Sentences with phrase «other early attempts»

Whether the other early attempts to «compose a narrative of the facts that were accomplished among us,» to which Luke refers in his preface, had the same character, it is impossible to say.

Not exact matches

One attempt to launch a Bitcoin ETF was rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year, but plans for others are in the works.

Consider what happened in Europe after earlier attempts at checking the power of Facebook, Google and others.

Earlier this week it also put out a wordy blog post attempting to diffuse this line of attack by pointing the finger of blame at the rest of the tech industry — saying, essentially, that a whole bunch of other tech giants are at it too.

J.C. Penney Co., struggling to turn itself around after a failed attempt to move upmarket, will offer extremely deep discounts early in the season, which will put pressure on other retailers to do the same, the Morgan Stanley analysts said.

Earlier this year, I published a report that attempted to estimate the cost of a gigabyte of data and others have tried to do the same.

The bullish export statistics come despite scores of steel mills and other industrials in China being shut down or operating below full capacity since early November as part of China's attempts to curb air pollution during the nation's winter months.

On the other hand, if leverage is already high, perhaps as a result of an earlier run - up, and if the weakness of demand is in part a result of the private sector being cautious about further extensions of leverage, or even attempting to reduce its leverage, the central bank may face an unenviable set of choices.

Then years later, attempting to defend the Gospel stories in their entirety, what do several of the early Christian apologists of the day resort to (Justin Martyr and others): the devil performed plagiarism in reverse time order to confuse the faithful...

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

The 1990 Vatican document Ex corde ecclesia reflects a somewhat belated attempt by the Vatican to reassert juridical control over Catholic higher education and (some fear, others hope) to return it to its earlier unifying intellectual moorings.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

I will not review all of the attempts to link this group of missionaries with other figures in the early Christian missionary movement.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

In regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Church.

In the early meetings there is considerable defensiveness (because of anxiety), testing of each other and the leader, and attempts to relate in some meaningful way.

They are products of early Christian preaching and do not contain the necessary material; for example, they have no account of Jesus» personal development, and attempts to supply this material by analogy from other historical figures are inappropriate to the subject.

If I and every other Arsenal fan knew this then I am certain that Arsene was fully aware of that shortcoming — he referred to frustrated attempts to sign such a person — do you remember his earlier attempts to sign that bloke Suarez — whatever happened to him?

Both teams took early unnecessary roughness penalties in an attempt to feel each other out and dictate the game..

That optimism seemed to be doused as the early summer saw another interminable round of rumour and counter-rumour clog the Twitter time lines of thousands of Leeds United fans, with each ITK «er attempting to outdo the other with conflicting tales of untold riches or impending financial doom.

Early attempts might involve plenty of arguments and conflict with siblings and peers, but eventually kids learn how to negotiate and compromise with other children.

Sure, this test might not be the most scientific, but more than a few women have tried it, and it's been proven to be just as accurate, if not more so, than very early ultrasounds or other attempts parents - to - be have made to find out early on whether they should paint the baby's nursery pink or blue.

Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said a grand jury had indicted 41 alleged MS - 13 members in connection with 32 violent acts since early 2013 that included eight attempted murders, along with other shootings and slashings.

Earlier attempts by the NPP to launch such an initiative had been plagued with similar misunderstandings when the party's suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong and National Treasurer, Abankwa Yeboah in September 2015, both launched parallel fund raising electronic cards for the party, leading to serious credibility crisis as both camps dismissed the others» initiative as fraudulent.

A former rookie cop accused of killing an MIT student and injuring three others while driving drunk arrived early to Brooklyn Supreme Court in a failed attempt to dodge reporters...

Schneiderman has sued Trump over his executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, his attempts to repeal former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youth brought to the United States in their early childhood, among other issues.

While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus about austerity economics, and the development of economic policies by John McDonnell and his team which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.

For the past several months the Legislature has been proactively attempting to acquire information from the County Executive, state agencies, OASAS, the proposed provider and others to aid in our review process and make up for some of the deficiencies that occurred early in this process.

Attempting to build on the idea of the Labour leader being first and foremost his «friend», as he said in his set - piece speech earlier today, Balls told a merry tale of how he and Miliband show each other their speeches:

Corbyn earlier told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that he had «reached out in a way no other leader has» in an attempt to unite all parts of the party.

Earlier attempts by other researchers often approximated the physics of wave propagation and focused mainly on the arrival times of only certain types of seismic waves, such as the P (pressure) and S (shear) waves, which travel at different speeds.

People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will attempt it and intervene early to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

LOOKING FOR NEW LANDS A historian argues that climate, along with other factors, impeded Europeans early attempts at colonizing North America.

Unlike most of these earlier attempts, the Los Olivos house and a handful of other prototype «net zero» dwellings remain connected to the grid and sell whatever surplus electricity they generate to local utilities.

The researchers witnessed an initial rapid growth of a microbe that had been previously observed to be the dominant bacterium in the early stages of the oil release but which had eluded subsequent attempts by others to recreate the conditions of the Gulf of Mexico oil plume.

He asked them how nature had actually done what he was attempting to simulate in the game — which was, among other things, the development of the earliest stages of life and its evolution.

Following the huge misfires like the Aaron Paul vehicle Need For Speed, the late - 80s attempt to bring Super Mario Brothers to the big - screen, the recent Tomb Raider and even that early vehicle for Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Doom (and countless others) Tinseltown hasn't quite managed to successfully transfer the allure of the source material to celluloid.

Moving forward requires additional descriptive studies of early reading programs and attempts to understand the relationships among the schoolwide and other factors that promote early reading achievement in high - poverty schools.

In an attempt to turn that around, Gov. Peter Shumlin is putting his own twist on an existing program — in limited use in the Green Mountain state but more so in others across the nation — known as the «early college» initiative.

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

In the morning (after a very early dip in the pool — we're talking practically moonlit so that none of the other hotel guests would see my embarrassingly ungainly attempts to stay afloat) there is a Tornado Red GTI waiting outside.

You are more likely to get in too late, or get too edgy and jump out early, than to consistently navigate the market ahead of millions of other people (all of whom are attempting to do the same thing, and beat you in the process).

In the late 1980's, Tegan Park and Rutland Manor, the two founders of the Australian Labradoodle as we know it today, began infusing several other breeds into early generations of their Lab / Poodle crosses, in an attempt to improve temperament, coat, confirmation, and size.

Clans in the area attempted to resist early European settlement by throwing spears, rocks and other weapons at settlers.

Other than the attempt by Carmageddon: Max Damage earlier this year, Gas Guzzlers Extreme tries to bring back some of that nostalgia when racing games were not as serious.

Added or updated the following pages: Boss Tricks: Flaahgra, Incinerator Drone, Other: Old Early Space Jump, Skip Varia Suit Attempt, Skipping the Spider Ball: Furnace, and Skipping the Gravity Suit: Skip Frigate.

Needless to say, I found myself frustrated early on as every time I attempted to fight a Warchief, I wound up battling four or five other Captains and their armies simultaneously, forcing me to focus my efforts on everyone except the Warchief I was targeting.

Early gameplay footage of Siege pitted two teams of five - one set terrorists, the other SWAT - against one another in the attempt to rescue / hold a hostage in a small, presumably suburban, home.

Same with his attempts at boarding the other Divine Beasts early:

After the news of his death went viral, Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate gallery, stated the following in an attempt to dull the pain of the loss: Angus Fairhurst was always deprecating about his own talent, but he made some of the most engaging, witty and perceptive works of his generation and was an enormously influential friend of other British artists who came to prominence in the early nineties.