Sentences with phrase «other early efforts»

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And indeed, other tech giants are interested; Amazon, for one, launched Amazon Home Services earlier in the year, in an effort to get a piece of this potentially lucrative market.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

An early effort to bring order to the chaos of the Internet, Yahoo served as a sort of Yellow Pages for the web, with human editors selecting links to news stories and other sites.

Earlier this year, Marriott and other large operators began a new effort to attract direct bookings to reduce commissions paid to online travel agents, offering discounts to loyal guests and providing perks such as free Wi - Fi.

Burger King Corp, DineEquity Inc's IHOP and more than a dozen other restaurant chains earlier this month backed an industry effort to serve and promote healthier meals for children.

One significant feature of the book, which sets it apart from other books in the third period, is Altizer's effort to reconcile his present thought with his early work on Buddhism.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

In a way, we might say that it resembles a place where an artisan is engaged in making something or other; there are loose ends here and there, bits and pieces that are not yet completed, remnants of earlier efforts that did not quite fulfill the artisan's plan.

On the other hand the effort to translate Christian faith into a socially useful force entails the suppression and transformation of some vital elements in it, just as the effort to make it serviceable to individualistic success in the era of early capitalism entailed the deformation of the Reformation into the sort of thing that Tawney has described for us.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Sure, James would be James in the second, hitting a variety of plays no other person on the planet could hit, but Butler's effort early on kept the Bulls in striking distance.

Early last season we had some very good results when played with total efforts like when we beat Chelsea but we played 4 at the back in that game and others.

Steven Fletcher missed an early chance with his head and Scotland keeper David Marshall parried a long distance effort from defender Jan Durica at the other end.

Chances were scarce within the opening half hour of the tie; Palace winger Andros Townsend's early effort barely threatened to beat Joel Coleman who held on with comfort, before Tom Ince tried a speculative effort at the other end which was courageously blocked by a red and blue shirt on the edge of the area.

Tide to Go or other stain remover (optional)- once baby has started solid foods, treating food stains early can make your laundry efforts easy later on!

Others are spoken to on the phone or are at home when early years workers call (or could be, if efforts were made to include them).

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

There will always be those children that start to sleep through the night, with no trouble, super early on, and then there will be others who, despite your best efforts, refuse to sleep for a very long time.

First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.

Veteran reporter Joe Mahoney reported on efforts to enact early voting, «no - excuse» absentee voting, pre-registration for teenagers, and other measures championed by Kavanagh that have gained support in the Assembly but have not been acted upon by the Republican - controlled State Senate.

East Hampton Airport, and the town board's effort to win Federal Aviation Administration approval for a curfew or other restrictions that would limit aircraft noise, will be the focus of a series of meetings early next week.

The deals he and the legislative leaders struck earlier this week included a package of efforts to combat opioid and heroin addiction, a growing scourge across the state; a push to expand access to mammograms and other methods of breast - cancer detection; and an agreement on improving safety at rail crossings, which carried all the political excitement of, well, rail crossings.

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Next year, the ERC will launch its own young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for early career scientists.

The re-establishment of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States earlier this year has already yielded scientific collaboration that will benefit both countries, according to the Cuban Ambassador to the United States and a host of other experts on Cuban diplomacy and scientific efforts.

What about the years of effort lost by Matthew and other early - career scientists?

Two other big initiatives fared better: a proteomics effort to identify proteins in blood and other biomarkers that might work as early warning signs of cancer, and the most recent: a human Cancer Genome Atlas.

One effort in that direction that is still under development, says Harris, is a move to have early - career scientists from other Duke departments receive joint appointments in the Center for Teaching, Learning and Writing.

Although this study is limited by the lack of data on the effects of clinical interventions and neonatal resuscitation efforts that may have been performed at the time of birth, these findings suggest that early detection of perinatal asphyxia is particularly relevant among infants of overweight and obese women although more studies are necessary to confirm these results in other populations.

Despite the best efforts of Chazan, Hlubik, and others, many archaeologists remain skeptical that humankind tended flames at these early dates.

The United States along with China, Brazil, India and more than 190 other nations agreed to deliver the new goals by early next year as part of an effort to ink a new global climate deal in Paris in 2015.

The White Paper quotes a survey conducted earlier this year, which found that half the companies polled were worried that «the efforts to develop and produce high value - added products in Japan will not go smoothly», because of direct competition from other Asian countries.

The galaxy was detected as part of the Frontier Fields program, an ambitious three - year effort, begun in 2013, that teams Hubble with NASA's other Great Observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — to probe the early universe by studying large galaxy clusters.

Previous honorees have gone on to drive on - the - ground efforts against infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola, discover new exoplanets and observe gravitational waves, and be recognized with other high honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Breakthrough Prize.

The scientists used data from the UK10K Project — a massive, whole ‐ genome sequence ‐ based resource of the general European population; the NIH - funded 1000 Genomes Project, one of the world's earliest efforts to sequence the genomes of a large number of people; and data from several other studies.

Understanding that early intervention and prevention efforts require evidence - based approaches to individual care, NIMH supports research that evaluates the effectiveness of psychosocial and other interventions for mental illnesses.

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

This genetic risk factor is independent of other risk factors, such as cholesterol, obesity and smoking, and therefore provides an additional method for identifying individuals who may derive benefit from earlier and more aggressive prevention efforts.

My soul, like an inner teacher, directed me from an early age to note the magic and depth of spirit that arises when feminine energy is explored in community in effort to support, restore, empower, and have fun with each other.

For the Russian population to have risen up in the early part of the twentieth century in three revolutions, for instance, would have been that much more difficult without the saturation of decisive layers of the population by the humanizing, sensitizing efforts of, among others, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Dostoyevsky, Leskov and Tolstoy.

The other major flaw is that so much time was spent in this movie on it's stylistic looks which as i said earlier were flawless but so much time and effort was spent on these that it seems to have taken away from the character development side of the film.

Like most of the other majors, Warner doesn't much deal in arthouse fare these days, which is the most generous designation you could apply to an effort that looks to grab your attention early and often with cinematographic flair.

Art of the Title interviews John Wash about his credit sequence for Halloween III, and his other efforts for John Carpenter in the early days of computer graphics.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

But as Reville and others intimately familiar with the Bay State's school - improvement efforts emphasized in a panel at the Education Writers Association National Seminar earlier this month, the «Massachusetts story» is complicated.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

Often cited in its early years as a model for such efforts in other cities, the plan has been a target of criticism recently for allegedly contributing to «white flight» from the district.

(a) For families and children moving out of the community in which they are currently served, including homeless families and foster children, a program must undertake efforts to support effective transitions to other Early Head Start or Head Start programs.

Collaborating with other Federal, state and local agencies to avoid duplication of efforts in providing early intervention and preschool education.