impacting on her social and interpersonal functioning.

Not exact matches

Efforts to rein in the proverbial snake oil salesmen of the advertising industry typically fail.

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

A spokesman for Vertu told the Telegraph: «Our best efforts to achieve a pre-pack administration have failed because the financial requirements specified within the negotiations went beyond the point where the new company had a chance of financial viability.»

The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.

But while colleagues sometimes fail to appreciate the efforts of stable high performers, star employees themselves know how hard they work.

«Our sense is that the political embarrassment of health care failing will serve as a driver for the GOP to redouble its efforts to enact tax relief in this Congress.»

One of the most common reasons that many marketers fail to find traction with their lead generation efforts is that they neglect to court prospects properly.

Oil's price also has been firming as Houthi rebels in Yemen have increased a campaign of firing missiles into Saudi Arabia, both at oil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failed.

But the more important point looking ahead is that CEO Brian Krzanich is ignoring all the sunk costs of failed and dying efforts to compete in mobile and investing in areas where maybe — just maybe — Intel can leapfrog ahead of the competition.

Before you do anything, take time to think it all the way through... Thinking things through will save you tons of time versus when the idea or initiative fails and you have to recommit all the effort again.

Any PR efforts that don't specifically address the needs and concerns of your target audience are almost guaranteed to fail.

Republican senators who had previously assailed the nation's debt burden — including Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficits failed.

If you choose to pursue something that requires effort, you also, incidentally, choose failing more than a handful of times.

While corporate employees can afford to bury themselves in very specific, rigidly segmented responsibilities, small business employees succeed or fail based on the collective efforts of the entire group.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

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«Entrusting this effort to a failing Qualcomm management who lacks the support of its owners, and that pays out much of its excess cash flow in fines as a result of serial lawbreaking, would not be in America's long - term interests.»

Though well - intentioned, that's why over half of major transformation efforts fail.

Even if the entrepreneur falls and fails a thousand times, there is a real sense of winning in the effort — especially if he can pass along the benefits of his experience to those who come behind him.

When you're trying to attract more visitors to your site and standard sources of traffic are failing you, it's time to take your efforts to the next level.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

Nate emphasizes the importance of keeping things lean: «If you don't establish the definition of success before running user acquisition efforts, you won't know whether you're desperately failing or single - handedly making your company succeed.»

That's where we go wrong: Some of our collaborative efforts fail to stimulate us.

Congress seemed poised to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 six - and seven - year - olds and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, but the effort failed.

It all started with a tweet to Musk, who had initially posted a video montage of SpaceX's previous failed efforts entitled «How Not to Land a Orbital Rocket Booster.»

More than half of all small - business owners fail to measure the results of their marketing efforts.

The worst missteps were former CEO Ron Johnson's focus in 2012 on a failed re-imagining of the 114 - year - old retailer into a hipper store, along with the ill - advised separation of Penney's e-commerce and stores teams, a strategy that flew in the face of every other retailer's efforts.

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.

«For example, when Dell Inc. decided to use social media to launch Linux laptops, the effort yielded lackluster results, partly because Dell failed to recognize that the online voices were not representative of a larger customer base,» Kane writes.

The truth of the matter is that the virus has not been acclimated on this continent and that the efforts of the doctors to inoculate the American mind have failed for that reason.

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

But those efforts have failed to catch on, and the company has implemented multiple rounds of layoffs and shuttered its media business.

At the time of the failed acquisition, beyond expressing (misplaced) shock at the dollar figure, many attributed Facebook's effort to some sort of existential struggle for relevance.

Each of their efforts failed.

While some hacks addressed specific disaster scenarios like emergency ridesharing and drone rescue operations, nearly all of the disaster - related apps mentioned failings of modern emergency management, like a «lack of communication» between victims and rescuers and the absence of a «cohesive program» tracking realtime rescue and relief efforts.

And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.