Sentences with phrase «only efforts did»

The group's goal now is to do what the previous GOP - only efforts didn't attempt — to stabilize the shaky ACA markets rather than kill them.

Not exact matches

This is an enormous need for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after years of effort and investment, did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW of solar - generating capacity.

When traditional ways of doing business are no longer relevant it only makes sense to adopt new ways to measure the ROI of our marketing efforts.

My colleague Maria Pergolino pointed out that when people say they are a thought leader they are saying they take the time to help others by not only doing a great job but also making an effort to package it up via blogs, presentations, etc., so other people can learn.

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

But such efforts require massive amounts of preparation and can only be done in small areas, Eakin said.

If they get to the end of your content feeling no better off than before they started reading / listening / watching it, you not only did a disservice to your business with your weak effort — you've done the entire Web a disservice by cluttering it up with yet more junk.

LanguageLine, says Klein, had been trying to do a lot of things to boost its bottom line, from selling prepaid interpreter calling cards to monetizing data on language usage, but most of its efforts were only an afterthought.

It takes effort to see the bigger picture, but it's an effort well worth making, if only so we don't become like most investors (other than Buffett) who freak out and sell when the market is on the way down, or fear missing out and buy when the market is nearing its peak.

Not only do you need the tools to support this effort, but you may need a different type of agent.

But while it's tempting to reach out to publications in an effort to lend credibility to your accomplishments, doing so in an egocentric manner will only turn them against you.

I just stayed within myself the rest of the evening, only shooting once (and missing), making simple passes, and doing my best to make up for a lack of ability with effort and hustle.

Owners and managers do not have an adequate understanding of the ISO 9000 certification process or of the quality standards themselves — Some business owners have been known to direct their company's resources toward ISO 9000 registration, only to find that their incomplete understanding of the process and its requirements results in wasted time and effort.

It didn't happen overnight, but when senior leaders throughout the military ranks, especially in special operations, got behind this change effort, started demonstrating the new behaviors themselves and talked about the new vision every day; only then didn't the culture start to shift to align with the vision and strategy.

Doing so will only create confusion and diminish the effectiveness of your efforts.

Not only did people get a good laugh out of it, but KFC may have actually won some customers with their effort.

You may be surprised at what your renewed efforts might yield in the way of business performance, which will only give you leverage when a buyer does come knocking.

Not only should you not indulge in self - criticism following a rejection, you should actually do the opposite — consciously expending a little mental effort to remind yourself of all that you have to offer.

To investors, past efforts don't count, only results.

The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of «fake news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

[25] A rational shareholder will expend the effort necessary to make informed decisions only if the expected benefits outweigh the costs of doing so.

Unexpectedly, she found that not only did Pure Barre support her cross-training efforts, but it strengthened her ability as a runner and she became forever hooked to the challenge and the results achieved with this total - body workout.

These efforts made us feel good because we were doing something but the programs were not producing significant, measurable results.At the same time, drawing on publishing experience I had gained in my prior position as Asia marketing director for the online division of Knight - Ridder, at the time one of the largest newspaper companies in the world, I quietly created content - rich marketing and PR programs on the Web.Against the advice of the PR agency professionals we had on retainer (who insisted that news releases were only for journalists), we wrote and sent dozens of releases ourselves.

Not only does it increase brand recognition, but using high quality link building practices can help ensure your efforts are going to a long - term gain instead of a shortcut that comes with its own consequences.

Not only does the country restrict access to the internet, it has ramped up surveillance efforts in recent years.

Nor would the effort be constructive, because the only thing that compressed risk premiums do is to misallocate scarce savings to unproductive uses, allowing weak borrowers to harness strong demand.

I am hoping that web developer must learn about the onsite optimization, So when it done client will only need a link builder or even client handle to engaged link building in their own effort to get high quality back links so that their website generate traffic and ranking in search engine easily.

I am excited about the potential of Cintell to do just that, allowing organizations to operate and share a common platform of relevant persona - based customer insights, and giving them the ability to be not only customer - centered but also human - centered in their marketing and sales efforts.»

Worst case scenario: your prospect either doesn't respond or opts out of your emails, acting as a list scrubbing mechanism that only helps your email marketing efforts by weeding out leads who wouldn't have been a good fit for your products / services anyway.

She insists on an essentially theological view of the world as the only appropriate starting point for effective radical politics — the only way to maintain a right understanding of what we are about and to avoid partisanship in our efforts to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.

Have become dark and cynical despite best efforts and will hand out sandwiches to the homeless or something but only if I don't have to talk or interact with people.

A real and sustained effort was made to reconstruct the whole social order upon the basis of the Law of God, not only by giving it statutory force, but by «writing it on the heart», so far as this could be done by positive instruction and through the ordinances of public worship.

The giving up we do, is to give up our self - effort and rely only on Christ's.

Exhibit D: The only reason a nerd would want to do well in gym is to impress the girls in their class, and since in high school, the least - cool thing you can do is care about anything, the Newsboys» gym - class effort did not lead to impressing said girls.

But he responded that a synod was good only for producing useless documents, while the only thing we need to do is to continue our missionary efforts and to remain in a state of permanent mission.»

Hays does not endorse the efforts of Elisabeth Schussler - Fiorenza to picture Jesus as the spokesperson of divine Sophia or Wisdom, a connection which is supported by only a single NT verse (Luke 7:35).

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

But from the point of view of a professor at a Catholic university (Patrick's), don't we have to be judgmental about the efforts of, say, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke not only to «tame» but to destroy Christianity [see the symposium on Strauss referenced below]?

For on the ultimate issue of the self's own potential perfection (what I have called the First Good or goodness of the person), he does not require correct reasoning but only honest effort.

I do mourn the temptation abroad to attempt ad hoc theologies when only a sustained collaborative effort can hope to produce the kind of public and communicative Christian theology needed.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

Some of these efforts do not impress us; they are little more than a reaffirmation of the dogma that retribution overtakes the wicked in this life; they concede only that the mills of the gods may grind slowly.

Not only does it seem to me inevitable that men should want to know all that can be known about the man Jesus, as about any other historical figure, but I should say also that the effort to get back to the ipsissima verba and acta of Jesus of Nazareth is an indispensable theological task.

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

But that is not done in one fell swoop; it can only be done by a continuing and persistent effort on God's part.

Since I know that we only have one life to live, I make an extra effort to help other people (since I don't believe that a higher power will help them), as well as pursue my own happiness and just try to spread love.

The recognition that most theology has given only lip service to the incarnation, failing to take ongoing incarnationalism seriously in both method and content, inspired the effort to explore the doing and meaning of body theology.

While religious involvement encourages people to favor church efforts to assist the needy, it does so only up to a point.