Sentences with phrase «off earlier attempts»

Area activists fought off earlier attempts by the Evanston City Council to build a marina at the border to Rogers Park.

Not exact matches

In London, it has fended off attempts by drivers of the city's famous black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app.

Samsung's earlier attempt to introduce finger levitation, allowing users to hover their fingers over a device and not touch the screen, didn't take off.

In late 2002 and early 2003, the global organization — recently spun off from Bass Group — faced bloated overhead costs in the competitive hotel industry, experienced a decline in business and vacation travel because of the worldwide economic downturn and the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), underwent a brand name change (from Six Continents), and battled a hostile takeover attempt by British entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.

In the early days, he would only dive into his doctrine (attempts to shock you into his belief system) off - lab when we'd go out to lunch as a group.

There is now a movement among young modern Zoroastrians to go back to the earlier purer form of their faith, not unlike movements that have occurred within Hinduism and Christianity under such names as «Back to the Vedas,» or «Back to Christ,» or «Back to the gospels,» in an attempt to throw off the accretions of the years which are felt to have obscured the original teachings of those fajths.

Certain Christian feminists, in an attempt to make a case for the liberating nature of early Christianity, played off the egalitarian message of Jesus against his Jewish background.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

Early in the first quarter, James beat Leonard, only to see Leonard recover and block his layup attempt off glass.

(if he can't get back because he's «injured» then surely he doesn't take off like that...) 76:46 Nouhou skies his attempt on goal 76:50 (at the earliest) ball is put back in play by SKC (ESPN is busy showing the replay not the action on the field) 77:01 long ball is played from the SKC defense down Nouhou's side

- A lawsuit was brought against Eli and the New York Giants earlier this week alleging they'd attempted to pass off fake «game - worn» memorabilia *.

This was somewhat less surprising - he was the earliest of the front runners to stop for the soft compound tyres and he punished them pretty heavily, locking up a couple of times as he attempted to fend off Bottas.

With that said... I say: If Vegas «pre-paid» a Kansas St. lay - off early in the line... (pre-paid layoffs don't have to go to the action - favourite, only a line shift needs to be anticipated with intention of middling the layoff and the action)... then they will have bought x amount of Kansas WTS units at +9.5 in anticipation of selling x amount of units at +7.5 in attempts to middle a 8 - 9 point spread where they'd win the action as well as the layoff.

Attention shifts back again to another Saturday early kick - off, this time as United host Newcastle and attempt to maintain their 100 % start to the campaign and reclaim top spot, for the time being at least.

Early on Skirton attempted to go past Armfield only for Jimmy to block the ball and sending it into my Dad whose glasses were knocked off!

Simon Mignolet — 5.5 Made a good save early on, coming off his line quickly to smother a Charlie Austin attempt.

SAVES: BOTH KEEPERS CALLED ON EARLY - 5 - 6 mins The match got off to a frenetic start and we had the first attempt at goal after five minutes when striker Reo Griffiths cleverly flicked the ball to Joe Pritchard with the inside of his foot and the midfielder's strike was palmed away to his right by Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.

In an attempt to move the stalled paid sick leave bill, advocates showed up at Central Park yesterday to point out carriage horses get time off (the result of a bill passed earlier this year), but people aren't guaranteed sick time.

A separate attempt to usurp Cuomo's control of the party was made earlier this summer, when two Republican clerks sought to have the rules he signed off on scrapped.

Earlier attempts at weaning myself off cigarettes and setting a quitting date had failed miserably.

Also make it a point not to attempt and take the communication off of the site too early.

Synopsis: In the early 1970s, author Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), with accomplice Richard Suskind (Alfred Molina), attempts to pull off one of the greates... [MORE]

It's not perfect — there are occasional glitches, some people might find the crushing deaths and general difficulty of later levels a little off - putting — but as after being disappointed with many of Sega's past attempts at following up Sonic's early success, Mania did what I had almost given up hope on being possible.

When Tim crashes his car into a tree in what appears to be a passive / aggressive suicide attempt, Jim bears some of the blame, having offhandedly suggested moments earlier that Tim, living at home with a dead - end job and alimony payments, would be better off dead.

He had been drinking all day and diving in the afternoon in an attempt to recover items he had thrown off his yacht at Marina Del Ray three years earlier.

Early on, Kuzco's firing of Yzma sets off her instant desire for revenge, which is realized when she and Kronk attempt to fatally poison the spoiled ruler.

This is where the film's earlier section pays off, since Saulnier's ability to write realistic characters makes it easy to relate to the band's desperate, yet smart, attempts to get out alive.

The union is attempting to fend off a 9 percent pay cut proposed by the board earlier this year.

While it's too early to say if the Chinese company's attempt to have a bigger slice of the enterprise app segment will pay off, the idea does hold potential.

Sharp's earlier attempt at a tablet device did not really take off in a manner that could match its global stature as an electronics maker of repute.

Earlier this year, the company fended off an attempt by activist investor George Armoyan and his firm, Clarke Inc. (symbol CKI on Toronto), to place three of its nominees on Sherritt's board of directors.

Bill Hadley, CEO and founder of Bio-Pro Research — the maker of Urine Off brand urine odor and stain remover — concurs that manufacturers» foray into the arena of eco-friendly cleaning products was thwarted early on by failed attempts to create green products that were as powerful as conventional ones.

I wanted to make good on a failed solo attempt at this peak some 13 years earlier when my backpack rolled off a cliff and into a river gorge in a self - timed photography - related accident.

Earlier I posted details of what Marriott is attempting to pass off as it's biggest sale of the year (it's woeful) and now it's Starwood's turn to dazzle or disappoint with its Black Friday / Cyber Monday offering for 2017.

But there's one early attempt at a video game movie that relied so heavily on artistic license that it's a mystery how Nintendo ever signed off on the final cut.

A notable example of this was in the ending to Super Mario Odyssey, where, after Mario attempts to prevent Bowser from getting her hand in marriage by behaving in a similar manner, she shouts «enough» and storms off in a fury, although she nonetheless calms down enough to tell Mario and Bowser that they should go back home, and the post-game implies she forgave Mario for the earlier incident.

It's cliche I know but the more you play, the more you'll succeed and you shouldn't get put off by early attempts.

Earlier this year, the EU agreed to hold some of the agreed supply of carbon credits off the market in an attempt to artificially drive up the low carbon price resulting from an oversupply of the allowances.

The Bottom Line The LG G Watch attempts to bring you the future on your wrist, but with its generic design, unimpressive battery life, and unpolished early software, you're better off waiting to see what else is around the bend.

The LG G Watch attempts to bring you the future on your wrist, but with its generic design, unimpressive battery life, and unpolished early software, you're better off waiting to see what else is around the bend.

With its next - gen flagship phone announcement pushed back from the typical February timeframe to March 27, Huawei attempted to rain on Samsung's Galaxy S9 parade earlier today by taking the wraps off... a laptop.

We've already checked out some early signs pointing to second - gen versions of the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7, and now we've got some possible hard evidence of two of those three, with leaked pics attempting to show off the new Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5.