Sentences with phrase «on years of trying»

McConaughey looked back fondly on years of trying to kiss Bullock «successfully and unsuccessfully»

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As a result, the company plans to try a number of different strategies to convince readers to turn off their ad blockers in the new year, including a message that tells them the publisher relies on ad revenue for its survival.

«A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal,» a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider.

So when she discovered that year two of her rotation would focus mostly on surgery, Holly decided to take a break from medicine and give working for her dad's company a try.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

The popularity of the «Xoogler» network has popped in recent years, marking an interesting symbiosis between Alphabet, which has increasingly tried to keep its entrepreneurial talent on board, and ex-employees who feel pulled to venture out on their own while still relying on its extensive network.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Referencing the story of a 26 - year - old woman who admitted to going into debt to try to keep up with the lifestyles she saw on Instagram, Klontz said that she was smart to hold herself accountable to a blog while she committed to living below her means in order to pay off her debt.

«We try to tell our members on a regular basis, even weekly this time of the year, is go out and check your EFINs [tax pro number].

Then - president Barack Obama tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about the risk of fake news on Facebook last year.

The agreement marks the culmination of four years of on - again, off - again discussions between T - Mobile and Sprint; this is the third time the two rivals have tried to merge.

For years, American businesses have been trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors based on their values, instead of just their products.

It's worth noting that French broadband provider Free tried turning on network - level ad - blocking a few years back, in a bid to get money out of Google, but the government told it to stop.

In 2011, then 25 - year - old Polina Raygorodskaya and a group of friends found themselves stranded in rural Virginia when, on a quest to make it to the West Coast without a car of their own, they tried to reserve bus tickets.

Last year, I tried Airbnb for the first time when traveling in order to save money on the costs of a hotel.

A quintet of alleged scammers were indicted this week on attempted grand larceny in the third degree for attempting to steal thousands of dollars from a 67 - year - old woman by trying to convince her that she needed their help shedding the bogus spirits.

Over the years, Google has embarked on countless quests, collected endless amounts of data, and spent millions trying to better understand its people.

In a strongly worded note to clients on Sept. 17, Contopoulos contended that «we are in the midst of the beginning of the end of this credit cycle, and we warn investors to tread carefully not try to be a hero into year end.»

A New York state resident was sentenced on Thursday to over 20 years in prison for trying to recruit fighters to join Islamic State in Syria.It is the longest prison term handed out yet to an American convicted of supporting the militant group.

Four years on, the F1 boss appears to be frustrated again as he tries to keep one of the most glamorous races on the calendar after the contract expires in 2017, at a time when the city - state is weighing whether the event makes economic sense anymore.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

In one entry from last year, Baker mused on how an entrepreneur typically has a broad vision — she calls it a «sense of possibilities» — for a company that prompts a leader to try to exert control over everything that goes on.

«The key here is that airlines often try to foist vouchers on you, and they may be good only for a year,» says George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

The Moya III, as one co-worker who stopped by to try it on (after years of it sitting on her own wish list) put it, is the «perfect legacy piece.»

But while the Coastal brand was built on affordable contact lenses — a side of the business that grew a modest 12 % last year — the company has spent the past three years trying to get the world to buy its glasses online too.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

LincolnLabs, founded last year by three young tech workers, is trying to create a sort of community for the Silicon Valley's «conservatarians,» a play on conservatives and libertarians.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Reddit has tried to crack down on a number of controversial communities, called «subreddits,» on the site in recent years

Now, after nearly 20 years of trying to sell the United States on tolls, he is finally sensing a shift in public acceptance.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

Perhaps most notable, according to the July 6 notice, is the fact that the IRS is only trying to obtain records on users who have conducted «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 2015 period».

Throughout the last 5 years I have always tried to maintain an optimistic and positive outlook, to focus on the long term, to think about the potential to lift billions out of poverty.

Imagine trying to live the decades of your golden years on such a small nest egg.

While May has been effective in attacking Harper on a number of fronts, she still insists on breaking a principle she held to for many years: that the Green Party should not be trying to elect members but should be forcing other parties to adopt a green agenda.

So I really hope that people like the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office in the UK which rules on data privacy for individuals], who are suddenly trying to catch up on the last five years of data.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is embarking on its biggest cost - cutting push in years as it tries to weather a slump in trading and dealmaking, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

In that regard, we tried to gain some perspective on this issue by looking at the behaviour of the foreign exchange market around the time of the flash crash in equities in May 2010 and the sharp movements in the yen just prior to the coordinated intervention in March this year.

But more importantly, if you think that the process of passing through the low SMEs was gone, and if you think that the competition, now that everybody is trying to grow loans, particularly in the consumer side, will have any impact on margins, or no, maybe not this year but down the road.

The realization that the feds have been trying to track Bitcoiners for years is no doubt concerning to anybody who relies on Bitcoin's privacy guarantees (and vindicating to the NSA conspiracy theorists), and it's a good example of how being extremely paranoid doesn't necessarily mean you're completely wrong.

As many Americans try to make the most of retailers offering deals on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the 10,000 or...

The start of a new year can often be a time of stress as we are often tempted to try new challenges and take on more responsibility in our already busy lives.

For some food stamp recipients, 2018 could shape up to be a particularly aggravating year, including for one of the only startups trying to find ways to innovate on the ways that food stamps are deliv

On the last day of Yom Kippur, Zuckerberg atones for his own failings in a Facebook post but also mentions unspecified instances of others abusing Facebook for divisive means: «For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better.

When it comes to the add - ons and upgrades dealers try to sell you at the end — or the well - known tactic of stretching out your auto loan to seven years and focusing only on the lower monthly payment — you won't fall for it, and you'll have ample reason to say «no.»

Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors, with a vote on a proposal the iPhone maker has tried to squelch.