Sentences with phrase «of unsuccessful efforts»

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

But many researchers had argued that those remains were only evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

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Apparently, the man had made multiple efforts — «guard shopping» as one of the security personnel put it — to get a look at the trading inside the confines of 11 Wall St.and was unsuccessful each time.

In addition, if our grassroots marketing efforts are unsuccessful and we are required to use traditional advertising channels in our overall marketing strategy, then we will incur additional expense associated with the transition to and operation of a traditional advertising channel.

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

The discussions, which involved a potential sale to Bank of American and Barclays, failed (vetoed by the Bank of England and the U.K. Financial Services Authority), and efforts by potential acquirers to secure federal intervention were unsuccessful.

Through a combination of human effort and divine intervention, Valjean journeys towards his personal redemption while being dogged by Javert, adopting a daughter, and becoming embroiled in the unsuccessful and lesser - known French revolution of 1832.

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

These efforts, even where incomplete and unsuccessful, are also part of our common history.

On the other hand, efforts to make conceptual sense of the world based on this model were unsuccessful.

-- The lessons learned by alcoholics from their own failures and the unsuccessful efforts of other human beings and entities.

Most of our own efforts to do so will probably prove unsuccessful.

The effort to understand all of its behavior in either of these categories has proved unsuccessful.

I never intended to challenge the church when my wife and I pursued in vitro fertilization in an effort to expand our family after a decade of unsuccessful infertility treatments.

I have a container of grated carrots in my fridge from an unsuccessful effort at carrot cake.

Many of these preventive efforts have not only been unsuccessful, they have created problems of their own, sometimes the very problems they were meant to prevent.

At 68, Tolbert is making his third run for public office following his unsuccessful effort against Brown in 2013 and another failed bid for the Buffalo Board of Education in 2014.

Effort to speak with the state coordinator of the NCBSG, Mr. Ignatius Edet was unsuccessful as he dropped his call after the issue was mentioned to him, while the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Amadu Atai, could not be reached as at the time of filing the report.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

Efforts to reach MEM Enterprises were unsuccessful, however, based upon inquiries made by City & State, it appears that the company's address is the same as that of the senator's brother, Marvin Maziarz, a retired Niagara County Community College professor.

The group on Tuesday released its legislative score cards for the 213 members of the Legislature on Tuesday, using three measurements: Their vote on the 2013 SAFE Act, the unsuccessful effort in 2015 to repeal it in the Senate and whether the lawmaker is a sponsor of a safe - storage bill, known as Nicholas's Law.

Though, Mrs. Rawlings, was unsuccessful in that election, because her NDP, was unable to meet the requirement of the Electoral Commission (EC), then headed by Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, she is making frantic effort to be counted on the ballot paper in this year's elections.

Frantic efforts made by this reporter to contact some of the national officers to either confirm or deny this story was unsuccessful, but Chronicle sources at the party office said the National Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their suspension.

Alcantara's deep ties to labor earned her the support of liberal unions like the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and NYSNA, some of whom had invested heavily in 2014 in an unsuccessful effort to help mainline Democrats reclaim control of the Senate.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

Authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

Rechnitz also gave the maximum $ 102,300 to de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to unseat Republican lawmakers in Albany during the 2014 elections to gain control of the Legislature for the Democrats.

Efforts by fire fighters to quench the ranging inferno were unsuccessful as they repeatedly ran short of water supply.

Efforts to reach Odigie - Oyegun for comments were unsuccessful but the Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Chris Azebamwan, said, «Chief Odigie - Oyegun has more pressing issues begging his attention than the ward congress.

Caputo managed Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's unsuccessful campaign against Cuomo in 2010 and was later part of efforts to recruit Trump to run against the governor in 2014.

He added that «the rocky state of the financial and property markets has not helped efforts, so far unsuccessful, to reach a deal with the private sector to build the Olympic Village, expected to cost more than # 1 billion.»

Meanwhile, the media company has since published that «The station has made strenuous, but unsuccessful efforts to verify from Mr Kennedy Agyepong's claims that large sums of questionable amounts of money had been found in the former BOST CEO's personal account».

Efforts by our correspondent to get the response of the state PolicePublic Relations Officer, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, were unsuccessful as his mobile telephone line indicated that it was not available.

Some Republican insiders have quietly tried to steer some of the gubernatorial candidates into a congressional race, but such efforts have been unsuccessful.

De Blasio — who was criticized over how he steered donations to Democrats during their unsuccessful efforts to take control of the Senate in 2014 — said helping Democrats in the Senate «should be in the forefront of all we do here.»

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Assemblyman Barclay said efforts by him and other state lawmakers to have the law repealed have been unsuccessful and offered little hope that can happen, noting the current political makeup of the state Legislature.

For example, in a 2014 meeting of the state retirement commission, then - state labor relations chief Linda Yelmini, a commission member, asked whether there had been a «deal» between state Attorney General George Jepsen and Republican Senate Leader Len Fasano, R - North Haven, on a legal opinion relating to Maturo's ultimately unsuccessful effort.

He acknowledged efforts to repeal onerous portions of the New York SAFE gun control law was unsuccessful.

«New York state officials worked as hard as we did over the past two months to reach a constructive and mutually beneficial agreement to avoid a shutdown of FitzPatrick, but our efforts were ultimately unsuccessful,» Entergy CEO Leo Denault said during a conference call with stock analysts.

Mr. de Blasio told reporters last month that he had been questioned in connection with the state inquiry, which is focused on possible violations of election law during the mayor's unsuccessful effort to help Democrats retake control of the State Senate in 2014.

The mayor is the subject of a multipronged investigation by state and federal authorities over an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to oust Senate Republicans from power.

Sugarman's internal memo accuses de Blasio and his political aides of breaking campaign finance laws by funneling contributions over the legal limit into county committees in an unsuccessful effort to return the state Senate to Democratic control in 2014.

Both Hilltop and BerlinRosen were paid a total of more than $ 2 million from the Campaign for One New York to push initiatives such as universal Pre-K and de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate.

Upstate mayors have launched unsuccessful efforts in the past to seize control of their cities» public schools.

It was unsuccessful in its most recent effort to shift the balance of power in the county legislator, but organizers see signs of progress in the election results.

But he says it was the culmination of a soul - sapping and ultimately unsuccessful battle with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how to accommodate the rising cost of the James Webb Space Telescope within an overall agency budget being squeezed by efforts to reduce federal spending and shrink the deficit.

Kaku's story is an outgrowth of a session at Aspen called «Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,» which was supposed to be a discussion about the great physicist's long and unsuccessful effort to come up with a unified field theory — what has become known as a theory of everything.

Efforts to promote a selective increase in the number of endothelial cells present in primary cultures by using different media preparations (MCDB - 131, D - Valine, etc.) were largely unsuccessful.