Sentences with phrase «of meaningful effort»

The lawyer's affidavit contained little information about the efforts made, and instead confirmed a lack of meaningful effort to pursue the information that was available.

That level of federal investment on energy frontiers, after decades of bipartisan disinterest in energy sciences, has been widely seen as a critical component of any meaningful effort to expand the world's energy menu without overloading the atmosphere with heat - trapping gases.

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In an effort to woo drivers, Uber launched an initiative called, 180 Days of Change — a campaign that aims to make «meaningful changes and improvements» to the driving experience.

After a couple of years, despite my best efforts, this project started to feel meaningful.

It takes effort, but it is essential to focus on communicating goals in order to make them meaningful and create a shared sense of purpose.

Tracking and identifying the return on investment of your marketing efforts has become much simpler, yet many companies aren't turning metrics into meaningful, actionable insight.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

Another commentary, written by associates of the Impact of Equity Engagement (IE2), tells of that initiative's efforts to «understand the nature of impact within public equities — where investors» engagement activities have generated meaningful social and environmental impacts.»

In the last quarter of 2017, time spent on Facebook every day declined by 5 percent, or 50 million hours, a drop the company attributed to its intentional efforts to prioritize more meaningful content.

It doesn't take much effort to forward a meaningful piece to a friend — and not much more to send it on to an e-mail list of several hundred.

Feelings of inadequacy, performance doubts, worries about under - appreciation, and concern over whether their efforts are actually accomplishing anything meaningful were all noted by participants as significant issues.

On August 9, 2011 at 1:53 pm, Stevie7 wrote me stating, «Even with clerical errors corrected, this is a lot of effort to say nothing meaningful.»

Perhaps the revitalization of our religious traditions will come from new efforts to live them as experienced realities, rather than objects of thought, by those who find them meaningful, whatever their own origins may be.

Its proponents sought to re-establish the vital connection between the student and the curriculum and thus to make the effort of learning meaningful, by relating studies to the student's own actual life situations.

The fourth sort of case would be a perceptually meaningful alternative to the third only if the «other things» were known independently to be inherently perceptible in the latter, yet all efforts to establish that knowledge - claim appear to be question - begging.

It is how all the interests and vitality of life can be integrated into some sort of meaningful purpose and effort.

Beguiled by this assumption, Western Christian theology has become an inadvertent effort to protect this «God» from the vagaries of finitude and surprise — in short, from the very things we ordinarily associate with the ability to have meaningful relationships with others.

Sunderland also created the first meaningful chance of the second half, as Adam Johnson tried a speculative long - distance effort, but it was comfortably held by Boruc.

The Sandals Foundation funds projects in three core areas: education, community, and the environment, in an effort to play a meaningful role in the lives of the Caribbean communities in which they operate.

We reached out to some of our previous classes of School Nutrition Heroes to get their thoughts on why the award was so meaningful for them, and how it has helped them amplify their efforts in their own communities.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful...

For those campaigns, PACs and parties that opt to use technology not just to better optimize persuasion efforts but to actually build meaningful relationships at scale, a whole slew of traditional campaign pitfalls cease to exist.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people.

The Daily News deems Cuomo's effort to take more control of the MTA a «political gambit» since it comes so late in the session, but then says: «Even political gambits can be meaningful.»

Making money in life should be secondary, making life meaningful and better for our society should be our priority, if I so think of money, I would not set up this station in Ife, I love my people, I see this little effort as my contribution to lift a little burden off the teeming unemployment rate in Ife lands.

«That's a fitting, meaningful tribute to one of the great public servants of our time, and I was very proud to support the effort to change.»

Odogwu made this assertion while appraising effort made by the Okowa led administration in Delta State to make life meaningful for the people, which he highlighted some key economic programmes for the grassroots people, which he stated that these policies were capable of tackling the challenges the people currently contends with.

The State of New York's pioneering efforts to make health data publicly available and to facilitate the data's use in apps, tools, and services is bringing the data to life in meaningful and innovative ways.

Thanks to efforts of this collective, the revived Loisaida Festival of 2014 expanded beyond a one - day music and street fair to include culturally relevant and meaningful activities, including documentary screenings, oral histories, performances and poetry, during the entire weekend.

If we are to make any meaningful change in the lives of the people, our efforts must be directed at this sector.

«It's sort of shocking that there wasn't at least even a pretend effort to do some meaningful ethics reforms,» said Horner.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

They also agreed on «meaningful increases» in U.S. exports of agriculture and energy products and greater efforts to increase trade in manufactured goods and services.

On each topic, they issued failing grades, with the exceptions of Sen Skelos getting an F - for not only being inactive on meaningful job creation for low - income communities but for actually fighting against efforts that might otherwise be helpful.

On the anniversary of the Columbine shooting, teachers and students at Columbine High took part in community service in an effort to turn the day into something meaningful and thousands of students across the country took part in walkouts to protest gun violence.

At a certain point, all of the attackers and naysayers need to stop questioning Dean Skelos» credentials on his meaningful and effective efforts to expand his majority through smart politics.

The formation of New Yorkers for Great Public Schools is just the teachers unions» latest effort to derail meaningful reform in our schools.

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

«Whether or not anything meaningful comes out of the session hinges almost entirely on whether the governor puts his political muscle behind the effort in the way that he did on raising the minimum wage and paid family leave.»

He said: «If we are to make any meaningful change in the lives of the people, our efforts must be directed at this sector».

Some of these differentiators will have a meaningful, lifelong impact and require you to put in some serious effort.

In an area that does not fit the prototype of a seismic hotbed, efforts to implement meaningful policy changes have stalled, leaving the area vulnerable to tremendous damage.

Mark2Cure's current project «is all about showing that the output of [volunteer] efforts is scientifically meaningful,» Su says.

For example, on top of our best efforts to obtain meaningful and significant results we still must have the nerve to submit our papers to Science, Nature, or the equivalent, even when our self - doubt is urging us to aim lower.

«We will lead an effort to bring these stakeholders together to make meaningful changes in the involvement of women and minorities in clinical trials to better inform the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and conditions.»

It is going to take the concerted effort of women and men, on fronts personal and institutional, to effect meaningful change.

This will help to shift the focus of conservation efforts from targets assessed just by hectares to other, more - meaningful objectives, focused on effectiveness.

A collaborative group including the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP), and scientists at Stanford University launch the Minimal Information About T cell Assays (MIATA) Project, the first systematic effort to establish a framework for reporting immune monitoring data from T cell assays used in clinical trials, with the goal of fostering reliability of data to facilitate meaningful interpretation, comparison, and meta - analysis across clinical trials.

We coordinate efforts with others within the University, the Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Medicine and the School of Nursing to optimize the development and meaningful engagement of healthcare professionals in effective learning and improvement experiences.

This money supports efforts of faculty and staff to do meaningful scientific studies into the causes, treatments, cures and prevention of disease.