Sentences with phrase «over decades of trying»

After billions of research dollars spent and over a decade of trying, the energy budget of planet as measured by CERES and other low - Earth orbit satellite systems is out of whack by about 6 watts per square meter.

Not exact matches

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

They're leaving countries, particularly the tri-border region — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — Mexico now has its worst murder rate in over a decade, and many people are just trying to get out of there.

Philip Morris International has tried to force the University of Stirling to hand over secret data into teenage smoking and cigarette packaging gathered over more than a decade.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Senior Israeli sources told Israel's Channel 10 News that Iran chose the nondescript warehouse because it was trying to conceal over a decade of evidence of its nuclear activity from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).

Trump is no stranger to trying to use the legal system to get his way: USA Today found during the 2016 campaign that Trump and his businesses had been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in state and federal courts over the course of three decades.

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

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And as far as giving it a try, I spent over a decade «locked away» insde the confines of a religious education.

It may take some more decades but all Muslims in the USA some day will rise and try to destroy this country by force; but they know the logistics — they have to have enough Muslims in enough important places of power and enough resources in order to take over this country.

In fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vain.

Although Kim tried, in essays written over the course of more than a decade, to reconcile these three assumptions, he confessed at the end of this period that he seemed «to be up against a dead end,» with the problem of the mind appearing «intractable» (SM 367).

With this corollary, Kim has stated the task of much of his writing over the past two decades: to try to provide such an account.

These decadent Maple Syrup drenched Blondies are just one of so many recipes that I've tried in the past few months from her newest book «Vegan with a Vengeance» from Da Capo Lifelong Books Born and raised in Brooklyn, Isa Chandra Moskowitz began her vegan cooking journey over two decades ago.

I've been a low - carber for over a decade and I've found various pancake recipes I've tried at one time or other but they all had a ton of different ingredients while these were just so simple.

For over half - decade, Arsenal has been trying, with varying degree of success, hard to copy Barcelona's tiki taka style.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

According to the report, the number of women trying to breastfeed — 76.9 percent in 2009, up from 74.6 percent in 2008 — is the largest annual increase over the previous decade.

@DavidRicherby I should probably not have tried to summarise decades of controversy over who knew what and whether they had proof as «mere suspicion»; but the Blix investigation was still ongoing.

A resident of Islington for over a decade, he twice tried and failed to get elected to the local council.

What Mr. Silver didn't say: He is trying to keep his taxpayer - financed pension, trying to stay out of prison and trying to forfeit as little cash as possible from the schemes that the federal government says netted him more than $ 5 million over the decades.

The 49th Senate District seat held by state Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, is one Republicans consider one of their top priorities as they try to retake the majority in the state Senate they held for over four decades before losing that hold in 2008.

Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates, said would expect forces to try and roll back environmental protections won over the decades.

The Dems are also trying to make an issue of Wilson's time at Goldman Sachs, despite the fact that he was at the firm for just two years over a decade ago.

Bill Stevens, a political newcomer seeking the nomination in the 5th U.S. House district, a seat held by Democrat Elizabeth Esty, tried to make headway over what he thought was a campaign diamond: an apparent arrest record of his opponent, Sherman First Selectman Clay Cope, decades ago in Texas.

The release of the report, which specifically highlights the decline of the manufacturing industry outside of New York City over the past two decades, comes as Democrats gear up for an election season in which they will again try to take back control of the Senate.

«Even though we're all expecting Chilcot to be a very difficult read, for the Labour party, we need to get through this process so we can finally move on from that decision which was made over a decade ago,» he said, urging his colleagues to «try and have the conversation with a sense of moderation and respect».

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

These are some of the questions researchers have puzzled over for decades in trying to piece together the origins of life on Earth.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

«I'm trying to tackle a project that a lot of people think is science fiction,» says Laine, who has gone into foreclosure seven times over nearly a decade to keep his company, and his dream, alive.

«There's been a drive over the last several decades of trying to understand and improve biocatalysts from this key enzyme family,» said Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author of the study.

Over the last decade there have been multiple large studies trying to determine a clinical use for iNO in preterm neonates, but despite evidence of short - term benefit, this drug has not been shown to improve long - term outcomes in preemies.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

The long haul behind a long - haul mission Of course we had to do tons of prep work — deciding what scientific questions we'd try to tackle, which instruments to include, how to effectively steer and communicate with the probe over decadeOf course we had to do tons of prep work — deciding what scientific questions we'd try to tackle, which instruments to include, how to effectively steer and communicate with the probe over decadeof prep work — deciding what scientific questions we'd try to tackle, which instruments to include, how to effectively steer and communicate with the probe over decades.

A SMALL but vocal group led by Alan Stern, the scientist in charge of NASA's New Horizons mission, is trying to reverse the decision made over a decade ago to remove Pluto's planet status.

«For reasons we're still trying to understand... we see single sites of metastatic disease develop over years or, in some cases, decades,» says Swanton.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

I tried everything from Accutane to acupuncture and spent thousands of dollars over the decade, trying all the latest treatments.

I've had severe digestive issues for over a decade, and have tried a couple of times to solve them on my own, but without success.

This has been shown to me over the last 2 decades of patient experience, the continual outpouring of supporting science, first pertaining to insulin, then leptin, then mTOR and the now very robust science over the last decade pertaining to the biology of aging... and also by the numerous well known low carb diets that have ultimately modified their original programs to try to morph into mine.

I've been purchasing and trying different Tom's of Maine ® products for over a decade and love that I can find them nearly everywhere near me, including my local Whole Foods Market, one of my favorite places to shop for all kinds of wonderful wellness products.

Over a decade ago, I went to a Gap event and tried on a great pair of jeans.

Over the last decade a substantial number of psychologists, behavioural scientists and sociologists have tried to get the bottom of why so many of us have either instigated or experienced a bout of playing hard to get.

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