Sentences with phrase «only weak efforts»

An alternative strategy that Presidents Bush and Obama could have embraced would have been a choice - based approach, but only weak efforts have been made in that direction, Peterson says.

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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.

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.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

A mentally weak bunch could well have crumbled after dominating and then going behind to the opponents only effort on target, especially when their keeper seems to be having the game of his life.

It takes work, patience and effort as well as changing ones mindset and many don't want to do that because not only does it take effort but many think that they will be viewed as weak or wussy for NOT resorting to violence.

While the designer thought the finished product felt «a little weak,» he said the effort was likely an attempt by the campaign to emphasize Quinn's status as the race's only female candidate — while perhaps trying to play down her perceived brashness.

And even if they were diligent in their efforts, a 2008 study showed that two locally produced vaccines were so weak they only conferred protection to 10 to 20 percent of animals.

Additionally, effort was higher when the movements involved weaker muscles, even for movements that necessitated only little strength.

But the same effort to predict similarity between students will be weak if it is based only on knowledge of whether the students grew up in the same family or attended the same schools.

Only one weak point could exist in Battlefield 3's armour, and that's the singleplayer mode, but DICE seem to be making a large effort to ensure that it's a better experience that previous games in the series.

This choice makes it harder to use spells with a long cooldown and it didn't seem worth the effort to change to a spell to use it once only to be forced to change back to a weaker one that can be fired more frequently.

Weak and malnourished from his time in the labyrinth, Priapus collapses next to the Minotaur, proving Dionysus's point that as a mortal he will only die for all his efforts: «Spend all your time like a mime in a box, / acting smart in a carton, showing off in your coffin!»

With Tesla recently announcing its plans to bring the Roadster to the European market, in an effort to capitalize on the weak dollar, time will only tell how successful their long - term operations will be.

The controversy not only led to passage of a somewhat weaker requirement in Virginia but also is widely seen as having blunted efforts to mandate ultrasound in Alabama, Idaho and Pennsylvania.