Sentences with phrase «of moderate effort»

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«You could sort of see it happening in slow motion, notwithstanding efforts by leadership to try to deflect it or push it back,» says Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who became a top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official before landing at American Crossroads, the Karl Rove - founded Super PAC, which now aims to usher more moderate Republican nominees into the midterms.

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.

But because CI can't deliver the kind of intensive sales support it provides to both Telus and AT&T, CI has had to rely on the resellers» own sales efforts, with moderate results.

Walking — when employees choose to walk instead of standing or sitting — while working entails a moderate physical effort and represents a completely new experience for most employees.

Assuming you remain consistent, with a targeted strategy, it's possible for link building to directly influence thousands of organic visitors and thousands of referral visitors per month — even in exchange for moderate effort — and that's not even counting the indirect benefits.

Trump, traveling in Asia this week, called in to a meeting between White House officials and a collection of moderate Senate Democrats on Tuesday, hoping he could win their support for his tax effort.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.

I. David Pierce, in his doctoral dissertation on cognition and theology, found that a sample of theologically liberal women were less inclined to use polar dimensions — such as «human effort» versus «divine power» or «instrumental» versus «relational» «-- than either a sample of men or a sample of theologically moderate or conservative women.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

Note: Some activities, such as bicycling, can be moderate or vigorous intensity, depending upon level of effort

Muscle - strengthening activities count if they involve a moderate to high level of effort and work the major muscle groups of the body: legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms.

As a rule of thumb, on a scale of 0 to 10, where sitting is 0 and the highest level of effort possible is 10, moderate - intensity activity is a 5 or 6.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

WP's use here is likely referring to this passage: «It will be understood that fortunes are here spoken of, not moderate sums saved by many years of effort, the returns on which are required for the comfortable maintenance and education of families.

Moderate expenditure as well as a conscious effort not to borrow from the Central Bank, among other things, culminated in these gains recorded over the past couple of months.

On a positive note his liberalisation efforts, which include finally allowing woman to drive and promises to shift towards a more moderate Islam, are a much - needed step in the right direction for a Kingdom where extreme and reactionary implementations of Islamic laws have for far too long restricted and repressed the basic rights and freedoms of its people.

After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

The political arm of the moderate New Democrat Coalition is adding 10 more challengers to its list of candidates to watch in 2018 — a continued effort to get involved in House races earlier this cycle.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Seven moderate Republican incumbents were defeated by more conservative rivals in an effort to oust members of the Senate who were hostile to parts of Gov. Sam Brownback's agenda.

That was because their efforts to control the grassroots were based on a misconception of local parties and members, who were seen as dangerous radicals who would thwart the modernisers» ambition to make the party more responsive to more moderate voters.

Andrew Romanoff, in a necessary effort to differentiate himself from the centrist non-politician Bennet, has been moving far to the left of his former moderate positions, and away from the bipartisan cooperation he was known for when he was Speaker of the House.

From noon to 2 p.m., state Education Commissioner John King Noon and AFT President Randi Weingarten discuss efforts and proposals to overhaul public schools during a lunch organized by Teaching Matters and moderated by Columbia University Prof. Jeffrey Henig; Harvard Club of New York City, 32 W. 45th St., Manhattan.

There are plenty of state and local officials, starting with Governor Cuomo, who aggressively attempt to thwart news gathering efforts,» said Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney, who will moderate the panel.

While it seems likely that moderate GOPers, long unhappy with DeLay's aggressive brand of conservatism, will support an effort to throw him overboard, it remains to be seen how many conservatives will join such an effort.

Sources the Observer spoke to saw the comments as an effort by Cornegy to impress moderate members of the Council — and to use Williams, who has struggled to get more of his colleagues to join in his genuflection, as a foil.

After a year of effort to draw attention to the inconsistent votes, flip - flops on issues, and contradictions in public statements that have been the signature of the tenure of Rep. Richard Hanna, Conservative Republican Michael Vasquez will be stepping aside to allow a focused and unified effort to unseat the self admitted Moderate.

Mr. Miller, along with the other Democrats, sought to again shine a spotlight on Iran's strained relationship with Israel and its efforts to build nuclear weapons, rebuffing claims that a new, more moderate Iranian head of state would mean an end to the perceived threat of the country.

«We developed this treatment for patients with mild - to - moderate obesity to reduce the attrition that is common with weight - loss efforts,» said David Prologo, M.D., FSIR, ABOM - D, an interventional radiologist from Emory University School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

The 129 sedentary adult ages 18 to 64 recruited for the study, irrespective of their sex, ethnicity or BMI classifications, correctly estimated physical activities of light effort but underestimated moderate and vigorous effort, even after being given commonly used exercise intensity descriptors.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

«Our research looked a very large population of U.S. veterans who had experienced either mild, moderate or severe traumatic brain injury in an effort to find an answer to whether a mild traumatic brain injury can put someone at risk.»

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

For runners who are already meeting the recommended physical activity guidelines (150 minutes of moderate - intensity physical activity every week), the extra effort put in exercise can lessen the risk of heart disease even more.

It's simple and effortless.Moderate exercise is considered approximately 75 % of your maximal heart rate so we're simply giving a number value to our moderate exercise effort.

For instance, the runners - stayers, in comparison to fighters need much more cardiovascular stamina, not as much muscle endurance and no power to last an extensive time of moderate intensity effort, whereas fighters need much more muscle endurance to be able to keep up the explosive bursts of energy for few minutes, as well as the developed power can help end the contest in just few seconds.

I was just feeling so depleted after a somewhat punishing 4 hr ride of mostly moderate effort.

Standard moderate effort cycling, of the sort that can be maintained for hours, is minimally catabolic to muscle tissue, and quite frankly quite easy to recover from for the body.

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So as to not appear out of touch or boring, do not overemphasize personality similarity in marketing and branding efforts as members will likely only value it to a moderate degree.

So as to not appear out of touch or boring, do not overemphasize personality similarity in marketing and branding efforts as members will likely only value it to a moderate degree, despite its known function in long - term relationship success.

A whole class period of effort and that ever - desired moderate to vigorous physical activity level is achieved.

My point is not that other policies are therefore unimportant, but rather that the policies mentioned here have broad support, have moderate to strong research evidence of positive effects (except for the case of nonurban charters, which have strong evidence of neutral to negative effects), and could therefore be a prime target for ongoing bipartisan policy efforts.

In 1986, Madeleine Will, then the assistant secretary of the U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, proposed that greater efforts be made to educate children with mild or moderate disabilities in regular classrooms.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

Did you know that Forbes.com reports that the Department of Education has awarded almost $ 250 million in an effort to ensure that development of early education programs, preschool, continue to best serve children from low - and moderate - income families?

It requires a well - considered amount of steering effort and took corners with fair stability at moderate speeds.

The power assisted rack and pinion steering takes a moderate amount of effort, but the driver has a good feel for the road.